Serious question

Ok so. i have been eating so much. I am a kind of skinny person, but today i didnt have breakfast or lunch and i swam for an hour, biked for 45 minutes, and ran a workout at practice 5 x 800 m and warmup and cooldown. so thats like 3 hours of exercise but i want to lose weight.

so then i ate some dinner...a little bit of pasta, zuccini, squash, corn and a banana. so that was good...it was like 1300 calories.

so i was like yay! only 1300 calories with my exercise means im losing weight...then sure enough i get back to my room...eat like half a jar of pb, a bowl of cereal, an apple, and IM SO ANGRY. so my question is: even with this exercise, will I gain weight? my hardest problem is stopping the binge at night. but i figured since i dont eat anything during the day it might be ok. please help, i need to lose weight. i want to look prettier.

in order to avoid the binging at night, you NEED to eat during the day.  You need to jumpstart your metabolism in the morning with breakfast so you will have energy throughout the whole day.  Especially with all that exercise, it is crucial that you eat throughout the day and not just at night when all the energy will be stored as fat. 

Last year I did to myself exactly what you are doing now.  I didnt eat breakfast or lunch, had track practice after school, ate a big dinner and lots of snacks at night.  And I gained weight.  Even though I exercised and ate nothing throughout most of the day.  If you want to lose, you must pace your eating throughout the whole day, especially in the morning!

Also, 1300 calories is not enough for a teen doing as much exercise as you are.  The minimum for sedentary teens is 1500, you are at least moderately active and should shoot for more like 1800.  This may seem like a lot, but it is much healthier than your current eating habits and you will lose weight and wont feel the need to binge at night.

Good luck.

Why do you think that losing more weight will make you 'prettier'?  Who's told you you're ugly?  If you're not happy with your body, or you're not getting the boyfriends or if people are bullying you... talk to someone rather than starving.

If you don't eat enough for your body to survive on - especially if you're doing excessive amounts of exercise - then you'll binge all the time to catch up.  You'll also make yourself really sick if you carry on..... A very active teen who isn't overweight needs well over 2500 cals a day to function healthily both physically and mentally.  If you're not getting that in your meals, your body will make you find it whether you like it or not.  (Even after your PB, cereal and apple you still underate BTW.)  Don't be angry with your body for wanting to live.

Copying this from lalabanana's set text regarding the amount of energy a teenage girl of a healthy weight needs....

"1740 calories inactive
2060 calories lightly active
2360 calories moderately active
2860 calories very active"

You are 'very active'....

Yeah -

going all day without food and then binging at night on a 1300 calorie dinner stresses out your metabolism and you'll break down muscle and gain fat and lots of bad stuff.

Metabolisms are like fires in many ways:

the longer they go without fuel, the more they die down.  if you dump too much fuel onto them, they go out/crash.  but you if continually add small amounts of fuel, little by little, it burns it all.

Ya know?

oxymoron- is it too late to get back to eating normal? is my metabolism shot? like...if i start eating healthy three meals a day will i gain weight since my metabolism is slow?

It is DEFINITELY not too late.  :D


A good way to boost your metabolism, though, is to eat ENOUGH calories (yes, I know, it's weird but not eating enough calories can make you gain fat) everyday in small bouts.

SO, for example:

breakfast - 300 calories
snack - 200 calories
lunch - 500 calories
snack - 200 calories
dinner - 600 calories
snack - 100-200 calories


You get it?  Eating in small bouts like that makes your metabolism roar because it doesn't have time to slow.  :D

Hope I helped.