Gaining weigh-ins!!

Let's all post with putting our gaining weigh ins and stats!

What are you doing to gain?? How much have you gained?? And what is your goal??

I am 5'7 and currently 118-122. My lowest was 94 so you do the math!!!

My nutritionist says that 130ish is where I should be..anyone else?

Are you ready for this?  I weighed myself today and I think I might have gained half a kilo/one pound. 

52.5 kg now with at least 2.5 kg to hit the minimum BMI for my height.  Of course, minimum isn't good enough, so at least another 4 kg after that, but probably more with my weight history and build.

Of course, ED wasn't at all happy--there were some tense moments--but I am. 

On my way to greatness, baby! 

Original Post by mel_ynda:

Are you ready for this?  I weighed myself today and I think I might have gained half a kilo/one pound. 

52.5 kg now with at least 2.5 kg to hit the minimum BMI for my height.  Of course, minimum isn't good enough, so at least another 4 kg after that, but probably more with my weight history and build.

Of course, ED wasn't at all happy--there were some tense moments--but I am. 

On my way to greatness, baby! 

CONGRATS! I know that this is a GREAT moment fore you, considering how much difficulty you've been having gaining. I'm proud of you.

Well, I've decided that posting my weight on this thread is not really helping me out.  My weight is so unpredictable at this point due to the laxitive wean I'm  on, and the sheer amount of liquid I'm drinking. Plus, I have a ED specialist dietician monitoring my weight, so that I don't have to. So I'm just going to stop weighing myself.

So this is big, because I have the most intense OCD relationship with the scale. Tomorrow I'm going to take my parent's scale (which they TOLD me they threw away A YEAR AGO) from it's newest hiding place and set it on fire, or something equally symbolic and destructive.

My dietitcian says I'm doing well. So yay!

double post, my bad!

Thanks, heaps, Meagan!

If you have a dietitian monitoring your weight, I say go for it and get rid of those scales.  Not only are they an inaccurate way of measuring your true weight, they are completely a dead loss when it comes to measuring your worth.  Who you are will never be decided by silly numbers on a silly machine. 

I am still on 3500 cals but am eating extra things that I don't know the cal content of to challenge myself. 

I'm glad you're doing so well, and I hope you're holding purging at bay.  I know you said you were struggling in earlier posts.  Don't forget you're gaining, so the  more food, the merrier!

Mel. xox

Original Post by mel_ynda:

Thanks, heaps, Meagan!

If you have a dietitian monitoring your weight, I say go for it and get rid of those scales.  Not only are they an inaccurate way of measuring your true weight, they are completely a dead loss when it comes to measuring your worth.  Who you are will never be decided by silly numbers on a silly machine. 

I am still on 3500 cals but am eating extra things that I don't know the cal content of to challenge myself. 

I'm glad you're doing so well, and I hope you're holding purging at bay.  I know you said you were struggling in earlier posts.  Don't forget you're gaining, so the  more food, the merrier!

Mel. xox

 Keep at it girl!  Keep in mind that the more you gain and more you stick to higher and higher calories, the harder it may be to keep up with your body and keep the gain going.  Sometimes you need to increase weekly until the gain has been 2lbs/week consistently. Otherwise odds are pretty good you could wind up in the same basic range halfway through 2009--and who wants that?!  Take it all the way--your BIGTIME LIFE awaits!

Thanks, tuffstuff!

I'm going to up to 4000 next week, if I haven't gained any more weight.  I guess you just have to keep upping until you send your body into gain mode.  And you're right, dragging out the weight gain process gives ED too many opportunities to talk and cajole you out of recovering.  Plus the sooner you recover the sooner you can get out and live life fully. 

My folks are visiting this weekend, so I'll be going out for dinner Friday night and Saturday.  Also I'm spending all day Saturday with them.  I'm excited because for once we'll just be out eating together without ED ruining everything.  Sure ED might try to peek over my shoulder, and offer unwanted opinions, but I'm not going to listen. 

Best wishes,

Mel.

so today is meant to be my weigh in day but since i started working and changed my schedule, i literally dont crap, sorry guys, all week so im seriously backed up  and dont wantto get an innacurate reading so im hoping i go today since i got out of work early and then can weigh tomm AM!!

MEL-wow, i forget, are you still not gaining and thats why youre going to 4000?  are you very active? good luck!

Hi agruskin,

I gained half a kilo/one pound earlier in the week, but this morning I was down a kilo.  I'm crossing my fingers it was just a daily fluctuation. 

I'm active in that I have to walk to the shops--only takes about 5 minutes--and to catch public transport to work etc.  So I do walk around but nothing drastic.  Also I cut out my exercise. 

I just have to find the cal amount that will start me gaining consistently.  Then my metabolism should settle. 

Oh well, with my parents here this weekend, it'll be food aplenty, and hopefully a kilo or so will make an appearance soon after.

Hope you're going well with everything.

Mel. xox

ht 5'3.75

1 wk ago- 109.5

CW-110.5-111

GW- AT LEAST a bmi of 22, wt AT LEAST 127, then ill see where my body takes me so that I can live the FULLEST+HEALTHIEST life i can!!! AND I AM!!

MEL-hi, wow, 4000, well good luck!  im not active either, just day to day living for the most part, have a good time w/ the parents!

Okay, so just wanted to post an update to my last:

I have not purged since the 13th of November! I'm really proud of myself. I owe alot of it to the absolutely perfect-for-my-body wean than the ER doctor put me on. Still, I owe alot of it to myself!

As for the scale, here's the deal.

On Tuesday morning, I went into my parent's room, and retrieved the scale from it's latest hiding place. (Last year while I was in the hospital, my parent's swore up and down they were going to throw it away. I found it a few weeks later in my dad's sock drawer. then, on top of the washing machine. Then, under my mom's dress rack. THEN, in my dad's closet!) This time, it was behind a chair cushion. I took it into my room and immediately removed the batteries, lest I be tempted. I then drove out to the local Goodwill, and left it on the stoop of the donation center, dead in the center of the walkway, like a little abandoned child in an old movie. I drove away and it felt GREAT!

The best part is, there is no way they can be mad at me, because they told me they threw it away. If they asked me what happened to it, they would be admitting they had failed to do pretty much the only thing I asked them to do when I began recovery.

As I drove away, leaving the object that dictated my self worth for countless years, I felt a part of me left behind with it. I felt a little sad, a little guilty, and A LOT relieved!

Splenda - that's a really sweet story. And well done on not purging. I may be on the other side of the world from you but well done. Stay Strong

We're right here

:)

x

Height: 5'5

Weight 2.5 months back - 89 lbs

Current Weight - 109 lbs

Goal - 125 lbs

I have  a high metabolic rate. After seeing my doctor and medication my apetite s increased and i ve gained 20 lbs in the past 2.5 months. I guess for me to gain weight...i just had to keep on eating all the time

Now my weight s constant at 109 since a week...looks like i still need to increase my calorie intake to meet my set goal

5'6

hw: 156 (a few years back)

cw: 107-108

lw: 101 (last saturday......HA! no, but really, a WEEK AGO.) but i used different scales from my lowest weigh-in / and ever since have been weighing on a different scale.

goal weight: i wanna say 115 because i know thats healthy(er) but im still trying to get comfortable at the idea of being over 110, which i am fast approaching. 

i'm going a little nuts cause since ive just been eating junk (it was a couple days of binging..i guess it was bound to happen and hopefully i'm over it now) so it's all just straight fat that ive gained, which bums me out. once i start turning this into muscle again, my goal will probably be somewhere between 115-120ish. its really weird for me because for a month and a half i was comfortable hanging around 110-112, then i dropped to near 100, and now the idea of being 110-112 feels huge to me. :( i think its because of the straight fat/bloating though. 

Original Post by ladydanger_:

Splenda - that's a really sweet story. And well done on not purging. I may be on the other side of the world from you but well done. Stay Strong

We're right here

:)

x

Thank you! You're response made me feel a lot more confident, as I've been having a rough day.

Everyone, new and old, keep up the good work!

I'd rather not post stat's, but I do want to check in.  I'm so tired of "gaining weight" but nothing happening.

I really want to make this happen.

LW was a couple years ago when actually anorexic, ~20lbs less than now

Today= point "0"

Goal weight range:  +17-22

Ah, fiddlesticks!

Have not gained further, so up we go again.  Ah well, at least it's the festive season.  'Tis the season to be eating!  Hope everyone's going well.

Mel. xox

Had doctor this morning, and aparently the traveling for work took its toll on me. There was the slight relapse for a week but i picked it back up to 3000 after a week of about 2500, but i havent managed 3000 when i'm out of town just this last week and a half at home :\

cw- 114.5

weight a few weeks ago- 118 :(

I thought I could try to just focus on being "normal" by not thinking about it and eating what others eat, especially since when i'm working i have to rely on other people's schedules anyways, but obviously that's not enough, so i'm back in gaining mode with high cal foods, meals every 2 hours and having to schedule my life around eating. I don't know how I"ll ever be normal, grrrrrr

Mel-
You go girl!  I thought I was the only one in the ridiculous predicament of failing to gain on over 3000 calories.  When I registered I even wondered if something was wrong with me or the calculator because it said I should maintain on less than 1600! Yeah right.
     I haven't heald a steady average of 3500 yet, so I'm giving that a chance, but a 4000 calorie diet could be in my future too! :-O
Holiday season IS the perfect time for rewarding high calorie eating, as long ase we don't let ED steal it from us--as well as stealing the lives we stand to gain if we can eat up and up and up. :)

Gibbit-
It really is a struggle just "breaking free." After years of counting and paying so much attention to what I eat, I want that so bad.  I know more than enough about proper nutrition and what I need, and yet whenever I "cut loose" I wind up not meeting my needs.  It takes a lot of training, mentally mostly, to put a 3000 calorie diet in practice when ED is pushing for the less-is-more thinking, even subconsciously. I'd suggest practicing with your counting and maybe incorporate "free practice days" and eventually you'll be able to eat freely AND meet your needs.

The same things happened to me! When I came home from IP, my nutritionist (no longer seen) wanted me to try more intuitive eating. And even though I was eating about 3000 a day, I still lost weight. Soo frustrating. But then again, when I was in the hospital unit, they upped my calories to around 4400-4600 for the last two weeks I was there because I had stopped gaining. The last four days I was put back on restricted activity and it hardly made a difference. Its crazy! But at least you aren't alone in that.

I haven't actually weighed myself in a good two weeks...I've been trying to up the calories and I was afraid if I saw the scale go up I would chicken out.

But here's my little bitta recent history:

Highest Healthy Weight: 107 (April after IP as well as before relapse in January)

CW (as of two weeks ago) - 83 lbs

LW: In June, was 78-79 lbs

Current Goals - To drive again = 87-90 lbs. Return to college OR job but not both = 95

Long term, I need to weigh more than that obviously. But basically, to get my foot into the doorway that leads to life - I have to be at least 95 pounds. Its a short term goal that I can handle at least. When I get there, it'll be time for a new goal.

Original Post by boppityboops:

Mel-
You go girl!  I thought I was the only one in the ridiculous predicament of failing to gain on over 3000 calories.  When I registered I even wondered if something was wrong with me or the calculator because it said I should maintain on less than 1600! Yeah right.
     I haven't heald a steady average of 3500 yet, so I'm giving that a chance, but a 4000 calorie diet could be in my future too! :-O
Holiday season IS the perfect time for rewarding high calorie eating, as long ase we don't let ED steal it from us--as well as stealing the lives we stand to gain if we can eat up and up and up. :)

 

Gibbit-
It really is a struggle just "breaking free." After years of counting and paying so much attention to what I eat, I want that so bad.  I know more than enough about proper nutrition and what I need, and yet whenever I "cut loose" I wind up not meeting my needs.  It takes a lot of training, mentally mostly, to put a 3000 calorie diet in practice when ED is pushing for the less-is-more thinking, even subconsciously. I'd suggest practicing with your counting and maybe incorporate "free practice days" and eventually you'll be able to eat freely AND meet your needs.

 Boppityboops, I'm glad I'm not the only one who was starting to wonder if I was harbouring a bottomless pit within. 

Meeting high calorie requirements certainly shouldn't be hard during the festive season.  And this year I'll actually be eating the foods I help to make with my family.  And my holiday won't be spend solely in the company of ED. 

All the best with the weight gain.  Here's to health and happiness!