Posts by facingfears

It's about health. Food is energy, not the enemy. Calories = Energy. Every organ, including your heart and kidneys, needs the energy from the calories to function properly. If you stop giving it calories, it goes after the heart and kidneys for muscle mass to keep it alive. Your body starts feeding off itself and eventually stops working properly. 

If you're fortunate enough to survive this, problems won't show up immediately, but later in life you'll reap the consequences of trying to be "thin" now to please society. Don't catch a social disease. Live life while you can. Enjoy every moment. Life is much too short. 

When you die, on your tombstone there'll be the date you were born, a dash, and the day you died. Your tombstone's not going to say "and he/she was thin."

Speaking from experience.  Reminding myself of this everyday. 

Thank you for this encouragement.  What's your story?  How long did it take and how'd you do it? 

Original Post by soxgurl87:

That doesn't really seem that high. But I would be more concerned about your calories. That's nowhere near enough for you to gain. Your fat and carb intake also seems pretty low. Have you been trying to increase calories?

The scale would think otherwise.  I am up 3-4 pounds from the beginning of the year on these calories. 

Well... everything didn't stay in line like I thought it would when I posted it... apologies. 

Other than the obvious, what are the negative consequences of bringing the calories back down to where they were?

If you're hungry, eat.  Life is too short.  Your body will tell you what it needs.  

Asking your brain (and not your body) whether you should put food in your belly is like asking Richard Simmons to wear longer shorts.  The answer's ALWAYS going to be no.  That doesn't make it the correct answer. 

Original Post by autopilotfrank193:

During prolonged restricting, as well as in the beginning stages of recovery your hunger cues are not reliable and you can not rely on intuitive eating yet. What does a typical day of eating look like for you now? More than likely you are eating a lot of your low calorie "safe" foods. There is no way you can comfortably make it 3,000 - 4,000 by eating foods low in calories, you need to incorporate dense foods that are going to add more nutrition to your current meal plan.

Another aspect to consider is that your mind can tell you body a lot of things. When you are struggling with an ED it can make you feel full and not hungry, as well as other physical symptoms associated with anxiety making you experience a loss of appetite.

- Frank 

Well, I just went downstairs and crammed some cereal and a PB and J sandwich.  There are a lot of calories from fat in peanut butter and 3 grams sat. fat in 2 tablespoons.  During recovery, is there an overall fat and/or sat. fat limit?