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?

Okay, is this genuine gain? I don't think it seems entirely likely:

Yesterday: 107
Today: 112

I don't really think it's possible to gain 5lbs in a day. I had 2,800 yesterday which was the highest I've reached and only 540 over my burn. Three days before I've been 300 over it. Both of the weights were taken first thing in the morning after the loo. I wish it was real weight but it seems unlikely to be honest. But it's not like I've only just started re-feeding ...
Please could someone give me their opinion?

Yeah, 5lbs in one day is impossible. You'd have to have eaten 17,500 calories over your burn in a single day. That is about 54 and a half tins of Heinz Baked Beans! D: Salt intake leading to water fluctuation, food weight, all sorts of things make day to day intake completely inaccurate. This is why you should only weigh in once a week and only start weighing two weeks after refeeding begins.

That's what I thought. 17,500 calories. Woah that's a lot. I looked at my Analysis thingy for yesterday and found that my sodium was about twice as high as it usually is so possible cause there...?

It's been more than two weeks now and normally I'm good at sticking to the once a week thing but I wanted to check it hadn't gone down. I got scared I might've lost the two pounds

Thanks anyway Lala!  

xx

That's okay about double checking, just as long as [the weighing day to day] isn't a habit. But yes, double your usual sodium will result in a fluctuation like that. :]

Indeed; it takes 3500 calories ON TOP of your daily burn to gain a pound. On top of. Also remember there is no upper limit on how much you should eat in recovery. If you made 2800 yesterday there's nothing to stop you reaching 2800 to 3000 today! :] Obviously, if it might trigger you or freak you out, you don't have to, but it's worth considering.

Yeah, I normally can't be bothered to do it because it requires enough thought to actually have to wake up properly in the morning xD

Yeah, I'm trying to stay at least at 2,800 if not more. It's become a lot easier to just tell ED to shut up the last few days.

Thanks so much for your advice as always lala  You rock!

Thanks, Ellie.  I'm sure you won't be far behind in hitting your goal.  You're already an inspiration, and I might have arrived at maintaining without your help, but it would have been a much longer and far less enjoyable journey. 

Last week I had 3500 cals.  I've been having roughly 3000 cals so far this week, so I'll get that up so it averages at 3250 cals per day.  Just in case.  That way maintaining or gaining should be the result.

Gibbit, thank you very much for your words of support, and advice.  Glad to have someone else to share this juggling act with.  And you're so right about being experts at gaining.  Hahah, just when you think your grocery bill is safe, maintaining comes along. 

All the very best to you as well. 

Mel. xox

Thanks, Mel. :D Next time I'm going to see my GP I am going to ask him if I am progressing; I'm a bit paranoid he's just not telling me anything. He's not that brilliant.

More than welcome, Ellie. 

Yeah, GPs are a bit hit and miss.  When my GP diagnosed me, he seemed a bit vague.  Don't get me wrong; he's nice and all, but I guess eating disorders aren't the most common ailments, nor is there much reliable information about them out there.  Sadly, as he said, they're becoming more common, though. 

I think he's definitely right.  I seem to be seeing more and more ED-affected folks around.  Many of them look at me too, even now that I'm a healthy weight.  ED people sense one another, even when it's not as visually obvious.

The thing about GPs is they can only tell you so much, and they seem to focus a lot more on the physical rather than the mental aspects of ED.   I hope you're progressing well; you've certainly put in the hard yards.  Not only do you deserve to be healthy and happy because of your heroic efforts, but because you're a terrific person as well.

All the best,

Mel. xox

LW: Somewhere from 68-70 pounds, the memories of that are a little hazy..

CW: 90 pounds

GW: 99 pounds

..My BMI is slowly inching towards the much-desired 20, which I'm happy about. But I haven't gotten my period yet, which surprises me because in the past I still managed to get it at this weight and perhaps even lower, and yet it's still not back.. =(

Last Week: 88

This week: 88.5

And I have my period. Which always makes me gain about a pound. Bugger.

I'm going to the grocery store today and buying heavy whipping cream. God knows what else. New caloric bracket time. I've been aiming for 2500+. I guess its time to make that 2700+?

I thought you were at 3000 by now, Rebel? You've been maintaining (single pound fluctuations or less) for weeks. Make it a 3000 minimum.

MMM actually I've gained about 4.5-5 pounds in the past....5-6 weeks. I thought I'd made it past 2500 too. Apparently I had been over-estimating the calories of things (thanks ED). :sigh: I used the "meal tracking/analysis" feature the other day and it had only added up to 2600. Though it doesn't account for my loving portions, but stil.  It would make sense though, to add another 500 since I'm trying to gain a bit more than pound a week...and 500 more calories everyday should make one pound, yes? (of course it makes sense, otherwise you wouldn't have said it...I know)

Like I said. Heavy whipping cream. And Ben&Jerry's after lunch or dinner. I'm just glad my mother didn't hold to my "If by some grievous error of God I haven't gained weight, I will eat a tub of butter." statement.

5'5"

LW: 101 lbs.

First GW: 108 lbs.

Last weigh-in: 107

Today's weigh-in: 107

Mmm, I was 110 mid-week; I forsee a 110 or at least 108 in my very, very near future.  :)  My scale doesn't do half-pounds, but I can quite tell that this is more a 107.9 than a 107.  ^^

OKGO - No offence, but if you were that close 108, the scale would have said so. My old scale was like that. They round up to the nearest whole number though dear, not down. I'm sure a part of you knows that. But hope springs eternal, I know.

REBEL-I know I know I know this sounds like an excuse, but it's not.  :)  It's not a digital scale, it's the kind where you have to tell it yourself, but I didn't say 108 only so I wouldn't get too freaked out.  :(  For once I'm actually underestimating.

Ah, I gotcha - sorry I misunderstood - its one of the ones that's got the needle?

Yeah it is.  :)  I'm starting to get really apprehensive about gaining—especially when I weighed in at 110 a few days ago—but I haven't stopped eating.  :)  3000 still!  I just have to keep reminding myself that it's for my ORGANS!

You know what I've been thinking lately?  Obviously we're all so concerned about gaining all fat and no muscle, but think about it!  We've done damage to our heart and other organs, and that's inevitably where the repair goes first.  So, by repairing out heart—a muscle—we are gaining muscle!  :)  I just have to keep thinking about that, and I haven't lowered from 3000 calories yet.  Yay!

I've gained alot of weight within the past month and a half, i was at a residential treatment center.  m lowest and admit weight was 82 ish and now my current wegiht is around 101, 102, when  i left i was around 104i think they didn't let us see our weight there.  i'm 5'5 and i've been maintaining and got my period backafter not having it for like 9 months :)

Well my official weigh in is tomorrow but since I did a panicked cheat post earlier this week about losing all I'd worked so hard to gain, I thought I should report that another check a couple days later verified that I hadn't actualy managed to lose 4-5lbs in two days! I was back to 94.5, so a maintain so far.  Official report coming tomorrow!

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Yeah it is.  :)  I'm starting to get really apprehensive about gaining—especially when I weighed in at 110 a few days ago—but I haven't stopped eating.  :)  3000 still!  I just have to keep reminding myself that it's for my ORGANS!

You know what I've been thinking lately?  Obviously we're all so concerned about gaining all fat and no muscle, but think about it!  We've done damage to our heart and other organs, and that's inevitably where the repair goes first.  So, by repairing out heart—a muscle—we are gaining muscle!  :)  I just have to keep thinking about that, and I haven't lowered from 3000 calories yet.  Yay!

 That is absolutely true.  I work in the hospital and the patients in trauma/burn unit are put on high calorie diets and often have tube feeding in addition to what they eat because they need 1-2000 calories extra for the healing, no joke [I have to do the calculations].  And these are patients who do not need to gain weight, it's just the healing process.