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Ok I'll give that a try tomorrow, I'll skip the flax seed in my breakfast (or cut down a little) and maybe have more for lunch or tea. Thanks for your advice, hoping it'll give me that energy I haven't really felt for a long time. Another edit: just wanted to add that I've had a big old tea 1.1k calories or something and…

Well I like having porridge and like the idea of having a protein shake but both are nicer with milk. However if I want a decent amount of porridge (to fill me up) the amount of milk needed for both is too high in terms of calories. Should I do the porridge with water then add a little milk? Or should I just use skimmed…

That's the thing, I don't know what I should be aiming for. I just don't want this feeling of being so tired and irritated all the time. I cycle to work but it's not far. I have chocolate whey protein powder that I could start taking but I was focusing on foods that would make me feel full and supposedly release energy…

I'm gonna sound even more pathetic now. I really don't know what i should be eating in terms of carbs. I'm having chicken and pasta tonight with a tomato sauce and some green veg. I was going to have around 150g of wholewheat pasta but if you're saying cut carbs, what should i have instead? Really grateful for your advice,…

Ok, how many grams of porridge do you recommend i have and would whey protein milkshake powder be good for breakfast?

I thought that I should be trying to eat more though, am I now just eating the wrong things? I really do struggle sometimes with how much I can eat. I ate all that breakfast and still just wanted to eat more. I really don't know what I'm doing. :(

I imagine somewhere around 100-120g carbs total

It was only a very small square of chocolate (19 calories). I guess my breakfast was high in carbohydrate but I had around 200-250ml semi skimmed milk, 20g peanut butter, ham and cream cheese. Edit: should I eat less (carbs) to have more energy?? Edit 2: all I wanted to do this morning was eat, I could haven eaten so so…

Thank you everyone for your kind messages and advice. I just wanted to come and post a bit of an update and ask another question or two (sorry!). I have started eating more, the last few days I've eaten around 2500 calories, probably more yesterday. I've stopped keeping a diary of it as I don't want to obsess so much and…

Well to be honest, she asked me what i wanted to do. She asked if i just wanted another appointment in 2 weeks to check my weight and i said i'd probably just lose more.

Thanks Chrysippus, i know you're right in everything you've said and i will take it on board and really try to up my calories. The thing i can't get past.. quite.. is that i don't want to gain weight (or rather, fat). I feel really bad that i'm here complaining that i'm underweight, seems so ungrateful and ridiculous that…

Ok. Sorry to sound so pathetic etc. Thank you for your patience and contiued replies!

You really think if i have 2500 a day i won't gain weight? why has mfp set my goal to 2290? I really hate the idea of gaining weight, i know i shouldn't but i do.

I have been trying to offset large meals by exercising - but often then find myself not having a very large meal. Also i often struggle with the exercising because i'm so low on energy! It's a terrible cycle, i need to change my mindset.

I'll do my best, thank you deksgrl.

I would eat more calorie dense food but i just feel bad when i do and then feel i have to exercise to burn off what i've eaten. I'm sat here feeling like i should go and exercise. I imagine those are responses that someone with an eating disorder might give, though i'm not sure.

Without going into it too much (really not fishing for any sympathy or trying to make excuses for myself), but i have anxiety issues that i guess have led to me having... perhaps unrealistic views about myself and my body. I really don't love myself, i enjoy seeing my weight go down and looking at myself in a mirror and…

Had a big evening meal.. but now i feel guilty :/

Thank you everyone for taking the time to post a response, i guess i knew i was having problems and as i've said i have talked to a doctor (and am awaiting further contact). What was getting to me was that even when i ate a reasonable amount (today for breakfast and lunch) i was still so out of energy. I've done reading…

I recently bought flaxseed and have been adding that to my porridge in a morning + had some peanut butter this morning too. I worry about eating a lot of calories though... even though i am underweight. Edit: i'm not ignoring her advice, i'm waiting to be contacted by the eating disorder team but it could take a month.

I did go to see a doctor and she said she'd refer me to an eating disorder team or something. I was hoping to be able to get past it on my own by using mfp, tracking my calories more carefully and eating a bit more.

Well to be honest i was trying to keep it as low as possible. I think around 1700 per day and i was also trying to do quite a lot of exercise. I wasn't tracking what i was eating except in my head (obsessively). I had been doing that for a while but then started to feel bad all the time and now i can't seem to shake it.

I have been losing weight intentionally and i think i've got a bit addicted to it, as i've said i've changed my goal to maintaining my weight now so my calories per day is up at 2.2k or so. But take today for example, i had a 670 calorie breakfast and a 561 calorie lunch then walked the dog and now i feel wiped out.

I am 25, male and around 6ft; when i weighed myself this morning i was 134.8lb. I had an off-day on wednesday where i got in late and didn't feel like eating. edit: if you mean muscle-wise, i'm lean but not very muscly. :/

I think i've made it public now, thanks. I don't do much that much hard exercise (i cycle about 10mins to work and back each day and walk the dog for an hour) and try to eat foods with slow release energy.