Please help!!!!

danicarenee

Hello, I will give you a lil bit of background info on me first.I am 5'4, 31yrs old, mother of 2. I was down to a very low weight 110lbs about a year ago, exercising 5 x a week doing elliptical and weights. My diet was crazy clean and I was becoming obsessed with losing weight and getting thin, I was definetly well on my way to an eating disorder. I had crazy emotional stress as well and very high anxiety. My doctor told me to take a break and that I gain weight. So I took a break off of exercise for the summer (3-4mons), during this time I relaxed when it came to my diet, I was up to 116 pounds at the beginning of sept. I started exercising again, and kept a pretty clean diet of around 1200 calories on most days. I weighed myself this morning and am 123pounds. My goal is to be around 115 pounds this is when I feel my best, I like to be lean, and have accepted the fact that I don't look healthy at 110lbs. I am just really struggling to lose. Am I not eating enough? I am a busy body all day, elliptical 3x a week, and now I am adding weights. Help what should I do?????

LoosingMyLast15

perhaps you're not eating enough - your calorie goal each day is in the 1400 range but you're not eating that. i'm not an expert but it's a common response from many on here. have you spoke to your doctor about loosing the 8 pounds you want to loose? keep in mind you're not going to drop 8 pounds overnight. it could take months for you to loose that small amount of weight. good luck to you.

now_or_never13

Eat more... 1200 is not nearly enough.

5lbs won't make much of a difference in how you look if you didn't like how you looked at 110lb.

Maybe instead of focusing on the scale eat at maintance, lay off the cardio for a while and lift heavy weights. Build some muslce to look better.

Firefox7275

Hello, I will give you a lil bit of background info on me first.I am 5'4, 31yrs old, mother of 2. I was down to a very low weight 110lbs about a year ago, exercising 5 x a week doing elliptical and weights. My diet was crazy clean and I was becoming obsessed with losing weight and getting thin, I was definetly well on my way to an eating disorder. I had crazy emotional stress as well and very high anxiety. My doctor told me to take a break and that I gain weight. So I took a break off of exercise for the summer (3-4mons), during this time I relaxed when it came to my diet, I was up to 116 pounds at the beginning of sept. I started exercising again, and kept a pretty clean diet of around 1200 calories on most days. I weighed myself this morning and am 123pounds. My goal is to be around 115 pounds this is when I feel my best, I like to be lean, and have accepted the fact that I don't look healthy at 110lbs. I am just really struggling to lose. Am I not eating enough? I am a busy body all day, elliptical 3x a week, and now I am adding weights. Help what should I do?????

Crazy clean or plain restrictive? Clean eating is not about starving or depriving your body, in fact it's about supplying your body with all the macro and micro nutrients it needs for optimum health and more besides. Sorry I think you have completely misunderstood the concept and are fooling yourself. There are many forms of disordered eating and related conditions, it is possible to have one and be a healthy weight - orthorexia, exercise addiction, overtraining syndrome etc. You should not be netting under your basal metabolic rate.

If you are exercising regularly and suffer/ at risk of stress both these substantially increase your body's nutrient needs - it's likely not just calories you are not getting enough of but essential fatty acids, antioxidants, minerals and vitamins in their bioavailable form. Instead of obsessively counting calories start counting servings of different food groups. Have your nine DIFFERENT servings of low sugar fruits and non starchy vegetables in the full rainbow of colours, three servings of reduced fat dairy, oily fish regularly ideally daily, protein and healthy fats at every meal and snack, plenty of fibre and mineral rich foods (nuts, seeds, beans, lentils), in general a wide variety of different foods.

You seem to be having a ton of coffee which is not great for stress nor sleep quality and recovery, are eating the same foods/ meals more than once a day which is fairly standard in disordered eating. Chicken and turkey breast, egg whites, iceberg lettuce, apples, bananas and celery are not very nutritious at all - switch to oily fish and dark/ bright coloured produce and have nine different ones not the same five repeating, don't just have almonds have pumpkin seeds and a variety of other nuts/ seeds for the full complement of minerals, have a wholefood you can actually digest to get nutrients from not fake noodles.

That is not the diary of someone who is eating clean, it is the diary of someone choosing foods based on their calorie count and fat content not their nutrient content and someone who is consistently undereating on calories. Why oat bran and not steel cut oats or ground flax or ground chia? Why egg whites and not whole omega eggs with the micronutrients in the yolk? Why so many shirataki noodles? If you can't change to a more nutritious varied diet please seek medical help again.

Greenrun99

5'4 and 115lbs.. ya you need to eat. Figure out your TDEE and eat that, you don't need to lose weight.. You may need to start strength training instead of cardio to get the body you want in a healthy manner.