brooke84’s Profile

Open Vegetarians & Vegans
Type: Vegetarian

I read the book "Skinny B****" and then I started researching. I cannot bring myself to eat meat anymore. It disgusts me to think about it. Everyone should watch "Meet Your Meat". Get it on goveg.com. I have also cut out all milk and eggs....I am working on cheese!!!

Treatments

Iron Working / Worked

After about 2 months of not eating meat I started to feel really tired all the time. I started taking iron pills and I feel so much better!!!

Open Fitness Goals
Type: Improve overall fitness

Open Healthy Eating

I want to eat healthy and excercise. Maybe if my daughter sees me doing these things, she will want to when she gets older.

Treatments

Organic Diet Considering

I would like to buy all organic food...it is just so much more expensive!!!

Physical Exercise Too Soon to Tell

I just started again

Open Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

I count everything and I have obsessive thoughts...I also am obsessive about keeping everything in my house super clean. I used to mop the kitchen and bathroom floor 2-3 times a week. I hate coming home to a messy house so I would wake up early in the morning to straighten up the mess my husband made the night before after I went to sleep. I can't leave the dirty dishes over night..I have to clean them up right after I get done eating. I drive my husband crazy...and myself sometimes.

Treatments

Prozac Somewhat Helpful

The prozac helps with the obsessive thoughts and the anxiety. I still count everything though. i am better about keeping the house clean. I still have bad days where everything has to be perfect.

Open Families & Friends of Gays & Lesbians

My brother is gay...I have no problem with it. It's just the way he is.

Open Eating Disorders
Type: Bulimia

I used to be bulimic and I stopped whenever I became pregnant. After I had my baby, I tried to start purging again. No matter how hard I try, I cannot make myself purge. So now I am in a vicious cycle of restricting and binging.

Open Smoking Addiction & Recovery

I started smoking when I was 16. At first it was just a social thing because all my friends were doing it...then I became addicted. I stopped smoking when I became pregnant last year. (I was 22.) It was so easy for me and I didn't really think about it at all. Even after I had my baby, I still didn't think about smoking. Just lately I have been under a lot of stress and I have been wanting a cigarette. I know it would be the stupidest thing in the world to start again.

Treatments

Cold Turkey Working / Worked

I knew that I had to stop for my baby. It was the easiest thing ever.

Willpower Working / Worked

It really didn't take much willpower.

Open Food Addiction

I used to be bulimic...Now I am just obsessed with food. Whether I "under-eat" or "over-eat", I am always basing my happiness and how I feel about myself on how much I do or don't eat.

Open Parenting Newborns & Infants (0-1)

I am 23 years old and I have a beautiful 11 month old daughter.

Open Anxiety

I started having really bad anxiety when I was pregnant with my daughter...after I had her it got worse. When I get worried I start breathing really hard and my chest tightens up.

Treatments

Breathing Exercises Somewhat Helpful

Positive Thinking Somewhat Helpful

Doesn't work all the time.

Open Panic Attacks

I started having panic attacks after i had my daughter. I would get really worried about her, get terrible thoughts in my head and have a panic attack. I was driving the first time I had one and it really scared me.

Treatments

Positive Thinking Somewhat Helpful

Doesn't work all the time.

Prozac Working / Worked

The doctor put me on Prozac to help with the obsessive thoughts. It helped but sometimes one will sneak in. I have only had one panic attack since I started taking prozac.

Open Families & Friends Of Addicts

Addiction runs in my family. I have a lot of family members who have or are still abusing a drug of some sort.

Treatments

Talking Somewhat Helpful

Open Prescription Drug Abuse

I am not addicted to prescription pills. I just wanted to post here.

Open Pregnancy

I have a daughter who is almost a year old and I am excited about having another one!!! I am getting my IUD out at the end of September and hope to be pregnant by the first of the year!!!