Hey all I am new

Hey everyone!

I am new to this. My story I was bulimic for about 2 years, but finally through the help and love of my boyfriend, i learned that I could lose weight and be healthy without being bulimic. The past year I have been binge free, and have worked out excessively ( we have cardio eqipment and a full gym at home)... i have gone from 5-5 170 to 5-5 120. However, now i only eat certain fods....salads, rice cakes, chicken and seafood...with other low calorie things. I am deathly afraid to gain weight again.

My question is I workout and burn about -700 calories a day and at the end of the day I am around = 200 calories. Thus I eat on average 800 or 900 calories at max.

Does anyone else do this? Or have any tips to slowly somehow correct this? Is this healthy 700 cal??? Confused???

Janelle

It's not even remotely healthy, and in fact it might be worse than purging.

You've replaced traditional bulimia with exercise bulimia, and you're restricting as well.

You need way more than 900 calories a day with your stats and activity level. In fact the tools on this site indicate you may need 2300 calories.

 

 

thanks for the info! your right I need way more calories because I am always active doing something or working out.

However, how do I break free and increase? little by little till i reach a healthy level?? Or all at once??? I think my main problem is adding without thinking i will gain weight.

Being that I am technically in starvation mode, will I start to gain when I add more calories??????

Thank you!!!!

I would recommend increasing all at once just to get it over with. Yes it's hard at first, but I found I actually lost more weight by doing that (went from 1200->2300 overnight, now at 2700-3,000; I only increased after 2300 because I was still losing weight).

Hi. Switching bulimia for anorexia is not ok or recovery. The goal is to be healthy and fueled and both disorders are destructive. I encourage you to see a nutritionist and therapist. You need to find out the why you do this and learn ways to be healthy. At first you will gain weight from your body being confused and from more carbs which hold water. Also you have to realize everyone has a set point weight and you may have set yours too low. You have to focus on the life you want to gain and how it is worth the few extra pounds. I had my calories increased super quick. I have done this before and basically within a week I was over 3000. I had a lot of edema and was watched for refeeding. I was ok just very puffy and uncomfortable until my body adjusted and had to wear support hose.

thank you....hope3333  that really helps to know....at least now i know what to expect. thank you!!!!

i'm in a similar situation, accept i'm currently dealing with binging and purging. i can't seem to get it right. i have weightloss goal in mind, but i can't seem to lose weight. i'm constantly falling into the binge-purge trap. how did you stop?

Motley- I stopped gradually, I was binge purging because of sress in my life. I could easily purge 3 times a day. Soon I found myself, getting tired ( it ws wearing on me, my health failing...ie) getting colds easily) so i decided i needed to make an effort to stop.

So I did, it wasn't easy, i didn't see a therapist or anything, i just started thinking what triggered me to binge purge? for me i would get stressed or go so long without food that i would go nuts and binge /purge. so little by little i ate more often, kept busy ( mind off of it) and cut down to one binge every few days. BUT!!!!! what did it for me was in those days i didn't binge, i noticed my mouth didn't hurt, i felt more awake and could lose weight without purging but rather eating properly with exercise.

recap..ha..ha  1. analyze your triggers  2. keep busy, find a hobby something that makes you happy 3. eat more often small meals so you don't feel deprived 4. get cardio ( working out helped me feel better- more awake/healthy)

Hope this helps Janelle !! check out my pics...ironically while i was bulimic i was my heaviest!!!