Posts by ellabella89

1. candy: Chocolate bilbies

2. cookie/bar: My grandma's cherry shortbread

3. main dish (turkey, honey ham, tamales, etc): My family's traditional Night Before Christmas sushi platter

4. side dish (baked yams, green bean casserole, etc.):Mum's potato salad

5. pie/cake: Christmas pudding

1. FAVORITE BRAND OF TEA AND FLAVOR. (PREFERABLY GROCERY STORE FINDS IF POSSIBLE)

Celestial Seasonings "Sleepytime" Tea

2. FAVORITE BRAND OF COFFEE AND FLAVOR.

Java French Vanilla

3. FAVORITE COFFEE CREAMER/WHITENER IF USED.

Evaporated soymilk

4. FAVORITE ADDITION TO COFFEE/TEA...MAYBE A FLAVORED SYRUP, LEMON JUICE, MILK, ETC.

See above, or raw blue agave nectar

5. FAVORITE CARBONATED DRINK IF APPLICABLE.

Schweppes Agrum/ginger beer/lemon lime & bitters

6. FAVORITE FRUITY DRINK.

Mandarin or cranberry juice

7. FAVORITE KIND OF MILK. BRAND/FLAVOR/ETC.

So Good Vanilla Chai

8. FAVORITE COFFEE SHOP?

The Buxxxxx

9. FAVORITE DRINK TO HAVE WITH BREAKFAST?

Orange juice or soy chai latte orrr long black americano

10. FAVORITE DRINK TO HAVE WITH LUNCH/DINNER?

Soy chai latte for lunch, peppermint tea for dinner

10. FAVORITE DRINK TO HAVE IN THE EVENINGS?

Sleepytime tea :)

1. If you could create a new cereal flavor what would it be? Tropical flakes - bran flakes sweetened with organic kiwi/pineapple/mango juice and covered in toasted coconut flakes with chunks of dried kiwi/pineapple/mango, plus a cereal "sauce" sachet that you add after putting soymilk on it - the "sauce" would be an all natural agave-banana coulis :)

2. If the ice cream companies were to add a fourth flavor to the Neapolitan trio, what should it be? This has probably already been said, but nothing would go better with vanilla/strawb/choc than S'mores or Peanut Butter ice cream.

3. Design a new burger/sandwich for fast food restaurant (can be veggie based if you dont eat meat) Black bean-seitan-walnut patty crusted with pumpkin seeds, slathered in pure canadian maple stoneground yellow mustard and organic natural cranberry sauce plus bread and butter pickles, maple caramelised mushrooms and onions and thick slices of orange-glazed beet with southern wilted chilli-garlic kale all on a heavy french spelt bun... oh my goddddd

4. Whether you drink soda or not , create a new flavor to introduct (ie: Orange Coke) Apple Cider Cranberry Soda

5. If Ketchup no longer existed, what other fruit or veg could you puree for a condiment? Sauteed mushrooms and jalapenos.

6. What fruit would make an awesome jelly? Goji berries!

7. Create a non-traditional pizza (ie: Greek pizza with feta, olives and spinach) Medetteranian Mecca: Roasted red bell pepper & hummus spread on a turkish bread pizza pie with pine nuts and raisins baked into the dough, flaked almonds all over the crust, topped with capers, sun-dried tomatoes, unwrapped dolmades, crumbled falafel, chickpeas, green bell peppers, tabbouleh, finely chopped medjool dates and swirled with a puree of nutritional yeast and kalamata olives.

8. Favorite vegetable that would be great made into chips, add a flavor if you like (ie: BBQ Carrot chips) Spicy brown sugar onion!

9. What ethnic food/foods should become more popular in the US (or UK or country you live in) JEWISH fo sho - pretzels, matzoh ball soup, tzimmes, knishes... (L)

10. You having a granole/snack bar what be your dream nutritional and ingredient makeup (ie: 10 grams fiber, 500mg calcium, flax seed and blueberries) Nutritional Stats: 15g protein, 15g fiber, 15g fat, 10g carbohydrates (of which sugars: 4g). Ingredients: Organic almond butter, organic cashew butter, organic activated raw walnuts, organic ground flax seed, organic medjool dates, organic demeter raisins, macadamias, cocoa butter, organic dark blue agave nectar, cinnamon, cayenne :)

This past weekend I had SO many fear foods! I hadn't eaten french fries in almost a year and I just DID the thing. Fried foods = MASSIVE fear foods. Along with a veggie slider! SO GOOD.

AND! I ate vegan chocolate and chocolate cookies! TWO rows of choc and THREE cookies.

AND, THE NEXT DAY I HAD AN ICED APPLE CINNAMON ROLL FOR BREAKFAST.

Hah, take THAT ED. It was so hard for me to justify what I was eating to myself but it was so so so liberating & GOOD tasting at the same time. Now I'm back home (all that was eaten on a trip interstate) and eating my calories healthily mostly, but I have to keep reminding myself to have treats every so often :)

OATMEAL/PORRIDGE/HOT CEREAL SURVEY

Large/whole oats, or fine/milled? Whole fer sho.

Stovetop or microwave? Stovetop everrry time.

Favourite mix-in? Melted banana and unsweetened cocoa!

Favourite toppings? Almond/peanut/cashew/hazelnut buttah, dates, cinnamon cashews, dairy-free choc chips, raw oats, walnuts.

Favourite topping combination? Cashew buttaahh with walnuts, dairy-free choc chips and raw oats.

Preferred alternative grain to oats? Quinoaaa :) loves it.

Favourite savoury hot cereal or porridge? Savory? Gross!

Favourite brand? None, just plain rolled oats. I do have instant Nature's Path for some reason though.

Favourite product of that brand? Uh, I guess Maple-Nut Oatmeal?

Is there a hot cereal you’ve not had you’d like to try? Cream of wheat/kamut/oatbran!

Is there a hot cereal you have had you’d like to recommend or discourage? I discourage Nature's Path Maple Nut if you don't put enough water in. It's vairrr tasteless kiddos.

Invent an instant hot cereal product that ISN’T on the market. Cinnamon roll hot cereal!

Breakfast: Oatmeal with a few banana slices, flaxseed meal, dessicated coconut & PB

Snack: 20 pistachios & about four and a bit pineapple slices

Lunch: Salad with spinach, arugula, green bell pepper, celery, mushrooms marinated in Bragg's Liquid Aminos, raw corn kernels, steamed carrot, cucumber, dried cranberries & cashew butter

Snack: Apple Pie Larabar

Dinner: Grilled seitan, baked sweet potato & salad with romaine, green snap beans and baby peas

Snack: Organic berry soy yoghurt

I live in Australia so we don't have such a focus on school lunches from our refectory. However, the options are pretty gross and oily and calorie crazy anyway - and being a vegan I couldn't eat most of it even if I wanted to: there's stuff like buttery, oily curries with fried poppadoms, quesadillas with cheese and chicken, deep-fried meat and cheese spanakopitas and samosas, brownies, cupcakes, pasta carbonara, pizza twists, mini-pizzas with an egg yolk in the center... ugh YUCK. And then there's the ice cream fridge and the soda machine. EW. The only things I can buy are fruit salad and wheatgrass juice shots. The fruit's always mangy and the wheatgrass is nice and full of vitamins and B-12, but $3.70 for a tiny little shotglass full. No thanks.

Anyway, every single day I obviously take a packed lunch (we mercifully have a student fridge and two microwaves, yay!).

For morning tea:

I usually take a serving of fresh fruit and some form of fat, with either raw veggies or dried fruit to make up the rest of my calories (this is usually anywhere from 100 - 150 cals). This week it's been watermelon balls with goji berries and almond butter, or a little carrot instead of the berries and tahini instead of the AB, and today it's a kiwifruit and a home made pumpkin muffin (NOTHING bad in it, very nutritious and it's a serve of whole grains. Literally no sugar, only fat in it comes from one tbsp. vegan butter because I need to up my fat intake).

For lunch:

ALWAYS salad. But man is it a good salad. I start building it by grabbing a few big handfuls of baby spinach leaves, then I add thinly sliced cucumber, raw sweet yellow corn kernels, slices of pepper (usually red or yellow, sometimes raw, sometimes roasted - today I have BOTH!), bean sprouts (two kinds), sometimes roast onion slices if we have any (red onion's SO sweet and nice when it's roasted), a protein (sometimes nuts, sometimes beans, and sometimes BOTH - today I have shelled pistachios), a whole grain (quinoa or barley are my faves!) and a nice big scoop of hummus! SO yum. Seriously, try it - it fills you up sooo much for between 200 - 300 cals :)

Quinoa only takes about 10 minutes to prepare and it's very high in protein. Cover it with water at a ratio 1:4 grains:water, microwave it on high for 10 minutes and in the meantime pan-fry (with or without oil, your choice) a few slabs of tofu/tempeh (pre-marinated if you like that best, maybe in a peanut sauce for even more protein) until golden-brown. If you didn't use pre-marinated, combine a tablespoon of peanut butter with 2 tsp. soy sauce, a squeeze of lemon juice and salt & pepper to taste in a saucepan over low heat. Once combined, toss it with your tofu and cook for just a few seconds longer (less than a minute). When your quinoa's done, drain it if you need to in a flour sifter, chuck in on your plate and top it with your tofu & remaining sauce. Done!

But. That's not a very good meal because there's no veg :( why do you need such a high-protein meal? Excess protein, especially animal protein, is very detrimental to your health.

Breakfast:

Choc Chip Cookie Dough Oatmeal (a serve of oats with a banana blended in, half a cup of FF soymilk, topped with chopped walnuts, a few dry oats and some low-GI vegan chocolate chips. Best. Thing. Ever.)

Snack:

Organic apple slices & PB

Lunch:

Spinach salad with peach salsa, organic udon noodles

Snack:

Mango energy bar

Dinner:

Vegetable samosas, pumpkin soup, salad & spelt bread

Dessert:

Vegan wholewheat fat free chocolate chip cookie, cup of warm soymilk :)

Coppertop - Haha that's exactly what I put in mine before :) I tried her Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Oatmeal this morning. SO GOOD.

I'm 17 and slowly upping my calories to recover from AN. I'm at 1500/day now.

Breakfast:

30g rolled oats with 32g shredded carrot and 28g sultanas, cooked with fat free soy milk, cinnamon, nutmeg, peanut butter and maple syrup. A side of 100g kidney beans with a dollop BBQ sauce and a pinch of cayenne.

Lunch:

Organic baby spinach & sliced baby bella mushrooms with vegan alfredo sauce. Organic orange & arugula salad with rosewater dressing. A mini Golden Spice Pancake from FatFreeVegan with a tsp. raspberry jam. A small organic apple.

Snack:

Vegan mozzarella cheese on whole meal toast.

Dinner:

Coconut rice pilaf with sultanas and slivered almonds. Steamed brussel sprouts, zucchini and broccoli.

Dessert:

25g dark chocolate goji berries. Glass of fat free soy milk.

Original Post by fidget84:

greenlea. please be quiet. the aim should not be to have this girl maintain a bmi of 17.2. so encouraging her to eat carrot sticks is a stupid idea. look candycane you have been at the same weight and mindset for a while now. if you are not prepared to get your weight up to a reasonable level then i think you have no business posting here. you will gain weight if you eat normally, because the only reason you are at this current weight is due to restricton. i think you know this.

so you gotta decide. you want a decent amount of food. a functioning body and mind and some happiness and warmth or do you want to be miserable and stay skinny. either way the choice is yours. but you do have to choose. you know all this. this advice has been given to you before. you seem to have made no effort to change it and that seriously frustrates me at least.

 

 

merylwhite.... i  agree. i gotta say. any female who can pack away an appropriate amount of cals ie 2500 living an active lifestyle and maintain a weight of 18.5 bmi should then be that weight.... like kuhristen in the weight gain forum.

but i feel - without being offensive - that otherwise you are in denial

Fidget. Please be quiet.

Seriously, every girl on here who is underweight/has an eating disorder, even if they are attempting to RECOVER and be HEALTHY like the OP here is, gets a reply from you that is frankly abusive.

First of all, she's not in denial, she knows there is a problem and wants to FIX it. Her question wasn't, "What are my options for recovery?" which is what you answered. It was, "How do I eat normally to recover?". Learn to read.

I feel - without being offensive - that you're an absolute bully and have no place in the Health & Support forum.

To the OP, ignore fidget - seriously. greenlea gave some good advice. Carrot sticks are definitely a great food to munch on! However, they are very low-calorie so you can't rely on them to be a meal or even a substantial snack. But fresh fruit and veggies are absolutely essential to every diet.

You say you haven't weighed yourself in a while. Keep it that way. Trust me, in trying to recover - weight gain is inevitable. It sucks, but the thing is that's your body reacting to suddenly getting more calories. Once your metabolism kick-starts and starts functioning properly again you'll stop gaining and maintain :)

So, about eating "normally". I guess there is no one way for everyone, but I've upped my calories from less than 600 a day to 1500. Eventually I will sit around 2000 calories, which is my maintenance since I run for half an hour daily and burn 200 - 250 cals.

Here's a sample of what I've been eating on my journey to recovery/"normal" eating. Remember, tweak when you eat/how much to suit you personally, but make sure you're getting at least 1500 at first, then move your calories up after that - probably no slower than 100/week.

Breakfast: Carrot Cake Oatmeal (rolled oats, shredded carrot and sultanas soaked overnight in the fridge, mixed in cinnamon & nutmeg, soy milk, heated up for 2 mins in the microwave and drizzled with a tiny bit of maple syrup & natural PB) - 300 cals

A side of Spicy Barbecue Beans (kidney beans, a dollop of BBQ sauce and a pinch of cayenne pepper, mixed & heated for 1 min) - 100 cals

Breakfast total - 400 cals

Snack: Golden Spice Pikelet (small adaption of FatFreeVegan's Golden Spice Pancakes) with a tsp. raspberry jam - 60 cals

Small organic apple - 50 cals

Snack total - 110 cals

Lunch: Spinach & mushrooms w/ organic vegan buckwheat pasta and vegan alfredo sauce - 280 cals

Orange & arugula salad w/ rosewater dressing - 110 cals

Lunch total - 390 cals

Snack - Soy yoghurt w/ sprinkling vegan granola - 150 cals

Snack total - 150 cals

Dinner - Coconut rice pilaf with sultanas and slivered almonds - 300 cals

Side of steamed brussel sprouts, zucchini & broccoli - 100 cals

Dinner total - 400 cals

Dessert - 1 square Lindt 85% cocoa dark chocolate - 50 cals

Dessert total - 50 cals

DAY'S TOTAL: 1500 cals.

Keep in mind this is NOT enough to help you recover in the long-term. I just find that it's easier for ME to take small steps when it comes to bumping up my calories... like I said, you'll need to increase this amount. Speak to a dietician about your specific calorie needs to recover/gain - online calculators are all very well but your most accurate answer will come from a professional who has you standing right in front of them.

Good luck. This road is hard, but you've got support so long as you're here :)

1. My calves have really great definition :)

2. I've got nice slim shoulders.

3. My legs are long and shapely.

Wow. That was actually easier than I thought it would be!

Your given the following ingredients what do you prepare  or eat with them:

1. Brown Rice: Tibetan Morning Rice - basically rice cooked in light coconut milk with plumped raisins and dried goji berries, pistachios and orange rind.

2. A bowl of spring mix: What's that?

3. Peanut butter: With celery sticks, on toast, in oatmeal or even in soy ice cream ;)

4. Hummus: On toast with steamed kale, tomato, and salt & pepper.

5. Sliced Apples:  In a salad with bean sprouts, cabbage and ginger-lime dressing!

6. Whole wheat bread: Grilled avocado sandwich!

7. Plain Yogurt: Soy yoghurt I hope. Stirred into eggplant pilaf :)

8. Tofu: Candy some walnuts with Stevia and roast them, then cook the tofu in agave nectar, add the walnuts and some zucchini noodles!

Your in the grocery store and have to purchase the following items, what flavor, brand etc do you choose:

9. A carton of icecream: So Good Vanilla Chai or Spoil Me Raw Chocolate.

10. A box of cereal: Weetbix :)

11. Bag of frozen vegetables: McCain's Winter Harvest Vegetables.

12. Box of crackers:  Mary's Gone Crackers Whole Grain Original.

13. Can of soup Amy's Low Fat Minestrone.

14. Frozen meal: Sanitarium Vegie Gourmet Burger Patties.

15. Salad dressing: CFM Raspberry Vinegar.

*Indulge yourself, take out all nutritional dietary concern and select the type of the following you buy

16. Bag of salty snacks: Fritos!

17. Bag of candy: Vegan tutti frutti wine gums.

18. Baked good from the bakery department: Um, if they had a vegan version of a blueberry muffin.

19. Dip or spread (ie: Ranch dip): Ricemellow Dream, organic raw coconut chocolate butter, or date icing.

20. Kids/Sugary Cereal: Reese's Puffs! :D

Always be wary of "Wheat Bread", as susiecue is right - pretty much all bread is wheat bread unless it specifically says spelt, kamut, rye or something. Sometimes companies simply add brown sugar to their white bread and slap a "wheat bread" label on it. So it could be worse than usual white :O