Posts by pinkdis0rder

Forum	Topic	Date	Replies

Health & Support	ED Recovery Club II (the REAL one)	Apr 29 2008 03:05 (UTC)	1,010
wow. "the real one." sorry my original idea wasn't helpful...i thought people were doing well but i left for a few months...apparently it didn't work out. sorry. however i've gotten lots of messages from people who posted back there and they were all really nice and grateful...so to you guys who tried it out, you're welcome.
Fitness	How to get tone without bulkiness?	Nov 04 2007 20:53 (UTC)	13
oh my god i googled this and sat here reading it not knowing i was on CC! haha hi i miss you guys! <3
Weight Loss	Birth Control?	May 04 2007 21:07 (UTC)	3
Hm. I didn't get any sort of blood tests or anything done. I went to a free clinic, i filled out forms on my medical history, and I was given Ortho Tri Cyclen. The past three weeks I have been taking it. I haven't been more hungry and I actually started eating HEALTHIER and not as much as before and dieting again which has nothing to do with the pill, but all in all it didn't increase my appetite and I have been eating less than before as I started dieting, like I said. Unfortunately, I have gained weight in the past three weeks. Pants that fit me 1-2 weeks ago and were starting to get loose now don't close. And I lose a CONSIDERABLE amount of weight to fit into them. I would assume I've gained at least five but less than 10 lbs. I eat very healthily. My first pack ends tomorrow and then the placebo starts Sunday. I'm going to come off the pill after I finish my pack tomorrow. It also caused SEVERE mood swings/crying/depression/me being EMO, basically. So I'm guessing hormone therapy messed with me. I read on a UK medical site that women on the pill can gain a little more weight the week before their period as well (noticeably) but that once you start bleeding it starts to come off. She wasn't talking about water weight but I couldn't quote her exact words. And yes, she was a doctor. I can't wait for this extra weight to come off. I wasn't even at my goal! I think I will wait an interval of time before seeing a DOCTOR about perhaps an IUD or something besides the pill. Anyway so yeah...I definitely see weight gain as a possibility, even if I'm a rare case, because I'm SUPER careful about my food especially when I start actively dieting to loes weight. I even went weeks of eating basically whatever I wanted, and no it wasn't healthy, haha, but I did, and didn't gain any weight till I started dieting exercising and taking the pill at the same time. Obviously it's the pill. ACK.
Vegetarian	Going veg....support?	May 04 2007 20:49 (UTC)	8
haha thanks so much! that was so much great information! i'm actually thinking more lacto-veg. not lacto-ovo though. but some of the dairy stuff is tough to deal with cutting out, honestly, like cheeses (which i don't eat that often anyway but theyre sometimes just IN stuff) and dairy and sour cream because i am enamored with the stuff haha, but i don't really eat eggs much. however i'm not just doing this for the animals, i'm also doing it for me and my health and to help with weight loss. as of today i eat mostly raw food but there is always the occasional non-raw food, like the pinkberry i mentioned or like a baked potato cuz i hateeee raw potatoes. anyway so yeah. i'm interested right now in eating as much raw stuff as possible. i'll pick up skinny bitch one of these days haha. thankss!
Weight Loss	Britney Spears' rapid weight loss	May 04 2007 20:28 (UTC)	24
god how long did she work out for every day? i would think a pound a day is tough stuff if youre actually eating something.
Weight Loss	DUDE i'm so messed up..	May 04 2007 20:27 (UTC)	1
thanks guys i know there's more to life than being skinny but i've also gained recently due (i think) to birth control pills. (they also effected my emotions and since i finish the pack tomorrow, i am stopping taking them after that). thanks for your suggestion starffy. unfortunately i've gained the weight in FAT and not water (yes, i can tell the differece) and would like to loes that since my muscle tone is kind of being covered up by all the fat that has recently precipitated. additionally, i'm really NOT interested in building muscle. i honestly find muscular women gross and the last thing i want is to work on building it up. i would rather lose the extra fat i have just gained due to BC.
Weight Loss	Birth Control?	May 04 2007 07:41 (UTC)	6
DANG maybe that's what it is! i started birth control three weeks ago and i'm a little heavier now but i need it both for periods and for its uh normal usage haha what do i do?!
Weight Loss	DUDE i'm so messed up..	May 04 2007 07:38 (UTC)	4
thanks for the compliments it's really strange but in the past couple weeks i've put on a few lbs. pants that were starting to get loose are now tight or hard to close. what's going on?! am i going to go through a growth spurt AGAIN? i haven't been eating badly! i don't have a scale btw haha. i really despise my legs though. especially right now..theyre not toned at ALL. i've been goin through a LOT as far as my family goes (like i moved out of my place with my mom into someone else's place cuz my mom went insane on me) and idk, it's insane. i put in sedentary in the allowance/expenditure thing cause for the most part lately i am in school or in a car haha. i want to work out more but i am SO TIRED OF RUNNING LONG DISTANCE I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU. i did it like 2 days ago and i wanna cry, omg. ew. so i think i'm going to do some pilates and then also take ballet classes again. but again thanks for the compliments...i just haven't achieved the shape i want. everyone has something they don't like. as fr the prett face etc, stuff, i see it all every day so i really dont think it;s that pretty. but thanks nayway.
Vegetarian	Raw	May 03 2007 19:50 (UTC)	26
i was considering doing this...tough considering 2 things... 1) i was raised a carnivore hahaha 2) i go out to eat a lot with my bf the first thing is easy enough cause it's personal choice. the second thing is kind of like...what do i order? garden salads right? what if i get bored of them? haha i hear raw foodists get REALLY skinny...is that true?
Weight Loss	DUDE i'm so messed up..	May 03 2007 19:45 (UTC)	11
thanks for the quick response, agana! i'm kind of scared of building more muscle cause as you can tell i have enough that i would like to lean some of it down haha. i'm going to look into pilates to see if it really does that! that would be awesome! will it help me NOT build muscle if i wait an interval of time before and/or after working out to eat? but still feed my body? and what should i be eating keeping in mind that i don't want more muscle AT ALLLLL.
Motivation	11 lbs in one month!?!?!	Feb 21 2007 03:23 (UTC)	2
congratulations! it seems everyone here is giving pretty good advice so i won't belabor anything. but good job! :)
Health & Support	ED Recovery Club	Feb 21 2007 03:14 (UTC)	790
haha life has been busy busy busy and very interesting for me. unfortunately i'm not having the easiest time with recovery. i kind of found out today that food doesn't make me happy. it pretty much exists to keep me alive. i take no pleasure in anything i eat anymore. lots of stuff actually makes me feel sick. so idk. im happy everyone's trying to eat more and be healthy! :)
Health & Support	ED Recovery Club	Feb 20 2007 17:41 (UTC)	793
hey guys! i'm really glad this thread is doing so well...i have been away for a while as you may have noticed...but i'm glad it hasn't died! it's good to see so many of you doing so well..i'm really proud of everyone. united2gether...thanks for holding down the fort. you're a really great influence and really supportive. i'm glad everyone wants to be healthy. know that we're all going to struggle with it sometimes but that doesn't mean we can't do it! :) love everyone.
Health & Support	ED Recovery Club	Feb 04 2007 10:37 (UTC)	859
Congratulations actress! I'm having a bit of a rough time right now. I've been crying. I stopped a few minutes ago but I don't quite know what to do. I've got like 10 lbs to lose. My mother made a comment about my body that bothered me...although she calls me "so thin" all the time since I've lost weight, she was like "you've still got meat in all the right places...here points to boobs and here points to thighs/butt" she's hispanic so to her that's good but to me it hurt so badly because my thighs are the part of my body i'm the most self conscious about and i can't seem to shift these last 10 lbs i want to lose...and i'm REALLY frustrated.
Weight Loss	can everyone (women) become a size 0 or 2??	Feb 04 2007 10:23 (UTC)	89
i have a best friend who is about 10-15 lbs smaller than me (her weight fluctuates as does mine so that's the range) and she has pretty wide hips, while i have rather small hips. i fit into 0's right now but she can only wear 3's, and we are the same height with a 10-15 lb difference between us. her legs would fit into the 0's better than mine do...but my hips are too small for the size 2 or 3's that i own. we both have very small frames but i am around 125 and she is around 110-115 and we ar eboth 5'7" with tiny frames...she is just a ballerina and i do track so the muscle mass is different and it's bothering me lol. i would love to be her weight, then my 0's wouldn't be so tight haahaa. the largest i have been is around a size 5/7.
Weight Loss	Just how bad is starvation?	Feb 04 2007 10:14 (UTC)	11
i probably shouldn't be talking, what with my ED tendencies running amok on me every so often, but i really think that the whole "starvation" thing is a bit of a myth used to scare dieters. i do think that too little is bad, but there are benefits to a slower metabolism. everyone wants a fast fast fast metabolism to burn all the fat they can in the shortest amount of time possible, but she's right in saying that a slower metabolism means a longer life. all that it really means is that you can't eat crap all the time. taking a good multivitamin and eating 1000 calories of nutrient rich foods in a well rounded diet is not going to kill you, imo. it is actually possible to feel energetic on less than 2000 calories or whatever. and doctors don't know everything. doctors misdiagnose people and kill people all the time, including people in my family, so they can pretty much kiss my you know what as far as their opinion is concerned.
Weight Loss	Any teens? Looking for friends.	Jan 21 2007 21:52 (UTC)	49
17 1/2 (hehe), 123-124, trying to get down to about 115, then we'll see from there. mostly for athletic reasons, i have to be really small and lean for my sport.
Weight Loss	Why fight an efficient body?	Jan 21 2007 21:50 (UTC)	6
its important to remember that WHAT you eat is as important if not more important as HOW MUCH you eat. as the article posted on page 2 stated. also, imho, taking a multivitamin is really important. sure, you can kill yurself on 1000 cals a day, or you can be healthy. everything goes either way. it's all about moderation. eat 1000 cals of REALLY healthy food, or 1000 cals of crap, of diet food or something, every day, and see what happens. and if i had the choice of eating 1000 or 1800 cals a day and not gaining weight, i would pick 1000. idk if thats just me, but i get sick eating 1800. to me thats a TON of food because everything i eat is pretty healthy and subsequently pretty low cal. yogurt, fruits, veggies, eggs, fish, the occasional chicken or beef (altho i love them i just dont eat them much anymore, no idea why, probably myl iving situation) healthy whole grain breads and cereals... none of that stuff has a ton of calories. i have a really hard time eating 1800 calories if im really eating healthy which is waht i love to do. 1000 is much more comfortable. i'm personally of the belief that "starvation mode" at the point of 100 or 200 calories, like we are constantly hearing about, is a scare tactic. a "slower [fat] metabolism" isn't giong to kill you. sure, you can slow your metabolism by eating less, and then eat more and gain weight, but your body will stabilize and figure it out and stop gaining weight eventually. it doesnt mean you were starving yourself to death.
Health & Support	ED Recovery Club	Jan 20 2007 09:57 (UTC)	896
la9...how tall are you? blah. my throat is killing me, specifically my tonsils. i havent worked out at all this week because of finals and sickness...make that the last two weeks except last saturday...its' getting really bad. ive gained a little weight from it. i am determined to run tomorrow for a long time to get back in the swing of running. especially now that its not SNOWING AND HAILING AND FREEZING IN LOS ANGELES. ahem. that made me very bitter. i am also thinking that i will be upping my protein and lowering my carbs because i eat a LOT of carbs, it looks like, and not nearly enough protein. im not following anything specific but i am going to be eating a lot more lean fish and meat and fowl and eggs. i am hoping to lose a few lbs (which i gained and a few more that i still want gone) by the time i go to houston to see my kind of boyfriend (atm its complicated lol but we were steady for nearly a year...1 year this month actually). anyway im hoping my throat feels a bit better tomorrow. tea and grapefruit seed oil and cough drops and gargling and idk what else will hopefully help me. its painful to talk or even swallow cuz its messing with my tongue...ew
Weight Loss	Why fight an efficient body?	Jan 20 2007 09:32 (UTC)	17
jdub: THANK YOU. i was NOT saying 100-300 cals is EFFICIENT. by any means. all the word metabolism means is the process by which a substance is handled in the body. here we talk specifically about the metabolism of fat. a LOT of factors go into that. everyone in this thread and even on this site (no offense) seems to be DEATHY AFRAID of the dreaded "starvation mode" thing and a "slower metabolism." the cold hard truth of weight loss is you have to burn more than you eat. if you burn more calories than you eat, your weight will drop. if you can figure out how to eat the right foods (i.e. listen to what your body istelling you...it tells you what it NEEDS. or it should. carbs? protein? most people cant listen to their own bodies because they are overrun by cravings and the need for convenience), you wont die. plain and simple. it takes a lot of work to starve the human body to death. i hardly think our hunter gatherer ancestors were counting calories every day, eating percentages of certain kinds of food (i.e. protein, carbs, etc) daily, eating 6 small meals a day to boost their metabolism, watching their fiber intake, water intake, etc. and they had pretty efficient bodies. they ran around hunting wild animals and gathering grain and vegetable type foods, working to prepare it (i.e. skinning the animal..think that's easy?), this often involved a lot of fast long distance running, walking long distances. basically a day of extensive exercise. and they were just fine on their one meal that they got at the end of the day. so fine, in fact, that they survived living in the wild and evolved into who we are today. unfortunately, we live in cars, office cubicles, and classrooms today, working our minds for our 'bread on the table," have a hard time finding time to do any kind of physical activity (so much for hunting for your food, lol), eat bred animals and readily available, overgrown plants and grains, cook our food excessively, make new stuff that just isn't necessary (i.e. anything processed and not in its natural state), or even good for us, and eat a great deal more calories and unhealthy fats and cholesterol than our ancestors could have ever thought of. and why? money and convenience. suddenly we find ourselves counting calories like crazy, convinced we need a set number to survive and anything 1 or 200 cals lower is "starving yourself to death," counting fat grams and fiber grams and other grams...because we've screwed up our food so much that we have to TRY not to let it kill us. we need nutritionists and specialists, half of whom dont know what the heck theyre talking about anyway, and on top of that, you get ED's, because we now have to TRY to lose weight, too. kinda sucks when you think about how human eating habits and exercise habits have devolved for the sake of money and cultural advancement. a lot of it wasn't even necessary. unfortunately, the more sedentary our culture gets, the more money can be made sitting behind a desk, which leads to fat people, which leads to gym memberships which make money for the gym, diet foods being bought which make money for food companies (whats funny about diet foods is that a lot of them do or used to have ingredients that make you fatter! and addicted to the food! joy! so we can obviously trust our food providers too right?)...exercise clothes being bought which makes $ for those companies....pills and supplements...exercise equipment for the home...lists of tips and tricks to "boost your metabolism" and "burn fat faster" and "tone up"....the list goes on forever. basically now that we have screwed up our natural body function irreparably by implementing our new unnatural way of life, we all want a quick fix...anything to help. money money money, honey. keep spending it. seems to me like we should just be trying to be as natural as possible, not screwing around with numbers. of course if you wanna go all the way and eat only organic foods, that'll cost you too. probably because "they" don't want you to. :)
Weight Loss	i can't stop eating	Jan 19 2007 07:12 (UTC)	3
heyy i know how that feels haahaa personally i think it's a mindset. i believe it is a mental thing. if you have no PHYSICAL need for the amount of food you are eating then it has to be mental. the only thing that's ever worked for me is willpower. muster some of it up. if that doesn't work, find a hobby that you like that will take your mind off eating. i also find that planning out ALL of my food in advance and counting the calories in it works very nicely. because you go through all the work of counting calories and making a list of food and everything. for me its incentive to follow my plan so i can feel successful at the end o the day. hope that helped a little. :)
Weight Loss	never hungry and always eating?	Jan 19 2007 07:09 (UTC)
haha no its not that time of the month... you may be right about being toorestrictive. ive only been eating 1200 cals this week and i want to binge but i feel NO hunger. if there wasnt food around i coudl easily just not eat anything all day and not be bothered. but when theres food (and its free lol like today..i work asa cashier in the cafe sometimes so i get free stuff when i work)...i just WANT it. without feeling hunger. it's really weird. i dont usually binge around that time of the month tho..oddly. it doesnt really affect my eatng habits too much. i may have cravings but never go to binge. and im simply used to eating less than 1200 a day. it may not be "healthy" or "the norm" or "the right thing to do" but its just how i am and it works fine for me till i try to fix it lol. unfortunately i hate cheese so the bread and cheese thing wont work for me...haahaa. but thanksss. so yeah idk what to do.
Weight Loss	Why fight an efficient body?	Jan 19 2007 07:05 (UTC)	33
how does that offend you anadrea? sure not eating will scrw up your metabolism even eatin too little will but eating 1000 is kind of far out of the danger zone if youre taklingabout death, assuming average height and weight. you may need 2000 cals a day to maintain ur 97 lbs. im 17 and a half and i weigh more than that (idk how tall u are) by a lot, im 123, and while i CAN eat 2000 and not really gain weight, i dont lose anything eating less than that. i dont need more than 1400 to maintain. even 1200. and i have a LOT of muscle as i am a varsity track athlete year round. if i only need 1200 to maintain and i want to lose, then why wouldnt i eat less? so yeah its about how efficient your body is. 100-300 cals tends to work pretty well, and im not pulling that number out of my ass, it comes from an article somene posted on here about a woman who ate 700 cals a day and was obese. that alone should attest to the fact that not everyone fits into a box, as chrisq stated. the point is manewell was simply stating an idea and everyone here jumps on this righteous little THATS NOT ENOUGH CALS OMG UR GONNA DIEEEE bandwagon which honestly gets annoying to read in every single thread and isnt entirely true. not everyone is the same.
Health & Support	ED Recovery Club	Jan 19 2007 01:42 (UTC)	898
haha...i'm almost better! ive got a date tomorrow too lol oh gosh
Weight Loss	Why fight an efficient body?	Jan 19 2007 01:38 (UTC)	37
coming from someone who has had an ED and knows what "starving yourself to death" REALLY means, it's not about eating 1000 cals. that's not starving yourself to death, guys. that's all i'm saying. restricting to between 100-300 cals, that's starving yourself to death. and yeah, it works. it's not good for you, either (obviously). personally i think (and have always thought, regardless of my ED tendencies) that the whole you need at least x number of cals a day to survive thing is a lot of b.s. and don't tell me it's because i've had an ED because it is ed-nos so ... yeah nuff said. the point is, she did it, shes leading a happy healthy life, and yeah maybe her metabolism has slowed down but its probably not just because of her eating habits. my metabolism only slowed once...when i juice fasted. otherwise it doesn't matter whether i eat 1000 cals or 1500, my body will burn it off, unless i like vegetate all day, which isn't possible. maybe she cant have a big thanksgiving dinner without gaining some calories (ud need 3500 to put on a lb anyway and thats AFTER u take off everything u burned...) in one day or put away some cake but who wants that? ew.
Weight Loss	Why drinking water helps with weight loss	Jan 18 2007 21:56 (UTC)	6
i'm officially sold. i'm gettin some agua.
Weight Loss	Why fight an efficient body?	Jan 18 2007 21:53 (UTC)	41
let's not be too dramatic. she's not "starving herself to death." it's a difference of like 200 calories. sure, her body probably has a slow metabolism. but there's a lot of reasons that could be the case. for example, i was watching a health expert on the morning news the other day. one of the questions asked was, why is it so hard for women to lose the weight once they hit 40? the answer the nutritionist (read: doctor) gave was that a woman's BMR slows down by something like 10% every 10 years. that means that eating just 100 calories EXTRA from what your body needs every day could cause a 10 lb weight gain per month. something tells me this isn't a 20 year old woman we're talking about. your bmr is the # of cals you need to stay alive, right? if it drops then you simply dont need the 1200 cals or whatever. also if she had done more exercise than just 30 minutes a day she would have kept up her metabolism. everyone knows exercise raises your metabolism. i get really ansty when people say that eating 1000 cals instead of 1200 is "starving yourself to death." that's hardly the truth. sure it will slow down your metabolism but 1000 cals a day is easy to eat everyday without feeling hungry at all for a lot of people so why should she eat more? if doctors are telling her she's healthy and she's living a full life, don't get on her case about 200 freaking calories.
Weight Loss	What is your clothes size now?	Jan 15 2007 22:01 (UTC)	25
i bought a pair of size 0's at macy's the day after xmas. they didnt' fit. they wouldn't close and were real tight on the legs. i have lost a little weight since then, only about 5 or 6 lbs. which is good i guess. they fit today tho! :) so yay. no muffin top fat bulge either :) altho i am also suspicious of clothing sizes. 3's are getting big on me. i dont own any twos but i suspect a 1 or 2 would be really comfortable and a 2 might possibly be loose too. clothing companies use vanity sizes now. meaning they make sizes bigger. so a size 7 now is the equivalent of like a size 12 (idk for sure but its some big difference like that) back when they were filming i love lucy. haha. make women feel better about themselves i think. a size 12 didnt use to be big at all but if u compare them they are much bigger now than they were. so idk if a 0 counts. i know in the UK a US 0 is a 2. and thats considered pretty tiny, u cant find smaller than a 4 or a 6 UK in a store, which is like a us 2 or 4. and a UK 4 is hard to find at that, or so i've heard. anyway. so yeah. i fit into my first pair of 0's. im not underweight, i have a bmi of 19.4 i think. but i'm happy because they're pretty! :)
The Lounge	Anyone 17-21 years of age?	Jan 15 2007 21:30 (UTC)	72
17 and a half. will be 18 in july. :)
Motivation	Being sick sucks. It is definitely aint motivating.	Jan 15 2007 21:29 (UTC)	7
bleh. i lost weight with the fever. nto that that's a good thing. i can barely eat. but i also heard that fevers increase your metabolism. makes sense since youre sitting there at 102 degrees. im still not better. and i have a final tomorrow. SAVE ME.

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