I’m stumped at 145lbs. Please help.

BarbaraHelen2013

I’m noticing that you’ve mentioned a couple of times that you don’t track any fruits or vegetables other than potatoes. In order to get a more accurate picture of where you are it might be a plan to start tracking them for a while and see where your intake actually is. If you’re aiming at 1200 but not tracking fruit and veg it’s possible you’re eating closer to the 1500 mark anyway.

How much difference this might make depends on how much fruit, which fruit, how many vegetables and what veg you’re eating, obviously. Fruit, in particular, can be more calorific than your instinct might tell you.

In light of your history I’m not going to comment on the level you need to be eating at, others have already done so, anyway. I’m just wondering if getting more accurate numbers to work on you can find your way through your situation.

sugaraddict4321

Coffee_addict22 wrote: »

Hannahwalksfar wrote: »

Firstly, are you weighing your food? Secondly are you doing a lot of exercise that could account for fluid retention? Secondly are you near your cycle?

I am!! The only thing I don’t weigh is fruits and veggies other than potatoes. I do a lot of walking and running but it’s hot where I live still. I’m not sure. I just had a miscarriage 3 weeks ago.

I'm really sorry to hear about your miscarriage. Please focus on getting help dealing with the physical and mental stuff that goes with such a traumatic event. Your perception of your body is going to be different right now, because it's been going through changes related to pregnancy. It will take time for your body to shift back to some state of "normal". As a recovering anorexic, your idea of normal may not be the actual norm for a person of your height/weight/age.

You mention that you want hips smaller than 39", and that once they were 34". You also mention you've had a son. A hip measurement of 34" may not be physically possible for you any more. It's quite common for the pelvic area to expand during pregnancy - you're growing a human being after all - and the inner frame doesn't always contract back to where it was. It doesn't mean you're fat or you gained too much weight. Your actual frame may have changed. You can't control that, so you have to learn to change your perception of yourself and set realistic expectations of what you can do.

Sending you virtual hugs. Take care. :flowerforyou:

jayemes

Coffee_addict22 wrote: »

I was severely underweight (115 if not under that) so I know a lot of it was to do with me starving myself for so long. I was a teenager. And I didn’t know better. I didn’t know I had an eating disorder until I was out of it.

It's worrisome that you say 115 was severely under weight for you and yet you're trying to get to 125. That seems like it may not actually be a healthy weight for you.

etherealanwar

jayemes wrote: »

Coffee_addict22 wrote: »

I was severely underweight (115 if not under that) so I know a lot of it was to do with me starving myself for so long. I was a teenager. And I didn’t know better. I didn’t know I had an eating disorder until I was out of it.

It's worrisome that you say 115 was severely under weight for you and yet you're trying to get to 125. That seems like it may not actually be a healthy weight for you.

I thought she said she is 5'4" in which case 115 pounds is not "severely underweight". It is a bmi of 19.7.

Fuzzipeg

I'm deeply sorry you suffered a miscarriage recently. Its something which leaves such a large hole which is hard to fill. I came across some interesting listening from a UK programme. There was nothing you could have done differently to have prevented it. I hope you feel well enough to invite the little one again one day. Dieting too hard when you are recovering is not going to help, it will probably hinder your recuperation. I agree with those who say to return to maintenance for a while, I'm sure your family will support you. They want you well and achieving in other ways for now.

I wonder if you had started gaining because of your intended second pregnancy and the weight was a natural consequence of having started a little person, I know even at three months a little one in itself weighs little but the surrounding changes do carry weight implications more for some than others. So yes, you were/are a little heavier now, possibly until your hormones, which can take a year to settled back, naturally resolves from this very, very sad situation.

The one thing which sticks in my mind when I had my daughter so many years ago, was My hips were never the same again, I'd become a woman not the young girl I'd been. Its a very sad fact that, a first pregnancy changes the way our body was called on to work and hip widening can be a consequence of carrying.

Please take extra special care of yourself. Wishing you All the Very Best for your future.

jayemes

etherealanwar wrote: »

jayemes wrote: »

Coffee_addict22 wrote: »

I was severely underweight (115 if not under that) so I know a lot of it was to do with me starving myself for so long. I was a teenager. And I didn’t know better. I didn’t know I had an eating disorder until I was out of it.

It's worrisome that you say 115 was severely under weight for you and yet you're trying to get to 125. That seems like it may not actually be a healthy weight for you.

I thought she said she is 5'4" in which case 115 pounds is not "severely underweight". It is a bmi of 19.7.

"I" didn't say she was severely underweight, she did. I figured maybe she typed her height wrong.

tracybear86

Mexicangreensalsa wrote: »

If you were 115 you were not anorexic. You have to have a BMI below 17 to be diagnosed. I wouldn't worry since you were not that underweight unless you have a treatment team that says you have reason to worry. Being 115 at 5'4 for a few years is completely healthy so the only damage would have came from undereating which anyone can have.

She could have been diagnosed with Atypical Anorexia. It is dangerous to assume that just because someone does not look sick, they are fine.
DSM-V definition of Atypical anorexia nervosa: an eating disorder wherein “all of the criteria for AN are met, except that despite significant weight loss, the individual’s weight is within or above the normal range.”

wmweeza

Coffee_addict22 wrote: »

I’m so frustrated. I’ve tracked my calories(1200) for the last 3 weeks aside from a handful of meals I wasn’t able to count on. I walk/run everyday. I try to drink at least 90oz of water.

I currently weigh 145 which is more than when I started tracking, I only weighed 140 then. I have calorie tracked several times in the past. Never got under 138.

I’m a recovering anorexic. I was that way for 3 years. I think it damaged my body where it’s makes it impossible for me to lose weight. I’ve been eating normally for 5years. I’ve tried to get back down to 120ish for 4 years now. I did have a baby in there though.

Please don’t tell me I don’t need to lose weight. I know how I used to weigh!!! I honestly need help from someone to help me figure out why I can’t lose weight or even just inches. Someone has to have gone through something like this.

For me I started losing again when I added in 150 more calories. I too eat 1200 (because I use a wheelchair I am the very definition of "sedentary" and I'm short). When I added in those calories my 6 month plateau broke and I started losing again