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Eating/weight advice

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 2 Newbie
edited January 2019 in Health & Wellbeing

Hi. For the 7 months I've dealt with some eating disorder issues. I now want to start to be healthy/normal again, but I think my metabolism is really messed up. To not gain a bunch of weight rapidly should I start eating enough to get me out of “starvation mode” everyday or should I gradually increase the calories until everything is better and my weight eventually plateaus? Thank you :)


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  • JustVJustV Community Manager Posts: 5,612 Part of The Furniture
    edited September 18
    Hey @Past User, and welcome to the community. :) Awesome to have you.

    Just a heads up that I've moved this post over to Health & Wellbeing as it feels like a support discussion more than an intro. I've also edited your post to remove the mentions of weights and calories (apologies, that means I had to remove quite a lot!), in line with the forum guidelines:

    Be mindful of your words
    The words you use will have an impact on others. For this reason, please leave out anything too descriptive and be careful with your language. We've broken this down into some categories:

    • Eating disorders: Please avoid sharing details about your specific weight, calorie counts or any behaviours (such as what or how much you've been eating or drinking). Instead, we encourage you to focus on your feelings.

    It's okay to post about this stuff, but we like to avoid talking about the numbers to keep everyone comfortable and avoid any competitive thoughts creeping in. :) Oh, I've also edited the title of the thread to make it a bit more informative for anyone reading.

    Anyhoo, back on topic: have you had any professional support for this (e.g. counselling)?

    For specific practical advice on the safest way to get yourself to a healthy weight, it might be worth speaking to a doctor. They should be able to give you a proper medical assessment and give you guidance based on that, or at least refer you to somebody who can. We can't really suggest anything specific based on a forum post, but the community can help with general pointers.

    Alternatively, Beat specialise in providing support to anyone struggling with eating and provide a lot of different online options for support, including group chat sessions and a helpline.

    How are you feeling personally about your journey with your eating?

    Well done for reaching out for support with this - it's never an easy thing to do. You've done a good thing today. :) Keep us posted on how you're doing.


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  • SienaSiena Posts: 15,687 Skive's The Limit
    edited January 2019

    Hi


    Sorry - just making clear that you mean you’re underweight and want to get to a healthy weight?


     When I wasn’t sure on how to eat/amounts and stuff - A few years ago I saw a nutrionlist - may be something you could ask your gp about them?  


    I think it is really good that you want to achieve and maintain a healthy weight. As it can be a horrible pointless cycle in the end. I have eating disorder/anorexia and when I am at a low weight - I would be told to gradually build up what I ate to avoid refeeding syndrome (-which is an unlikely thing to happen anyway but is serious) & would be told to gradually eat more as also gradually increases matabolism. though yeah I shouldn’t really give practical advice as idk. So defiantly worth going to speak to dietitian,nutrionalist or doctor or someone, if that’s something you’d feel comfortable doing ?


    Take care


    Edit- just saw your original post to this but was else where that mods haven’t edited yet. Weed isn’t the only thing that can cause binge eating. Not eating a lot can too — which may also of been part reason. Cause starve your brain - all can do is think about food sometimes. I don’t take weed and I am forever eating little  then binge eating and it is a horrible way to live & pointless but obsessive — so definetly think you’re right in saying should maintain healthy weight. With balanced diet and support. 

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 2 Newbie
    Thank you so guys so much for responding, it means a lot :) I think I'll try to gradually increase calories since my metabolism is all wack right now to start to be healthy again!
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