Dear Dee:

You are welcome. Here is something else you can take to your appointment on Wednesday. It is taken from what you shared in June this year: “I have a long, long complicated relationship with food seeing as I’ve struggled with body image since I was at least 5… I have had a significant history with binging and purging through my middle school and high school days, a little bit into my adult life. I often feel the urge to purge when I eat a lot even now, however I ended up stopping completely as an adult since I realized how much of a toll it took on my teeth, along with the fact that it never made me thinner, just let me feel better physically and mentally about eating so much”-

– Your binging and purging took a toll on your teeth, you wrote. Maybe it took a toll on your menstruation as well. Maybe the anxiety that’s behind the binging and purging is also behind your irregular menstruation history.

You wrote that you struggle with body image ever since you were 5- that’s a long, long time. What if your body reacted to your problems with it.. by giving you more problems.

I figure that you can’t go wrong by seriously working to make peace with your body. Imagine your body then reacting by making peace with you!

anita