Am i losing weight to fast
xchloerebecca99x
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Ive lost 10 pounds in 4 days. Ive checked my scales they are working the results are accurate. I was just wondering if this is good or should i not be losing such a large amount so fast
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Hi!
Few questions- starting weight? height? calorie intake? have you lowered your sodium?
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Starting weight 12 st 8 height 5,5 and calorie intake 190 cals @evamartinm44611
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Is your calorie intake a type? 190calories?0
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xchloerebecca99x wrote: »Starting weight 12 st 8 height 5,5 and calorie intake 190 cals @evamartinm4461
190?0 -
No 190 calories is correct @tiptoethruthetulips @DebSozo ive limited it because im trying too lose weight asap i know its bad so dont give me a lecture please0
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Sounds like you know what you're doing isn't healthy, so I'm not sure why you would ask if you're losing weight too fast?2
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xchloerebecca99x wrote: »No 190 calories is correct @tiptoethruthetulips @DebSozo ive limited it because im trying too lose weight asap i know its bad so dont give me a lecture please
You know it's bad but you're still doing it? You're damaging your body. Please speak with a professional.0 -
xchloerebecca99x wrote: »Ive lost 10 pounds in 4 days. Ive checked my scales they are working the results are accurate. I was just wondering if this is good or should i not be losing such a large amount so fast
Given you are only eating 190calories a day what else did you expect?
It is unsustainable to be eating only 190calories per day, you are heading into disorder territory.
Your health will be comprised, don't be surprised if your hair starts to fall out, fatigue will hit, likely won't be long before you start binge eating as your body cries out for food!0 -
It appears to be international day of the trolls.8
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Dont even see the point in having a chat part on this thing because no matter what people post theres always people like you lot who just comment stuff to make everyone feel bad about what there doing trying too make them fail because your unhappy with yourself. If any of you even had a shred of knowledge or actaully even tried the diet before u throw ur words at me you would know the body can go a long time without food and my diet is safe.you all just believe what you read online or what you hear. @sijomial1
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Just putting it out there
The Psychological Effects of Under-Eating
http://eating-disorders.org.uk/information/the-effects-of-under-eating/
Moods and feelings:
Depression: Mood is badly affected by under-eating. Many of the nutrients in food affect the emotional centres of our brain and reducing these nutrients or affecting their balance has an adverse effect on mood. Under-eaters generally feel depressed, low, and prone to be easily irritated or enraged.
Panic: Very low weight under-eaters may feel spaced out a lot of the time and not in touch with their feelings. But panic attacks are a common symptom which is often associated with panic about weight gain. Panic symptoms are not just emotional; they commonly arise if the body’s stress systems are not getting the nutrients they need to keep us balanced and able to cope with life. Panic attacks onlysubside when weight becomes normal for your age and height.
Obsessions and Compulsions: One of the most prominent changes of under-eating is heightened obsessiveness. This refers to the tendency to be inflexible and to carry out rigid routines. One may feel compelled to walk a certain distance each day and some people may become very anxious about keeping things clean and tidy. This may interfere with the ability to be spontaneous and relaxed.
The obsessiveness is often striking when it comes to eating and exercise. Extreme under-eaters find they have to eat in a particular way. Eating can become a mini ceremony in which food has to be arranged on a place or eaten in a particular order. These rituals can include cutting food into very small pieces and taking tiny bites.
Some people become obsessive-compulsive to such a degree that they could be described as suffering from a starvation-induced OCD. Hoarding objects – including bags of food – is common among people who just don’t eat enough.
Withdrawal & Looking Inward: Under-eating can make you feel better in the short term especially if people draw attention to your willpower or weight loss. But a person will become prone to withdrawal and a great deal of self-focus if under-eating continues and becomes a way of life. Some people with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa have a very poor social life but a very vivid inner life, which is expressed by writing stories or poetry. Such writings are usually about the emotional pain of the disorder but sufferers are closed from the experiences of life outside. This can be explained by the effects of undernourishment in the brain; also, the tendency to avoid the company of other people is encouraged by low mood and over focusing on all the rituals which must be done to keep hunger at bay.
Loss of Sexual Feelings: A loss of sexual appetite is expected and is due to hormonal changes.
Feeling Fat: The phenomenon of feeling fat or bigger than you are is common among under-eaters whether they have an eating disorder or not, and predictably this leads to more restraint. We do not fully understand WHY this happens and experts believe that the experience of fatness is really a sensing of all the buried feelings which have led to the need to under-eat in the first place. Fat feelings increase with weight loss if a person is already underweight, and thus eating more, rather than striving for even more weight loss is the only solution to the problems of “feeling huge”.
Thinking and Consciousness
Thinking: Is affected by consistent under-eating. This is not surprising since the brain requires a great deal of energy to “compute”. One effect of under-eating for a while is that thinking becomes inflexible so that it can become difficult to set priorities and switch easily from one task to another.
Concentration: is always impaired, although not everyone is aware of this because they force themselves to focus on the task in hand. Indeed, under-eaters often describe themselves as more alert and purposeful but this cannot be sustained for long. Constant thinking about food and weight, which is a side effect of under-eating, can interfere with the ability to attend to other things.
Obsession about Food and Weight: One who under-eats for any reason starts thinking more about food and also about their weight if they are also sensitive about what they weigh. This may lead someone to become fanatically interested in cooking, cooking for other people, recipes, books about nutrition, and they even dream about food and eating. Sometimes they give up old interests and other hobbies.
Depth of Thinking: Among people who under-eat, consciousness may contract. The best way to explain this is that very little seems to matter, in some cases all you might think about is how to get or avoid the next meal, how to control your weight. Or how to ensure that your food is “right” for you. This makes it very hard for someone to give attention to other things. A narrow range of consciousness will lead in many cases to social inadequacies such as a lack of empathy and difficulty in sharing experiences of connection and joy.
Hearing a Voice: One comment effect of under-eating is that many people start to hear a Voice which tells them to eat even less. This Voice may also tell them that they are greedy if they even think of eating more, or eating a food which could cause weight gain. Sadly, if there is extreme under-eating, the Voice threatens to punish the person who thinks it might be a good idea to try to eat more.
Irrational Thinking: The effects of poor nourishment on the brain may lead to difficulty in making good sense of day to day impressions and experiences and this in turn will result in unhelpful interpretations of everyday events. If someone is critical, for example, this may be interpreted as that they “have it in for you” whereas the ability to think rationally may lead you to the conclusion that they are simply having a bad day.
Do you have a list of good foods and bad foods or safe foods and unsafe foods? Perhaps you feel instantly fat and worthless even if you even think of eating a forbidden food, or horrible if you have eaten a small amount of chocolate? These are irrational thoughts cause the brain to play tricks on your experience and keep you trapped in an unhappy relationship with food.
Behaviour
Changes in feeling and thinking as a result of under-eating is going to have a great impact on personal behaviour and relationships in ways described above. People who have under-eaten for a long time, come to think that this is part of their personality and they are not aware that how they think, feel and behave is only the effect of their eating habits. In other words the real self is being “masked.”
Cravings: The strongest effect of under-eating on behaviour is caused by powerful cravings, usually for foods rich in sugar and fat. Some people respond to these cravings by doing all sorts of things to keep their mouth and appetite distracted, such as exercising excessively, smoking, drinking alcohol or even sucking stones. For other people, their control of cravings is undermined by binge eating, which in turn will lead to more efforts at restraint and in some cases harmful acts such as purging, and more cravings down the line.
A great deal of research exists to prove that food cravings are in fact biologically driven as a result of under-eating/low weight and will not resolve unless the person is able to eat a diet which is nutritionally dense, sufficient in calories. Cravings will also persist until someone is a healthy weight.
Physical Effects
Under-eating at any weight has a marked effect on physical health. There is a common misperception that under-eating prolongs life and this is reinforced by evidence that consistent overeating does indeed reduce life span. The exact effects of under-eating depend on the nature and the extent of the diet and the degree of weight loss. In no particular order of importance:
Heart , Circulation and Temperature: The heart is a muscle which can be eroded by extreme under-eating and thus becomes weaker. Blood pressure may fall to dangerous levels and pulse rate slows up. Sluggish circulation can lead to ulcers on the legs and feelings of extreme cold. But the most worrying effect of a weakened heart would be if arrhythmia occurred (irregular beating).
Sex Hormones and Infertility: In order to protect more important life processes, sex hormone production is interrupted. Sexual feelings decrease, and the signs of puberty in females and males disappear, such as menstruation and nocturnal emissions respectively. Normal functioning may be delayed even after a return to normal eating and weight.
Bones: Hormonal and nutritional changes have a profoundly disturbing effect on bone growth and density. The years of puberty are the time when bones grow and strengthen. Should they fail to do so at this time they will never recover. The result in later life will be osteoporosis, stooping and a high risk of fracture.
Digestion: The digestive tract in under-eaters slows right down and as a result food moves slowly through it and feels uncomfortable. This explains the heightened sensitivity to feelings of fullness and bloatedness, which is misleading.
Skin and Hair: The effects of under-eating are variable from one person to the other. Skin can become dry and show signs of early ageing. It may turn orange in the very low weight, or may be covered in very fine fuzz. Some people find that their hair becomes thin.
Sleep and Rest: Under-eaters find it hard to sleep and may wake early with a sense of restlessness which drives them to go out and exercise.7 -
xchloerebecca99x wrote: »Dont even see the point in having a chat part on this thing because no matter what people post theres always people like you lot who just comment stuff to make everyone feel bad about what there doing trying too make them fail because your unhappy with yourself. If any of you even had a shred of knowledge or actaully even tried the diet before u throw ur words at me you would know the body can go a long time without food and my diet is safe.you all just believe what you read online or what you hear. @sijomial
Why are you asking whether you're losing too fast then? Isn't that why you're eating 190?
To lose fast?
And why am I replying to a troll in the first place?3 -
It is NOT safe. There are people here who have recovered from eating disorders where they ate 3 to 4 times what you are. You're risking muscle loss, hair loss, brittle nails, fatigue, irregular or missed periods, and a host of other health problems eating this low.2
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xchloerebecca99x wrote: »Dont even see the point in having a chat part on this thing because no matter what people post theres always people like you lot who just comment stuff to make everyone feel bad about what there doing trying too make them fail because your unhappy with yourself. If any of you even had a shred of knowledge or actaully even tried the diet before u throw ur words at me you would know the body can go a long time without food and my diet is safe.you all just believe what you read online or what you hear. @sijomial
It isn't safe to eat only 190 calories a day, you are depriving your body of much needed nutrition. Your body will use not only fat for energy but lean body mass including the heart and other organs for nutrition when it is significantly deprived over a period of time.
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xchloerebecca99x wrote: »Dont even see the point in having a chat part on this thing because no matter what people post theres always people like you lot who just comment stuff to make everyone feel bad about what there doing trying too make them fail because your unhappy with yourself. If any of you even had a shred of knowledge or actaully even tried the diet before u throw ur words at me you would know the body can go a long time without food and my diet is safe.you all just believe what you read online or what you hear. @sijomial
By the way, how old are you really? This sounds like the rant of a young teenager.1 -
tiptoethruthetulips wrote: »xchloerebecca99x wrote: »Dont even see the point in having a chat part on this thing because no matter what people post theres always people like you lot who just comment stuff to make everyone feel bad about what there doing trying too make them fail because your unhappy with yourself. If any of you even had a shred of knowledge or actaully even tried the diet before u throw ur words at me you would know the body can go a long time without food and my diet is safe.you all just believe what you read online or what you hear. @sijomial
By the way, how old are you really? This sounds like the rant of a young teenager.
Yeah, the username made me suspicious as well1 -
Most of the 10lbs you have lost in the 4 days is water and having no (little) food in your digestive tract. Taking into account the above, you are losing to too fast.
Try upping your calories to 1300-1400 (or the amount MFP recommends). There will be a jump on the scale initially, just your water levels and digestive tract returning to normal, not a fat gain.
Try eating at that level for a while. If you are not happy losing at that calorie level talk to your doctor.
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I don't understand. So you realize that what you are doing is unhealthy with side effects that may be as severe as death but are doing it anyway, fine. But why have you made this thread in the first place? Aren't you starving yourself for the sole purpose of losing fast? Why are you asking if you are losing weight too fast then? That's either a troll move or you are looking for some pats on the back for your fast loss, which rest assured you won't get here.1
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xchloerebecca99x wrote: »Ive lost 10 pounds in 4 days. Ive checked my scales they are working the results are accurate. I was just wondering if this is good or should i not be losing such a large amount so fast
No 190 calories is correct @tiptoethruthetulips @DebSozo ive limited it because im trying too lose weight asap i know its bad so dont give me a lecture please
I don't even know what's going on anymore!
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Dangerous! You need to understand the consequences of what you are doing to your body. In essence you are sabotaging any chance of weight loss that stays off long term. The initial weight loss is water. Eat real food, consume no less than 1200 calories a day, and be sensible!! Talk about insanity!0
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Why did you even ask this, if you know you're starving yourself? Um yes. Yes, you're losing too fast. Because you're starving yourself.
No one is going to support a bad, dangerous decision. You need to show some respect to your body, you only get one.0 -
Omg 190 calories! I have been in your shoes, but you'll get there! Don't limit yourself below 1200 you'll damage your metabolism plus other things! I've lost 2 stone over past two years I am now 8stone 7 and I'm 5ft5. Add me, I'll give you tips. You can do it, but do it safely! X1
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