Topic : Anorexia

You still need to arrest your situation as you can.

I had an abortion last June,  and have been fighting the eating disorder tooth and nail to continue to take care of yourself.

Being a single parent is mostly by choice,  and as far as I was concerned,  I knew I didn't have the stability to being a parent.

My pastor knows me well,  and he is great in helping me get thru these things.

Hey everyone. WOW, i've been M.I.A for a while. Brenda, I am so glad that you are back and I hate it that your marriage is falling apart. I hope you and everyone else had a wonderful christmas. Mine was a TOTAL disaster but I aint worried about it. But, lots of love to everyone...

-Amber Brooke

hello there jodi thank you so much for your reply.. i know how hard it is for me to be able to hear that stress,depression and anexity can be drastic on my health and maybe even make me loose weight.. i know i need to take care of me first in order to take care of my gurls but my husband works nights and sleeps during the day it's lik ei'm doing this whole raising these 2 gurls on my own type of battle.. it's hard and i know my mom thinks i'm killing myself but i just have to learn to be strong and talking about things isn't always the best solution but at least it sure helps.. thanks again

I have a history of anorexia, and I've been through in-patient rehab (at UIHC with Dr. Anderson)  about six times for it. I'm crashing again (been at a healthy weight for a couple years), and... I don't know what to do. I tried recovering on my own, and I just kept losing weight.

I'm currently at 105 lbs (my lowest was 85 lbs) and I'm freaking out. I'm afraid I'll lose my job if I have to go in-patient again. I've been keeping my weight up strictly through alcohol, which is horrible. My husband told me tonight that he wants to file for divorce by the end of January if I don't stop drinking. So I know that when I quit drinking my weight's going to drop.

People say that anorexics are lying when they say they're not hungry, but it's the fucking truth! My body's so messed up that it doesn't know what it wants anymore. I even asked my boss tonight what I wanted for supper, because I couldn't decide. She looked at me like I was crazy, but I honestly couldn't decide and wanted her to just tell me what to eat. The only time I eat anymore is at supper.

I just want someone to tell me what to do. I want someone to say, "I've been there, and here's what helped me." I want an excuse to make myself eat.

Mostly, I want out of my own stupid head.

 You may actually need that inpatient treament again, and I am not a diet and nutrition expert so take this with a grain of salt.

Are you not eating breakfast because you are forcing yourself not to eat,  and could you possible bring the same discipline to forcing your self TO eat? 

If you are able to stop the drinking, good for you.  I'm guessing you probably drink to kill your anxieties. I really can't help you with those bad feelings.  However, I can suggest a self-refeeding plan that will be easy to adjust to stop gaining when you feel you are at a safe weight.

Hungry or not, eat a breakfast.   Best to pick foods that will go down easily, IMO, and which you can start out higher calorie but easily scale back to a lower amount with teh same taste when you get to maintenance weight.   I would opt for a full-fat greek yogurt with small fruit on top - sliced banana if you can stand that or my preference - raspberries.   It's high protein and the calories can easily be scaled back later with lower fat versions of the yogurt.   I actually eat a single serving tub of 2% greek yogurt every day,  and one 0% every day at lunch and  sometimes add one for snacks/with dinner.  Its not too much food, it has a high protein to carb count and won't ruin your blood sugar.

Force youself to eat a mid-morning snack of soft fruit like a pear.  If you can tolerate one small piece of cheddar cheese,  it will add to the balance of the snack, and the cheese can be dropped when you get to the safe weight.   DO NOT add junk to your diet!   Just slightly larger servings of nutritious food,  and regular eating times when you can exert time and discipline in making yourself choke something down.

For lunch eat more thick greek full fat or part fat yogurt,  a minimum 1.5 to 3 ox serving of serving of meat (lean beef, turkey, chicken) or fish (like high quality canned salmon or tuna)and five nuts and a healthy fruit.   If you can add 1/4 cup dry weight oatbran cooked in a microwave for 3 minutes,  it will stabilize your blood sugar all afternoon.  

hanving a plan for dinner everyday till you meet your target weight might help.  Stay away from crappy junk and you won't feel as bad eating it.

 Regular alcohol consumption causes metabolic changes.   Regulating blood sugar is going to be important, because your cellular and liver function is altered by drinking.  (Rapid conversion of energystores into blood sugar  may be one unconscious reason why you enjoy drinking in the first place).   There is tons of info you can google on this so I won't bore you here - but I suggest search terms to include  = "alcohol" "mitochondria" "Nadh".  Foods that stabilize blood sugar will help you.

I suffer from anorexia (or so says my doctor), except I don't really think that I'm anorexic, at least consciously. I have ADD as well, and the medicines suppress my appetite. I don't eat during the day, simply because I'm not hungry. My doctor has told me to gain more weight, and I did gain ten pounds. I'm 4'10", and 80 pounds (up from 70 in June 2005). I might be skinny, but I'm not unhealthy-looking, like some people I know from treatment, that have anorexia. I just am skinny now. Is there anything wrong with being slightly underweight?

Although I don't eat lunch most days, I love to eat. Whenever I'm at my mom's house, she makes me lasagna - I can eat half a pan! I don't throw up the food, or anything like that. What could be wrong with me? No matter what I do, I can't gain weight!

(I also have an extremely high metabolism, and I teach dance lessons. Could this be keeping me from gaining weight?)

Try eating more. Also, reduce your stress by meditating. And although I really need to follow my own advice, this was my menu back when I was doing fine with my weight:

Breakfast: Cheese ommelette, toast with peanut butter, orange juice

Morning Snack: Apple

Lunch: Bowl of pasta with red sauce, carrots, grapes, glass of milk, yogurt

Afternoon Snack: Celery Sticks

Dinner: Minestrone Soup, garlic bread, peas, strawberries

Night Snack: Cheese and crackers (a lot)

 

Eating a lot throughout the day will force your weight up.

Hi love,

 Are you ok??????

 

luv karreena

Depression tends to ignite eating disorders either way w/gain or loss.  I was hospitalized and mostly w/depression and I determined I would take out my frustrations on restricting my intake of food.

If you don't feel emotionally well-please seek help.  I work in a doctor's office,  and regardless-if there are dramatic changes in food intake or weight either way-there is generally an issue to be adressed.

If you are confused as to whether you have an eating-disorder-etc.  It doesn't matter.  You need to take care of yourself either way.