Posts by tealpenguin326

HUGE compliment! She basically implied that your weight loss and exercise routine produced results similar to that of professional liposuction! 

Of course, the compliment may have been unintentional. Is she normally a bitch? Are you rich? Did she ever see you working out or hear about you dieting? Did you lose the weight very suddenly? Does she normally say things like that? It is all circumstantial.

Yeah, I could see how she would be saying, "She could never lose the weight on her own, she had to have had lipo! That fat pig... MWAHAHAHA!!!" But then again, she may have just been theorizing.

A bit more of the skinny shoes scenario.

I am in between 8 and 8.5 on a particular pair of ballet flats, and I am trying to decide which way to go. I've lost 10 pounds so far and I plan to lose 30 more. 

I'm not an ad.

I don't GO TO Curves, I just follow their diet. On my own I run about 2 miles at the gym 3-4 X a week. 

I'm being totally serious! This is AWESOME! I'm not trying to sell you anything, because I'm only a 16 year old high school student. You don't even have to go to Curves, or buy the book, I just want more people to know! I went through years of yo- yo dieting which eventually lead to an eating disorder. I feel like if I had had this, I might never have had an ED.

When I was about nine my father called me into the computer room. He had been doing research on the internet about childhood obesity, and when I arrived he turned to my mom and said, "Do you think we should check her for rolls of fat?"

Over the years my little brother has also called me "piggy pot pie". When I complained to my dad, he told me that I could just call him "skinny bones" back.

The worst thing about all these insults was that I was never overweight. I sat perfectly at the 50th percentile for weight of kids my age and height.

"What causes an eating disorder?" (my mom)

"Let's not waste time trying to figure out what caused her eating disorder. It is impossible to know." (therapist from the UCSF eating disorder clinic)

My original post had more to do with yo-yo dieting than making excuses for oneself in order to avoid trying at all.

I find "you could lose weight if you really wanted to" comments MOST offensive when they are applied to yo-yo dieting, because the dieter CLEARLY wants and tries to lose weight, yet is unsuccessful. 

My particular case is a bit interesting. I was stuck in starvation mode at 1,000 calories a day, nearly fainting, and not losing an ounce. I told my dad that it was possible I wasn't getting enough to eat, maybe that was part of the problem. He said I was a liar, and that there was no way I could be eating 1,000 calories a day. He practically laughed at me, "Trust me, you're eating enough! Your problem is that you eat too much. All you have to do is watch your diet." Then I would cry, because I WAS watching my diet! I practically had an eating disorder! Then he would reply, "You know, one day you're going to get serious about your weight, and when you really want to, you'll lose weight like (snap) that!". So, yeah, I got SERIOUS. I got a full fledged eating disorder! I went through recovery (I only lost 15 pounds with the ED, and gained 25 back before my body finally settled). Now I'm eating MORE, 1800 calories a day, and I'm LOSING weight!

Never mind. I want to delete this now. I do have a lot of worries and anxieties. This is not the place for them. I want to close this thread. If only there was a way to delete it!

Alright, just as the above posts say, you look like a super model.

Seriously, http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_average _weight_and_height_for_a_runway_model ;

Even though you look like a model, and are far thinner than the vast majority of the population, I can understand the idea of wanting to look YOUR personal best, so I will do as very few have done before me and actually answer your question. 

If you have been working out, but eating 1300 calories a day, it is unlikely that you have gained muscle. You are not eating enough. I plugged your height/ weight/ age into a caloric needs calculator, and it says that you should be eating 1600 in order to lose weight. It's possible that you're encountering the dreaded..... STARVATION MODE!

When I'm thin

I will go shopping and actually buy something!

I was on a similar type of diet for about two years. Initially I lost 10 pounds and was very satisfied, so I logically decided to start eating 1500 for maintenance. The problem was that eating at such low levels altered my metabolism, so I began rapidly gaining weight on only 1500 calories per day. I regained all the weight that I had lost within a month. Then, at my original starting weight, I had to eat 1,000 calories just to maintain. I did this for a year, and tried to break free again. I ate 1500 calories, and rapidly gained 10 MORE pounds. I eventually ended up developing an eating disorder which brought me down to my original original weight, the one that I was before the whole madness began. Then I gained 20 pounds in treatment for my eating disorder. After the last 20 pounds, I finally have my natural metabolism back.

It's taken me over two years to recover, and as everyone says, I gained back MUCH more than I lost (lost 10, gained 30). I did all this when I was very young (13 years old) and stubborn. I'd been dieting sine I was 9, and when people told me that I'd never be able to lose weight and keep it off, I just saw them as ignorant fools who underestimated my willpower. Not that way at all. It took me about two years to understand that the reason many people gain back all the weight they lost on a diet is not just because they returned to their "bad habits" as some diet products may have you believe, but because dieting, especially EXTREME dieting, lowers the body's metabolism to the point that your body is fighting to regain that weight.

If you diet sensibly, as calorie count suggests, you won't have to fight your body in order to keep the weight off.

I exercised while recovering from my ED. My weight initially stabilized at a healthy number, but once I stopped exercising I began gaining weight unintentionally.

I suppose that eating chocolate is a rather ineffective way of getting back at my brother.

A few hours after that incident my dad accused me of eating all the cereal and walnuts in the house. I think I'm just the family scapegoat for missing food. Still infuriating, but I didn't feel driven to overeat. My reasoning: If I didn't eat them, someone else did, so it's in my best interest to take the blame for it because then the person who REALLY ate all the cereal and walnuts will continue doing so, and will in turn become fat, meaning that I can make fun of THEM!

I'm not just talking about, "Oh, Lindsay Lohan is so thin, I have to be that thin too."

It goes beyond the media and magazine covers plastered with anorexic looking starlets.

Through my eating disorder, I set my own standards. I didn't aspire to look just like my favorite hollywood celeb, I just wanted to be THIN. That magical THIN that we all strive for had eluded me for too long, and I would do ANYTHING to get it.

The quest for thin is inside all of us. A sort of policing voice. The idea that if you stuck to your diet you were "good" this week, and if you didn't you were "bad". Losing It talks about how the corset of the Victorian age never really disappeared. It was replaced by dieting, the inner corset.

I think that these ideals set out by the media ARE attainable. The only problem is that in order to achieve such levels of perfection, women must waste vast amounts of time, energy, and money. This is how society keeps them down. There is less time for women to focus on who they are as people. Less time to develop character or focus on advancing their careers.

A similar thing happened to me. I ended up resetting everything on calorie count. I was off by 3 pounds, so I just added 3 pounds to all of my weigh ins. It still reflects my total loss, but it's more accurate.

My goal weight is still the same, so in the end, when I get there, it will be nice to know that I lost even more weight than I originally planned. It will feel like an even bigger accomplishment!

I convince myself that they aren't hunger pains. Maybe it's just indigestion, or period cramps (IF YOU CATCH MY DRIFT)? Water helps as well.

Thanks for your input! Mel_e_mel, I can't really get away, because my dad is overprotective/controlling to the extreme and all of my relatives live across the country. I'm almost 16, thought, so I only have another 2 years. I try to get away for the summer when I can.

Joannarexia - I think I will swallow my pride and try complimenting my brother. If he thinks he looks good the way he is, then he probably won't be as motivated to lose more weight.