how to loose 6kgs/1stone/14lbs

amyy902

i need to. and i really cant.

i havent ever had to loose weight, i have always had to gain because i suffered with an ED for a long time. i dont have a lot to loose, i wont be anywhere near the size i was when i was ill. i just dont really know how to do this...

im not sure if i have ruined my metabolism or something because as soon as i eat over 800calories i see gains. i just think a little advice from someone may help regaurding diet for this. i want to loose it as soon as possible, im good on the exercise frount as im a PT i just struggle to loose weight healthily because of the ED. i have been to the doctor and they just didnt want to know because im not overweight or underweight. i think they see it as vanity but its not - its confidence.

anyway, any help would be good.

Givemewings

What is an ED? What are your stats at the moment?

amyy902

Eating disorder.

my bmi at currrent is: 21.63

my bmi after 6kgs would be: 19.2.

both are within the healthy range.

Pebble321

I'm not an expert by any means.... but my thoughts are that you should certainly be eating more than 800 cals a day and that you might need to rethink your goals.
If your long term goal is purely about losing weight, that might be a bit worrying with your history of ED.

A better goal might be to work on eating a healthy amount every day. I don't know what that is, but I'm pretty sure that 800 is NOT healthy for the long term. Put the scales away for a while and accept that your body needs to heal from the trauma you've subjected it to. It sounds as though you have done a great job to move on from your ED, now you need to focus on getting healthy and not being focused on the scales.

Can you see a dietician who might help you work out what would be the right amount for you to eat?
And in the meantime, check out this post, it makes a lot of sense to me:
http://www.myfitnesspal.com/topics/show/3047-700-calories-a-day-and-not-losing

Good luck.

shakybabe

what is your actual weight and height? ..how far off the underweight category are you?

A stone is quite a bit to lose and form your profile pic, it might show in your face if you went down by another stone.

Are you sure this is not the ED part of you telling you need to be a stone lighter?

If you are only on 800 cals and going to work and exercising your body has probably slowed your metabolism down to a screeching halt! ..you'll have to eat more for a while to tell your body its no longer short on food, eventually it will stop storing everything and you would start to lose any weight you put back on.

As you work and exercise you won't put that much back on just by eating more... maybe just try eating 1200 without the exercise (so you don't have to eat the exercise calories back) and go from there.

douglasmobbs

a change in your average calories per day will give you a change in weight as things like sodium levels change.

But from what you are saying, I take it you are usually under 800 calories per day and not losing.

If this is the case I think that you would benefit from face to face medical assistance rather than the general un-tailored advice that you will get on forums.

bridgie101

You are going to have to trust some science here - and not let your fears get you.

Firstly: when you have food in your gut, you weigh more. You have not put on fat, however - you just have food in your tummy.

The moment you eat more than 800cal a day you put food into your gut. Three days worth of food is going to equal up to six pounds. This won't be fat, this will simply be food. Okay?

Now, to the science bit.

Weigh yourself. Then go online and find out what it takes to maintain that weight. This will be worked out based upon physics. It takes x amount of joules to move an object of y mass z metres. Right? It takes a number of joules to make a heart muscle pump 7 pints of blood b number of millimetres per second.

These are all physics. They are not mumbo jumbo, they do not respond to the phases of the moon or the crystals being worn at the time (sorry, sly dig at some people I know, entertaining only myself) but the point is: This has to be true unless your mother made it with an alien, and your body is put together in some special way differently from everyone else's.

Okay. Now that you've found out what your maintenance level is, you reduce that by at most 500 cal a day. This will give you a net loss of 1lb a week, and when you're fighting to go down to the bottom of the 'healty' range for bmi, that's more than you can expect to lose really. I would expect to lose 1/2lb a week, reducing down from maintenance 250 cals a day.

But what I would most advise is for you to maintain. To sit on maintenance for a month or two, weigh yourself once a week and see if, after that initial food in the stomach addition, you go up, go down, stay the same.

Find out the exact quantity of calories it takes you to maintain an even keel without bingeing, without losing the plot at work, without being too tired to do what you have to do, without finding yourself crying in corners for no reason.

And once you know that for a fact, any time you wish to lose weight you can just lower your daily calorie count by 500 and get rid of it lickety split.

I just don't think you're ready to lose weight, because you're still operating on 800 cals a day, and your body goes into total famine mode on that, refuses to create muscles, you just live a stick figure life and don't know what you're missing out on energy wise.

Do these things one at a time. Start with a normal maintenance quantity of food. ignore the first few kilos that land terrifyingly - they are just food in your gut. And proceed from there.

Givemewings

It's very difficult to answer this post, because I don't want to offend you. I'm not particularly qualified to answer you question so feel free to ignore me , but....if you are eating 800 cals and less this is not enough for your body, particularly if you are exercising regularly. You need to be eating 1200 cals , or more if you are exercising . If you have this BMI, you really don't physically need to lose the weight. It is more likely an emotional thing....as you say you lack confidence. If you keep putting weight on when you eat more than 800 cals, that's probably because your body needs to. Why do you need to lose more weight? Is there anything else you could do to help you gain confidence?The doctors don't take you seriously because you probably don't need to lose the weight. I know you will probably not like my answer. I'm sorry about that.

madamepsychosis

You're already at a healthy weight for your height and while you still would be if you lost a stone, you would be much closer to the underweight range. From your profile picture, you don't look like you have much to lose! Are you sure this is not your ED telling you you need to lose weight?

There's no way you'd be gaining fat from eating under 800 calories a day and by continuing to eat such a little amount, you are doing damage to your body long-term. You've suffered with an eating disorder, you have been sick. Your body needs time to heal after being sick and - what with eating so little - you aren't letting it.

I would suggest working out your maintenance levels the way bridgie101 suggested and sticking to them for a while. It might seem like a huge amount to eat, but try your best and don't worry if you see an increase on the scale (in fact, I would say stop weighing yourself). It's water weight, not 'real' weight. Maybe later down the line, when you are truly better, you can think about losing weight the healthy way, but right now it seems like you're still in an anorexic/bulimic mindset and your body really hasn't had time to recover from what it's been put through. You are genuinely an absolutely gorgeous girl and I would hate to see you hurt yourself for the sake of a few extra pounds.

Lolli1986

For the record, I totally understand wanting to be toward the bottom of the healthy bmi and I don't think there is anything wrong with that. I have lots of cellulite at bmi 21, and very little at bmi 19. If I can have lots of cellulite, or very little cellulite, i will choose very little every time, as long as i can do it happily and healthily!

I wonder if you can see a dietician without going to a doctor first... the last 5kg is hard to lose as it is, but with a previous ED I don't know what needs to happen for the normal rules to apply - all i know is that we gotta find a way to get the normal rules working for you again!

Do you take your measurements other than weight? Could it be possible that you are getting stronger and that is where some of the gains that you see are coming from?

amyy902

thankyou everyone. no im pretty much recovered. the goal we talked about originally with my ED clinic was 6 kgs less than i am now, thats all. i had anorexia develop at age 6. i know i cant go back to that, and i never do. i think the person who said to change my goal is better, im going to take an approach of healthy eating ( i have been trying to hit 1000 calories a day sometimes i manage) and exercise. and eventually something will change, i just need help to do it healthily, and my dr said, yep you can loose weight you just eat more than you burn i was like yeah im already doing that i run 10k everyday and its not working. but i think possibly after reading a few clincal studies that it may be that i need to be more consistant in my 're -feeding' so to speak because its confusing my body, where its going oh i got food to day thats good i'll hang on to it just in case, and then the next day its like hello why are you not feeding me? because the food i tend to eat is calorie dense just not enough of it.

BUT THANKYOU ALL SO MUCH, i really do take on board what you guys say because although im a personal trainer and can help others do this, for myself it is hard.

fraser112

if your running 10k a day and eating that little your gona kill yourself.

under eating and excessive exercise are signs your still suffering from your ed.

thinking in terms of less weight = happier sure as hell wont help you either

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