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Having a hard time eating

niko1999
niko1999 Posts: 2 Member
edited January 6 in Health and Weight Loss
Long story short I struggled with anorexia and bulimia in my late teens and early 20s. Since then, I am the queen of weight fluctuations. I did WW for a while, found it wasn't really working (it did at first, and then I gained weight back after about 4 months and 10 lbs lost). So I decided to try this again. But here is the problem with counting calories for me. I LIKE seeing a huge deficit, and I know it's not healthy. I LIKE seeing that I still have 500 calories left on some days to eat (BTW I do ballet up to 3 days a week and gymnastics 4 times a week, so it's not hard to get a deficit). I want to learn how to eat PROPERLY, because I have no doubt that my body is a little bit more messed up than someone who didn't try to starve themselves to nothingness. And even though I'm having these deficits, I am not losing weight like I would like, which leads me to not want to eat ect ect. So, any suggestions? Because I have no idea how to do this the healthy way!

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  • DanaDark
    DanaDark Posts: 2,187 Member
    Set your goal to maintain then. Thus, when it says you still have 500 left, you actually have the normal 500 deficit for the 1 pound a week goal.
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