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| Young Calorie Counters | In starvation mode...or WHAT?!? | Sep 20 2009 16:02 (UTC) |
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Original Post by chrissy1988: Thank you for replying, but it seems that 1700-2200 IS too much for me. If I gain 20 lbs in 3 weeks eating around 2000, it means it is too much. My metabolism is crap. Im going to my doctor tomorrow and I cant describe the anxiety this causes. Last time she saw me I was 100 lbs. Now Im almost 50 lbs more. Im afraid she wont believe her eyes, then call my parents and they will put me to a strict diet or something... Which I would like, yes, but I dont think I can manage the embarrasment. And I didn't starve myself in between the binge days. I just ate diet anmout of calories. Still I gained 50 lbs in 5 months, 20 of them in 3 weeks. I can't see how this is even possible! |
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| Health & Support | Recovered anorexic, now bingeing - considering weight loss, advice/support please? | Aug 23 2009 16:37 (UTC) |
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Original Post by rose_intense: Yes, I understand completely what you mean by not being able to stop binging. I have been binge free for (omg) two whole days now and I know how hard it is. It just... happens. You kinda dont realize it before youre done. I dont live in america so I dont know what it's like in there. I live in Finland and healthcare is mainly free here. If there clearly is a problem, you will get taken in hospital. I was not in life danger, but my doc knew I would be in a matter of weeks or months, so it was more like preventing what would happen. I, too, used to drink so much water before my weigh ins I almost collapsed, but my doc saw it throug me, since she told me she has had an ED as a teen. She knew all the tricks and now Im very grateful to her. Of course at the time I was hospitalized, I was ready to like, chop her head off, I was furious and certain that she just wanted me to be fat. And oh yeah, I am literaly surrounded by BMI 14-18 girls. No one has a BMI over 18, NO-ONE. Eveyone is SO thin here, and they eat McDonalds and drink smoothies all day. I know it's hard. It really is... I just have to learn that I will NOT be as skinny as they are. BUT I know no-one is even expecting me to be. I have been on the higher end of healthy BMI since 4-years old, and my ribs and collarbones are clearly visible even now at BMI 23, so I know I souldn't lose weight, I am literaly big boned. My BF% is pretty low and I bike 50-250 km every week, so I know I have muscle which will show on the scale. Still, when I sit I can grab a full handful of stomach fat, and that really disturbs me. I just have to get over it. I wish you will too. |
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| Health & Support | Recovered anorexic, now bingeing - considering weight loss, advice/support please? | Aug 22 2009 11:38 (UTC) |
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I seriously cant believe you. You cannot be fat at 50 kg, you just cant. You dont need to lose weight, just try to stop the binging and eat enough. I, too, havo gone from BMi 17 to 23 in 4 months now, due to binging. I was hospitalized at BMI 17. |
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| Health & Support | too skinny ----> too fat | Aug 10 2009 17:17 (UTC) |
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Ooooh yes. I never got any compliments about my looks when I was BMI 28.8... When I was BMI 17 I got lots of nice words and whistling from boys... "You looks fabulous!" "Im jealous!" and when I told them Im about to gain weight they were like "wtf man, why would you do that?" "dont do it, you've never looked this good before!" Now when Im back to a healthy weight (actually - I want to lose a few lbs) at BMI 22, everybody keeps telling me "you're chunky", "enjoy food, dont'cha, piggy", "aren't you nice and soft now when I hug you!" It's very hard. Especially when every girl around me is like BMI 15-18. :/ |
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| Weight Loss | Does muscle really weigh more than fat? | Aug 04 2009 19:49 (UTC) |
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A cup of fat weighs less than a cup of muscle. ;) |
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| Health & Support | Best and worst | Jul 29 2009 05:29 (UTC) |
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I cried a lot when I was a baby, my mom was worried and took me to the doctor many times. They told her she wasn't feeding me well and sent her back. She returned many times but always got sent back home. By the time I turned 2, my legs were severely bowed and THEN the doctors took it seriously and did the tests they skipped a year ago... I have a severe, rare condition "hypophosphatemic rickets" (about 20 cases in my country) and by the age of 5 could barely walk, needed surgery for my deformed bones, having problems nowadays too... IF they had done the tests before it was too late I would probably be just like a normal teen girl... The best? I dunno. |
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| The Lounge | Why you really shouldn't eat at McDonalds... | Jun 29 2009 09:49 (UTC) |
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Original Post by schnooder: Well okay, but I warned ya'... ;) |
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| Health & Support | Experiences with Lyrica? | Jun 29 2009 07:21 (UTC) |
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I was on lyrica for my RSD in my ankle last year. I never gained a pound (actually that was the time when I started losing in the first place), it had no effect on me besides the pain relief. |
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| Young Calorie Counters | favorite (gross) food | Jun 28 2009 10:59 (UTC) |
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Lettuce leaf "sammich" with herbamare salt Wheat tortillas with margarine and jam, sometimes sugar too Pasta plain or only with ketchup I always dip my bread in my soup if possible |
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| Weight Loss | Am I fat? | Jun 24 2009 11:00 (UTC) |
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At the same height and that weight I was hospitalized. |
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| Foods | what are your worst binge stories? | Jun 23 2009 07:57 (UTC) |
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Its almost weird seeing other people here managing over 10000 calories when Im pretty much dead after 5000. But that must be because I never binge on fast food, ice cream, candy or such. I. Binge. On. BREAD! And cereal, straight from the box by handful. And pancakes, oh no. My biggest weakness. Here's what I have gone through (and not just once); 2/3 of an oven-baked pancake (a WHOLE PAN, think about it! 1000 calories), then I baked some griddle bread and ate it all straight away with ½ tub light margarine and half a jar jam (some of it was on the pancake). Then cheerios by handful. And in four hours, I'll binge again (usually) My usual set is one packet of wheat tortillas or pitas, with margarine, jam, sometimes sugar or chocolate syrup. The bread packet is 1100 calories, the jam and margarine would add 700. But usually I dont stop here. |
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| Young Calorie Counters | Envious of friends | Jun 21 2009 17:30 (UTC) |
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Yea, same here. I have never found models even pretty (not necessarily because they're too skinny - they just look so cold and dead anyway...), it's all the other girls around me. Anywhere I go I see these beautiful people and Im always wishing I could be like them. Ever read any articles about model diets? Starvation diets. Once I heard of a model who lived on diet soda for weeks - maybe even longer. And sometimes the models just die of heart attacks and other complications related to starvation. While my friends and people I know, they are skinny and eat pizza, McDonalds, candy and ice-cream. Theyre happy people. Now that's what Im really envious of - being thin AND happy AND healthy AND not dying of malnutrition. |
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| Weight Loss | I wish I could.... | Jun 17 2009 04:36 (UTC) |
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...wish I could have my own wings and fly. Or at least have pixie dust. ...wish I could eat as much as I want without gaining weight. ...wish I had never had an ED. |
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| Maintaining | Ridiculous ED Memories | Jun 17 2009 03:59 (UTC) |
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I have no memory from my "anorexia-summer" last summer either. I seriously cant recall what I DID those days or what I ate. I quess I was too concentrated in my own world of dieting. But some things I remember... Well, I would freak out of foods touched each other on the plates. Really, if my broccoli had a sprinkle of the gravy next to it, I WOULD NOT eat it. And I always preferred to eat from the certain plates and bowls. |
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| Health & Support | Thats it! Binge-free day #1 starts today! | Jun 12 2009 09:47 (UTC) |
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Yea, I ate yesterday around 4000 calories and had a huge breakfast this morning (binge-ish) maybe... 1800 cals? Good I exercise very much so I dont really gain, but binging sure is not fun... So from now on IM NOT GONNA BINGE, Im gonna EAT WELL BUT NOT BINGE. |
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| Young Calorie Counters | whats the strangest thing you find attractive in the other sex? | Jun 12 2009 09:32 (UTC) |
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Yep, I like very slender guys. I dont have anything against chubbier ones, no, but all skinny lil' guys make me go aww. This might not be weird, but: I love arm muscles. I LOVE them. In fact I'd want to have my own too. D: And freckles, they are cute. |
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| Young Calorie Counters | Teens how many calories do you eat? | Jun 09 2009 13:43 (UTC) |
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Due to moderation of original post, this text can no longer be displayed. I hope this was a joke. Edited Jun 26 2009 17:34 by nycgirl |
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| Motivation | Rant at the naturally skinny, from the fatty perspective. | Jun 09 2009 13:26 (UTC) |
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I used to be fat. About 40-70 lbs more than all the other girls. I hated it. Especially when they said "Oh gawd Im so fat! This morning I weighed in at 82 lbs!" AND, what's really interesting, was that when I said "ORLY, if YOU think YOURE fat, then what am I?" They answered after a while "Youre OK, you're not fat, don't worry about it" RIGHT. That makes sense. All they wanted was just attention. So annoying. |
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| Weight Loss | Your Worst Binge! | Jun 05 2009 13:30 (UTC) |
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My worst ones: - One 200g chocolate bar, 5 mini donuts, 2 HUUUGE crepes with whipped cream and jam, a HUGE bag of licorice (musta been lke 400-500 g?) - (Note: this was NOT in one sitting! Throughout a day!) 24 pita breads, 1 tub of 30% margarine, ½ a kilo strawberry jam, some pieces of homemade pan bread (this happened yesterday) |
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| Health & Support | Your worst binge "death" stories | Jun 02 2009 21:21 (UTC) |
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Once I went to the store in my binge mode. I filled a huge bag of pic-n-mix candy and paid for it... But when I was on my way home, I suddenly just... threw the bag into the dark forest. O_o Talk about waste of money. I once put an oven-pancake in the oven, let it be there for a few mins, when I suddenly realized that if I don't do something, the pancake will be gone in a few hours... Thats over 1000 calories... So I just took it out and threw it in the garbage. It was all just hot, non-solid batter. But usually I just destroy the binge food like this: I just eat it all. |
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| Health & Support | My stomach is a bottomless pit! | May 29 2009 05:00 (UTC) |
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Original Post by missmagill_x: Im 5´2, my lowest weight was in January, 88 lbs. I have vowed to never weigh myself again, so only my doctor knows my weight - but what I do know its anywhere between 97-110 lbs. I was told I should not try to gain more weight. Im trying to just normalize my eating habits and binging is not really the way to go... Oh, my bloodwork was just fine when it got cheked last time. Anyway, I figured the food must be going somewhere and be used, because I feel like my stomach literally digests 1 kg of food in like 3 seconds. Binging HAS made me a lot better physically. I feel stronger after my binge week and have actually thought less about food and dieting, and doing more things I used to enjoy like drawing, writing and such. I know Im not binging for emotional reasons, just because my body needs food. My binges start 100% because Im just so damn hungry, I never eat if I feel sad or angry. I dont have a huge problem with binging if I still feel hungry in a few hours and not bloated - but if I do bloat, I freak out. And I just can't think my body would seriously need 5000 calories per day. Anyway, Im almost sure I have gained weight, but have not got any fatter as a result of binging - my clothes fit normally. I bike on average, 3-6 hours per week. So I'd figure maybe I have gained muscle? Anyway, thanks for your advice, I appreciate it :) |
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| Health & Support | My stomach is a bottomless pit! | May 28 2009 11:46 (UTC) |
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Original Post by no_audience:
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| Health & Support | My stomach is a bottomless pit! | May 27 2009 03:22 (UTC) |
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Thanks for your reply. Yea usually I eat 1500-2500 per binge session. Usually I stop eating only when I dont count calories for the day if I dont binge. But after binging I always feel so curious to find out the calorie count of it... Somehow, the numbers cant freak me out anymore the way they used to. |
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| Health & Support | 3 days of binging... Support? | May 22 2009 19:16 (UTC) |
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This is terrible, I binged today again. Today it wasn't that bad, maybe day's total was ~3000 or a bit more. I didn't exercise though. TOMORROW I will do it! I have to... Im so scared right now... I have vowed to never, EVER go on the scales again, so that doesn't bother me. But Im afraid this is not just a one-week phase. What if it gets out of control and next month my pants wont fit anymore? :( |
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| Foods | Cola isn't very good for you.... well there's a surprise. | May 19 2009 21:14 (UTC) |
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Original Post by gi-jane:
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| Foods | that one food everyone likes but you dont.... | May 18 2009 21:17 (UTC) |
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Oh yeah, I hate peanut butter too. And Nutella. Couldn't imagine eating more than a tsp of it. Ewwwrghhh. |
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| Young Calorie Counters | Your Worst Injuries. Ever. | May 18 2009 21:09 (UTC) |
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I was born with a very rare condition that prevents calcium, vitamin D and phosphate (etc.) from getting absorbed by my body. So this means my bones are very weak. My worst injury was after a huge surgery to straighten my bowed legs. They were supported by these things called ilizarov frames, but when they were taken off, I was hit by a sleigh when I was sledding with my kindergarten... Yeah, my other leg went into pieces. :/ Half a year in wheelchair after that, my bones heal that slowly because of my condition... |
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| Foods | DescribeYour Dream Days Menu | May 18 2009 09:06 (UTC) |
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The nice thing is, you really can make one day every once in a while like this. Even if youre trying to lose weight! Trust me, I've done it! ;) Breakfast - Pancakes with jam/sugar/whipped cream That doesn't sound impossible at all! :D Maybe I'll do it! |
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| Foods | that one food everyone likes but you dont.... | May 18 2009 08:59 (UTC) |
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- Icecream (I never liked it before but after ED I love it) |
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| Weight Loss | The emotions of weight loss | May 07 2009 18:40 (UTC) |
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1. Shame - of being so fat, and shame to accept that I was fat Those are/were mine. It was no fun stuff. Im glad I got out of the dieting trap. |
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