Weighty problems

[Guest guest]

Dear Group,

Sounds like several heavy problesm being discussed here today. Pun

intended.

As far as overweight is concerned, I too have been there. I was OBESE

as a child --we didn't have a scale so I don't know how obese,but

that is what my health chart said , and being a " reseacher " from grade

school I looked it up in the dictionery.

I stayed on the chunky side through college, where the food was way

better than my mothers. So you can imagine how awful a cook she was,

bless her soul.

After college I heard about Weight Watchers from my Jr.HS friend,

Irene. We are still friends, and she is now about 200 lbs. She gave up

on it. I couldn't afford to go to WW meetings, so I just read the

Weight Watchers book. I got down to about 112-115. This AM I weighed

myself and I am 118. So not much weight gain in the past 30 yrs. I am

5'7 " . My weight didn't fluctuate much when I was a regular at the gym.

Maybe I ate more to keep from losing. I have been a vegetarian (sort

of) for over 20 yrs. I do eat fish and eggs, but no red meat ever, and

I even cut out chicken when hubby showed me how terribly they were

treated. I would eat " free range " but the store is a special trip, so

we just took the easy way and stopped eating chicken. No biggie.

We all know what is healthy food. I eat lots of nuts which are high

fat, but supposedly its " good fat " . Just about everything else is low

or non fat.

I love the " sigh diet " ! I'd never heard of it before.

Here is another simple diet. You wear a thin chain belt around your

waist. As it gets tight, you notice and stop eating. I guess you could

gobble up several candy bars before your waist expanded. but you have

to be sensible here.:-/ As you lose weight, you tighten the belt by a

link at a time. Pretty simple.

The next topic is how " single minded " doctors are in thinking BCP's

are the only possible EN trigger. I've run into that with my own

ob/gyn. I set him straight of course. But how can you blame a dr. when

they see so few cases of EN and there is no new research that they

read. There is just so much we can do alone by comparing notes and

completing polls and database questions on the group site. Real

research requires trained researchers and expensive equipment. That is

why I feel so strongly that the only way we will get to the bottom of

the EN mystery is to fund EN research ourselves. Please, every time

you feel frustrated, send some money to NORD earmarked for the

" erythema nodosum Research Fund " . Instructions are on our Files. If

you can't find it, I will personally send you the File.

Wishing Everyone a Happy Day!

Love,