Sarai Sparkles Barr wants to share her story - see below Weight and anxiety I wanted to share my story with ADAVIC readers as I feel a lot of you guys can relate to this I started getting anxiety attacks since I was 12. They have always coincided with my period, and I have been pretty used to dealing with anxiety as well as the usual pms symptoms. In 2009 (I was 22) I started gaining weight very quickly from an unfortunate circumstance that occurred in 2008. I had started aropax to help control my anxiety prior to this event, so I figured that I was going to be able to get through this situation without much problem. While my anxiety was kept stable during this time, my weight ballooned. By 2010 I had gained 70kg, almost double my body weight. I had depression from the situation in 2008, plus from being so overweight. I was fat, and felt so ugly. The aropax was helping with my anxiety until around 2011, when my body had reached some sort of limit and I found my anxiety no longer being stable. Everything became a battle. The anxiety I had tried so hard to contain had started to return. Not finding clothes to wear, no junk food in the house....these could trigger huge panic attacks. My weight was a huge factor in this. My health was declining and that included my mental health. No matter how much valium I took or how much chocolate I ate, the anxiety and depression didnt go away. I stayed on the aropax to help me feel stable but I knew it was the food I was eating that needed to be changed. My life had to be overhauled. I was eating 4 blocks of Cadbury a day. That was just to keep myself calm before I left the house to eat my lunch of a family maccas meal. At the beginning of 2013, I had had enough. I was so huge that by the age of 26, I was basically told to shape up or die. I refused gastric bypass surgery and decided to do things the old fashioned way. I have now lost 50kg and am so much happier. My anxiety has all but gone. Depression is a thing of the past. I credit my diet and exercise for all this. I believe there is a true link between weight and anxiety. The small things like walking to the shop no longer cause me to sit on the footpath having a panic attack. I have a few kg left to lose, and I do have a few panic attacks, but I can control them. I was diagnosed with GAD in 2007 so I know that I will probably have the odd attack in life. However....I find exercise, a healthy diet and yoga have done wonders for my anxiety. I even take the lowest dose of aropax now. First time since 2008. I have a facebook group, facebook/saraiisshrinking if you would like to see photos and my progress blogs I am proof that you can beat anxiety and depression just by changing your diet and exercise. Give it a try....you never know until you do it! Always get your doctors advice first, but I promise that a healthy body is a healthy mind!
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 02:57:46 +0000
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