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| Health & Support | CT Scan question | Feb 29 2008 23:16 (UTC) |
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| well, about the cals in barium - i did a bit of research as i can totally understand u - i wonder how many cals are everywhere - even stupid things like my roll on even if i don't eat it :). before i did the research i thought there were none and it seems i'm right - barium is like a chemical element, right? from that mendelev chart. calcium is too, sodium too. do they have cals? noup. so i guess it is the same for barium. about the digestion problems - i have no ideea, but i've read that you should try and elimitate that from your system as quickly as you can - and drinking water is the solution - so after having that horrible tasting drink (i read that about the taste) just drink a lot and let's hope you'll do okay. if u don't have anything other than that planned for tomorrow morning go home after the xray drink as much water as you can and go to sleep for a couple of hours - that helps everytime. hope my post helped a bit. hugs | |||
| Foods | I totally overate this weekend....and I DONT CARE | Feb 26 2008 15:55 (UTC) |
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| as anorexic and obssesed as i am i still agree with you: 2 days of good binging (eating as much as we like whithout thinking we should stop while we're eating and just stopping when we feel like it) can harm no one, i do it quite often too, no weight change , rock on :P | |||
| Foods | Do you absorb everything from a multivitamin? | Feb 26 2008 15:52 (UTC) |
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i've just read it in the newspaper (so we cannot rely on it)- only 60-70% of the pill is absorbed. oh and another thing about vitamin C: it is said to last in our body only for 4 hours so we need to renew the resource as often as possible, i guess.. |
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| Health & Support | Eating Disorders and Relationships | Feb 26 2008 15:34 (UTC) |
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here's my story: wanting to have a relationship helped me get over bulimia! if someone told me this would have happened before it did i wouldn't have believed it, but now i'm still in shock: when i decided to beat bulimia i shared.. everything : i told him everything.. i was expecting a serious reaction and a bad one to be more precise like : you know where the door is. i had been living a lie for about 4 months when i told him, and WE WERE LIVING IN THE SAME HOUSE where i did my normal rutine at least twice a day. he had no idea about it. his reaction to all i had to say crying and pulling my hair out was: so.. like.. what exactly are u saying? you like put 2 fingers down your throat and make all the food come out? may i ask why? i explained how i was fat and obsessed and that that was the only way to beat weight aso and he just said: well, if that's what u gotta do, that's what you gotta do, you know better. to be honest that kindda got on my nervs: like what? don't you care , at least a bit, that this is putting me into the grave?!?! but it was nothing like that, i told him that my exact point was that i wanted to give the bad habbit up and that i need a lot of support. he said: so, what can i do to help? and his task was to keep me away from too much food and watch the bathroom :) and he pretty much did. it helped me a lot to know that he knew and that someone was constantly watching me. and guess what: 2 month to go and i can say bulimia's end is one year old :). but, hear me out: i hate boys relationships and especially the idea that we HAVE TO get married some day, i'm the kind of person that hates normality (yeah.. like you wouldn't have guessed- ex bulimic) and doesn't accept things just because... still having a boyfriend helped me get through this, and as much as i hate to admit it this one single thing i don't think I could have manage to repair on my own. first thing u need to do to recover is find a bodyguard and by bodyguard i mean anyone that could care for you other than your blood relatives - that's what works for me - somehow i feel more ashamed when i do stupid thing and hurt people that care about me just because they choose to, than doing stupid stuff arund the ones that love me no matter what.. i hope you get me and if u react like me i assure u you'll have a positive reaction to this. ps: i'm over bulimia but no where close to being fully recovered, i weigh my food, i eat only diet things, i cry for hours if i eat too much but bottom line is: i don't throw up any more and i'm mantaining my weight, and that's one big important first step. best of luck to you |
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| Health & Support | Girls recovering from EDs... how often do you weigh? | Feb 02 2008 13:33 (UTC) |
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| oh and another thing: for me the scale turns into a crisis solver : when i'm about to lose it - as i so many times think i gain - and i see the no is decent it's such a relief and my life from my point of view is ok and on the right track again. so for me scale can be an honest friend to - but it needs to be there when i want it to and "tell" me what i want to hear. | |||
| Health & Support | Girls recovering from EDs... how often do you weigh? | Feb 02 2008 13:28 (UTC) |
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It kindda depends on how much I eat and how guilty/bloated/fat I feel. If I had it where I live I'm sure I'd do it at least twice /day - and I know it is stupid but still. I have to go to my parents' house or to my app to do it (I curently live with my bf), but either of the 2 places is far. I sometimes get up at 8 in the morning and grab a coat while dashing through the door and run to my parents' house - guess what for. I sometimes stop myself from drinking for hours in the morning as I know I have to go see mom and dad and get on the scale while i'm at it. It's very sick and I know it - I just can't get it out of my head. And to let you in on a little secret - 2 out of 3 times I check my weight and expect to see more I see LESS and the other time I see the exact same weight as before. When I least expect it and weight checking isn't in my plans I see more - and i binge after that almost every time. SO my advice is: do it every morning when you get up (after going to the toilet of course - at least to get some liquid out) if it is absolutely necesary and obsessive but stay away for the rest of the day. Or pick 2 3 days in the week and do it in the morning of those only 2 3 days schedueled and stick to that - don't let the scale take over control of your life, it's stupid and as far as i see it is just as sick as what we do with obsessing over food. from a former bulimic still delaing with weight related issues |
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| Calorie Count | how to add foods for days away from computer? | Jan 24 2008 07:56 (UTC) |
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just write everything down on a papaer and log them as soon as you get online. that's how i do. soon you'll start knowing the cals of the food you regularly eat anyway - but you'll still need cc to be more precise in counting. good luck
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| Maintaining | anyone 5'2 and maintaining? | Jan 20 2008 23:26 (UTC) |
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| thyme, patience! your body is still in shock give it some time and i promiss you it will behave ;) trust me, i too was gaining like crazy after making myself starve for a long perioud - but after that it just started understanding it was gonna be fed (my body i mean) and started letting go of everything it retained before - i even got to the conclusion i was getting fat on air :)) but i wasnt - my body was just saving for rainy days, it thought, were gonna follow, but as soon as it had realized the sky was clear and we had only good weather announced for a long perioud of time from that moment on, we become friends and still are, although i sometimes may, myself save for rainy days (binging i mean), it knows that i'm just being afraid for no good reason and throws the extra cal away. trust your body - i say it is the best computer ever made! | |||
| Health & Support | my mom has an eating disorder. (advice?) | Jan 20 2008 09:35 (UTC) |
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all i can say is: don't let it get to you!!! remember this: it's easier to cherish what you have than to fight something to get it back - and this goes for anything in life. so keep focused and don't develop an ED. I'm responsable for my mom's eating dis. I brought bulimia to my family and she discovered it and made it her saviour althoug i see it more like her executor :((. I managed to recover from that she didin't... this game is tricky you never know if u have enough recouces(motivation, strengh) to defeat your opponent, it's better not to play it at all. As for your mom... try to make her see how worried you are for her, cry even if it helps, pull your hare out in front of her and tell her you don't have any plans in the near future that include going to her funeral. tell her that it is killing you inside to see that she's harming herself (one of m friends did that and it really helped me). tell her you'd do anything to help her get over this, tell her you're by her side and tell her she's the most important thing in your life and that last you'd want to see something happening to right before your eyes... and if this doesn't work tell her that it's either she becomes healthy or you become sick cause the two of you are in this together (course it would be only a threat, as you WILL NEVER GET AN ED - and i consider this you promissing me, yourself and the others that you won't) good luck |
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| Health & Support | advice? | Jan 20 2008 09:22 (UTC) |
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hi! are you a vegetarian (i don't know exactly the term but i was reffering to a meat not-eating person, as i have seen cheese there :) )? if not, add meat to your diet! i promiss it will keep you full better than other stuff, meat and bread - that's the recipe for not being hungry all the time - that's how i do it. chicken and turkey breast, veal/beef round, and surprize: pork sirloin trimmed to 0 fat (or ayt least try to trimm it to 0 fat). eat 100-150g of this if you can / day and you'll be okay, oh and anything up to 60-80g bread ( i limit my bread cause i love sweets and save cals for them) eat whenever you want whatevwer you want but stay in the cal limit. good luck! advice on sweets: chocolate ice cream - it surely satisfies the sweet need :) and it seems to be more (quantity) and has less cals than chocolate or cookies - i eat 1 coated cone of chocolate ice cream (100g!! having 270cals) every day and i keep my weight where i want. kisses |
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| Weight Loss | recovering from ED - bmr?? | Jan 18 2008 06:15 (UTC) |
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i'd say about 1300-1350 if u are very lazy :). add an hour of walking/day and you can have like 1400 without gaining, add some time walking in your house (cleaning cooking) - about 2 hours and you get 1450-1500. that's how it works for me : 96 lb 5'2'', recovering bulimic/anorexic. best of luck |
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| Health & Support | What do you do after a binge? | Jan 17 2008 07:44 (UTC) |
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| I binged yesterday too... big time (for me)... i guess it happens every time i "starve" myself for a couple of days in a raw. i tried sleeping but couldn't and insted stood up and ate a few, 800 cals to be precise, more... well, whta's done is done. we need to take care of our monthly average.. i made mine go up 50 cals binging yesterday.. not very bad but still, i'm dissapointed and i totally get you. i do a monthly average.. i'm not allowed to end the month above my maintainance cals - i think it's easier to work on the average than take every day and try to solve the problem in the shortest time possible - for me it isn't even healthy as if i try to do that, my numbers being very low, i might end up in starvation mode. so you could try the thing with the monthly average... i hope it helps | |||
| Maintaining | anyone 5'2 and maintaining? | Jan 10 2008 08:20 (UTC) |
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| try it this way: calculate your bmr, which i think is around 1200 and add 100 to this amount and eat like this for a month and see what happens. even if you gain it can't be too much and you already know you can get rid of it any time you want. anyone who has lost weight is more than able to do this anytime he/she wants. have faith and give your self a break, you desirve it. kisses | |||
| Maintaining | anyone 5'2 and maintaining? | Jan 08 2008 13:28 (UTC) |
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i'm with you.. i know what it feels like. i too am scared of every calorie. but trust me on this much - your body will (soon i hope) understand that it will no longer need to save up food, cause you won't make it go through starvation again. i know it sounds stupid, but right now your body is just as scared as you are but in a different way - you are scared of gaining and it is scared of dying, as soon as you'll help it get over this phase and make it clear for it that starvation will never happen again it will help you get over the scared of gaining phase. it is a little bit difficult cause you have to make the first step as right now your organism is a bit more stubborn than you are and quite sceptic. proove it wrong. here's a christmas story of overeating: Daily Calorie Intake - 1,737 cals DateCaloriesGramsFatCarbsProteinGrade2007-12-242,8011,26012131988B2007-12-251,3991,2924413699A2007-12-262,1641,3776831868A2007-12-271,3561,3934220944A2007-12-281,2949135215454A2007-12-291,5571,2433527545A2007-12-301,4741,1064923737A2007-12-312,1071,6888121893B2008-01-011,4811,3954621964A
i'm now eating normal 1300-1400/day but i swear i've noticed no weight change. this was the christmas present i got from my body. let me know when you get yours. |
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| Maintaining | anyone 5'2 and maintaining? | Jan 08 2008 11:40 (UTC) |
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hey carmen! look, i am having a hard time believing this myself. when i gave up purging i never thought i could eat as much as this. you will gain weight for a couple of months even if you eat 1200. your body is in shock and it will remain so until it is sure you will feed it the needed amount of cals it needs. that is when it will start letting go of every calorie it doesn't need (cause right now this is what your body is thinking: great! the bit*h gave us 800 cals today, maybe tomorrow she will give us nothing and we need to assure the body functions such as heart liver, etc... so we'll hold on to everything we can- retain water, retain food in the stomach as long as posible, etc). So here's my advice: eat at least the 1200 daily for one month, don't worry if you bindge 1 , 2 days a week, but NEVER EAT under 1200 and i promiss you your body will repay you. Right now at our weigh (i too weigh too little) our body can go in starvation mode in less than 24 hours and we sure don't want that. And don't forget to upgrade the cal no every month until you reach your cal ideal.. which for you i'd say is around 1450 if u do nothing all day long. for how long have you been feeding your body less than 1200? for every year of torture your body needs one month of recovery. i was bulimic for a little more than 4 years and in my 5 month of recovery my body was finally acting normal and even loosing weight. so good luck and remember this is just like a 2 player game (it you vs food). play by the rules and the referee (your body) will repay you with normality, cheat and you'll have to deal with penalties - unwanted weight gain. you get only a verbal worning when you over eat 1 - 3 days in a raw. you get a yellow card everytime you eat under 1200/day or everytime you overeat for 3-5days in a raw you get a red card for eating under 1200 2 days in a raw or for 6 -9 days of overeating. by overeating i understand eating more than what you shold to mantain by at least 300cals yellowcard= little weight gain - max 1 lb red card= considerable weight gain - >1lb so wanna play the game? |
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| Maintaining | anyone 5'2 and maintaining? | Jan 01 2008 20:53 (UTC) |
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hi, i'm 22 and 5'2''.i've been recovering from bulimia for 8 months and since my body started reacting normal to food i've been trying some things out: i ate around 1250/day (average) for one month and lost 2 lb. next month i tried 1350 and lost another lb!!this month (december i mean) i ate an average of 1450, and guess what! mantaining! i'm really strict about food and cals and calculate every single gram i ate (and i use a scale too). i need to mention that i my weight is 95ish..(43 kg) and i never exercise! i mean i move (a lot some days) - cooking washing dishes, the daily usual stuff, walk to school (1 h /day), etc. But during december my activ level went way down, as i'm on holiday - so it was mostly siting and liying in bed and eating 1450/day and i'm mantaining. so as i'm actually asking myself the same question as you are- "how many cals to eat to mantain?", doing these tests i reached a conclusion: if i sit and do nothing all day long it's perfectly ok to eat 1350-1450 and if i do some activity too like the walking to school i can eat 1400-1500 without any risk (maybe the one of loosing weight, but i'm still so afraid of food). (the 100 cal range is for errors and stuff like that, you know). so good luck and tell me how you're doing. btw i eat ice cream every night after midnight and other sweets every day but i keep within the cal plan. so never worry what you eat - fats, sweets, carbs etc- it makes no difference for your weight as log as the cal no is ok ;) |
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| Health & Support | changes after recovery | Dec 05 2007 11:37 (UTC) |
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| i'm dealing with a kind of anorexia to... recovering actually, x bulimic, now obsessed with what i eat insted of purging it- BUT I AM TRYING TO WORK ON THAT. Anyway here's what i've been through: Normally you are looking up at 6 months of totally unexpected changes: like super weight gain, super apetite or exactly the opposite- so bottom line for the first 6 months of living normally your body will be in shock, but believe me it's worth it. my 1st month : only salat and snack or sweets binges, crying for food, crying daily trying not to purge and overeat; around 1000c/day (but that's summed up, cause my days were like 500 1800 800 700 2000, all ups and downs) result: 8 lbs more 2nd month: tried adding some meat, boiled of course and the regular binges; ate around 1400/day -2 lb ?!?!?!? 3rd month: nice, meat and yougurt almost daily, couple of snack, couple of fries, ice cream and other yummy stuff; around 1400/day +4 lb oops??? 4th month: cool let's try dieting, like that was a good ideea.. i was eating only carbs or only protein, you know the diet... 1200/day STUCK no weight change 5th month: ok so i thought my intake was too high.. going down to 1000/day result -4lb 6th month: i thought this was a good time to start maintaining so ate 1250/day as i thought my BMR was the same with the daily caloric need; result: -4 lb great... 7th month: raising cals to 1350/ day result: - 2lb. ?!?!? Now i'm eating 1450/day as that is my actual daily cal need and i've finally understood it. CHANGES: 1. As everyone has said - I'm social again. I'm back, baby. I used to be such a sociable person, talked a lot and spend around 16-18 h/day with friends. When I was bulimic and hiding it I had months of not talking to anyone - this killed my morale and self estime. But now i'm back to :OMG it's 11pm and I've said i'd go out for coffe for an hour at 2 pm. That feels just great. I can have people over again and spend great time with them. I can eat out! I'm not cold anymore I feel like doing tones of stuff Going out doesn't sound like climbing Everset anymore I don't wear my winter jacket indoors anymore, it's just a tshirt now and we're having like 32 dg out :)) I'm still shocked to see i'm not cold anymore how about this one? I go out in the 32 dg wearing only a tshirt and coat for hours and don't feel the cold, last year it was like 2 sweaters and if i could 2 winter coats :) and after 5 minutes out i was freezing. I finally answer my phone and am glad to hear it ring i smile because i feel like it, not because i feel i should i DONT HAVE TO HIDE ANYMORE I don't feel hungry and weak all the time I don't feel that eveything that happens is somehow my fault anymore i dont' buy food that i don't like/need anymore (i was amazed to see how much i spear) I CAN STUDY AGAIN, i feel like it again, i used to love it but bulimia took that away from me too I feel like making a change and making things happen I look forward to tomorrow... and the list can go on for pages and pages, bottom line is: I HAVE MY LIFE BACK!! |
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| Health & Support | UUUummm---CONNFUUSSED!??? | Dec 04 2007 20:53 (UTC) |
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Omg!! Hahahahah this site is totally crazy. Do they have the posibility to treat you in change of great money or wtf?? I took most of the test, well, calculators or health calculators there and guess what: I suffer from every possible thing listed there. I should be dead and burried by now... i tested the site: by answering only one question with yes it gets your result to : Sick sick sick. That's insane. caughing, huh??? yep, you must have astma, aso asf. THE SITE SUCKS. Here's something else you'd like to hear: i'm dealing with a kind of anorexia to... recovering actually, x bulimic, now obsessed with what i eat insted of purging it. Anyway here's what i've been through: Normally you are looking up at 6 months of totally unexpected changes: like super weight gain, super apetite or exactly the opposite- so bottom line for the first 6 months of living normally your body will be in shock, but believe me it's worth it. my 1st month : only salat and snack or sweets binges, crying for food, crying daily trying not to purge and overeat; around 1000c/day (but that's summed up, cause my days were like 500 1800 800 700 2000, all ups and downs) result: 8 lbs more 2nd month: tried adding some meat, boiled of course and the regular binges; ate around 1400/day -2 lb ?!?!?!? 3rd month: nice, meat and yougurt almost daily, couple of snack, couple of fries, ice cream and other yummy stuff; around 1400/day +4 lb oops??? 4th month: cool let's try dieting, like that was a good ideea.. i was eating only carbs or only protein, you know the diet... 1200/day STUCK no weight change 5th month: ok so i thought my intake was too high.. going down to 1000/day result -4lb 6th month: i thought this was a good time to start maintaining so ate 1250/day as i thought my BMR was the same with the daily caloric need; result: -4 lb great... 7th month: raising cals to 1350/ day result: - 2lb. ?!?!? Now i'm eating 1450/day as that is my actual daily cal need and i've finally understood it. What i am trying to say is that it's gonna be hard for the first few months and stupid and unexplainable things may happen, but not to worry, your body will recover and will sooner or later act as a normal one. Believe me i am eating way more now than when i had started recovery (and gained weight) and i'm amazed to see that apparently what i call MUCH isn't enough..
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| Weight Loss | Who eats back what you burn & who doesn't???? | Nov 11 2007 09:27 (UTC) |
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Hey there booster. hmm eating back... In my case i see it is the same, wether I eat afer i burn (no breakfast, hudge dinner :) ), or vice-versa (hudge breakfast - eating more than i burn during sleep - I consider the start of a day when i go to bed, small dinner) but i prefer to save my cal for late night :), as i totally enjoyeating in front of the pc at midnight :). I know it is exactly what we're advice not to do, but after testing it on my self i have noticed that the only thing that matters is NUMBER, i mean to stick to your daily plan. If you want to eat 1400/day, when or how you choose to eat it is not that important, all in one meal at 2 am or little 200cal snacks 7 times a day. When you come to healthy eating it... well that's another thing... 3 4 times a day veggies, carbs, percentage, blah blah blah :). So it depends on you mostly. Think what you want is most important to you and act accordingly. If you have only one goal, loosing weight, than you can do it any way you want as long as you eat less than you burn. Be careful, though, if you have a long history of dieting and binging your organism may not react as soons as you impose the dieting plan (it may take some time until it realizes what you want from it) but i assure you it will eventually react. To some up: 1. Establish a cal goal and try to have a weekly Nutrition Report that sais you're doing fine ( an average of around your cal goal ). 2. Never eat less than 1200 cal/day cause your body might react to that (and start storing cals and water when he sees food again, being afraid of what you might do to it) 3. if you eat more than you burn one day try to eat less the next days and still have a good nutrition report. 4. Eat when your body asks you too - not over doing it; usually small amounts of food help it get over the "I'm so hungry right now i could eat a horse" 5. try not to skip meals even if you aren't that hungry, cause when you skip one you'll be asked to cover for it later. 6. treat your body as if it were a very smart spoiled kid that knows its rights and try to compromise and don't trick the small bastard too much - remember it is smart and it might get back at you |
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| Motivation | I've been logging my info wrong! | Nov 09 2007 23:06 (UTC) |
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i did smth similar. i was using the old version of the site and unconsciously cheating ( spending 5 hours in front of the pc playing reading typing or whatever were logged as light office activity which i now consider wrong - pc= inactivity, although i'm still not sure of it) i realised i had an extra of about 300 cal/day which i ate!!! and put on 3 pounds... in 2 months, now i log pc hours as quietly sitting doing nothing, and eat accordingly i'm maintainig (and lost the extra 3 pounds btw). anyway, don't trust the estimated burn meter (ha ha ;) ); put down everything u do (i even log 10 min of hair combing :) ) and i promiss you you'll have good results. oh and another thing : never round food grams in " - " like 42 g =40 g and never overestimate activity lev, like 55 min of walking = 1 hour. you'll see you'll do fine. once you've started this you're half way thare, so be brave and do your best (as i am sure u can and will) kisses |
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| Motivation | I've been logging my info wrong! | Nov 09 2007 19:13 (UTC) |
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| what do you mean by wrong? i mean how 'wrong' did u upload it? i did the same at the begining but it wasn't that bad ;). so what was your mistake? wanna exchange mistakes? :P | |||
| Foods | chicken schawarma calories | Nov 06 2007 09:01 (UTC) |
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yup, i agree spoiled candy. paro, put it down with 600 it should cover. good kuck and ENJOY YOUR MEAL! ;) |
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| Foods | chicken schawarma calories | Nov 05 2007 20:09 (UTC) |
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hmm strange the chicken shouldn't be fried.... it should be thinly sliced from that rotisserie thing - metal broach. the normal shaworma (kebap) recipe should have around 100 g rice (pilaf) - i'd put down 3 oz if i were you - how manny tablespoons of rice are there ? (if u give me an aprox no i can give u an aprox weight grams in chicken shouldn't excceed 100... it's usually 100-120 g rice and around 70-80 chicken (they normally use bonelesss skinless breast) - i'd put it down as grilled if they follow the right recipe. I donno what carrots peas and corn have to do with shaworma: it shoud be pickled cucumbers onions and optionally cabbage :), but that doesn't change the cal count too much - original may be lighter of course in it's original wraped resipe it has 10 -15 g french fries but for the plate type it's usually rice and last: sauces: turkish kebap has ketchup and mayonesse/ garlic sauce is your red hot sauce thick , rather creamy? or more liquid? go with hot hetchup if liquid, choose one that has around 90-100 cal/100g - can't be more than 25g-30g /serving and if u consider it's definetly thicker than mcdonalds ketchup let's say try a toamto hot dip or something at around 150 cal/100g. if u have 80 g chicken 100 g rice 150 g vegetables and 25 sauce it's around 550-600/serving |
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| Maintaining | mantaining when sedentary? | Nov 03 2007 09:39 (UTC) |
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| Thanks revolution! i can't believe that i got an answer exactly from you. Yesterday u stole a couple of hours of my life :). i've been reading your posts and stuff about you - hope you don't mine. My conclusion: great result, super ambitious person ;), but couldn't stop asking myself: how it was possible. Don't hate me for asking this: any ED? | |||
| Foods | Post your wierdest eating habits here! | Nov 02 2007 22:02 (UTC) |
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I eat everything without peel : fruits and vegetables all! tomatos, apples, grapes: you name it! if it is salty it goes with ketchup! anykind of nut and sweets (ice cream chocoltae, cereal) BIG NO NO - pick them out !! plain biscuits and ketchup... freaky? toast bread as long as you need to in order to see smoke coming out of the toaster - that's how you know it is done ;) 'stir so that food doesn't get stuck to the pan' NO! food that is burned (stuck on the pan) is delicious especially red sauces, gravies, cheese and potatoes. |
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| Foods | What is your binge food? | Nov 02 2007 21:47 (UTC) |
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I'm on my free week!!!! Yuppy. Deffinition of free week: happens every once in a while when i loose some weight i allow myself to binge for one week! believe me by day 4 i'm like: what else is there that i am allowed to eat?!? ti's day 4 today, i've been doing okay i only have 6000 cal during those days, i was expecting more like 8000-9000, but i swear i'm too full to eat :P (i can't believe i'm saying this) Any way: favourit binges: 1. undecided between chips cereal ice cream and hard sweet mini pretzels. i guess the all desirve no 1, without trying to make a top (depends most on mood): cereal anytime everytime (favourite: muesli chunch with dried fruit and nestle fitness with dried fruit) ice cream : mars or top gun(which is a kind of big chocolate cornetto with chocolate syrup yummy) chips cheese flavoured or onion and sourcream anyking of food obtained by backing :) : salted: pretzels (i prefer the hard round mini ones vanilla flavoured), sticks (any would do), Ham flavoured Snaps (2-gram pieces of pretzel like dough ham and honey flavoured), Backed Bread slices (the call them Maretti - they're baked slices of buns with different flavours) sweet: biscuits cookies and anything like that: the have to be really sweet, i prefer the simple ones (w/o filling) with high percentge of fibre and mabe chocolate chips, you know the ones that are really small but weight a lot and have at least 420-430 cal/100g :) and SUNFLOWER SEEDS!!! |
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| Health & Support | when you up your calories (ED recoverers) | Nov 02 2007 21:25 (UTC) |
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| hey there. don't be scared, it's okay to gain weight the first 3 4 weeks, and believe me the first week is the hardest: i too gained some weight, 10 pounds, to be more precise (i swear), and i was round as a baloon, retaining water, my belly was hudge, and the pressure in it was killing me; people were asking me if i was pregnant, etc. Surprize: second week 1 2 pounds off eating normally, and the next the same - so i ended up with gaining only 6 in the end. i kept eating normally for the last 6 months (almost, i celebrate on the 12th this month) and nothing happened; i admit i keep track of calories and try not to bindge. And as for purging only happened twice during this perioud, but the second time was awful - i had to go through 3 days of bloating after that. to tell you the truth i've had it. by the way: it is normal to bindge once in a while, as we ex-Eds are very strict about what we eat our body may say 'enough is enough' from time to time: i think that i do it every other week: keep my cals 100 below what i burn and one day , oops go over with 500-600 . but the scale keeps the numbers, that's what matters. kisses and hope you succed! remember the first week was the hardest, by next week you'll be already considering your ED smth belonging to the past. | |||
| Weight Loss | How many calories did I just eat? | Oct 26 2007 20:58 (UTC) |
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| i say you don't need to worry couldn't be more than 500-600cals. do you have in mind the aprox measurem. of the piece you ate? | |||
| Foods | i really need some help!!! | Oct 26 2007 20:56 (UTC) |
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hi awertz. First of all don't take this the wrong way but this may the start of a ED. secondly let's look at the situation in detail. let's look for CAUSE: 1. did anything in your life change in august? it could be any small detail, from the death of someone dear - or even a person you just knew, dumping/being dumped, loosing some money, missing some opportunity, to loosing an earring, getting a mark (on skin), absolutely anything. i am asking this because you first need to decide on what has caused this. 2. you say this has been going on for some time so it is probably not just a phase.. so it has little chance of going away on its own. what you need to do to make it go away is to try to stop thinking of it. I know, this is by far the hardest thing to do in this case, but believe me, thinking to much of something turns that something into a PROBLEM. 3 now let's go to the EFFECT. so you have a couple of pounds more - which obviously makes you feel depressed and wanting to give up and ends in hurting yourself even more. extra pounds - so what?? as you've said before you were very active and fit before. can you accept that person doesn't live in you anymore? can you let her die? can you say goodbye to the healthy gourgeous girl who eat "right" (whatever that means). i assure she is still there in you waiting for you to call on her. so do that. show yourself and everyone else, (including me) that you are strong and you will not let this phase take over your life. all you need to do is be yourself again, cause i'm sure this weak person who wrote this message isn't the true you. Hope to be of some help. kisses and good luck |
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| Health & Support | this is what anorexia caused me | Oct 23 2007 21:33 (UTC) |
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Hey posh. I'm a recovering anorexic/bulimic. My bulimia is gone but my anorexia isn't i guess as i still obsess over food and cals. I'm also seing tones of doctors and i too have some "scars". Here's what I got for bad blood circulation: cardio cardio cardio. It seems walking and non-fitness walking (not the walking band or orbitrek) is most indicated. Half an hour of walking/ day can do wonders - that's what they've told me and I had to listen as I was desperate. It sounds sh***y, I know but I did it and guess what not only i got used to it but it became more like a necesity. You'll seethat after your walk you'll feel fresh and actually feel the blood running in your veins, no more cold feet or hands and stuff like that + a boom of energy and mood for doing stuff. Try it out for a week and see how you feel. if you don't have where to walk try going to the gym and use the band - don't run!, just walk.. kisses and let me know how you're doing |
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