Do I need to gain weight?
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Youre making it too complicated. These numbers are pointless. You dont need them too see that you need to add weight. Eat more calories, lift some heavy things 3 times a week hitting every major muscle group with compound movements, and spend the remainder of the time chillin and patting yourself on the back for a job well done.....orrr, do none of the above and remain exactly as you are.
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Please see a doctor. You are underweight, you have clearly fallen over the edge into disordered eating, and now you are endangering yourself.
There are worse things than having some fat on your body. Like being dead.15 -
Dude you need to gain weight pronto. As everyone else is saying this is seriously unhealthy and could potentially have life long affects. See a doctor!! Stop skipping any meals! Stop doing cardio!
Eat as much as you can, then when you literally can’t physically eat any more drink a shake with another 1000 calories to top it off. Log your calorie intake on mfp, maybe it will help you realize how seriously deficient you are and how much you should actually be consuming. You should be able to gain a few pounds PER week. None of this .2 crap, you need POUNDS and you need it like way before yesterday.11 -
It’s okay not to be able to deal with this without some help. Anorexia is a serious illness. If your appendix hurt you wouldn’t say, “I don’t know why I can’t just stop having stomach pain,” you would go to the emergency room and get help from a doctor. I know it’s less scary to talk about it to people on the internet, because you are afraid if you tell someone nearer they will take over and you will lose control of your life. But we can’t help you from a distance. You have to go and get help yourself.
Maybe it would be easier if you frame it in terms of something you choose to do for yourself. When you are taking those selfies, instead of worrying about your percentages, say, “I choose to be strong and healthy and ask for the help I need.” Then go talk to someone who loves you and can help.12 -
My friend, as you, yourself, are saying when you say: "I don't know why", you HAVE slipped into unwanted thought and action territory.
That's where you're now. You're looking at medical intervention, doing something yourself, or, more likely, a bit of both. I would encourage medical intervention. I just know that it is often very hard to come by and I am only suggesting the below as a stop gap while you try to arrange for some real life help.
First step is to get to AT LEAST BMI 20. Regardless of what that BMI 20 looks like. Regardless of how you get there. There is nothing more unhealthy than where you're at right now. The lack of body fat and available calories in and by themselves are changing your hormonal balance, influencing your neurotransmitter levels, and influencing your decision making and ability to think!
Even if you were to gain 100% fat on your way to BMI 20 (which is impossible to do starting from where you are) it would still be more healthy than where you're currently at!
Once you're there (and we all know that BMI 20 being near the bottom end of the normal weight range cannot in any way or form be considered "chubby") you can evaluate your body composition and either start a recomp to become more muscular (by strength training while maintaining your new weight level) or decide on a more effective for muscle growth slow bulk regiment.
But now is not the time to be worrying about all this. Now is the time to move out of the danger zone and just add weight.
10,000 steps is an activity level commensurate with MFP's ACTIVE setting. Eating back exercise calories that are spent in addition to the calories for the MFP active level should be added on top!
It doesn't sound as if you're eating to that +1000 Cal on top. OR at the very least +750 on top. OR even +500 on top in order to gain weight. Frankly it doesn't even sound as if you're eating MFP active level maintenance calories in the first place!!!
Being this active means you have to eat more calories than if you were sedentary.
It will be much easier to become weight restored if you cut off ALL un-necessary activity.
If you're sore you're also retaining water. Your actual underlying weight is probably lower than what you see on your scale.
Dude... you need to be eating in the 3K calorie range while sitting on your duff12 -
Yeah, if it were easy you'd be doing it.
Eating disorders are sneaky, sneaky things. They lie. I had a bulimia slip up last year and reached for help early because I didn't want to go back down that road. I've been doing outpatient therapy since about October and will for a few more months.
Going from serious undereating to having to overeat enough to gain weight is very difficult, which is where seeing a professional is a very good idea. Starting from now, though, I urge you to try and up calories every day. Eat tortillas every day! The tortillas as your friend. At this point, food is medicine.7 -
Yeah its all true. Just trying help from a different angle. We've done sympathetic, get to a dr.....which by the way i highly recommend rather than asking for help on the Internet kind of approach. If the tough love approach did not work then hey, i tried my best. That being said, maybe my opinion has not helped, i was just frustrated at the original posters plight, and i want him to get help. Im sure if we all work together he will read these posts and take actio from them...2
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I will try and have told my parents however I am curious if I should take a week off from lifting eat more and then commence next week with lifting again or can I (should I) continue this week as well?0
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ppomoberry wrote: »I will try and have told my parents however I am curious if I should take a week off from lifting eat more and then commence next week with lifting again or can I (should I) continue this week as well?
What you have been describing with fatigue and your muscles having trouble warming up makes me think you need to focus all your efforts on eating more and stop exercising for right now. A week off won’t hurt you in any way, while exercise when you are very underweight could hurt you.
What does your doctor say about what you should do?3 -
Doesn’t really matter . Think big picture. Lift don’t lift. Lifting doesn’t really burn many calories. The only thing and i repeat the only thing that matters right now is upping your calories 5 fold. Adding POUNDS per week.
Even if you gained ten pounds of pure fat ( which you won’t) you would still be shredded body fat levels. My picture here is about 12-13 % body fat. That’s about 25 pounds of fat on me. Way more then you and I wouldn’t consider that “fat”. You want and need to gain some fat4 -
ppomoberry wrote: »I will try and have told my parents however I am curious if I should take a week off from lifting eat more and then commence next week with lifting again or can I (should I) continue this week as well?
Just. Eat. More.
Do whatever the heck else you want. Lift. Don’t lift. Don’t you get it? This is no longer about what is the perfect way to get you the body you want, this is about any way to get you a body that isn’t a decomposing skeleton six feet under the earth.
For the sake of all the gods stop faffing around rearranging the deckchairs while the Titanic is sinking. And see a medical professional!10
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