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| Motivation | Living life and getting over diets. And binging. | Jun 30 2008 03:26 (UTC) |
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| I want to bump this thread because you mentioned the book "Breaking out of Food Jail." I just started reading it and it's changing my life everyday. | |||
| Weight Gain | *pokes belly* mehh =[ | Jun 14 2008 14:01 (UTC) |
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| Thanks for the advice, everyone, on spreading calories out throughout the day. I'm having the same phenomenon with my abdominal area and would love to find a way to ease the discomfort. | |||
| Weight Gain | RUDE PEOPLE asking "Do you eat?" | Jun 13 2008 04:03 (UTC) |
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| I hate it when people comment on how small I am. I'm a waitress, and when customers make a comment like "Look at how small you are, you must never eat the food here!" I look at them and say "I struggle with anorexia everyday" and then I take their orders. It's extremely empowering to be able to shut people up like that by not playing their little game. | |||
| Weight Gain | Favorite weekday meals? | Jun 11 2008 13:25 (UTC) |
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| I love bean salads. My favorite is a three-bean salad with black-eyed peas, garbanzo beans, and red kidney beans, and it has a light dressing with a bit of seseme oil, cumin, coriander, lemon, jalapeno, and chinese chives. I like to eat a bowl of this with whole grain crackers, like triscuits, instead of a fork ;-) Then, with my leftover garbanzo beans, I'll make a huge batch of hummus to go on toast and raw veggies for snacks.
Actually I love all sorts of exotic salads. I love this moroccan carrot and date salad I found that uses a pound of carrots, chopped dates and raisins, and a dressing with olive oil, cumin, paprika, coriander, cinamon, and salt. Sounds strange, doesn't it? It's delicious, and it goes great with any snack or meal (not a meal in itself--not high enough cals, not nutritiously dense enough) For rice salads, since it's summer, I'll make an Indian yoghurt and rice salad Oh and spinach salads...I eat maybe 1/2 a pound of spinach a day. I like sweet and tangy ones, with dried cranberries and goat cheese but with a tangy basalmic dressing, and smiple salty ones. My favorite one right now uses raisins and toasted pine nuts, but for the dressing you mash together anchovies, garlic, salt, and some other spice I'm not remembering, and then whisk in red wine vinegar and olive oil. And I've finally gotten into the habit of making smoothies. The trick is they can't just be a meal--they have to go with a meal! I drink them like a person drinks a glass of water at a meal. This is a good way for me to get more dairy into my diet, along with giving me a wider variety in the fruits I eat. I don't eat a handfull of berries a day, but I do drink a handfull! Then I do the normal PB sandwiches, baked potatos with cottage cheese and salsa on top, eggs of all kinds, steamed veggies, sandwiches with whatever's in my fridge... The key is making sure you always have atleast 2 veggies, 2 starches, 2 proteins, and 2 fruits in your fridge to create a little dish for when you haven't planned on a meal. I can't just whip up those salads whenever I want to, I have to plan. But I also make sure I have a lot if I don't plan. |
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| Motivation | I think I need to start keeping my PB under lock and key! | Jun 08 2008 18:01 (UTC) |
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| Ka, I don't think I gave you an actual strategy! If you ask me, you should go to the store and buy marinated tofu and put it in everything for as many days as it takes for you to get tired of it. Who cares if your nutrition might be a little more protein-y than usual, a couple days won't kill you. I'm doing that with beans right now and it's so much better than denying myself beans and trying to replace them with baby carrots. I've also had to do it with peanut butter, and boy am I sure glad I don't crave it like I used to anymore. | |||
| Health & Support | Help! I have a bad taste in my mouth. | Jun 08 2008 17:43 (UTC) |
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| hate to say this, but it sounds like you've got the case of dieteritis, where a dieter assumes every malfunction in their body is due to eating poorly or exercising wrong! Even a sore toe could be a result of not eating enough protein! (can't we all predict this as a future thread?) | |||
| Motivation | I think I need to start keeping my PB under lock and key! | Jun 08 2008 15:39 (UTC) |
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| ...marinated tofu? It just sounds like you want protein and salt. go salt! | |||
| Health & Support | ED recoverers: post your worst ED memory | Jun 08 2008 13:08 (UTC) |
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| Coming home at my lowest weight this summer and hearing my friends and parents friends comment on how much younger I looked. Strangers who guessed my age thought I was maybe 17, 18. I'm 21. When I was 16 and at a higher weight I looked older than what my actual age is now. I get carded for alcohol now when I didn't at 16. I had to start buying clothes in the junior's department, and my breasts had shrunk to a size smaller than what they were when I was in 7th grade. To me it meant my ED had me regress into girlhood again, which symbolized how I couldn't take care of myself anymore and that there was a huge disconnect between my intellect and my emotions. I was not in a place of body or mind where a 21 year-old woman should be.
I don't mind being cold all of the time. I don't mind not being able to do pilates because my bones grind into the mat. I don't even mind the pulsing veins visible in places that are dying for fat. But I am not okay witht he childlike-nature of an ED mind, and if I'm going to emotionally mature then my body is just goingt to have to follow with me. And I'm going to have to be a big girl and get over it. |
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| Weight Gain | Gaining weigh-ins!! | Jun 06 2008 01:15 (UTC) |
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| I'm eating 2600 calories a day and that's been enough to bring me from 110 to my current weight of 117 in about two months. My goal is 125, and then I'll go back to maybe 2100 calories, but being able to eat 2600+ calories sure is fun! Eventually it would be in my best interests to be at about 130-135 (height is 5'7) | |||
| Motivation | I think I need to start keeping my PB under lock and key! | Jun 05 2008 15:30 (UTC) |
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| When I was still dieting I used to go to the store that had a grind-your-own PB machine when I had a PB craving and I'd fill up a to-go salad dressing container with it and sneak out of the store. It's like 1.5 ounces, and when you really want some PB you can go get it and not worry about eating an entire jar. Plus, you'll be sure that you really want it if you have to go all the way over to the store to get it. Now I just make sure that I always allow myself 1-2 ounces for breakfast everyday, and after a month of doing this I don't sneak to the fridge anymore just to eat spoonfulls at 10 in the morning. I love having it as a regular part of my diet. Sometimes I make myself eat it even if I'm not craving it because I know that the next day I'll want it even MORE and I might go overboard. |
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| Fitness | bicycle riding | Jun 03 2008 13:52 (UTC) |
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| Hmm, I ride my bike everyday and I promise you, when I see someone overweight riding a bike I don't think anything other than "Wow another person who loves biking as much as I do! Ooooh the sun feels so good! Weee...." And I think that when I pass anyone on a bike ;-)
Biking will be great for you. I'tll be easy on your knees, and if anyone gives you crap you can go run em over. |
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| Foods | Peanut butter and why it is addicting | Jun 03 2008 13:44 (UTC) |
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Original Post by agelikiaddiction:uh you probably wouldn't be alive. and if you were, you'd be pretty tired. and I'd take a PB sandwich over cake or cookies any day. One sandwich might be the caloric equivalent to a large cookie, but the PB is like an injection of energy syrum right to my gut.Original Post by revolution3: |
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| Weight Gain | How did you begin? | Jun 03 2008 13:32 (UTC) |
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| To follow my meal plan I just had to completely let go of trying to make myself feel good about eating 2300 calories a day, and just do it. I was very stern with myself, and even though my ED voice was screaming at me when I ate breakfast after an 800 calorie dinner the night before, I ate breakfast because I did not give myself any other choice. If I'm going to grow up to be a mature adult, I need to begin that process at the breakfast table.
A month ago I was having the same problem like, "Oh my god life is so hard how do I eat more than a small toddler eats?" but what I was really saying is "how can I do this and not feel guilty?" Well, I can't. But that doesn't mean I don't need to keep eating. Also it helped me to stop logging calories all together. I still keep track of how much I burn during exercise so I can eat it back right after I get home from the gym. Otherwise, I take it a meal at at ime and make sure every time I sit down to eat I consume 500 calories minimum. Be vigilant in following your meal plan, mature at meal times, and afterwards take antacids. Recovering is not dieting: when you're anorexic, you need to eat even when you don't think you're hungry. |
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| Foods | Uh am I going to die from too much cholesterol? | May 30 2008 03:10 (UTC) |
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| Yay so I can keep at the almond butter sandwiches then | |||
| Fitness | WARNING: Do Not Bring Your F11 To Yoga :-) | May 28 2008 12:39 (UTC) |
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| backerfan, the belt is as tight as it will go (another great motivation for weight gain!) and it still slips. A sportsbra would be great, I need a new one anyway. But tape sounds so much more affordable...
Another problem with the chest belt thing is it sort of rubs at my rib cages in a weird way so when I'm working out and swishing my arms at my side, it moves around up and down over the same rib, on the same spot, over and over and over... Thanks for the tip about the alarm sound. I knew I could turn the normal volume down, but not the alarm volume. |
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| Fitness | WARNING: Do Not Bring Your F11 To Yoga :-) | May 27 2008 18:16 (UTC) |
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| I know, sugarsweet! My F11 and I have become so close, we are always checking in on one another now. It's getting to be a little over-protective at times...and not to mention demanding (does it even know how hard it is to get up to 80% HR capacity??). But we're learning how to negotiate. Yoga is my time, spinning class is F11's time. | |||
| Fitness | How much exercise? Melkor? Professionals? | May 27 2008 13:30 (UTC) |
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Original Post by alevin:wow, 90 minutes of cardio? Does that mean 90 minutes of your hr being in the 70%-80% capacity zone? That sounds really tough |
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| Weight Gain | I'm finally ready to post...(ED recovery) | May 27 2008 05:05 (UTC) |
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| yeah we do we ride the bus together sometimes | |||
| Weight Gain | Self-recovery from ED and meal plan suggestions | May 26 2008 13:37 (UTC) |
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| jbruno, we all know that an ED will make us feel fat at 90lbs, 100 lbs, 110lbs... | |||
| Weight Gain | Back to the gym | May 26 2008 13:34 (UTC) |
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Original Post by lilminime: Hey great, I was getting ready to reply half-way through reading your post with "take a walk around the track!" but you already know what to do. nice, easy exercise feels JUST as blissful as an hour-long session with your heart rate in the 80% range but it doesn't leave you exhausted and hungry afterward |
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| Weight Gain | I'm finally ready to post...(ED recovery) | May 26 2008 13:25 (UTC) |
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| My best tip for following your meal plan:
You're going to hit the spot in the day where you're at 700 calories or so, and you're going to say "Okay, I know I can just do 700 more and stop at 1400, even though my plan wants me to eat about 1400 more and stop at 2100. I'll just lie and write down that I ate 1400..." You're still sick at this point. You're eating more, but you're still confusing your eating disorder voice with your recovery voice. Disobey the eating disorder voice. You don't have to disagree with it, but do not follow it. Your ED does not want to help you. Disobey it one meal (and for me, each moment I have the chance to over-exercise..) at a time. I'm still doing this now. My head is screaming at me when I put an entire cup of milk in my cereal instead of 1/4 of a cup, but I disobey that voice day in and day out. I eat the cereal, sometimes I feel terrible, but I always eat the cereal. You just have to. Best part about this tip is after a month or so you get to experience going to bed and waking up without terrible starvation cramps! And you can STILL eat breakfast on those mornings. You can have breakfast everyday! I'm so exciting writing this, I'm goign to go eat breakfast! Right now! |
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| Weight Gain | the art of blending! | May 26 2008 13:05 (UTC) |
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| I've had a difficult time getting used to the idea of protein powder because most brands, one scoop is only 9 grams of protein which is only one serving of protein in my meal plan. Why do I need to add it so I can make a "protein shake" when I can make a tuna sandwich with a lot more protein? | |||
| Foods | Almond butter vs. Peanut butter | May 25 2008 13:42 (UTC) |
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If you want a change from peanut butter, I'd try cashew butter. The flavors are similar but cashew butter is a little more subtle. Almond butter can be sort of shocking for those just weaning off of pb ;-) And for those lucky enough to live in the pacific NW, there's a company in California that distributes walnut butter to organic markets up and down the coast. Definitely worth looking into. |
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| Fitness | burn 100 in 10 minutes | May 24 2008 23:04 (UTC) |
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| If I ride my bike against the wind, up a hill for 20 minutes I can burn 100 calories. But I weigh very little and have good cardiovascular health so it takes a lot of work for me to burn a lot of calories.
Get your heart rate up to 150 for 10 minutes and maybe that will work. |
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| Foods | Tofu Shirataki Noodles??? | May 23 2008 22:09 (UTC) |
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| the hungry-girl website is just a big pop-up ad for every dieting gimmic food on the market. i saw the noodles at the grocery store yesterday and they are really expensive for the little amount of nutrients in them, so I haven't tried them. Why don't you go buy a package and let the community in on how they taste? i'd find that helpful. | |||
| Fitness | Circuit Training Vs Regular Fitness Gym | May 23 2008 22:05 (UTC) |
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| I don't support curves only because I read in Bitch magazine a couple years ago that they support pro-life organizations, and for a company that sells an image of "woman power" to make profit, I found this pretty sleezy. | |||
| Health & Support | so depressed and I keep gaining | May 23 2008 12:56 (UTC) |
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| Are you recovering from an eating disorder? I'm 5'6 and when I was 100 pounds and recovered to 130 pounds, I felt the same way. I actually relapsed and lost it all again, and now have to go through the pain of yo-yoing back to 130.
It's hard to feel every pound on your body. It's like, not only are your legs bigger...but your face looks different, too. And your skin, it's a different hue. It feels different to sit on the floor and in the bathtub and it's not as easy to do pull-ups with you have 30 more pounds on you. Everyone says it, it's cliched, but it really is true: that's what being healthy is. Being healthy is accepting that you won't always be skinnier than your friends and your pants won't always be falling off your hips and it means having a softer, more mature looking face. At least that's what I've read. It's easier said than done, but everyday I try to remind myself these things as the scale slowly creeps up and my stomach starts to take shape. |
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| Weight Loss | I was tricked.... | May 22 2008 14:00 (UTC) |
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| OH MY GOD YOUR DAY IS RUINED | |||
| Foods | "Anything in Moderation is Good"...what about the opposite? | May 20 2008 13:28 (UTC) |
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| you look so unhappy in your pictures, you need a coffee drink with real sugar to perk that face up. | |||
| Health & Support | Eating Disorder help Books | May 19 2008 01:22 (UTC) |
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| I'm going to bump this because I need some good books, too. | |||
I'm sorry, but this is already too funny.
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