Bjork
11-19-2004, 01:39 PM
Hi all,
It's me again, the Anorexic... I've only posted once or twice before. Anyway, for those who don't know my story, I got out of my last treatment center about 2 and 1/2 months ago and after refeeding am at the higher end of my "normal" weight range which greatly disturbs me, as you can imagine. I've suffered from Anorexia for 11 years and have not been that heavy since about that time. It sucks.
Anyway, I went to my dietitian yesterday and though she would not tell me if I had gained or lost that day, she told me how much I had lost since I left my last treatment center. To be honest, I was not impressed. In the 2 and 1/2 months since I left, I've only lost about 10 pounds. My dietitian says that's good and my mom says that's good, but it's not. Isn't it a small amount? I eat healthy (I'm anorexic, like I'd really eat *crap*!) ,but I don't exercise as much as I should. But then I never did. Not even sickest. I don't know what I expect from this post, but maybe what can I do without changing my diet? My mom and my dietitian say that my diet is perfect and won't allow me to change it for fear of me taking a turn for the worse yet again (I've been in treatment 12 times). Or just let me know if 10 pounds in 2 1/2 months is really a good amount or not. I think it is too small an amount. I don't know. Thank you for listening to my crap.
Bjork
It's me again, the Anorexic... I've only posted once or twice before. Anyway, for those who don't know my story, I got out of my last treatment center about 2 and 1/2 months ago and after refeeding am at the higher end of my "normal" weight range which greatly disturbs me, as you can imagine. I've suffered from Anorexia for 11 years and have not been that heavy since about that time. It sucks.
Anyway, I went to my dietitian yesterday and though she would not tell me if I had gained or lost that day, she told me how much I had lost since I left my last treatment center. To be honest, I was not impressed. In the 2 and 1/2 months since I left, I've only lost about 10 pounds. My dietitian says that's good and my mom says that's good, but it's not. Isn't it a small amount? I eat healthy (I'm anorexic, like I'd really eat *crap*!) ,but I don't exercise as much as I should. But then I never did. Not even sickest. I don't know what I expect from this post, but maybe what can I do without changing my diet? My mom and my dietitian say that my diet is perfect and won't allow me to change it for fear of me taking a turn for the worse yet again (I've been in treatment 12 times). Or just let me know if 10 pounds in 2 1/2 months is really a good amount or not. I think it is too small an amount. I don't know. Thank you for listening to my crap.
Bjork
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11-19-2004, 04:00 PM
Well I don't know, I mean, we don't know anything about you. We can't tell you if 10 pounds is good or bad unless we know how much you weigh.
ChappyBoy
11-19-2004, 04:21 PM
Bjork - I have no experience with anorexia but, I have years of training/ nutrition work with clients - 10 lbs in ten weeks = very good results. Steady slow weight loss is great, it gives you the best chance of dieting off the fat and maintaining the lean tissue. Excessive, quick weight loss in every case I have seen has led to the individual losing muscle storing fat and slowing down their metabolism.
Bjork
11-19-2004, 06:29 PM
Heh, they won't allow me to have a scale in the house anymore:( I'm estimating 135-140 since I know approximately what I weighed when I left my treatment center. I'm sorry I didn't give you that info before... it didn't occur to me. Thank you for giving me that encouraging info about the weight loss being good. It makes me feel a little bit better.
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Calamity04
11-19-2004, 06:44 PM
I'm a bit confused, if you are anorexic and you just got out of treatment and are a healthy weight, why do they have to on a diet to lose weight?
Bjork
11-19-2004, 06:51 PM
Oh, duh and I am 5'4"... forgot that too.. that might help.
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Calamity04
11-19-2004, 07:30 PM
Oh, that makes some sense now. SO you are trying to lose weight you just have people keeping an eye on you to makes sure you are doing it the healthy way.
Bjork
11-19-2004, 08:46 PM
Yes, I am not on a weight loss diet, but am trying to some lose weight anyway in a safe way. Do you really think I am at a healthy weight? I think that it is way too heavy:(.
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Calamity04
11-19-2004, 08:55 PM
Its healthy for your height if you are eating right and getting daily exercise. I really don't go by measurements and how much I weight anymore, it makes me feel like there is certain number I have to be within to be happy so I go by mirrors. I don't even concern myself with sizes anymore because what is small in one brand is a large in another I go by how clothes fit and how I feel, plus I buy vintage dresses and clothes an its completly different sizes. I at one time lost so much weight that I looked on the anorexic side because I thought that was what the perfect body looked like, then I reliezed that curves are good. I like having some meat on my bones.
I don't completely understand the anorexia as a disease. I know you don't eat, but when you look in the mirror even at your lowest weight did you see yourself as fat. I mean how do you percieve your own body when you have anorexia.
I don't completely understand the anorexia as a disease. I know you don't eat, but when you look in the mirror even at your lowest weight did you see yourself as fat. I mean how do you percieve your own body when you have anorexia.
Bjork
11-19-2004, 09:14 PM
I have suffered from Anorexia for 11 years and it has been it's worst for the past 4. I have been hospitalized 12 times. I went down to an extremely low weight where I almost died and I still believed that I was fat. During my last relapse, I spent a month in the hospital only to be released into a residential treatment center in Utah for a year and six days. I had to be fed through a tube in my nose for 5 weeks because I was so underweight. That was the longest time that I've ever had the tube I think. Stupid me with this stupid disease... sometimes i wish that I was still that thin, but I wouldn't want to go through treatment again and I wouldn't want to put my parents through it all again. They've ended up with depression and other problems as it is. I'm just glad that they have stuck with me through all of these years or else I would be dead.
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Bjork
11-19-2004, 09:15 PM
I am just completely unhappy with how I look now... my dietitian says that I will slowly lose weight and that my body will go to whatever weight it is supposed to be, but it sure is taking it's time and I would like to speed it up.
Bjork
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