anorexia can t lose weight after recovery

Hello!
5 years ago I begun with treatment for anorexia and I somehow succeeded. The problem is now that I gained lots of pound, I am even ashamed to say it ... 30 pounds and I think (and I do, medically proven) I am overweight. I would like to loose 10 pounds and that’s it, no more, because I do not want to return to the old path, I want to loose 10 pounds and I want to do it the healthy way. I just can’t lose weigh after recovery.

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Besides that I would recommend you to eat lots of vegetables and fruit, less fat and mostly to follow food pyramid. The most important is to have lots of exercise!!! This is the most important part of every diet – to exercise at least 40 minutes. In this manner do, hat you most enjoy doing, run, walk fast, swim, cycle, dance...

If possible, get regular moderate exercise. Walking and similar activies are good. Moderate exercise helps in the assimilation of nutrients and in increasing the appetite. Avoid strenuous exercise.

Your best bet for health and weight loss is to focus on eating foods that fresh, whole, and nutritionally dense. Make sure you get enough protein every day. Otherwise, you’ll feel deprived and downright hungry. Whole, complex carbohydrate, like brown rice, whole-grain bread, and oats are necessary for a healthful eating plan. They’re also high in fiber, which helps you feel full and keeps you free of toxins. Essential fatty acids are good for you, use EFAs in moderation. Eat food that are high in tryptophan－turkey, chicken, tuna, soymilk and live unsweetened yogurt. This chemical encourages the production of serotonin and may stave off cravings. Vegetable juice is healthful and filling. Water also takes the edge off your hunger. Eat a balanced ratio of the major food groups. Eat more small, regular meals. Do not skip meals, particularly breakfast.
If you’re trying to lose weight, you first priority should be to reduce or, better to eliminate refined sugar from your diet. Avoid processed and junk food. Refined flours are leaving you with nothing but a plate full of calories. You must radically cut back on your consumption of “bad” fats.
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you need to increase your muscle mass. Your metabolism is both disrupted and slowed by your previous actions. Doing cardio and lifting weights while eating a healthy diet.

dont worry about calorie restriction so much at this point, work on physical conditioning. Even just brisk walking for 45 minutes a day is a good place to start.

HIGHLY reccomend strength training to increase your muscle mass, this will increase your metabolism and make maintaining your ideal bodyfat easier.

Hello- i was also previously anorexic- and I gained all the weight back plus about 30 lbs( it was alarming..) But dont worry- my doctor told me that your body is really making up for what it lost- imagine a momentum scale- its pushed hard on one side it will bounce up equally and further on the other.. anyways.. give it a year or two- eventually your life patterns will help you lose that weight.. Dont expect it right away.. It took me a year of college to lose what I gained in high school- which was hte weight I gained back and more( from what I lost due to anorexia in middle school) so really just give yourself some time. What helped me out was that I moved to a big city and just made sure to walk everywhere- I walk thousands and thousands of steps a a day and manage to get everythign done... I dont even notice it.. I dont have an "official" work out plan- but I walk to the grocery store and back, walk up quite a few fligths of stairs to my office and my apartment.. walk all through the parks, downtown, neighboor hoods. even if you live in a rural or suburban area... just walk around as much as you can- try not to worry about time restraints... and eventaully you will be having a very enjoyable calorie burning session and you dont even know it!

hope this helps..

Thanks for telling your story. I also was anorexic, stopped being that way last year, and in the last 7 months have gained about 15 pounds over what I should be. And I can't lose it. I work out regularly and eat healthy... but it's frustrating to be heavy when I'm not doing anything wrong. Can I ask - after a year or so did you see your weight come back down a little and stabilize?

argonne99@ wrote:

Thanks for telling your story. I also was anorexic, stopped being that way last year, and in the last 7 months have gained about 15 pounds over what I should be. And I can't lose it. I work out regularly and eat healthy... but it's frustrating to be heavy when I'm not doing anything wrong. Can I ask - after a year or so did you see your weight come back down a little and stabilize?

I'm recovered from anorexia and bulimia (5+ years) and have had weight fluctuations over the years. Your weight does stabilize but the most important thing is to always just eat a healthy nutritious diet and exercise to keep your metabolism up and get all needed nutrients. I know that especially for those of us who have been on the complete opposite end of the spectrum before it can be very hard emotionally, but you will be happier and healthier in the long run.

My names Julia. Sounds like you know exactly what I'm going though.

6 months ago I was told I was anorexic. At the time I had an intense fear of, not really gaining weight, just gaining 'too much' weight, so anything like eating snacks or more than what I considered was a 'portion' (i.e. half of what normal people would eat) frightened the hell out of me. I didn't want to become 'greedy' again, despite being skeleton-like thin.

It turned out that the 'greed' I so dispised was actully 'hunger', and as this returned I surrendered to hunger pains, facing my fear after living hell with my parents. Not so long ago over-eating was probably what I needed most, and people praised me the more pounds I put on. But now I'm about 2 stone over what I want to be. I hate looking like I do now...not 'fat', but heavier than I should be. Now my family want me to eat less.

But I can't do it.
I don't want to go back to that place where eating controls all my thoughts, exercise controls my life and I can't enjoy food.

I want to lose weight, but psychologicly something stops me.
The thought of eating less actully makes me want to eat more.
But what if I gain more weight?

Of all people, how can this be happening to me? Who used to be the most obsessive, self disiplined girl in my school?

I too have been anorexic and exercise bulimic for about six years, with various stages of success and struggles, in and out of the hospital, residential, and outpatient treatment programs. Since February I committed myself to getting better permanently, to eating well and changing my entire attitude. By this point, even though I was restricting and exercising a lot, I was not actually underweight at all (though I had been severly underweight years before). Unfortunately, I then proceeded to gain 25 pounds from about May onward. I am still undereating a little bit according to what my nutritionist recommends, and I exercise about 9 hours a week, weight training and cardio. I do not eat anything that is unhealthy. What is going on? I have had my thyroid tested and am waiting onthe results of a cortisol test, but although my thyroid is a bit hypo, my doctor is not going to do anything about it. Everyone keeps telling me I just have to "trust in the process" and "be patient," but I can't stand waiting TWO or more years for this to even out! Does anyone have any similar experiences or suggestions they can share with me? I am trying very hard to continue to be healthy but it's hard to keep eating when you're gaining weight day to day that doesn't need to be gained in the first place.

The normal progress of anorexia is to starve and die. If you make it through that stage, then you are supposed to over-eat and get really fat. Then the fast yo-yo weight stage. And then there is something else which I forget because I quit doing the disease thing in the fat stage.

I got so bloody sick of the docs telling me what I should be doing, this obsessing with food, and so on, and feeling worthless, and inadequate and so on, I just said "screw it." I really felt silly wasting all of my time on that bs. I never wanted to be a fashion model anyways. As far as I know, I didn’t chose to be on this planet, so the planet is just going to have to accept me.

And who sets the standards for weight anyways? The same idiot doctors that tell you to not smoke while they smoke on every break?

If I eat, I eat. If I don't eat, I don't. If I make Fat Albert look skinny, too bad. That is someone else's problem (I’ll sit on them, buwah haw haw haaaa!!!!!). If I am hungry, I am going to eat. If I am not hungry, which sometimes happens, then I'll make sure that at least once during the day I have something, a burger or some soup, not a Big Mac.

Men are soo stupid anyways. They marry fat women, and they marry skinny women. Some even marry fat men or skinny men. Whatever.

I am finally to the place where I can look at food and take it or leave it. I keep three sets of clothes, a fat set, a skinny set, and a set where my body seems to spend the most time. If my skinny pants don't fit, I put on my regular pants and then my fat pants, and if my fat pants are too small, then it's probably that time of month again and I have to go shopping (yes!!!!) and get bigger pants. I look good to myself in all of them. Food no longer controls me, nor do I attempt to control it. I don’t care.

BTW, I'm (gasp!) 40 pounds overweight according to some docs, but my blood pressure is normal, my cholesterol is good, my arteries are clear and staying that way, and I can run a mile without passing out. And this one guy thinks that my “having some meat on my bones” is a good thing, we may have to discuss that further. So what if other guys are dry-heaving when I waddle by. It gives them their daily exercise. (Jerks!)

I don’t know if this helps anyone, but I spent a lot of time reading Dr. Burns’ book, he’s a non-idiot doctor, “Feeling Good”. It really helped get through the fat and yo-yo stage.