Eating Disorder Recovery Help!

I strongly urge you to get professional help with this. 1000 calories is not recovery, even if you were doing no exercise. You will be doing serious damage to your body. Well done for seeking help here, but you really need to see someone in real life, a professional, to get proper help. :flowerforyou:

I strongly urge you to get professional help with this. 1000 calories is not recovery, even if you were doing no exercise. You will be doing serious damage to your body. Well done for seeking help here, but you really need to see someone in real life, a professional, to get proper help. :flowerforyou:

This is good advice, I would however say eating 1000 calories a day is certainly a good step to recovery indeed. I'm not going to lecture you on how what you are doing isn't healthy as lets face it you already know that! All I'd say is aim to hit that 1000 calories as best as you can. Then if you can, I'd suggest upping it 1100 for another week or two, then 1200 etc.

Do you row in a club/team or is it a rowing machine in a gym/home? Just saying cos if you are into your rowing you will 100% find that your performance will increase dramatically with some more food in you.

Also I would further echo what was said earlier and that I would advise seeking advice from a medical professional. I know that can be hard, having suffered from an ED myself. If you refuse to do that, just try and make each day better than the last, get friends on here, feel motivated. Be healthy.

No one can survive for 9 months and be active on 300 calories per day, and also no one notice and have this person hospitalised. I am not saying she did not do some extreme dieting, and the post screams "eating disorder", but there are some things that are simply not possible. She is making an irrational claim - surviving on 300 calories and being fit, and then expects people to tell her how great she is doing now at 1000 calories. It is exactly what she wants to hear, but it is not what she needs, or she will end up dead.

You do need to eat more but NOT YET! Going up to a thousand is a huge step for you! Be proud of it and I hope you manage to maintain it!

Everybody's body is different though and when your metabolism evens out is entirely down to your metabolism. It's been starved so it is naturally eager to stockpile as much as it can, but give it time. 1000 calories is a big shock for your brain, that needs time to come around to it, why think any other part of your body is any different. It takes as long as it takes. Sorry, I can't be more specific than that.

*big hugs*

Eating, binging, purging etc, is a different story. And I repeat for the third time, get help from a professional.There are people who will tell you you are doing awesome now at 1000 calories and you do not need help. I know it must be nice to hear this, but it is not what you need. You are asking random people to replace a psychiatrist. You will get advice that is well-meaning but ignorant, advice from people with their own issues in no position to aid anyone, advice from people who have been there, advice that is helpful, but how are you going to filter all this? You are going to be happy with the advice that agrees with what you want to do, and this is dangerous.

No one can survive for 9 months and be active on 300 calories per day, and also no one notice and have this person hospitalised. I am not saying she did not do some extreme dieting, and the post screams "eating disorder", but there are some things that are simply not possible. She is making an irrational claim - surviving on 300 calories and being fit, and then expects people to tell her how great she is doing now at 1000 calories. It is exactly what she wants to hear, but it is not what she needs, or she will end up dead.

This is such an insensitive thing to say and most certainly not irrational.

Tell me, how do you know that the human body cannot survive on 300 calories a day whilst remaining fit and healthy? There are plenty of living examples completely contrary to your statement. Myself being one of them. I've studied nutritional science for 6 years now and it is very well possible. It puts your organs, bones and muscles under intense strain amongst other problems, raising a long list of other physical and mental health ailments but it doesn't mean you still can't function.
Eating disorders fall under the category of mental health disorders which effect a person physically and so if somebody suffering from one is able to look at their diet/lifestyle with perspective and incite. Leading them into recovery ( which is undoubtedly one of THE MOST FEARED THINGS an eating disorder sufferer can do, often MORE FEARED THAN DEATH) then they do indeed deserve as much support and encouragement from taking a huge step to eating healthily once more.

You have studied nutritional science for 6 years, you are surviving on 300 calories per day, you need to lose 100 lbs based on your profile ticker and you are 19 years old again based on profile and photo??? Ok...
And OP, this is why you do not seek advice on the internet for serious health issues. Because you will get the advice of people studying nutritional science from the ripe age of 13, and needing to lose 100 lbs on a 300 calorie diet.
OP, you are young, you have your whole life ahead of you, you deserve at least someone to listen to you and to be qualified to help.

The best advice I could give is to see a doctor. If you are still gaining weight on such few calories there might be a medical issue along with your eating disorder. I wish you the best.

1000 calories per day sounds accurate for you RIGHT NOW. Eat that. Stay off the scale. (I know this is the hardest part, but weighing yourself isn't going to do any good... You don't need to be triggered to eat less because you gain 2 lbs of water weight. Please please please stay off the scale.) Try to add 100 calories every 2 weeks or so. You will gain weight initially, that happens. A lot of the weight won't stay on once your body adjusts. You just need to be as patient as possible, and you need to keep battling to do the right thing to get healthy. If you follow the steps in the link posted by ForeverFit, it might help. It could take anywhere from a few weeks to a few months for your body to adapt, but you have to keep treating it right.

You certainly don't need to be concerned with LOSING weight until you get healthy again. This means getting healthy mentally - you may get back to eating a healthy number of calories, but there's a very high chance of you slipping into extreme restriction again when you try to lose weight. You need to address the root of your issues. Seek professional help (also hard, but so important) and find friends you can talk to about your behaviors and triggers.

Best of luck to you.

You have studied nutritional science for 6 years, you are surviving on 300 calories per day, you need to lose 100 lbs based on your profile ticker and you are 19 years old again based on profile and photo??? Ok...
And OP, this is why you do not seek advice on the internet for serious health issues. Because you will get the advice of people studying nutritional science from the ripe age of 13, and needing to lose 100 lbs on a 300 calorie diet.
OP, you are young, you have your whole life ahead of you, you deserve at least someone to listen to you and to be qualified to help.

You read my ticker wrong. I'm getting down to 100lbs, not losing 100, don't be ludicrous. I didn't say it was a good thing either, I said that it causes great strain on the body and that in no way indicates that I support it. She deserves support be is professional and or not.

Yes, I have been studying it from the ripe age of 13 and it seems I know an awful lot more about it than you, not that you were reverting to making an individual attack on my studies due to lack of argument.

You have studied nutritional science for 6 years, you are surviving on 300 calories per day, you need to lose 100 lbs based on your profile ticker and you are 19 years old again based on profile and photo??? Ok...
And OP, this is why you do not seek advice on the internet for serious health issues. Because you will get the advice of people studying nutritional science from the ripe age of 13, and needing to lose 100 lbs on a 300 calorie diet.
OP, you are young, you have your whole life ahead of you, you deserve at least someone to listen to you and to be qualified to help.

You read my ticker wrong. I'm getting down to 100lbs, not losing 100, don't be ludicrous. I didn't say it was a good thing either, I said that it causes great strain on the body and that in no way indicates that I support it. She deserves support be is professional and or not.

Yes, I have been studying it from the ripe age of 13 and it seems I know an awful lot more about it than you, not that you were reverting to making an individual attack on my studies due to lack of argument.

Stop talking, seek some help yourself. You probably would have been better of knowing nothing about nutrition because it seems to have fueled an eating disorder, or partially.

Because you comments are generally pro ana.

Why are people starting petty arguments on a post that is supposed to be about someone getting help?!

Perfectly Thin: I myself am a bulimic in recovery. If you need any extra support, I'm here for you. Unfortunately, this may be something you'll have with you the rest of your life. But if you're determined, you can beat it. Stay off the scale for awhile. Don't be afraid to count calories, because going WAY overboard when trying to correct can be just as bad. I beat the bulimia, started eating way too much, put on 20lbs, and the bulimia flared up again. Plus, not knowing what I'm eating can cause massive anxiety sometimes, which can make you feel like you need to binge and purge. Whatever you feel comfortable with that will take you in the right direction and will help keep the anxiety down.

Feel free to add me. :-)