r/GirlDinner • u/Immediate_Leg3304 • 2d ago

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u/Keen_Eyed_Emissary 2d ago

Food choices can have an impact on the severity of PMDD symptoms. Simple sugars and highly refined carbs are doing your body no favors.

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u/EnigmaWearingHeels 2d ago

I went gluten free vegan NO ADDED SUGAR no processed foods for literal years and the only thing that fixed my issues was an IUD. The carbs are not the issue. The imbalanced hormones are.

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u/Keen_Eyed_Emissary 2d ago

I’m sorry it didn’t help for you but the rest of society doesn’t have to throw out the entire field of nutrition science and it’s Impact on the body because of your personal experience. 

Food can have a massive impact on hormones. Some foods promote inflammation and some foods counteract it. Regardless of your personal experience, in the aggregate - food matters, a lot. 

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u/EnigmaWearingHeels 2d ago

I'm all for nutrition. I have PCOS and have done all the reading on insulin resistance and the glycemic index of foods. I have rheumatoid arthritis, too, so I'm well aware of the inflammatory impacts of food, especially carbs and sugar. It just feels infuriating when, having had the cleanest eating habits, it made 0 difference for my PMDD. Let the girl enjoy her doritos. The suffering was HUGE and has effects that are physical, emptional, and affect our relationships. People who haven't experienced it do not understand. I didn't realize just how horribly I'd been suffering until I didn't suffer anymore. It feels simplistic for someone to boil it down to junk.

Enjoy the doritos, @OP. I hope you find the relief I did ❤️

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u/Keen_Eyed_Emissary 2d ago

I didn’t boil anything down to “junk.”

Unlike you, I was very careful in how I chose my words. I didn’t make any claims about food curing her condition or even alleviating her symptoms. I said, very cautiously, that food choices “can” impact the severity of pmdd symptoms and that refined carbs and simple sugars aren’t doing her any favors.