Wed, Sep-16-09, 12:37
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Senior Member
Posts: 1,073
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Plan: Primal/Paleo/MyOwn
Stats: 187.5/168/132
BF:
Progress: 35%
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PilotGal
i have been zero carbing (Carnivore) for 6 months now...
when i stopped eating all the other food groups, my hormones balanced out and symptoms are gone.
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Hi PilotGal, I read your profile...I am wondering since you are 54, if you have perhaps actually entered into menopause, and are no longer bouncing around in the uneven hormonal swings of perimenopause?
I am using BHRT, and they are helping me greatly through perimenopause. No matter how carefully (cleanly) I was eating, my hormones were still getting wacky, because some months I would ovulate, some months I wouldn't, etc. That would happen no matter what I was eating, because of the stage of life I am at. (I am 47, going on 48.)
I don't want to minimize the great success you are having and enjoying (congrats!) but I do want to point out to anyone who is truly suffering through hot flashes and migraines and waking up all night, that sometimes diet alone can't do it all. Once I have "come out the other side" of perimenopause and have entered into menopause, I don't know if I will use bio-identicals anymore. But for at least right now, they make a huge difference in quality of life for me.
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