Questions about by anorexia recovery
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Hi I'm in recovery and lately I've been eating a hell of a lot more since I starts my recovery. When I started I ate 2000 calories and now I'm eating 3000-4000, I'm not Hungary but my mind just tells me to eat till a point I'm nearly sick. Also, when I'm back to normal, how will I eat more healthily, is it easier or hard to cut back down
Whilst in recovery I have gotten my old healthy looks back big I also need to add a few pounds, will it affect my looks and appearance eg bring my stomach out more and putting a bit more fat on my face
During recovery, to get my calories I have ate an awful amount of sweets because I have deprived myself of them for so long, is that good or bad
What is the ideal weight for someone who is 15 and 163cm tall
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cal-man1
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How is everyone and is being 163cm and 7stone 3pounds bad?
carolyn88417 cal-man1
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holly1998 cal-man1
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I have to eat AT LEAST 2500 calories per day, including chocolates and sweets and started off by seeing a pediatrician, counsellor and later a dietician to help me control my weight gain or loss. : )
Now I only see my dietician who is a lovely lady, once every two weeks or once a month depending on my result.
It was amazing as to how my looks changed as I gained..
I began my journey at 6st 3pnds aged 14 and now weigh around 7st 10pnds aged 15. I was told I had to reach 8st, but my only worry was "will I look fat?" "Is that not to heavy?" As I have always been a thin person. Soon, I got sick of eating junk food and wanted to eat more healthily, and did wonder "will I ever be able to eat a normal amount like every other person my age?!" "Will my teeth go yellow from all the sugar in the sweets?" But stuck with eating what I was told..
If you take anything from what I'm writing here, I hope it's that with persistence and hope it can be achieved.
I wish you the best of luck, and if you need anyone to talk too, I'm here
cal-man1 holly1998
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The good news is I can be with in a range from 46-50 so I'm aiming for 47 bit unhappy not being 46 but at least I can be 47. I'm only bothered because that's what I was when I looked healthy and before I took things extreme so that's why I wanted to go back to 46/47kgs so badly
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littlerose27 cal-man1
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I also suffered from anorexia and bullimia in my early 20's. I went from someone who had never worried about her weight (i am a sports person so my weight tended to take care of itself) to someone who constantly agonised over every meal, snack and drink. My mum was the one who helped me recover 85% of the way by showing me how to eat well, plentifully, and still be active and a healthy weight. I say I am 85% recovered because I too suffer from depression which impacts my relationship with food, often causing me to binge. I used to hate myself, and sometimes eat until i felt like my stomach would expload, almost as a way to punish myself. Then the next day I would do extreme exercise to try and make up for it, use laxatives etc. All of this made me extremely unhappy and ravaged my body.
However i am lucky to have great parents and a great boyfriend who support me and i have gradually come to learn the following:
1. Binging is usually a result of having deprived myself in some way, either over training or being too strict with diet. Therefore, instead of hating myself after a binge, i think "it's a good thing my body pointed out to me that i've been going too far recently", and instead of becoming stricted, i try to lighten up and usually no weight gain have occured.
2. Life is long. In our heads life is usually confined to our diet cycles and weight loss. But what if it wasn't? tomorrow is another day, another day after that, chill out, and realise there are loads of days of the year we can lose weight. so if you're low, feeling like eating everything in site and generally just having a battle with food, then go and see good friends, go to the cinema etc coz if you're guna eat so called 'bad' foods, then you may as well make the most of it!
3. I too have lived in constant fear as a recovering anorexic that i will wake up one day and be suddenly obese. Guess what? that day still hasnt come over the last 3 years. Even when i've gone through whole weeks where i feel "omg i've lost my control over food, this is what i really am, an out of control eater" it still hasnt happened! My body finds it equilibrium and I eventually settle back into normal routine.
4. Routine is very important for me. Yet there is a different between anoreix routine and having a healthy lifestyle routine. Try to eat different things everyday to give your body the optimum amount of nutrients, try a sport or hobby that involves exercise with friends or new people. That way, even if youre depressed, binging, feeling hopeless, if you can make yourself go and see your friends then by the time you get home you will feel 100% better. Trust me, i know the struggle to even get out of bed after a binge, let alone go and socialise and exercise. But it will guaranteed change your mood, that i can promise.
I really hope this helps you. It's helped me in writing it out to see how much I've come in my recovery so thank you everyone. Everyday is a struggle, but life is good, and some days much easier than others, so soldier on with me
christina60158 cal-man1
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where does every one in the uk live?
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