Another consideration: Birth control can interact with many other medications. For example it can decrease/increase levels of another med in the blood stream. I stay on constant BC so that the level of another med I take also stays constant. No problems at all - and this has been for years. When I stopped BC at one…

The majority of individuals on this planet will at some point have a diagnosable clinical disorder, and nearly everyone will have difficulty functioning at some point in their lives. So if people are out there judging him harshly, they probably just haven’t had their own experience with it yet, but they will later,…

To be clear, in NYC, if there are 15 or more of a chain establishment, calories must be posted. Otherwise, it’s at the business’s discretion. I’ve lived in NYC for many years. The voluntary “calorie listing” situation is only popular in a few neighborhoods (midtown). Good luck finding anything about calories posted…

I understand how the crazy societal pressure to be perfect can cause shame and guilt and the desire to just give up. However, the guilt you’ve described can be adaptive, because it’s your internal motivation to improve (literally everyone has room to improve), but there’s no use in trying to restrict to be “thin.”…