if your having problems mentally with eating more and you need to gain weight:open

so ive had the privlege to talk to dr.walter kaye who has done studies in the refeeding process and it shows that post-ed individuals DO require more calories even if seredenetary than non-ED individuals. even years after recovery.so dont be afraid to eat more and rev that metabolism back into gear

hear are some links to his publications:

1. http://eatingdisorders.ucsd.edu/KayeIJED1986C aloricConsumptionAN.pdf

2. http://eatingdisorders.ucsd.edu/WeltzinAMJPsy ch1991AbnormalCaloricAN_BN.pdf

3. http://eatingdisorders.ucsd.edu/OtherPublicat ions.html

and a story about how a mother re-fed her daughter using this knowledge would be here

ONE SPOONFUL AT A TIME:

4. http://www-news.uchicago.edu/citations/06/061 126.legrange-nyt.html

and a follow up her story and how the girl is doing is here:

5. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/health/view s/11case.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=s login&oref=slogin

remember these are only to educate, and it applys to not only anorexics but to those that have overly-restricted themselves while overexcercising aswell. i have also seen this happen first hand in many individuals.

eating more is good for you.kicks your metabolism back into gear and provides you with more nutrients especially when you really need it now in recovery.

i hope this helps

thank you so much for this!!!

Thats really interesting, and those articles are really inspireing. I wish every mother could understand that dissorders are not a cry for attention, they're not the fault of the person "infected", they're just something that takes over.

I wonder if the higher long term caloric requirements applies to me? I never had anorexia, but with my extreme IBS and acid reflux desise I dropped to a really low BMI and body fat. I seem to be regaining fairly easily, I don't have a hypermetabolism or anything like that, hmm...

Thanks for those links!