need advice: overeating

mymtkgch

hey guys! i’ve been using myfitnesspal (tracking my calories) for a month now. and i have serious questions that i want to be answered

well, before i didn’t track my calories but did exercise almost everyday and didn’t see the scale budge but i was confident that i was losing some weight cause my clothes were starting to fit me again.

however, my friend told me that i was “fat” and questioned my diet and exercise routine. and so i have decided to track my calories and reduced it to 1,200/day.

i’m 24 - F - 105 lbs and 164 cm
i exercise 5 days a week but i got off track since monday and i started overeating.

i overeat then exercise and reduce my calories the next day and then overeat again on the next day. in total, i have overeaten for 3 non consecutive days now and exercised with calorie tracking for 3 non consecutive days as well.

any useful advice???
i will surely appreciate anything!

thanks you. xoxo

springlering62

If you are truly 105 pounds and 5’5” and you have friends who call you fat, you need new friends.

In fact, I would vote for a new friend, period.

You need to confirm these numbers before posters start piling on because this is in severely underweight territory.

cmriverside

Your BMI is 18.6.

https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/lose_wt/BMI/bmicalc.htm

That is at the very bottom of a healthy weight.

You should not lose any more weight.


eat.

cmriverside

@springlering62, by my calcluations (errr...Google) 164cm is 5'3"

mymtkgch

i am feeling really demotivated right now and guilty abt my binges:(

any advise on how i can eat more but get leaner???

thank you for all your responses!❤️

cmriverside

mtkgch08 wrote: »

i am feeling really demotivated right now and guilty abt my binges:(

any advise on how i can eat more but get leaner???

thank you for all your responses!❤️

If you think (at 18 BMI) that you need to get leaner, your problem is psychiatric. Please make an appointment with a therapist who specializes in Eating Disorders.

zebasschick

mtkgch08 wrote: »

i am feeling really demotivated right now and guilty abt my binges:(

any advise on how i can eat more but get leaner???

thank you for all your responses!❤️

by leaner, do you mean firmer or smoother or maybe less belly and arm fat? weight/ resistance training. that's how.

but you shouldn't feel guilty about your binges as you're verging on being underweight. you probably should get counseling or therapy and some decent friends. anyone who tells a person who's almost underweight they need to lose weight is either a jerk or extremely messed up.

no one can look like a barbie doll, and most of the influencers on youtube admit that they have video and pics taken at angles and using lights that make them look thinner - they don't look like we see them. of course, models and actresses still shots are photoshopped - they don't look that way either. you can look this stuff up. it's bad because so many women want to look like those women, and those women don't even look that way in real life.

lynn_glenmont

cmriverside wrote: »

@springlering62, by my calcluations (errr...Google) 164cm is 5'3"

164 / 2.54 = 64.5669... = 5'4" 1/2 (rounds to 5'5". (and Google agrees with my arithmetic -- maybe you mistyped?)

lynn_glenmont

mtkgch08 wrote: »

i am feeling really demotivated right now and guilty abt my binges:(

any advise on how i can eat more but get leaner???

thank you for all your responses!❤️

Go back to what you were doing before (eating more but exercising and your clothes were fitting better). You absolutely do not need to lose weight. You need to lose a friend who is giving you advising that is extremely unhealthy.

cmriverside

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

cmriverside wrote: »

@springlering62, by my calcluations (errr...Google) 164cm is 5'3"

164 / 2.54 = 64.5669... = 5'4" 1/2 (rounds to 5'5". (and Google agrees with my arithmetic -- maybe you mistyped?)

cmriverside

Splitting hairs, that's what MFP is good at.

lynn_glenmont

cmriverside wrote: »

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

cmriverside wrote: »

@springlering62, by my calcluations (errr...Google) 164cm is 5'3"

164 / 2.54 = 64.5669... = 5'4" 1/2 (rounds to 5'5". (and Google agrees with my arithmetic -- maybe you mistyped?)

@cmriverside
That puzzled me for a moment, but then I realized 5.38058 feet is not 5.38058 inches.

.38058 x 12 inches (one foot) is 4.56696 inches

cmriverside

I AM NOT GOOD AT MATHS!

Thanks lynn

cmriverside

The advice stands, the BMI at 5'5" is 18, the BMI at 5'3" is 18.6.


Back on track now.

AnnPT77

Oh, dear woman, please, please do not lose weight. You aren't fat.

If you are truly 105 pounds (47.63kg) and 164cm (5'4.67"), your BMI is 17.7: Underweight. Anything below 18.5 is underweight, so you are quite underweight. This is not a healthy place to be.

If you want to pursue appearance goals, then exercise alongside slowly gaining weight would almost certainly be your best and most healthful plan.

Others above are correct, though, that the priority now would be to consult a counselor about how you're thinking about this, because it's not a productive thought pattern. And you should drop the toxic friend, truly. EIther her views are distorted, or she does not have your best interests at heart.

You are "overeating" because your body needs nourishment and calories. In that context, it's not overeating at all, though of course a well-rounded healthy way of eating at appropriate calories would be the best plan. A registered dietitian would be a good person to consult about that.

Please.

lynn_glenmont

cmriverside wrote: »

The advice stands, the BMI at 5'5" is 18, the BMI at 5'3" is 18.6.


Back on track now.

@cmriverside
I calculated it by hand and using a BMI calculator from the National Institutes of Health, using 5'4.46" [corrected from 5'5.46 in original, which was typo, not what I actually used for the calculations] and both ways I'm getting 17.7 BMI for the OP. Maybe you're still using fractions of a foot where you should be using inches (or vice versa) to calculate BMI.

I'm 5'4" myself, and I know from using BMI calculators and charts for myself that 105 lbs would definitely be underweight for me, not merely low end of BMI normal.

[edited to fix typo in the numbers and add @ ]

AnnPT77

lynn_glenmont wrote: »

cmriverside wrote: »

The advice stands, the BMI at 5'5" is 18, the BMI at 5'3" is 18.6.


Back on track now.

@cmriverside
I calculated it by hand and using a BMI calculator from the National Institutes of Health, using 5'4.46" [corrected from 5'5.46 in original, which was typo, not what I actually used for the calculations] and both ways I'm getting 17.7 BMI for the OP. Maybe you're still using fractions of a foot where you should be using inches (or vice versa) to calculate BMI.

I'm 5'4" myself, and I know from using BMI calculators and charts for myself that 105 lbs would definitely be underweight for me, not merely low end of BMI normal.

[edited to fix typo in the numbers and add @ ]

Also from personal experience, as a 5'5" person, the lowest normal BMI is at 111 pounds. I even checked an Asian BMI site, in case OP is Asian. 17.7 is underweight, either way.

PAV8888

Your BMI is at 17.7 and you are currently underweight by classification.

If friend said that you're fat... that friend needs to be removed from your life because they are not a friend.

All that can be said... has been...

Your body is reacting normally, as it should, to get you out of the under-weight territory you're at.

I fervently hope you discover, and quickly, that being normal weight is not being fat and that you stop trying to get your body to balance at an under-fat level.

Your current mind-set has you heading towards kitten-loads of future misery.

Now's the time to move towards a healthier you. And healthy in your case is not a reference to losing weight or fat but rather towards losing your current goals and advisors.

ninerbuff

You're UNDERWEIGHT. If you feel you're fat, then there's more likely an issue with body dysmorphia. And a friend saying it? What are they 164cm and 90lbs?

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StevefromMichigan

Not to pile on, but you definitely should not lose any more weight. There are real health risks associated with doing so.

If you are not happy with your body composition, then you should consider sculpting your body to achieve your goals. Perhaps begin a strength training program to firm up a bit. You can reduce body fat without having to reduce overall weight.

Diatonic12

We can learn to moderate ourselves with food. I like that word moderator because I am a moderator of my foods. I don't want to dogpile, just listen to @ninerbuff. He is a Moderator on MFP. For real.