WILL I GAIN WEIGHT?PLEASE HELP?

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  • LeenaJean
    LeenaJean Posts: 276 Member
    if you're eating more than you expect, your body is probably smarter than you as you need more calories than you're currently eating.

    Very true.
  • gcdn
    gcdn Posts: 42
    Okay okay guys take a chill pill.I am RECOVERING from an eating disorder SLOWLY by increasing my calorie intake SLOWLY because I don't want to shock my body with a huge amount of food at a time.Basically I'm at 800 cal per day now and I'm increasing it to 900-1000 in the next two weeks or so.Please don't look at the older posts because I do realise I have an eating disorder.Honestly,I would REALLY RATHER eat 200 cal worth of avocados than 200cal worth of crackers.Im just having a hard time accepting the fact that I ate so much of unhealthy food at once.Sigh.

    At least you realize you have an eating disorder. That's the first step to fixing it. Any disorder/ obsession is a continual battle to overcome. Professional assistance is just another weapon in the battle for you to utilize. There are very few people that fix their addictions/ disorders on their own. My advice is right there with the majority of replies.... see somebody but you might also want to add a nutritionist. Not that you don't eat healthy already, but to help you understand food isn't your enemy (even the food you deem as bad). The experts can correct me if I am wrong, but too thin is just as damaging at too heavy. The health issues are just in a different category especially for young women.

    And in response to your OP: No worries, you won't gain weight with the occasional extra items you mentioned. I know with any type of disorder the little things can be huge, but in the situation you described there in no way you would gain an ounce. Now, if you said you went crazy with a couple thousand extra calories we might agree that you might gain an ounce or two.

    Remember: Remember to strive for "Fit". Is the best look/ lifestyle for all of us, no matter if we start our journey over or under weight.

    Best of luck to you and please keep us posted with your battle :wink:

    Wow you're actually the ONLY ONE on myfitnesspal not reprimanding me and giving advices in a subtle way.Anyway,I'll be moving back to my parents' place in less than two months after I'm done with my a levels,and that leaves me 3 months with them before I start uni which also means 3 months not counting calories and lesser obsession over food I guess.Idk I tend to feel more relaxed and eat more when I'm at home plus it's impossible to count calories in my mom's cooking.So I guess it'll all be better when I'm back home?
  • devyldergisela
    devyldergisela Posts: 2
    hey you can eat as long you are not going over the calories you can have , but it is dangeres to eat les than that for a long time !!!!
    So pleace eat the amount that yoy NEED
  • devyldergisela
    devyldergisela Posts: 2
    JUST READING YOUR POST ? GOOD FOR YOU THAT YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT ;
  • mspianobug
    mspianobug Posts: 3 Member
    Take it easy, you are doing great.
  • shirerose
    shirerose Posts: 116 Member
    oh. i thought this was a joke.
  • CaitlinW19
    CaitlinW19 Posts: 431 Member
    Hi OP. I'm sorry to hear you've been struggling with an ED. I do hope you continue to seek the help you need to fully recover. That help can't come from here. With that in mind, questions like this one that you posted are probably thoughts to discuss with professionals that are helping you get better as I'm sure they know better how to answer in a way you'll connect with and ultimately understand.

    I"ll try my best to set your mind at ease by saying, no you will not gain weight from what you ate. It was actually a very reasonable snack. You'll have to get use to that idea.

    Keep this in mind...does one healthy meal or one workout make you lose weight? It does not. The same goes for gaining weight. No one meal or lack of a workout will have an effect on your weight. It's all the meals you eat and all the workouts you have combine that cause that kind of change.

    I do hope you continue to work on your relationship with food and come to a healthy place about it. In the future, you might also want to start out your posts by getting the recovering ED part out of the way so people do know it's something you are actively working on. You do have a skewed relationship with food and if you don't want to get that response from others in reply to your questions, you should probably just put it out there right away as an acknowledged problem. Best of luck OP.
  • MKEgal
    MKEgal Posts: 3,250 Member
    It looks like most of your posts, and all the threads you've started, are asking if you're eating too much,
    and people keep telling you no, you're not eating enough.
    Holy crap I feel so guilty right now. I started off the day healthily, steel cut oatmeal (water + blackberries) (170kcal).an apple, some boiled red beans and plain greek yogurt for lunch (220kcal).
    And after lunch was when the culprit began luring me into eating unhealthily. I ate a packet (6 pieces) of jacobs high calcium (81kcal), a mini sunmaid raisin (42kcal) AND 8 nabisco reduced fat wheat thins (64kcal) all while reading a book.
    My god I tend to have better control of myself at night when I don't snack but I usually snack the most during the day.
    I felt so guilty I only had 2 boiled egg whites and some sugar snap peas for dinner and that's it. I feel so guilty will I gain weight?? I really don't want to gain back the weight I've lost, plus I don't usually have crackers but when I do, I can't stop. God I think I'm gonna throw them all away for good.
    That's definitely the disordered & unhealthy brain talking.
    You know better.
    Go back to seeing your therapist as often as you can. Daily, 3x a week, whatever.
    You are endangering your health & life.

    What you've listed calorie totals for is 577 for breakfast, lunch, & a snack. Add _maybe_ 100 for dinner, probably not even that much, and you're close to what you should have had just for breakfast.

    I don't know what the "jacobs high calcium" is, but a tiny box of raisins & 8 wheat thins is not unhealthy, not a binge, and actually is close to a reasonable snack (200 - 300 cal). If you'd had a piece of cheese with all that it would have been perfect.

    I'm 5'6 And in the past few months, weighing 55-56kg I've embarked on a grueling workout regime and strict diet and finally got down to 48kg. I'm really happy and satisfied with all my efforts and my weight now and my weight has even dropped to 46-47kg.
    So you used to be at a low-healthy weight (121) but you're now dangerously underweight at 103... and still worried about gaining weight, obsessing over every calorie.
    Yes, you definitely need to get back in touch with your therapist, because you're backsliding.
    Call today, before you harm yourself any more.
    05JUL14 I'm 18,110lbs and 5"6
    According to BMI, a healthy weight range for your height is 115 - 150.
    http://www.shapeup.org/bmi/bmi6.pdf
    The middle of that range is 132.

    Harvard Medical School says that to maintain a particular weight while being moderately active (30 min of exercise a day) you need 15 cal per lb.
    132 x 15 = 1980 cal per day
    Heck, start with a target of maintaining at least the minimum healthy weight: 115 x 15 = 1725 cal per day

    15JUL14 I think I'll most prolly go back to eating around 700 cal tmr ...
    my only concern is that, for the days to come, if I go back to my usual calorie intake, will the weight I gain today go off?
    You should be having 700 cal just for breakfast.
    And no, you're not going to gain or lose an appreciable amount of weight in one day.

    06JUL14 each meal makes me very full. It's so hard to meet my calorie goal
    Add: nuts, nut butter, full-fat dairy, cheese, avocado, fatty fish like salmon
  • reachingforarainbow
    reachingforarainbow Posts: 224 Member
    Hello OP

    I think you need to understand what your priorities are here, are you trying to recover or are you trying to maintain your weight.

    TBH, there is a definite possibility that you will gain a bit in recovery INITIALLY

    But if you are at a healthy weight, I do not see any reason why once you start eating properly for a while, your weight will reach an equilibrium.

    I do understand trying to recover on your own. I have been trying for around 8 years.... a bit long. It is possible (but takes longer, and I'm still not 100% recovered), but you do need someone to keep you accountable (like a parent, even if your 18, they are a big help and will watch out to make sure that you aren't slipping too much, or a sibling or a friend) I also would advise seeing a doctor, even if you don't want treatment. They can test for deficiencies and keep an eye on your health (things like problems with your heart, electrolyte levels) which can get out of whack when you finally start eating more or if you continue on the path of restricting.
  • MKEgal
    MKEgal Posts: 3,250 Member
    under eating is more likely to make you put weight on that you would if you went over yor calories
    ... If you continue to under eat daily, your body will start to store more fat as a reserve
    No. Just, no.
    Eating fewer calories than you need will cause you to lose weight.
    The body first uses glucose (blood sugar) to fuel the chemical reactions which make us run,
    then glycogen (stored carbohydrates),
    then fat,
    then protein.
    It saves protein for last because we need our heart & diaphragm in order to live, and the rest of our muscles to get away from danger, into shelter, & find food. _That_ is starvation mode, and it's hard to get the body to do because it's life-threatening.

    She has been eating so few calories for so long that she's probably running on what few calories she eats (converted to glucose) and on muscle.
    The body will not store calories while it is starving. Fat is stored calories.
    I'm betting her periods have stopped too. That's common when there's not enough fat in the body to support a viable pregnancy.

    I'm surprised your not ill eating that little amount of food each day when you consider your age.
    Anyone over maybe 3 yo should be eating more than 800 cal per day.
    (Well, anyone of average height... someone who's short enough that 80 lb is a reasonable & healthy weight would be fine.)

    your body is already being shocked because it is being underfed, malnourished, and possibly metabolizing muscle
    Yes, this.

    you're actually the ONLY ONE on myfitnesspal not reprimanding me and giving advices in a subtle way
    Most of us aren't being subtle at all, we're trying to slap you in the face & get you to understand that you're endangering your life and you need to see your doctor, and preferably also a therapist who specializes in eating disorders.
    And we're not reprimanding you, we're concerned & alarmed and trying to convey that to convince you to change what you're doing to yourself.
  • Jdigs88
    Jdigs88 Posts: 71 Member
    Okay okay guys take a chill pill.I am RECOVERING from an eating disorder SLOWLY by increasing my calorie intake SLOWLY because I don't want to shock my body with a huge amount of food at a time.Basically I'm at 800 cal per day now and I'm increasing it to 900-1000 in the next two weeks or so.Please don't look at the older posts because I do realise I have an eating disorder.Honestly,I would REALLY RATHER eat 200 cal worth of avocados than 200cal worth of crackers.Im just having a hard time accepting the fact that I ate so much of unhealthy food at once.Sigh.

    Your OP reports eating 577 calories and you were panicked about it. You had more than enough room even within your slowly eating more budget, and you couldn't do it. Clearly, you aren't OK yet with 800 calories. <-- That's why we're all saying talk to a professional. There are people trained to help you address food panic and caloric intake in healthy ways that work best for you given your medical, psychological, emotional, and environmental considerations. MFP is not the best place for that. Here, we aren't trained to help you in that way.

    *edited for a typo*
  • pander101
    pander101 Posts: 677 Member
    So your "older" posts are only from about a month ago. You should really talk to a therapist about about your concern about gaining weight. It would make things a lot easier. All your posts are obsessing with calories and asking if you are going to gain weight from this or that.
  • LeenaJean
    LeenaJean Posts: 276 Member
    So I just had an eye opening experience reading your previous posts. I have a feeling you like it when people tell you that you're starving yourself and love hearing about how little you are eating. Your posts are so obviously you getting your fix. "Did I eat too much" "Will I gain weight" "Had a cheat day" (ate like 500 calories TOTAL on your cheat day) "you guys are so mean" EVERYONE is telling you that you are not eating enough and you keep bring it up, keep asking over and over, then post a picture of your stomach as your profile pic. Everyone that I know of that had an ED kept it quiet and certainly did not create a profile so everyone could see that they have an ED. Your ED is not the only thing about you that is sick and need to get off this site ASAP because if you keep this *kitten* up, there wont be anyone else who will feel sorry for you and then you'll need to eat even less to get more comments about how you don't eat enough then you'll die. And I'm not sorry about this, you are using this site to get more attention for your ED, which is the EXACT opposite that it is intended for!
  • Kevalicious99
    Kevalicious99 Posts: 1,131 Member
    The OP is at the typical age for ED issues. And reading this .. I think we know the answer already.

    Time to do some talking.
  • _lyndseybrooke_
    _lyndseybrooke_ Posts: 2,561 Member
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  • kefryar
    kefryar Posts: 77 Member
    If you truly are that scared of eating, please go talk to someone before you get any worse. The longer this goes on, the harder it is to recover from. I've been there.
    You probably will gain weight in recovery, but your therapist is there to make sure that it's healthy-their goal is not to make you obese.
    Go talk to someone. Anorexia is not fun.
    Good luck.
  • CupcakeCrusoe
    CupcakeCrusoe Posts: 1,420 Member
    I would say that this is probably not the place for you right now. Try here:

    http://www.something-fishy.org/online/options.php

    It's an anorexia recovery forum. As everyone has said, please make your health a priority, the only way to do that is to work toward overcoming your obvious bad relationship with food. You have to eat more to fuel your body.

    Eat more. Talk to a professional. Get support.

    Please don't die. I am being very completely serious.
  • Eyesee
    Eyesee Posts: 111 Member
    So I just had an eye opening experience reading your previous posts. I have a feeling you like it when people tell you that you're starving yourself and love hearing about how little you are eating. Your posts are so obviously you getting your fix. "Did I eat too much" "Will I gain weight" "Had a cheat day" (ate like 500 calories TOTAL on your cheat day) "you guys are so mean" EVERYONE is telling you that you are not eating enough and you keep bring it up, keep asking over and over, then post a picture of your stomach as your profile pic. Everyone that I know of that had an ED kept it quiet and certainly did not create a profile so everyone could see that they have an ED. Your ED is not the only thing about you that is sick and need to get off this site ASAP because if you keep this *kitten* up, there wont be anyone else who will feel sorry for you and then you'll need to eat even less to get more comments about how you don't eat enough then you'll die. And I'm not sorry about this, you are using this site to get more attention for your ED, which is the EXACT opposite that it is intended for!

    THIS. 100x, this.
  • rosnz
    rosnz Posts: 91 Member
    Yes I agree. People on here are giving you good concerned advice. You start a post header screaming in capitals and when you don't like what people write you say 'take a chill pill' Not only to you have an eating disorder and are attention seeking you are also rude and resistant to help. All issues that can be sorted but you need professional help. Hop off these boards where kind people are trying to assist and you are ignoring them and go to a specialised facility.
  • MityMax96
    MityMax96 Posts: 5,778 Member
    Holy crap I feel so guilty right now.I started off the day healthily,steel cut oatmeal (water + blackberries) (170kcal).an apple,some boiled red beans and plain greek yogurt for lunch (220kcal).And after lunch was when the culprit began luring me into eating unhealthily.I ate a packet (6 pieces) of jacobs high calcium (81kcal),a mini sunmaid raisin (42kcal) AND 8 nabisco reduced fat wheat thins (64kcal) all while reading a book.My god I tend to have better control of myself at night when I don't snack but I usually snack the most during the day.I felt so guilty I only had 2 boiled egg whites and some sugar snap peas for dinner and that's it. I feel so guilty will I gain weight??I really don't want to gain back the weight I've lost,plus I don't usually have crackers but when I do,I can't stop.God I think I'm gonna throw them all away for good.

    :huh: :huh: :huh: :huh:

    hmmm.....alrighty then.....
    Plz put down the back of nabiscos and walk slowly away
  • release_the_kraken
    release_the_kraken Posts: 304 Member
    Trolls have it so easy on this site....
  • BevRodriguez52
    BevRodriguez52 Posts: 13
    The yogurt at lunch may have been your downfall. Many people don't realize some kinds are loaded with as many as 24 gm of carbohydrates. You many need to read the labels and limit the carbs at each meal. I try to keep my carbs at 25% protein at 45% and fat at 30%. The mobile app is wonderful for keeping track of this. Don't get too frustrated, just realize there are going to be bad days and tomorrow is a new day.

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