is it possible? we all have heard the wonder story of Revolution...I just wanted to start this thread for some of us undergoing this little experiment to talk. Also, if anyone has done this and it has NOT worked, do tell!
sorry i am kind of obsessed with this subject right now
irishmum is right. Like I said, it could be just totm...specialy since I did read in your journal taht u did reach 112 in the past but were back to 108 as soon as u got your period.Lots of girls here who have gained prolly have a lot to envy...i mean it isnt taht bad, u can barely notice 5 pounds! yes YOU can but tahts because you're more aware of your body than a normal person would...as a matter of fact when I gained 5 pounds the first time around no one could notice the difference...not even when I gained 10 whole pounds at first. People dont care for that at all! so you shouldnt let yourself get beaten up about this.
Today Im aiming for 1700, yay me :) plus eating some broccoli (need to get my carbs up)
good luck everyone
update:
Well yesterday, in all honesty, I didnt reach 1700 like planned but I did have 1,630...which is almost as good since I was having 230 cals less just months ago...so I feel good. Only problem was my weight gain started! Ahh! I knew this was gonna happen and Im surprised that Im so calmed....maybe I finaly am realizing that this is just something that WILL happen? Im feeling better each day, and Im no panicking anymore...I know this is all just barely starting and I dont know how much I will gain...(though Im almost sure that Ill get all the weight up to 120, if not im still preparing myself mentaly for that...I wont like it but if it means that in just a few other months Ill be healthy again and Ill be able to get down to my initial 115...I can handle that) Then Ill keep doing work outs and see my body lose inches (hopefully!) and maybe even gain some more because of muscle :D we'll see hehe right now this is all wishful thinking! but it helps in the recovery...it motivates me...so Im gonna keep doing what Im doing...even if i gain 10, or 12 pounds...Ill take thsi easy on me...and hopefully with some emtional support Ill get thru this with much ease
well I hope to see an update soon from someone
take care and keep strong
Weigh to go!! LOL! (Pun intended!) Make sure you take a note of your measurements so you can see how you're doing- don't use the scales as a guide alone. I'd say you haven't 'gained' yet, it could be fluid, it could be the extra food in your system (iykiwm- if you haven't 'gone' to the bathroom since yesterday) all kinds of things. Pay more attention to your trend weight for a while and your daily fluctuations won't upset you as much. You have definately got yourself into the right frame of mind for this though? I hope you get tehe results you want- I can't see why not though? Good luck for today!
I got to 2219 yesterday and went back down to 170lbs this morning! My trend is still going down, down , down!
yay irishmum! so happy for you! thats your body thanking you for the nutrition :D Im hoping I build more confidence with time, but I think its working. I still get triggered by skinny models commercials on tv (bad bad bad!) but I cant help it, its my ED past talking thru, but I wont let it bother me. Im lucky enough that as I gain weight I dont need to go out to make me feel uncomfortable. I can stay at home until I regain my self confidence. I kept thinking today of when I was 115, all the things I could eat and always maintain my body weight in between 115-118... I took that for granted and never noticed how lucky I was. I never did go overboard with food tho, but I did have a lot of food during xmass 2006 and I still was 115 when xmass was over without doing much diet stuff. Anyway, I know my body likes that weight so I bet anything that with time ill settle. Im scared to go up in calories again but I have to! so today I had more bread than I have in a couple of months lol Did 15 mins on the elliptical, and 20 other minutes of pilates. Pilates is hard stuff! but time goes by soooo quickly that I think its really worth doing. I barely even notice when 30 minutes go by so perfect workout for me...Today I really do aim for at least 50 calories more, that Ive arleady had but since I did exercise Ill prolly contemplate the more food option for today..dunno we'll see how I feel.
I learned my BMR today (1330 a few numbers up or down) and even tho Im already having nearly 400 cals more, I think I can manage to still go up more, even more so as I plan on gaining some muscle, and muscle needs more calories to live! I can wait!!!
and yeah Im keeping record of my measurements...they only change from day to day like .5 ...but Im not sure if ts water retention due to the reintroducing of carbs into my diet, plus strength training (which makes muscles retain water) Ive also been feeling really sore because of all this new exercise, but its my first week so I guess its normal.
good luck and lets keep motivated :) we can do thi
So much possitivity on the thread lately! Weighed in at 139.8 this morning, not my all time low for the year, but definitely GREAT to be back in the 130's especially when eating a lot of food. I'm still aiming for a 500 deficit every day, and in response to what you had written a few days ago, bananee, I don't think that I'm eating too little...my BMR is 1469, with activity on sedentary (rest) days, that's 1752 burned. so days with no exercise but keeping a deficit would be 1752-500=1252. Days with lots of exercise (600 burned) I eat 2352-500=1852. I've done tons of research and this is what almost everyone reccommends...eat more than 1200 ALWAYS, and if you want to lose weight maintain a daily deficit of 500-1000 calories, which you should create using a combo of exercise and diet.
But I'm not the kinda girl to push back on having more food, so if you have any info/evidence that I've got this wrong, I'd love to hear it.
Good luck today everyone!
hey stayontrack well maybe you're right because you are getting the results you want :) Once I regain the weight I need to gain and get healthy again Ill think about losing the way you are, the healthy way! So good luck, Im sure you'll keep up witht he progress. I normaly burn 1,330 on sedentary days (if I were to stay in bed all day, supposely, but I know that because of my muscle loss I burn prolly a bit less). When I found that out I wondered how much would I have to eat to keep myself healthy and maintain??? does anyone know of a better calculator thats not the one on here, that can sort of tell how much I should be burning on normal days? and on activity days. And if I did 15 mins on the elliptical and 20 mins of pilates, how much do you think of an activity is that? moderate, light...?? Ive never gotten the whole calorie intake correctly.
Howdy Bananee (what a fun name to type!)
I googled BMR and RMR and went through the calculations and averaged what I found on the various sites. My favorite one (and what I found to be seem most acurate) was on http://www.bmi-calculator.net/bmr-calculator/ . Plus it does the thinking for you. I use my BMR x 1.2...this accounts for the random calorie burning things you do in a day...walking to the bathroom, driving a car, fixing dinner, etc. then I add specifics for what exercise I do that day. That way I'm not adding in a generic number to use every day regardless on actual calorie burn, rather I know what I burn/earn.
Then on www.caloriesperhour.com you can figure out how many calories your body is burning doing whatever activities you do a day. If you're concerned about loss of muscel, have you considered starting with some light weight lifting to build it back up?
The way I figure out between the different levels of activity is:
Light: I am BARELY sweating, I can talk throughout. This would be equiv to a walk with my neighbor.
Moderate: This would be fast walking (sweating, kinda heavy breathing). This would be like level 10 on an eliptical or if I walk 3.4 at a 12.0 incline on the treadmill or the stairmaster below level 5.
Heavy: I am breathing fast, my heart rate is high, I can't really talk while I'm doing it. This is when I do FAST eliptical, level 7+ on stairmaster, run, or do interval training.
Hope that helps!
thank u for the help stayontrack! that info really helped me :) I just calculated the whole bmr x 1.2 which gave me exactly what I thought...1600! wow and to think I was having 1400 for so many months and maintained....goes to show why my body gave up and was like " its gaining time!"....anyway...I already figured it out and I supposedly burned today like around 1725...Today I had 1721 without substracting the calories from my workout...which would leave me at about 1611...still fell short for today but Ill work on it tomorrow without a doubt...Like I said before Im gonna go all the way to 1800 when I do exercise and when Im completely sedentary at home and relaxing Ill have 1600 :) what do you guys think?
On average Im planning on doing 3x a week elliptical light to moderate effort (when I do exercise on the elliptical its only for 15 mins and i barely break a sweat tho I find myself breathing a little heavy)...and 4x a week pilates, sessions of 20-30 mins at first depending on if I do time on the elliptical that day or not, and then do a full 45 mins eventually when I get more used to it cos Im beat up with only 30! its fun and I think its gonna work real well cos Im looking for long lean muscle :) and I think I can feel my muscles getting harder already and its only been a week!
good luck to everyone! and Ill keep posting a few updates, here and on my journal, just to keep myself motivated and fighting :)
update!
Ok so, today I woke up and saw that I maintained my weight on 1721 calories I had yesterday...Im a bit confused though...If on active days I burn around 1800 calories, because of the exercise I do...do I eat 1,800 cals on exercise days, or do I have to eat more to compensate for the calories burned?...I mean say I burn 100 calories in exercise....do I have to eat those back making it be 1900 calories, and 100 burned which are 1,800 net cals....or do I just have 1800 and thats it??? regardless of the exercise? I mean I know that If I were to be way more active, Id have almost 2000....
Im really confused cand could use some help.
so does this work??? i am scared. but is it true i will have to maintain weight on low cals if i gain on low cals? should i bump it up? i read whole thread and am more lost than before bc everyone is saying different things. i dont want to lose more! but i want to gain slowly and be able to eat alot and maintain when i am healthy. very very very interesting post.
hey ieevee & danamichael ! I know that this is probably one of the scariest things to do, specialy if you are still very much scared of weight gain. This is the first step to actually getting into recovery the right way. First is letting go of the fear, realizing that this is meant to happen because we lost weight the wrong way, and settling for it. IF it happens it happens, its not the end of the world! Right now you need to focus on your health, not on your waist size. It took me over a year to get over the fear, but its just part of the long journey to recovery. Right now im at a point where I dont care for the pounds I gain, at least Im doing the right thing. Eating adequate amounts of calories, and giving my body the nutrition it needs so badly to heal itself. At first most of you wont notice a weight gain at all...Actually girls who begin their recovery by adding more cals into their diet, see only an initial water weight gain...but then it flushes out, and they end up even losing a pound or two. They get all the way to almost 3,000 cals and still dont get anyweight...this is just your metabolism going into hyper speed. AFter a while it will stablize once more and this is where you should expect to see the weight gain come on slowly. At this point is really important not to relapse, and keep strong. This is why you have us here! all the support you need :) msg us! and we'll be glad to help you out. Ive been there,done that and still am on it, so I feel your pain and understand exactly how you feel.
Yesterday I had 1,750 calories, and actually lost a bit of weight...so I need to up even more. Im really calmed about all of this and even though I have ed thoughts from time to time I wont let it get to me!
Oh btw girls, try and not do so much cardio...at least not at first....a bit of strength training 3xs a week will aid a bit even though its recommended to not do any sort of exercises until you get yourself into a healthy BMI for your age and height.
good luck and keep strong!
msg me if you need anything ;)
-xo
Update- well I went away for the weekend and didn't count calories- I couldn't even begin to guess what I ate, never mind what I drank! I returned Monday but didn't weigh until this morning so i could have yesterday eating my 'normal' 2000-odd cals. Well, this morning I was 172lbs- 1lb heavier than last Saturday- only 1lb!! I was so amazed, I really thought it'd be more? And I know that extra lb will come off when I eat regular for another few days.
I'm quietly confident that my metabolism is finally kicking in- I'm more or less maintaining on 2000-odd cals a day. Another few weeks of this and I can seriously start thinking of starting to try to lose again....
How is everyone? I am so glad we have new members joining!
Anyway, maintanence is rockin right now!
Hey!
Ive been reading the posts in this forum, and most have been very inspiring *thumbs up*
My story is that I was eating around 750-1000 calories for two months and managed to lose 7 pounds. Then I realised that this was unhealthy for my mind and body, and slowly upped my daily intake to 1200. Right now, I am focussed on eating to recover my metabolism. Yesterdays calorie total was 1360. Im hoping to reach 1500 by next week.
Upping my calories has not led to any weight change as yet. Im maintaining at 105 lbs. Im 5'3.5" and 22 yrs old.
Wish me luck:)
hey,
i've read the whole thread as well. it was actually one of the main reasons for me to up my calories from 900 to 1400. 2 years of starving and other bad things **** up my body pretty bad. so im trying to get my metabolism back.
how is everyone here doing? i started about 12 days ago, starting from 130 lbs to 133 and 2 days ago it was 138... yiked :( but im NOT giving up now. it HAS to work right..
Believe me ladies it works...I upped slowly from eating 500 calories to now 1600-2000 per day depending on exercise and I have maintained my weight for about 6 months now! Good luck...it works, just keep pushing!
Gosh- I haven't posted here in ages! Anyway, I started my loss journey again on Monday 13th, and am down 3 solid lbs so far. I'm aiming for 1300cals a day, but not being anal about it- if I go over by 100 or under by 100 its fine, I mostly go over by 100 though! LOL! I feel great- I have so much energy, my skin is finally clearing, and I feel healthy for the firts time in I don't know when. I'm aiming for a maintenence day every 7-10days (1800-2000cals) to keep my restored metabolism alert- but I'm NEVER going to go under 1200 again- EVER! It's been too hard and taken too long to get where I am now (both mentally & physically) to let it all fall by the wayside. I will do this.
Hi again,
I just wanted to say that it feels so good to be able to eat more. It takes the stress out when im going out / accidently eat something that i thought was healthy etc. And best of all, I know that finally im respecting my body and nourishing it so it can function at its optimum. Argh if only i had realised this earlier......
Good luck to everyone. Im upto 1450 calories a day... when i haven't exercised. Hoping to take it up a few hundred more. And weight wise, Im up 0.5 lbs but im unsure if its water weight or because i have my period right now.
Yay! Up your calories everyone, take care of your body, its calling out to you, quit ignoring it, respect it as best you can!:)
hi,
it's great that you feel better, perannum. and thanks everyone for the encouragement.
i have to say, its not going too well for me.. it's been almost 3 weeks now, and i went from 130 (start) to 138 last week (TTOTM) and i only went 1 pound down today, to 137. im really, really worried it will never work for me.. that because of my bulimia, my body will never work again. it hurts a lot.
keep going, you all, and update your progress.
clolitaa hang in there, give your body time to adjust, im sure it will work out for you.... it could just be water weight (from too much salt? time of the month?). Also, how long were you restricting?
I checked my weight this morning and its back to my normal. So, all week Ive eaten 1450 or more calories and i weigh the same weight as I did when i was eating 1000 calories. Confusing?!? But I'm not complaining, lol.
Now Im wondering where to stop... in the past 2.5 weeks, Ive increased from 1200-1500... do I keep going? Do I listen to the burn meter on CC? Because that tells me 1550 on sedentary days. Or do I keep pushing it higher and higher...
Also, Ive found that its becoming a little expensive to eat so much, so Ive turned to lentils, and brown wholegrain rice to fill me up. But I find it difficult to get enough protein without spending lots of money. Would anyone recommend protein powder? I do light strength training on alternate days, but im not a muscle maniac. Is it still appropriate for me? Its approx $20 for a 1kg tub, should i go ahead and buy one? and any recommended brands? thnX:)
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