Welcome...Healthy Gaining!

I wanted to start a thread on this new and wonderful forum for healthy gaining! I want you all to feel free to come here and post your stories, concerns, or advice for healthy gaining. I also feel that this is a great outlet for those of you who are putting threads and posts in the weight loss forum, when in fact losing is not what you are intending. I would also love us to share nutritional information concerning this issue. Please do not post here if you are going to be using triggering numbers to ed recoverers or if you are planning on discussing harmful topics.

WELCOME to those who want to gain more than weight or healthy habits, but a more positive attitude and a better overall lifestyle!

Lets start by embracing our bodies, minds, and most of all, our hearts...what is your story?

Coldthindream: Congrats on taking this first step! I've found these forums to be so amazingly helpful. I guess I just feel safer ranting on these while I still can't really talk to those around me. I've found everyone to be really understanding and have recieved great advice/ reality checks. It will be hard, but hang in there and post as often as neccesary. I've honestly written something in these discussions about once a day for the last week and it really helps put everything in perspective.

 

Msmagill: To answer your question. My usual weight has always been between 120 and 125 and I'm 5'8. So as you can see i"ve always had a naturally small frame. Right now I hover around 102, so I lost about 20 pounds. I'm hoping to get to 110 by summer then hopefully be able to build back my muscle mass from there. I'm definitely loving ice cream right now! Honey goes on everything and I also constantly carry around snacks like fruit, nuts, protien bars and shakes and granola bars. I'm consuming about 2300 to 2500 calories a day so I think I just need to do my best to not worry anymore, eat when I want and what I want and excersice (moderately) when I feel the desire to move.

Now I just have to listen to my own advice!

My weakness is when its sunny and beautiful outside, and we've been having great weather lately. I absolutely can't stay inside! 

Coldthindream: I'm thrilled to hear of your improvement and I admire your effort. Recovery isn't easy or fun, but what follows it is worthwhile getting to. I'd forgotten what life was like after a mere year of illness, which, compared to most people is a very short amount of time. It's fantastic to hear that you are working to regain everything you've lost; it's not worth it to stay trapped in the disorder. Happiness is impossible to maintain when you are. I know plenty of people who have hit rock bottom before comepletely recovering--myself included! Keep doing what you're doing when you get backtracked. The negative cycle is definitely slowing. I'll be praying for you.:]

Gibbit: I completely agree with that plan.:] Recovery is about getting your life back, after all! I see no reason why you can't go out and enjoy a ride on nice days. If it has the same effect on you as it does on me, biking is a very calming experience. Inner peace is something that we desperatley need during recovery (haha, I sould like Buddha). I know you'll do what's right for YOU, just follow your instincts and stop when you know you should. Best of luck with everything!