Weighing and amount

Can you use cups?

Makes me question why your mum would have done that, unless she is vey concerned about your health or lack of eating? Would she be justified?

Why did your mum hide the scales? I had to do it for my daughter who is a relapsing anorexic/bullimic. Do you have any issues your mum might be worried about?

Donna

Makes me question why your mum would have done that, unless she is vey concerned about your health or lack of eating? Would she be justified?

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Hey, my mum has hidden the scales to weigh the food etc etc and I need to know how else to determine how much I am having per serving of porridge/cereal/nuts/seeds/milk etc etc
please help

you could use these they come in all shapes and forms

Makes me question why your mum would have done that, unless she is vey concerned about your health or lack of eating? Would she be justified?

I've just looked at your diary and having 500-700 cals a day is not enough. Sorry to be rude but I think she has hidden them for a reason.

This was my reaction. I rarely, if ever, comment on someone's food choices or even their intake, but your diary is an absolute disaster -- hopefully, you're just not logging stuff properly. Otherwise, at best, you're going to end up "skinny fat," with a terrible body composition, and your metabolism is going to be downregulated, in a very harmful way. For someone who is in university, you ought to be much, much smarter.

Research shows that if you want to lose fat while keeping your muscle, you need to eat around 1.7 grams of protein per kilogram of bodyweight; so, if a person weighs 64 kg, they should eat 64 x 1.7 = 108 grams of protein. Likewise, if a person wants to avoid significant gluconeogenesis where the body converts amino acids (protein) to glucose, they need a practical minimum of 50 grams of carbohydrates a day. For people who are reasonably active, that number is closer to 1 gram of carbohydrates per pound of body weight. Finally, if you want your hormonal system to function properly, you need to eat dietary fat. I saw one entry where you had 4 grams of dietary fat for the entire day. That's an endocrinological disaster waiting to happen.

I trust that you're better than this, aren't you?

it's an odd thing for a mum to hide the scales......unless of course she sees an unhealthy obsession with food.

Firstly, you need to see a doctor and/or nutritionist to discuss what foods you should be eating and how best to manage portion control without scales.

then you need to think about what it is you are trying to achieve with your body. Strength training will probably help to get you the body you want, and help you 'look good in clothes', however to strength train properly and build useful muscle, you will need to up your protein intake.

Personally I think you need outside advice to help you learn to eat a healthy diet. You say you eat healthily, and yes, it's not bad, there just needs to be more.

Makes me question why your mum would have done that, unless she is vey concerned about your health or lack of eating? Would she be justified?

I've just looked at your diary and having 500-700 cals a day is not enough. Sorry to be rude but I think she has hidden them for a reason.

This was my reaction. I rarely, if ever, comment on someone's food choices or even their intake, but your diary is an absolute disaster -- hopefully, you're just not logging stuff properly. Otherwise, at best, you're going to end up "skinny fat," with a terrible body composition, and your metabolism is going to be downregulated, in a very harmful way. For someone who is in university, you ought to be much, much smarter.

Research shows that if you want to lose fat while keeping your muscle, you need to eat around 1.7 grams of protein per kilogram of bodyweight; so, if a person weighs 64 kg, they should eat 64 x 1.7 = 108 grams of protein. Likewise, if a person wants to avoid significant gluconeogenesis where the body converts amino acids (protein) to glucose, they need a practical minimum of 50 grams of carbohydrates a day. For people who are reasonably active, that number is closer to 1 gram of carbohydrates per pound of body weight. Finally, if you want your hormonal system to function properly, you need to eat dietary fat. I saw one entry where you had 4 grams of dietary fat for the entire day. That's an endocrinological disaster waiting to happen.

I trust that you're better than this, aren't you?

Oh my this.
We had a nutritionist at our training session tonight and this is exactly what he said.
You need fat, carbs and protein to function properly.
The reason (if you honestly need to lose weight and I don't want to trigger worse behaviours) that you aren't losing is because you aren't eating enough so if you ate more your body would be nourished rather than malnourished and stop holding onto any carb and fat you eventually do consume. Your body is eating itself, not just the fat but muscle and seeping nutrients from bones and skin.

I don't comment on other's eating habits unless I'm really concerned if they haven't asked.