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Original Post by nycgirl:

Are you recovering from an ED and getting active help with your recovery. Here is why you need to make sure you eat no less than 1200 calories a day.

Firstly, Calorie Count cannot and will not support you eating less than 1200 calories a day. We consider this unhealthy and CC is all about HEALTHY weight loss and weight maintenance.

From Mary Hartley, Calorie Count's Director of Nutrition: "By eating only 800 calories, you will not get enough energy, protein, fiber, vitamins, minerals and other components of food. In time, you could become malnourished, which can cause severe health risks such as respiratory infections, kidney failure, blindness, heart attack and even death."

Here is a brief reason why never less than 1200 from the Advice section of Calorie Count Plus, under the Q&A tab:

Why must I eat at least 1,200 calories a day when I want to eat less?

In order to get the daily food servings you need for a balanced diet, it takes about 1200 calories a day. With careful planning, you could have a balanced diet on 1000 calories, but the restrictiveness of a very low calorie level can lead to binging and weight cycling, which will take you further from your weight loss goal. What's more, very low calorie diets can cause excessive muscle breakdown and metabolic adaptations, which can drive down your calorie requirements. In the end, you'll need fewer calories to maintain a higher weight

Your body needs at least 1200 calories per day to survive.

Here is a very rough scientific break down provided by a dietician for a 5' 2", 19 year old female weighing approximately 100 pounds, sitting around all day and doing nothing:

-The heart needs 12% of the calories (144 cals)
-The kidney needs 12% of the calories (144 cals)
-The Liver needs 23% of the calories (276 cals)
-The brain needs 23% of the calories (276 cals)
-The skeletal muscle needs 30% of the calories (360 cals)

yea. i defintiely don't think eating like this is healthy at all. but i am recovering from an ed and doing sooo much better than i used to. eating much more than i even thought possible and working on getting 1500-1700 calories a day.

i think you are suggesting you are taking laxatives to lose weight.
first, that is VERY VERY unhealthy. and second, you're not losing real weight.
it's not fat you are losing just mostly water.

She is being honest. If she is rejecting on that basis that sucks. If my boyfriend gained that much weight i would tell him the same thing probably but i wouldn't ever reject him because of his weight. i'd be there for him always.

i think that the person who started this thread probably just wanted to not feel abnormal because they ate "so much".

i've eaten over 4,000 calories in a day before i'm sure.
don't freak out. it happens. it's definitely not something that is healthy unless you are trying to gain weight. which you could probably stand to gain a bit perhaps.

you definitely won't gain even a pound from these two days. your weight will fluctuate a bit day by day.

don't worry you'll be fine.

oh i'm 5'4" and 100 pounds. underweight trying to maintain and hopefully gain.

thank you. good advice.
it's just so scary to think of being at a healthy weight. at 100 pounds i feel like i could stand to lose another 5 pounds. being more than this seems gross. how do other girls weigh 15 more pounds than me and look okay? man.

Original Post by gi-jane:

So if a kid has a morbidly obese parent they should tell the school counsellor? A smoking parent? A parent that drinks alcohol? ....

The woman hides 'her food' ... not the kids' food BTW. Hiding the children's food would be child abuse. Hiding her own food is just odd behaviour.

i kinda agree with this. this woman is underweight. but some people's parents are over weight and buy their kids big macs and soda and no one thinks that is odd. it's more excepted behavior. so even though i don't think doing either is good i don't think that you need to freak out about this.

i would straight out tell my mom that i know she's weird about food and that i worry about her but understand that everyone has their own struggles. then i would tell her i am concerned that the habits she has might rub of on your siblings.

some dogs have digestive problems and have to be vegetarian. dogs are omnivores so it's not too difficult and is pretty healthy even though they definitely are more hard wired towards eating meat than humans.

cats SHOULD NOT be vegetarian. cats are carnivores. and even though you can feed a cat some tofu or something doesn't mean that they can survive on a plant based diet. they can't and shouldn't.

the talk to the plant thing i would have just stared at the guy weird and walked away. that's a weird thing to say.

the Indian thing i would have laughed at a little bit maybe and then said, "do you mean native american?" and then kept eating my food after taking a few disgusted glances at the meat on their plate.

Original Post by shacurington:

sliced raw red bell peppers. they're crunchy and sweet and only 30cal/serving.

try roasted red pepper. 30 cal/serving. soooo good.

i LOVE LOVE LOVE black beans, lentils and chick peas. especially chick peas.

black beans- black bean burger, black bean burritos, black beans and rice  w/ salsa, man i straight up eat them out of the can.

lentil- really good for soups especially with mushroom and rice, lentils and rice w/ nutritional yeast and margarine, lentil burgers, lentil loaf (like meat loaf).

garbanzo beans- besides just eating them out of the can you can put them in salads, soups, make a wrap with them or make hummus

artichoke hearts.

Original Post by cellophane_star:

I'd like to know what's in the Subway roasted chicken patty. It's not even close to being real chicken meat...

EDIT: CHICKEN PATTY: Chicken breast meat with rib meat, water, seasoning [corn syrup solids, vinegar powder (maltodextrin, modified corn & tapioca starch, dried vinegar), brown sugar salt, dextrose, garlic powder, onion powder, flavour (hydrolyzed corn gluten, autolyzed yeast extract, partially hydrogenated soybean oil & cottonseed oil, thiamine hydrochloride, disodium inosinate & disodium guanylate)], soy protein, sodium phosphates. (disgusting).

I think you'd be better off with the CHICKEN STRIPS... Boneless, skinless, chicken breasts, water, seasoning (salt, modified corn starch, flavour, yeast extract, spice, chicken fat, sesame oil, onion powder), soy protein, sodium phosphate, flavour.

thats gross.

Original Post by feanor:

Talk to HIM. Not the girl..the girl doesn't owe you anything.

You also have no reason to flaunt her rejection. A), thats mean. Why would you want to be as bad as her. B), you are already flaunting it just by being with him, believe me. Nothing else is required. C), if you act like a jerk, your boyfriend will notice, and I'm sure that isn't going to encourage him to like you any more than he already does.

If I were in your position I would talk to the BF about the sleeping in the bed issue. And I would tell him how you don't like how the girl acts. And then I would ignore the girl completely. =/

AND I WOULD CONTINUE IN MY RECOVERY! =/

i am continuing my recovery. i have been eating at least over 1100. it's not like i am going back to starving myself even though i know i should be getting a lot more than that. i'm working on it. i did eat 1990 calories which is the most calories i have had in a long time just a few days ago.

i have talked to him. i'm okay with him now because we've talked about it otherwise i would be angry with him too.

i'm not going to flaunt it by actually saying anything to her. i am going to just be around. flaunt it by just looking good and by NOT SAYING anything and continuing to be with him.

i don't want to do this to make my boyfriend like me more. i just really want to irritate this girl because she does this with so many other girl's boyfriends and breaks people up. and i am really really happy that that streak ended with my boyfriend. also she has locked herself in a room with a guy friend of mine when he was drunk/blacked out. (he was already blacked out laying in bed when she went into his room.)  he is diabetic and people kept banging on the door to try to get in to see if he was okay but she just kept yelling "go way!" and he woke up in bed with her. if she was a guy and he was a girl they would have broke that door down!

i do this too! way to much. minus the throwing up, i haven't done that in a while, and i would really like to stop as well. i usually eat pretty good all day knowing that i will be taking in extra calories from beer that night and then after i get drunk i just eat and eat and eat.

solution, get to drunk to eat. get really really drunk to the point you can't even talk right let alone walk to the kitchen for some food. haha. just joking.

i think having something healthy waiting for you at home is a good idea i might try. instead of binging on bad stuff you could eat a bunch of veggie soup (is warm and will fill you up with less) and my favorite, seaweed! just an idea.

then during the day you could try to get yourself to eat a it more knowing that you didn't take in an enormous amount of food the night before.