Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 27 Location: Ontario, Canada
I Panick When I Gain 2 Pounds! Posted: 10-25-05 13:59pm
I am really tiing to gain weight and I
know I have to at 65 pounds and 5'2" but I
gain 2 pounds and I panick! Then I have
to lose it again. I'm just glad I haven't
ever gone below 60, except once 3 years
ago when they commited me to a mental
hospital. That was hell. They locked me
up till I gained 50 pounds! I felt like a
fat stuffed pig-gaining it all in 3
months. I don't want to gain more than a
pound a week but it's so hard not to when
my metabolism is only like 800 calories to
maintain. I excersize 2 hours a day but I
am still scared that all the weight I gain
will be fat. Then I will feel grose again
and have to lose it all and I am getting
nowhere. I thought maybe since I have
these protien shakes it might help me gain
lean. What do you think? ( the
shakes-2of them have 65 grams of protien)
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Nikia
Experienced User , Rather EHEALTHy
Joined: 27 Nov 2003 Posts: 74 Location: Wisconsin
Sorry, It's For Your Health Posted: 10-25-05 18:26pm
I know that I shouldn't be one to talk
because I am scared of gaining weight too.
Because I am not as underweight as you,
they are allowing me to maintain my weight
for a while until I get used to eating
more and making progress in counseling.
I have to record everything I eat and when
though and go in for bi weekly weigh ins.
If I lose weight or if I show a trend of
deviating from the plan without a good
reason, my dietician will make a
recommendation for hospitalization.
Quite frankly, I am suprised that for you
that they didn't already recommend that,
but perhaps they are giving you a chance
to gain weight on your own, hence your
post.
I don't know how your metabolism is doing,
but I am not gaining any weight eating
1600-1800 calories/day, which shocks me
because it seems like so much food. I am
always convinced that I gained lots of
weight for my weigh in, but I am still in
the "weight range" (2 pounds on either
side of my weight my first day w/ the
dietician) after 2 months.
My husband's friend recommended weight
gainer shakes to me in order to gain
weight. To me though, that is the
ultimate "unsafe food". Being forced to
maintain my weight though, has made me
more comfortable eating "unsafe foods"
like fast food burgers occaisionally and
"less safe foods" like peanut butter
regularly because I know that I cannot eat
enough bulk at this point to do that with
the leaner foods that had composed my
previous diet.
With your weight and calorie intake (less
than 800 calories), you probably should
gain weight with the help of a physician
or dietician. Your diet will probably
involve eating foods that you are not
comfortable eating on a regular basis and
more than you are comfortable with, but
you have to do it. Those health article
saying losing weight is healthy are not
for us. You are harming your health more
than an obese person does. I know that
it is hard, but if you want to have a
future, you have to gain weight and eat
enough calories.
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reinke
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Posts: 27 Location: Ontario, Canada
I Have Gained Even More! Posted: 10-30-05 15:06pm
I weighed in at 70 pounds yesterday. I
measured my arms, waist, hips, ect... And
have gained a full inch everywhere! I am
upset-yes I want to gain 10 more pounds,
but I am scared that now i'll keep gaining
and gaining and by next year i'll be
obese. I have to eat now every 2 hours or
I get dizzy and this is really upsetting
me. I felt like tearing my hair out I was
so mad. I know I am not fat but I feel
that way because I am gaining at the rate
of 5 pounds a week. I feel sooo
hopeless!!!
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NancyJohnson
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 06 Nov 2005 Posts: 6 Location: Minnesota
Posted: 11-06-05 17:48pm
I know how you feel on that and im sure
most women and men feel that same way. I
myself and just finding it rather hard to
lose weight and I know when I hit that
weight that I will want to lose more. No
one notices anything in me. They just say
I look healthy. Well, of course I do. Im
not eating and when I do I eat to much,
but never throw up. No one knows what its
like being a man or a woman over weight
and feeling the need to look like brittney
spears or lindsey lohan. I dont think
most guys and vis versa realize what they
are seeing is not real. But to someone
with an eating disorder like myself and
others on this board, we realize that they
are not real but we want so much to become
them and wanted by every single male and
female that its to hard to resist.