Posts by rosered93

Original Post by muchlinski:

My life is sad. I'm on here like, all the time. One reason is because I get bored so much AND because I care about the health of other recovering teens so much too. I've tried to take a break from here, and it didn't last a day. I am definitely still obsessed with food and logging my calories, but I seriously can't fall asleep at night until I've logged what I've eaten. The internet knows everything I have eaten in the past year, that is sick. Seriously I've never eaten anything without it being put on one of the threads for eats. Ugh, I don't know if I can leave though, maybe just cut it down a bit? I think I make at least 10+ posts a day. I feel horrible just thinking about that, it's quite the obsession, but it DOES keep me from doing anything like over-exercising if I'm just sitting on the computer! Haha, still not healthy. Whatever, I'll think about it. Like monicamarie93, my ultimate goal, no matter how far away, is to get off of this site forever. 

Original Post by fionaaleksoska:

are you guys in the USA? i think your porridge oats may be different from scottish porridge.

For question 1: my thighs always kill when I'm running a calorie deficit, or simply haven't eaten enough by the point in the day when I'm exercising.  Even with a few years of consistent exercising and pretty solid cardiovascular endurance and lower body strength, it always always happens if I haven't eaten enough. 

It would be easier with quick oats, instant oats, or even oat flour.  But I don't see why it wouldn't work, all you're doing is causing the oats to absorb water.  Maybe try pouring in a small amount, letting it sit to start absorption, then add in some more until they puff up.  It might be hard to keep them piping hot, but if you wrap the bowl with a towel and keep a cover on, it would likely work.

Or you could try making breakfast couscous--I love it!

Ahh I am bored and feeling a little downn : ( Ah well a survey cheers me up! These are random questions : ) Here we goooo:

1) What was the last thing you just ate? Sauteed sweet potato, onions, grilled eggplant, and crumbles homemade curried chickpeas burger with lots of spices and coriander c:

2) What is your favorite resturant? I don't eat out a whole lot, but I really enjoyed Pak Centre Indian awhile ago.

3) Pick a meal: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

4) Favorite dessert is..? 90% dark chocolate with almond hazelnut butter; a warm Clif bar slathered in nut butter

5) Favorite fruit is..?  Usually the in-season fruit du jour; at the moment frozen semi-thawed mango chunks

6) Favorite Sandwich?  Whole wheat english muffin with miso paste, avocado, grilled eggplant, cilantro

7) Go all out and make a meal plan. Whatever you want! For:  Too many choices!  I'll just write up some recent favorites

Dinner- Homemade rutabaga dal with lots of tahini; ginger and cumin roasted sweet potato, rutabaga, and chickpeas mixed with rogan josh sauce, topped with plain homemade cilantro tzatziki and nooch

Lunch-  Quinoa, steamed turnips and broccoli, edamame, sugar snap peas, and navel orange with a sesame-chili-lime juice dressing

and Breakfast- Dark chocolate banana cornmeal pudding with peanut butter; strawberry-banana-chocolate-spinach-peanut butter-soymilk-carob-xanthan gum giant smoothie topped with sliced almonds and raw buckwheat

8) Do you watch cooking shows?  Yes If so which cooking show makes you go crazy with all the yummy foods!  Which one would you wanna be on?  I usually watch ones like Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, so I'm not sure that I'd actually want to be on that.  I just like seeing new foods.

9) Milk: Whole, 2 %, Soy, or Skim? Unsweetened soymilk or occasionally almond milk

10) What's your favorite bread?  Traditional dense pumpernickel

11) Thing you love eating (weird combo or something you made up) that people go: "Wait whattttt?"  Umm, read my meal plan haha

12) The best, best, bessssst thing to eat is: Peanut butter and honey off a spoon

13) Right this moment I am craving __Umm everything I've previously written down!___ .

14) Food I hate and wish did not exist is __Celery!___ .

15) Your choice and you choose: Red velvet cupcake with creamcheese icing, Chocolate cake with buttercream frosting, vanilla cupcake with chocolate frosting, or carrot cake with creamcheese frosting ?  Which I just to happen to have in the fridge downstairs, hmmm

16) The best thing about eating dessert is ___I love sugary high-fat foods haha, call it biology___ .

17) The worst thing about eating dessert is __I can't do it more often, gluttony woo!__ .

So you're going to what, wait a month until you're underweight and then let some Doctor who has no knowledge of eating disorders tell you you're sick enough?  You're going to wait until your heart muscle is wasted away, your liver is malfunctioning, and your hair is falling out before you finally decide you deserve to eat enough?  It is sad, so so so so so sad that so many Doctors aren't educated in eating disorders beyond what one book, one set of diagnostic criteria tells them qualifies as an eating disorder. 

I've never been underweight, but I lost weight from an overweight/obese state too quickly eating too little.  When I went to see the wonderful Doctor who got me help, I was eating 2000+ calories with an hour of moderate activity daily.  Healthy living, right?  No.  It's the mental aspect that makes an eating disorder. 

You woefully undereat, you have an intense and irrational fear of eating enough to fuel your body, the thought of gaining even five pounds terrifies you, you have cut out certain food groups, you equate eating at night, listening to your body, and eating more than 540 calories with a loss of control.  You're not in control.  You are being controlled by the mental illness that is an eating disorder.  I truly truly believe an eating disorder is a mental disease with physical symptoms. 

You have to be able to see that what you've written, the threads you've posted, the behaviours in which you engage, the fears you have, the physical weakness and mental anguish you feel is wrong.  There is something wrong.  You aren't fine, you aren't an attention craver.  You are someone who is alone and ill and needs help.  You obviously aren't getting that support from your family or from your doctor, so please, please, for your sake, stay on this forum and get support from us. 

There are people who understand eating disorders, people who care that you're not well, people that are able to recognize someone heading down a dangerous and deadly path.  I wish that you had those people beside you, but unfortunately you don't.  But they do exist, and these forums are filled with them.  You need to eat more.  You do.  There is no two ways around it.  You are starving yourself; anyone who says you need 1200 or 1400 is lying--you, on bedrest, not moving at all, should maintain on 1800-2000 calories.  You need to get there: the worst that can happen? You end up actually being 110lbs, which is still tiny.  Your weight won't spiral out of control, you won't end up 160lbs again.  You will, however feel better, you'll feel stronger, you'll be livelier, you won't be so obsessed with food, you'll be able to enjoy eating, you'll even be able to eat as many apples as you wish, guilt-free (and likely won't even want as many apples).

It's frightening, I know it is, but you need to take that first step.  You're falling apart and it breaks my heart to read it.  It's not too late, your metabolism isn't ruined, you aren't crazy, you aren't selfish, and you aren't alone.

Original Post by avid_cycling:

Hi all,

 

I exercise a lot, some days burning 1000-1500 calories . I'm a 5'9'' male, 24, weighing 130-135ish, but my doctor says I have the vital stats of an endurance athlete. She wants me to eventually gain some weight (she said to get to the 140's-160's within a year).

Anyways, I noticed that some days all I'll eat is 2000-2500 calories (that's all I'm hungry for), but after 4-5 days of this pattern, I am ravenous and on that day I eat upwards of 4-5k calories and feel sick for the rest of the day; however, I am fine and don't "pig out"for 4-5 days after this. Common sense would be to eat more on each day of the week so this pigging out fest stops every 4-5 days, right?

Thanks again for the responses!

 

Oh yeah, I forgot to say- I get a heck of a workout in on the days after the "pig outs", haha.

I don't know that it's the same, psychologically, but physiologically what you're experiencing sounds quite similar to what many recovering anorexics experience: a binge, purge, restrict cycle.  The bingeing being the 4-5000 calorie days, the purge being the 1500 calorie exercise session, and the restrict being the 2000 calorie days. (I don't have any scientific backing for this, just speculation.)

Now evidently it's not intentional restriction but I believe the underlying/subconscious mechanism is probably similar.  I.e. your body exists in a state of semi-starvation, gets sick of it, stimulates a day of raging appetite, then ends up somewhat sated for a day or so, then you continue to create massive deficits, and the cycle continues. 

So yeah, your "common sense" suggestion is pretty dead on: eat more, do so regularly.  If you can't eat enough to fuel your workouts then you shouldn't be working out.  It's your responsibility to treat your body properly.

Original Post by rfed307921271:

i remember reading somewhere that the key to lean legs is the balance between strengthening and stretching the muscle, so maybe try out something like yoga or pilates?

and since you say that you are toned anyway i dont think your calves should be a problem, it's muscle, not fat, so you should be proud:P

Unfortunately/fortunately you can't really change the shape of your muscle; you can't "lengthen" or "sculpt" them.  You're born with what you got, and when they grow, they'll grow the way they want to.  They'll only get smaller when the body fat around them (which is usually pretty minimal) is lost or if the muscle atrophies.  For someone who hasn't conscientiously tried to build up the muscle, as I'm assuming the op hasn't, that's probably just her natural shape c:

I definitely agree with your second point, though!  I'm proud of my calves's muscle!

Original Post by musiclover12438:

Like what kind of lifting? 

A full-body lifting program.  Moves like squats and deadlifts, though not "ab exercises" require that you brace your self by stabilizing your abdominal muscles.  Full-body moves and compound exercises that incorporate large muscles will also use more energy and provide you, in the end, with a more balanced physique.

This thread http://caloriecount.about.com/list-weight-tra ining-programs-question-melkor-ft90489#4 has a list of many starting strength training programs.  Personally, I've started with The New Rules of Lifting for Women.  It would probably best for you to start with an actual program with a built-in progression rather than simply throwing together a few random moves.