Hi all,
I'm glad there's a forum for this for LCers because I think diet has a lot to do with mood and sometimes I don't know what is due to what!

Some background - I've suffered from a low chronic depression for many years (no meds) but the past 6 months have been piling on a lot of family and personal stress. I had a traumatic (to me) family issue in August and even though I thought I handled it pretty well emotionally, I'm a little scared that now it's beginning to hit me. I say this because for the past few weeks I have had absolutely no appetite. I restarted GO diet a month ago and granted my carb cravings went down a lot (as expected with LCing) it did not kill my appetite. The thing that's alarming me is that I know I've had an increase in stress since the start of the new year and in the past stress has had the opposite effect on me - I'm a compulsive eater so stress always puts me on a binge, even when I'm LCing (just binge on LC stuff ). Physiologically, I'm hungry, that is, I get the hunger pangs telling me it's time to eat. But I don't want or crave anything. Does that make sense?

I guess what I'm looking for is some opinions from people who suffer from depression because I know one of the first signs of a more severe depression is loss of appetite and loss of interest in things, including food (can you tell I'm a psych grad student ).

Any thoughts would be helpful. I'm not seeing a therapist right now (I just switched jobs in Jan and I can't afford a therapist until my benefits kick in) but I'm looking to find one in a few months.

Thanks,
Tam