Reged: 04/26/04
Posts: 1490
Loc: New York, New York
I was getting ready to graduate from High School and leave my crappy yet wonderful suburban childhood home for Bucknell University. I was still in a pretty bad relationship with a guy I'd keep dating for another year and a half, but life was basically good. I didn't have IBS yet, but my eating habits were pretty bizairre on their own. Still not sure if what I had counts as a full blown eating disorder, or if I was just a whacky and insecure teen. Either way, I was pretty darn skinny! All that garbage was kind of on-and-off from age 13 to 21. I've done some browsing on past threads and there seems to be a few of us who dabbled in the anorexic arts. I definitely believe there might be a link there -- something about getting our bodies used to extremely low-cal, low-fat diets, and then trying to resume normal eating. That's about when I got IBS -- right when I started relaxing about what I ate and stopped worrying that everything would make me fat. If nothing else, it probably made us fantastic IBS diet followers. Who better than a bunch of chicks who already know the exact fat and calorie content of every food in the world, and who are used to adhering to all kinds of strict eating rules? Haha, I knew my insanity would come in handy someday! Seems I've painted a pretty grim picture ... but 5 years later, I live in a tiny yet adorable apartment in the best part of NYC, have many close friends nearby, am finishing my first year at law school, and am in love with the most wonderful man in the world. I guess things work out!
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