Maintaining After Very Low Calorie Diet

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  • casy84
    casy84 Posts: 290 Member
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    Wow, judging others because of their looks. I'm glad women are empowering women on here. I asked to hear others experiences. If you want to tell others how they should look, go find someone who asks.

    I agree. It's fine to judge a skinny woman and tell her to go eat a burger, but you can never tell a fat one to go eat a salad. I'm sick of people on this forum telling others to go have their heads checked just based on how they look.
    I was at ~1200 for many months and upped my cals very slowly. This worked just fine. As soon as I saw a drop in weight I just added 100 more and so on...
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
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    You messed yourself up hormonally from that diet. Usually you add cals back in slowly. 300 a day is way too fast. You should also probably see a dietitian,

    From her current intake (800-850 a day NOW), one can assume she was only eating about 500 a day. In this case, adding 300 calories a day is probably not too fast considering if she added slowly she'd only be eating 600 for awhile, then 700 for a while. Still scary low amounts.
  • wassergottin
    wassergottin Posts: 154 Member
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    Most people I know who have done VLCD (and I am currently trying one out) add about 50 kcal every two weeks. It's also the average recommendation for refeeding sufferers of ED's who are dangerously underweight. (and were eating less than 300 kcal per day)

    The key is to make sure you don't jump your intake too quickly and that you monitor your weight as you increase.

    (PS - I think you're gorgeous and don't need to gain weight if you don't want to!)
  • saraheubanks06
    saraheubanks06 Posts: 10
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    Thanks, Wassergottin!
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    Alex Posts: 10,149 MFP Staff
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