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pipkin
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Posted: 19 Jun 2010 08:54 am |
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so i'm new here. i've had food "issues" my whole life (currently recovering anorexic with mostly restricting and occasional lapses with over exercising and purging) and now i'm trying to eat healthier and lose about 10 pounds.
recently i've been eating way to much junk food- chips and cookies are my weakness. i'm trying to avoid these and eat more fruit and vegetables. while my bmi isn't unhealthy (20.3) i've come to feel very uncomfortable carrying around so much excess weight. i've always been lean and i would like to get my weight down to 115 (i'm 5"6).
so, yeah. right now i'm just trying to eat healthier and go to the gym 3 times a week.
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Nir
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Posted: 19 Jun 2010 03:36 pm |
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Hi and welcome to the forum.
OK I hope you don't mind it if I use this opportunity to 'crash' your topic and voice aloud my issues. At 5'5" I'm a bit shorter than you. My lowest weight was 111lb (about 9 months ago) so that was bmi 18.5 and I saw danger and wanted to be normal. People who have seen me at the gym (I go every day) have been telling me to stop losing weight for some time previous to that, naturally. I gained a few pounds and felt I was gaining a bit too quickly so backtracked and essentially I've been more or less stalled at around 115lb for the last 5-6 months though for the last 3 months I've been gently increasing calories so technically I've been taking positive steps to gain just not seeing results, I count calories and this week my intake is up to 2,350. Theoretically I am trying to ready myself to see BMI values in the 20.0 to 22.0 range and feel OK about them, but just seeing the number 125lb (which for me at 5'5" would be BMI 20.8) made me feel a little uneasy despite it being where I know I ought to be going. It is still an extra 10lb and a weight I've not been since the first quarter of 2009 (when I recall being freaked out because I couldn't shift it - it turned out to be because of unaccounted calories from potatos). I hope that when I gain to 125lb I'll be happy with my weight though that's because I'm hoping for mostly muscle gain and even then there's a possibility that like you I'll be wanting to do a little bit of dieting when I get there. I continue to go to the gym 5-6 times a week and eat 'healthy and low calorie' - supplementing with extra calories in the evening because I find that when I eat fruits and vegetables at what I consider to be 'reasonable' amounts (not over-eating on any one type of food) I cannot reach my calorie target and am on weight-loss numbers without supplementing with calorie-dense choices which I do in my evening meal. All this angst from me and I don't think I qualify as a proper anorexic.
Anyhow sorry for gate-crashing your intro, do you feel like sharing any of your story?
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