Posted by Racer on October 11, 2005, at 20:57:24
In reply to Re: Both o' youse » Racer, posted by Sonya on October 11, 2005, at 18:35:19
> Racer,
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> Does it mean I don't have an ED because I feel I DO have an ideal weight?Nope, sorry. I usually have some sort of ideal weight in mind, too, but then get kinda paranoid about it, so I lose a little to give myself a little breathing room, which then leads to losing a little more, so that I can relax a little more about what I eat, which leads to -- madness.
Also, the biggest thing about 'eating disorder' when you come right down to it is that your eating patterns are disordered. If you're eating 500 calories a day, and are upset because you're not losing weight -- that's disordered eating. Once it gets to such a state that you're experiencing this sort of distress, it's disordered eating.
As for your two pounds over a weekend? That can't happen. That was nothing more than a combination of water and waste products. Here's the math, very briefly:
One pound is equal to 3500 calories. In order to gain one pound, you have to eat 3500 calories MORE THAN YOU EXPEND. Your body would burn somewhere in the range of 1000 to about 2000 calories per day if you stayed in bed without moving. Since you probably don't stay in bed without moving, you're burning more calories than that. Therefore, in order to gain one pound over the course of two days, you'd have to eat somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 calories! I very much doubt you did that, right?
That "weight" was probably made up of two things: the waste products that were still in your gastrointestinal tract, and water that was involved in digesting your food. One of the biggest problems with refeeding is that digestion does mean that there's going to be some extra fluid in your belly area, helping your food digest. Carbohydrates increase the amount of that fluid, which makes them especially problematic. But they're also the foundation of a healthy diet. (I've got trouble meeting the carb goals on my plan, even after a year, but I know that it's true.) The ONLY way to fix this problem is to eat regularly, and eat enough.
The good news is that your metabolism should kick back into gear after a pretty short period of eating more normally. One phenomenon of refeeding anorexics is that there's usually a period of weight *loss* during the refeeding cycle, caused by the metabolism recovering. At that point, most people need to increase their caloric intake a great deal to continue gaining weight. That didn't happen with me, probably because I've continued to waver between eating and not eating so that my metabolism is still screwy, but I've seen it happen with other women in my support group.
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> And thanks for your ramblings...it is beneficial.
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> SonyaI'm glad it helped. Maybe when my brain is engaged again, I can offer more...
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