fast metabolism but too weak to eat NORMALLY

October 12, 2012

In my pictures I was about 119 lbs. Iam 133 ish now. I am not really after that much of a weight loss actually; I Just know the weight will fall of fwhen I stop over eating routinely and start exercising.

I checked out your pics, you are pretty thin in those. TOO thin IMO. So I am picturing you with another 13 lbs and I have to say that you probably look great! Just like a normal person. If you were a normal weight in your pics, then yeah I'd say you could stand to drop some pounds with an additional 13 some lbs. Do you have any pics at your current weight?

Do you have a cell phone that you can download apps? There is a really great app, it's called mynetdiary. It changed my life. I love it. It measures out how many calories, fats, carbs, protein, ect you can eat based on your current height/weight and how much you want to lose, and how fast you want to lose it. Then you enter your daily activity/exercise and it estimates how many calories you burn and how much weight you could theoretically lose.

I actually don't think you really do eat that much considering how tall you are. If you cut down by about 500 calories and began exercising, I'm sure it would come off. Another suggestion is to chew gum. If you feel like you want to eat more then you need to, pop a piece of gum and it will take care of the oral fixation. The flavor will trick you into thinking you are eating.

PLEASE don't get defensive Leigh, we are really trying to help. If you don't want to hear people's opinions, then stop posting threads. I mean that in a helpful way.

October 13, 2012

Leigh, we draw these conclusions based on what you type on this board. It isn't a matter of telling you what you think, but rather you typing what you think.

Anyway, it seems like compulsive behavior is part of the problem. You post compulsively, eat compulsively....anything else?

You've posted a lot in the past few months about looking forward to getting back into shape--eating right, working out. What is keeping you from doing it? It seems like you could have done it by now, considering how little extra weight you have, and the exercise knowledge you have.

October 13, 2012

Lauriebell - Those pics were taken in Hong Kong in May last year. While I like myself at that weight, I guess some people know better than I do as to what looks good.

here is the last 2 years for you, regarding my ED, for you to get an idea of where I am now:

After overcoming anorexia, I gained to 57 ish kilos when I was about 20. I got sick of over eating, so ate normally and naturally lost to 55 kilos, then dropped lower. I am almost 26 now.

So I stayed around 110 - 117 lbs, normally the lower range, for years. I joined a gym and was a gym goer. For years.

I started the real weight gain process about 2.5 years ago in early 2010, when I went from 110 lbs, ate 3000 cals a DAY without exercise, and gained VERYSLOWLY to 53 - 54 kilos...I was in Hong Kong at this stage, and was about to move back to Aus to a new state and town, to resume a new life after 23 years in Tasmania, the silly little Island at the bottom of AUS.

My weight stayed at 122 ish lbs when I ate 2500 - 3000 cals and exercised again for about 5 months.

Unfortunately, I relapsed and got to 110 ish lbs again.

I met Andrew in early 2011, and within that year got up to 130 lbs. I never felt fat. I guess he was a good support during this very new time for me, of not being thin.

I was 54.7 - 55 kilos in those pics on here, and I am 62 kilos now. I want a happy medium

I am going to download recent pics soon..

I have a great shaped body for a women who dos not work out much and eats 2500 cals.

hence why I think I can get away with eating 2000 cals and working out and STILL lose a vanity pound or two.

October 13, 2012

and guys - I KNOW what to do. I am just... I don't know, I have issues implimenting action in life.

I just sit inside all day the days I don't work, which makes me far less happy then if I get outside to the gym, or go for a walk, or read outside.

Seriously. ALLI need to do is:

- stop eating 1000 cals during the night just cos I enjoy staying up late

- have just one glass of flavours milk, and maybe a 20 calorie biscuit at night so as to NOT cause me to have to eat low calorie the next day JUST to maintain.

My reason I do not lose and sometimes gain weight, is because I eat so much at night, so the next day, when I eat normally, it is simply WAY too much food to lose a single lbs. And I do not exercise lately.

- I also need to work out 5 days a week, which I really love, so I a, lucky I found a way to like the process of getting very fit

I have essentially let myself go a bit, and rather than go back to being too thin, I just want a happy medium

I do not want to be under 120 lbs ever again, yet I want to be under 130 lbs.

I do not think that is an unrealistic goal.

And LAURIEBELL - hey, I don't WANT a normal body - I have the genes to look slender when I work at it.

October 13, 2012

OH - and the PIC of me on my bike is me at my current weight.

See - my arms are normal.

And that bike got stolen to. It was bright aqua with bright pink handles, that Andrew and I got on a roadside second hand place.

I left it on the side of the road (I was riding it to college and it broke down so I left it there not thinking anyone would want to steal it)

....Oh well, no more bikes for me, I want to save up for therapy and travelling in the next year.

Wait I think I will get Andrew to get me a bike for a christmas/birthday present?

October 13, 2012

Is anyone else in a similar predicament?

I am a HUGE eater who has always been slim for the amount I eat, although I am not very petite or slinny by any means.

My problem: if I merely ate NORMALLY I would be slim, yet I am so familar with eating huge amounts that I stay heavier than I COULD be if I had ANY will power:mad:

I eat about 2500 calories now with not doing much exercise and wont go over about 133 lbs, at 5'5, with a huge bubble butt and curvy body type.
BMI of about 22.5 - 23 is the heaviest I get. BMI 23 aint thin, but it asint fat either, despite daily overeating.

I am one of those women who eats a lot, and ALWAYS has as long as I remember, from childhood. ALways eating more than my friends. Alwas a HUGE eater, yet stayed skinny for my size, but not ULTRA, sickly thin. Thin enough for a few people to comment over the years though.

I WANT SOME WILL POWER... ugh.

I am glad I do not get fat easily, yet I do miss having a banging body.

I just wrote this long post about what i do and i realised i am seriously screwed when it comes to my mind set on weight loss and exercise......i do have will power.......not so good...i wish you luck with your healthy eating plan.....deb

October 13, 2012

OH - and the PIC of me on my bike is me at my current weight.

See - my arms are normal.

And that bike got stolen to. It was bright aqua with bright pink handles, that Andrew and I got on a roadside second hand place.

I left it on the side of the road (I was riding it to college and it broke down so I left it there not thinking anyone would want to steal it)

....Oh well, no more bikes for me, I want to save up for therapy and travelling in the next year.

Wait I think I will get Andrew to get me a bike for a christmas/birthday present?

Leigh, you look AWESOME! I would love to look like that and eat 2500 calories and not work out. I eat 1500 calories and work out 6 days a week to even look thin at all!!!

I know for myself, there have been periods where I overate and did not work out, but was a LOT heavier then you (I'm only 5'2). It was hard to bite the bullet and get back to it, but I basically just picked a day and did it. Sort of like ripping off a bandaid, or stopping doing something "cold turkey." That's what I would suggest doing.

Oh and the eating at night...chew a peice of gum, that will get rid of the oral fixation.

October 13, 2012

:oaww thanks Lauriebell:o:o

Andrew thinks I look pretty great too. Even though he did meet me when I was 110 lbs. He likes thin women, but he sais he prefers me now to back then. he says I he loves my body, and it is the best type he likes.

I guess I am lucky my partner happens to prefer my body type - slim yet very curvy.

We have both talked about the healthiest way for me to feel good, and we both think I that my incessant over eating, and lack of execise, is bad all around.

It puts me in bad moods when I sit inside all day, as I have done this week:sick: It worries him because he knows it makes me feel bad, which will lead to petty arguments.

I just have pretty healthy goals really; get back into fitness and stop over eating as much.

I feel silly that I have it sort of easy in the weight loss department; in that I do not really have to try that hard to maintain a slim weight once I reach it.

I eat 2000 cals sedentary when I am 120 lbs.

I guess I will see were my body takes me, I know I will look 100% better.

I will post a "before" pic soon.

I have never really stayed a happy medium for long. It has either been too thin, or not bothering at all.

The end of last year was the best time for me - I was 125 ish lbs, ate a lot, worked out moderately, and it was all just really healthy.

October 13, 2012

I just wrote this long post about what i do and i realised i am seriously screwed when it comes to my mind set on weight loss and exercise......i do have will power.......not so good...i wish you luck with your healthy eating plan.....deb

I have sh*tty will power.

I actually LOVE working out and the whole process of making the gym a daily part of my life.

Yet even though I genuinely ENJOY healthy eating and exercise, I continue to over eat, and not exercercise.

October 13, 2012

here are some things I WILL do from this day onwards:

- I am going to a mates house with Andrew for a girls birthday we know. I am going to microwave vegetables and bring sauce for them to eat, and add dried crunchy chickpeas and sweet potato crispy chips to them.

- I ALWAYS take healthy food on the go with me, which consist of green veggies, a protein, sauce, and something cruncy like nuts or sweet potato chips. IT IS NOT HASSEL. TO DO THIS.

Next week:

- work out Mon - Fri

- finally start strength training, knowing I will not see any results for a few months, and bearing in mind the starting period is ALWAYS the hardest.

- get back to fast intervals of running thsoe 5 days for half an hour, then running on land afterwards. For 5 days.

-have weekends off to relax a little, and go for walks if I feel like it. Which I often do, but not always.

- NO MIDNIGHT SNACKING besides: milk, and 1 - 2 small sugar free cookies. Low cal snack.

If I do all that for a mere two weeks I instantly look better. My body has muscle memory from all the years of the gym and being slim.

October 13, 2012

I have sh*tty will power.

I actually LOVE working out and the whole process of making the gym a daily part of my life.

Yet even though I genuinely ENJOY healthy eating and exercise, I continue to over eat, and not exercercise.

I am nursing two leg injuries....shin splints and a right leg tendon that is causing knee problems.......i still push myself to walk even when i have to have a boiling hot shower to do so......i dont eat very much probably well under what i am supposed to makes me fatigue easy......the thing is i know how to eat and i know how to exercise but i am extremely stubborn i ordered this resistance trainer turbo 2000 to add to my walking i have an exercise bike havent added that yet and focus pads and boxing gloves.....to start training.....i aslo have a kick boxing bag i need to set up ....i cant incorporate all these unless i eat more.....i tend to eat after i come home from walking for muscle repair.....and ill eat during the day...sometimes i am too exhausted to eat....i have lost a fair amount of weight......i want a pushbike.......i used to ride for kilometres wind in my hair.....i walk past this bike shop most nights...my rottie even knew to stop there the first time i took her......its my dream shop....lol.........i wish you luck leigh......you look beautiful in your picture I am glad for you that your boyfriend or husband sees that beauty

that will power thing i understand the need to feel in control....that is what will power contributes to ....your need to control what you put in your body..and also what you do to your body..its getting the balance right....between over achieving and heading down ocd behaviour and normalcy....i dont have that balance yet..i will work on it..i hope you find it too.deb

October 13, 2012

People like your dad annoy me, as only about 2% of women are naturally thin. 70% of women are naturally supposed to have BMI'S of over 21 and over.

120 lbs and 5 ' 5 is like.. BMI of 20, which LESS than 30 of women CAN attain, without compromising their health.

Your dad obviously only feels disgusted with the majority of women:sick::sick:

I would find it hard to even be around a man who is disgusted by the natural female form, and literally only feels attracted to model types. How yuck.

And people sometimes comment that I am slim, my boyfriend says I am a "thin chick" ... Meaning I look slender at times. When I wear high shoes and boot cut legs, yes I do look thin.

I Just want a bikini body, and to be active daily and to sto over eating. It is that simple really. DO you feel that if you refrained from having to have that third slice of cake, you would be thinner? That is my thing. I am WAY out of shape compared to what I COULD be. ANd I aLREADY have a pretty good body for someone who execises as little and eats as much as I do!

So I just think " wow, if I ate normally and stopped over eating, and exercised 5 days a week like I enjoy and stop being lazy, would have SUCH a great figure!!!!!!"

I have a good body shape and metabolism to work with,that is all, so I am wasting a good thing here.

In my pictures I was about 119 lbs. Iam 133 ish now. I am not really after that much of a weight loss actually; I Just know the weight will fall of fwhen I stop over eating routinely and start exercising.

A friend and I had a discussion that we could never compromise our love for food...even if it means we'll never have A+ bods. I'm in shape, eat healthy 90% of the time and love my curves.

October 13, 2012

I took a pic today, and made it my profile pic...

So if you want to see what I really look like, here I am:laugh:

Andrew took it.

I will repond to the other posts too....

But I will quickly add that yes, Pink sugar, I would not be able to compromise my love of eating. I eat what I like, it is just the portions I sometimes have issues with:o

I am oftten good with portions too though; at dinner, I will have creamy pasta as a treat, and be totally fine with having a few bites only or a very small serving.

Then in my DAILY life in general, with HEALTHY foods, I just have huge portions.

I Know I can control my portions and eat in moderation, just on a day to day basis I eat too much in general.

October 13, 2012

I'm not sure what your question is but I do think it's a bad habit to constantly eat when you aren't hungry or to binge on unhealthy foods all the time.

Do you stop eating when you are no longer hungry or do you keep eating recreationally? I used to have a bad habit of doing the latter, but I make sure I don't keep unhealthy food in the house so that there's little temptation. I've also retrained my taste buds so that sugary foods and heavy, fattening foods don't hold much appeal. I still have a problem with cheese though. I can eat an entire block by myself in a few days! Therefore, I only buy cheese once a month or less.

As you get older your metabolism will slow down and you won't be able to binge eat and still be thin. I'm naturally thin, but once I hit about 28, I noticed that things weren't quite in the same places anymore and I had to start working out and eating better.

October 14, 2012

I took a pic today, and made it my profile pic...

So if you want to see what I really look like, here I am:laugh:

Andrew took it.

I will repond to the other posts too....

But I will quickly add that yes, Pink sugar, I would not be able to compromise my love of eating. I eat what I like, it is just the portions I sometimes have issues with:o

I am oftten good with portions too though; at dinner, I will have creamy pasta as a treat, and be totally fine with having a few bites only or a very small serving.

Then in my DAILY life in general, with HEALTHY foods, I just have huge portions.

I Know I can control my portions and eat in moderation, just on a day to day basis I eat too much in general.

Oy, now I am very jealous of you. I'll trade you bodies!! Pretty please???

Eating 2500, not working out, and looking like that. I had those kinds of eating habits at one time and I was 30 lbs overweight.

My suggestion is to start working out and maybe cut back A LITTLE, mainly because it really isn't healthy to overeat. But seriously, losing weight should not even be in the cards for you.

You may not believe all this, but from one eating disordered woman to another, dont go down that restriction road again. You dont even remotely need to do it!!!

October 14, 2012

Oy, now I am very jealous of you. I'll trade you bodies!! Pretty please???

Eating 2500, not working out, and looking like that. I had those kinds of eating habits at one time and I was 30 lbs overweight.

My suggestion is to start working out and maybe cut back A LITTLE, mainly because it really isn't healthy to overeat. But seriously, losing weight should not even be in the cards for you.

You may not believe all this, but from one eating disordered woman to another, dont go down that restriction road again. You dont even remotely need to do it!!!

I only put up a head shot of me, not a body shot, as that would open me up to trolls and guys who like skinny body types. If I feel good, it makes no sense to open myself up to that.

And I am not directly aiming to lose weight, I just want to stop over eating, as it makes me feel bad, both mentally and physically.

In the process of eating less (seeing as I won't be over eating), and working out ( I currently do not work out), I know I will inadvertently lose weight.

I just like working out and having a body that will look good in a bikini this summer.

Sure, I like the novelty of slipping into a bikini and looking slim and fit, but it is about so, so much more than that at this stage! I really MISS the feeling of being fit and healthy and not over eating every day

It is a whole process for me: I LOVE going to the gym, each day I do it I feel so good knowing how much better life is overall, when your really fit.

You know, I will go travelling again next year for a few months, and it isnot like I am obsessed about working out to the point where I would get anxiety when I travel.

I would just go for runs in safe areas whenever I could, so I could not gain lots of weight with frequent drinking.

October 14, 2012

I am nursing two leg injuries....shin splints and a right leg tendon that is causing knee problems.......i still push myself to walk even when i have to have a boiling hot shower to do so......i dont eat very much probably well under what i am supposed to makes me fatigue easy......the thing is i know how to eat and i know how to exercise but i am extremely stubborn i ordered this resistance trainer turbo 2000 to add to my walking i have an exercise bike havent added that yet and focus pads and boxing gloves.....to start training.....i aslo have a kick boxing bag i need to set up ....i cant incorporate all these unless i eat more.....i tend to eat after i come home from walking for muscle repair.....and ill eat during the day...sometimes i am too exhausted to eat....i have lost a fair amount of weight......i want a pushbike.......i used to ride for kilometres wind in my hair.....i walk past this bike shop most nights...my rottie even knew to stop there the first time i took her......its my dream shop....lol.........i wish you luck leigh......you look beautiful in your picture I am glad for you that your boyfriend or husband sees that beauty

that will power thing i understand the need to feel in control....that is what will power contributes to ....your need to control what you put in your body..and also what you do to your body..its getting the balance right....between over achieving and heading down ocd behaviour and normalcy....i dont have that balance yet..i will work on it..i hope you find it too.deb

Hi, and thanks! (about my picture^^). I Just took it yesterday on Andrew's I phone.

As for your exercise and diet.... I am a big eater, so do not really relate to you when you talk about forgetting to eat or being too tired to.

With exercise, I think anything you do is great. I think everyone should just choose something that like enough to incorporate into their regular routine.

The thing is, once you work out about 5 days a week, and do it for long enough, you feel good once you have STARTED and MAINTAINED the fitness.

I would never just tell a women to "go to the gym" if they had not previously been working out.

and DEB - have you considered swimming, and/or soft sand walking? Both are good low impact exercise for people with injuries.

October 14, 2012

Tomorrow is the day: eating right, but normally and not dieting. JUST eating normally without overeating is a bit challenge for me.

ANd frm tomorrow I am going cold turky with the gym; every day, Mon to Fri, intervals for 30 mins followed by a run on land for 30 mins.

And weights 3 times a week.

I will obviously start out very light with weights. OR maybe I could do heavy but stick to two days a week?

Hang on... I am going to do body pump twice a week, and one heavy lifting day.

And on the body pump days I will cut out some running time so as to not over do it.

Okay.

My goal is: by one month I will wear a bikini.

I currently do not OWN one.

October 17, 2012

You should probably get the eating under control before you start tacking on all this exercise you plan on doing.

You sound like an emotional eater. Emotional eaters don't eat when hungry. They eat when they're: bored, tired, happy, excited, sad, depressed, and so on and so forth.

Emotional eaters turn to food for comfort.

Also, watch what you say about how you're "so lucky" that you can pack in 2,500 calories and not do one ounce of exercise and can't gain weight. You're what... early twenties? Continue these habits into your late 20's/30's and older and I guarantee you you'll look in the mirror one day and not have a clue as to how you got so fat.

Chips/Ice cream and all that is NOT healthy eating. If you're an emotional eater, stock your house full of low cal/fresh foods. Vegetable packs, nuts, dried cranberries.

I personally think 2,500 is on the high end of the spectrum for daily intake. I keep my daily intake at probably 2,000 max, and most days I'm under that. I don't really eat junk food. I stick to yogurt, vegetables, fruits for breakfast/lunch.

Also, it may be my stomach but if I eat a lot for one meal, it can most certainly carry me over THROUGH a meal. Say if I eat a gigantic breakfast of eggs, bacon, toast, oatmeal, whatever... my body won't be telling me I'm hungry till about 3-4PM or later.

As for staying healthy, unless you're really trying to bulk up, I wouldn't do weights. I do power walking, and I play around doing some dance (cardio), and will toss in some yoga/pilates on occasion.

October 18, 2012

KatZee - hell yes, that is why I posted, because I KNOW I will not stay 130 lbs and 5 ' 5 eating 2500 cals and not exercising for ever.

I am not going to do anything drastic; just limit calories to about 2000, and work out most days for an hour. I love running, and like running outside every week day listening to music. It is not an effort for me.

The to push myself, I will do interval sprints 2 days a week on treadmill, where I run very fast for short bursts of time (one min intervals are my fave)

And regarding weights - yes I have never done heavy weights (in spite of everyone elses recommendations to do them) and rather, I always did a class called body pump, where you use free weights on a bar, and do HEAPS of repetitions with VERY low weights.

I was in the best shape of my life thruogh these low resistance, high rep classes. Seriously.. I had an insane body

The lower weights in that class still were a challenge! You do struggle.

I guess since I am planning on being a personal trainer, I would have low credability if I did NOT advocate heav weights for women.

MY experience is that I look really good with the lighter weights; without sounding too arrogant, I did not WANT to become "more ripped", with the body I once had.... The only diffence bigger weights would have had, is my actual muscles would have increased in size, which would have made me more chunky.

...I have the tendency to look masculine if I am not soft enough, so I do want a rock hard look with NO fat.... I actually look better being "toned" and slim, thruogh being a slim weight for my body type, through diet, cardio, ab work, and resistance with high reps.

October 18, 2012

so yeah, my goal by Christmas is to just be 58 ish kilos (127 ish lbs) and doing regular exercise, with only the weekend off (if I want)

That is a weight I look and feel thin at lol. And I mean 'thin' for ME and my body type, not as in "typically thin".

October 18, 2012

Staying fit does not mean that you are healthy. You have take a good care on the food that you eat and do regular exercise. Why don't you try meditation to control your eating disorder. Consuming too much of calories is not good for health. Have you consulted a doctor?

October 18, 2012

I don't need to control any eating disorder. I don't have bad thoughts associated with my weight. I do not think I am fat. I am comfortable where I am, but want to be slim for vanity reasons. To look good in a bikini.

Moreover, I have a greater desire for the whole package of being slim: health, fitness, happy more often, everything in life feels better.

I never think about weight during the day. I am too focused on getting work and sorting my life out.

October 18, 2012

Ugh Leigh, I ate a whole jar of peanut butter today (375gr)

October 18, 2012

Ugh Leigh, I ate a whole jar of peanut butter today (375gr)

U serious?

I've done that too:(

In fact, peanut butter has been a weak spot for me and I have binged on it a lot.

Good luck with an discomfort!

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