Starvation Mode questions
I have dealth with eating problems since I was 13 or 14. I had anorexia for a while I think. I didn't really eat and I lost lots of weight and made it to 110 pounds.
I need to start eating much less so I have some questions.
But please, don't tell me I shouldn't do it, because I already know it's unhealthy and stupid. But please, understand that this controls me and I will be fixated and miserable until I lose 15 or 20 pounds.
So I have a question. Any help would be great.
If I start eating around 500 calories a day, how long would it take to be effective?
How long does that part last where you gain weight before you lose it all?
And how long before I start seeing weight loss?
Please help
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heyy! im the exact same size as you! hahaha. I have lost around 10 lbs just by eating BETTER. You dont have to completely starve yourself, because the trend will last a few weeks, and then you will go back to your old eating habbits.So, i have found that eating no fast food, no fried food, and limit the sugar intake. have 3 meals a day, and then also have little snacks, like the 100 calorie packs, they are great! Its actually pretty easy, and you will start feeling better, and it also has cleared up my face, i have had somme acne. Go to a BMI scale, and do that, and then show how much you should lose.
good luck!!
I've just tried everything. And i can't exercise anymore. I'm too depressed and lazy and unmotivated and just hate it to top it all off. I don't know what to do. I just want fast results.
Hiya
So you need to get down to your ideal weight of 126 pounds, you only have 20 pounds to lose, I am 33 and at 5ft 9 i weight 18half stone. my ideal weight is 10half stone. Im settling with 12 stone, comfortably eating the amount of calories these guys on this site told me, would take me till feb 2010, seems a long time. But it will have more chance in staying off. At this point your wondering why i'm saying this, i used to be from the age of 8 to 12 was bullimic and at 13 become so fed up with making myself sick, stopped eating. I was diagnosed with manic depression at 14 and was put on strong anti depressants and had the works thrown at me and I eventual started to eat, then I started eating more and more, i wont bore you with my whole life story as we will be here to long, but I started to go the other way and was comfort eating and had a complete addiction with takeaways, fast food junk the lot. Then followed my breakdown. I never left the house and just ate all the time, I reached 22 stone.
I have finally found my soul mate and life partner, I went back to work, working in a job that was better for me, I found happiness, and truly excepted myself and who I was. I started losing the weight, I went down to 16half stone. Everything was so perfect, my partner help with diet and I am on a healthy balanced vegetarian diet, then I become ill, bedbound, weak, frustrated and depressed the weight crept back on and I was diagnosed with Cronic fatigue Syndrome ME, my life has been turned upside down, I had done everything to be healthy and I was finally getting fit and bang, this happens. Im now back on track and happy again.
I think what I am trying to say is I think I know how you feel at the moment and that you want to lose this weight right now, but just think for awhile, if you eat this crazy amount of calories your bodies going to shut down, you may slip back and think hey what the hell lets lose another 20 pounds, stop now, you dont want this you want to eat as healthily as possible, you want to do this as a permanent goal, not a quick fix fast track way of losing weight, as you will be yoyoing all your life. First except yourself for everything you are and want to be, find a way of exercise you enjoy even if this means, just a stroll in the park, it all adds up you dont have to do much to make a difference. I know this is not the answer you want to hear and thats frustrating, if you have read all of this, but be happy and healthy in body and mind first. Dont take short cuts, its not worth it and also if you do go down this unhealthy route and jepordise your health, you may do long lasting damage and you dont want that. keep happy keep smiling. you will get there. But get there healthily and slower. I hope you can understand what I am waffling on about and I havent bored you to tears.
Love and kind wishes xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Hope you achieve your goal and become truly happy!
Astral Hippy (sue)
I don't even know how much I'm eating anymore. It's always different. Lately much less.
Original Post by franiqua:
I'm not really active at all.
I don't even know how much I'm eating anymore. It's always different. Lately much less.
If you are not eating much and not active thats where you need an increase.
If you went to a nutritionist and was able to lose some weight then you can do this again. If you want to lose weight in a good healthy way you already know how to do that. Crash dieting will not help you but hurt you. You will gain it back if you try to eat right again if you go low like that. Take it from me I was eating about 600-800 a day for three years there about. I ended up at 160 before I started doing things the right way. Besides that your body can not function right on low calories such as you mention. You organs such as your heart need nutrients to work. Cutting calories so low starves your self and your vital organs.
BTW: doing it the right way means always. Means not stopping the exercise and healthy eating because you reached a weight you like. You have to recalculate your calories and exercise to maintain that weight.
I'm 21, and I was up in the 140's in high school, and there's a lot of pressure to be super-thin. I can totally understand your frustration.
I know it's hard when you look in the mirror and can't love the body you're in. It doesn't feel good. But it is so important to respect your body - you'll be in it for a long time.
It's so wonderful that you've worked with a nutritionist! You have the tools to have a healthy, beautiful body! Why would you do something you know is "unhealthy and stupid," as you say?
Honestly, the way to see quick weight loss it to be healthy and smart about it, instead of unhealthy and stupid. For your body, the average calorie usage is 1800 calories. That means you need to eat at the very least 1000 calories a day!!! If you eat 1300 calories a day, and exercise 500 calories off, that's two pounds a week - in a healthy, lasting way!
Otherwise, your body will think that you're stuck somewhere in the desert with no food (obviously, right, since you're not eating?), and it will cling desperately to every calorie it can. And you're right - not eating is about control. It's about getting that voice out of your head. But it won't work. Because, like you said, you'll gain it back and be miserable again.
Astralhippy is so right - don't take shortcuts, be healthy, and make sure you love yourself! You can definitely find a way to be happy with your body - don't give up!
Have you ever been so sad, that it hurts to smile?
But, you try it for a few days, just smiling at anything, even though you don't want to, and then, all of a sudden, smiling gets easier?
And one day, you just wake up, smiling all the time?
If you want to be more positive, start thinking more positively, even if you don't mean it. I know, I know, it sounds nuts, but just try it. Really really try it.
When I was younger (and heavier) I was depressed all the time. The world was blue and no one could talk me out of it. And one day, I realized it was no way to live. So I started getting my mind, my thoughts, and my body healthy, and it was the best thing I ever did. Truly.
I don't know if any of this will help you, but I hope it does.
From all of your posts, I really think you might be suffering from Depression. Clinical depression is very real and effects everything in your life, from how you perceive yourself, to appetite to energy level and outlook in general. Do you have access to health care? If so, you may want to make an appointment and talk to a doctor about it. You can also find screening questionnaires online that will tell you if you are at risk.
Good luck....
Hey Franiqua,
Unfortunately I can and do completely understand you. I am a 44 year old wife and mother. I began my anorexic life at the age of 8. I was trying to avoid "growing up" so that I could avoid any further sexual encounters. At age 16 I decided to try and be "normal". At 17 years of age I went to university and was raped. Needless to say the anorexia returned full force. I managed to graduate university, but I'm not certain how. Between no energy, passing out and hospitalization I didn't have much time for my studies.
Initially my husband used to joke I was the cheapest date he ever had - I didn't eat nor did I drink. My behaviour continued through the births of my three children. I developed rheumatoid arthritis. I continued to play with my children, but I shut myself off from the outside world. I didn't answer the telephone and I didn't open the livingroom curtains. I ignored the door and refused to even go to the grocery store. I was withering away as a human being. Only my children gave me a purpose.
Finally realizing my husband loved me unconditionally, I began to improve. After starving for so many years, I completely changed. Rather than anorexic, I became bulimic. My body couldn't consume enough food to make up for the starvation. I would eat uncontrolably and not necessarily have a recollection of everything I had eaten. I purged everything I ate. My electrolytes went out of whack and last Feb. I was hositalized for heart problems - my own doing due to starvation, bingeing and purging. In Aug. I returned to the hospital with pancreatitis. The pain was unbearable. I also inflicted severe damage to my kidneys with this behaviour.
In Nov. I was hositalized for constant black outs. I cried constantly and felt my life had no meaning. I was no longer controlling my eating disorder, it had taken full control of me. I thought about food in all of my waking hours. By the way, the waking hours were many. My depression caused an inability to sleep.
Realization hit me when I saw the terror on my family's face. They didn't think I was coming home again. I have one son and two daughters. Do I really want to teach them this behaviour?
I am on a waiting list to get into the eating disorder clinic in the next city. Some days I want to go, other times I chicken out. I WILL go.
I am the same height as you - about 5'3" and a half. My muscles are weak and atrophied. I am a shell of a human being.
PLEASE PLEASE do not do this to yourself. Speak to your doctor. Speak to a school nurse. Don't take no for an answer. You need counselling. Anorexic behaviour overcomes you. It is almost impossible to control once the behaviour sets in.
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