Is Rapid Weight Loss Appropriate?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- It’s common for people to feel a sense of urgency when it comes to weight loss. Oftentimes individuals feel like they have to get weight off as quickly as possible but is that really the answer? What impact can this have on the body?
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Hello,
I wanted some advice on my current situation. I am in the midst of recovery and I’ve been trying to receive support for years but I have not been able to get any. I am trying to recover from a slowed-down metabolism. I have progressed in the mental aspect of recovering from an eating disorder. I’ll just be summarizing everything about my dieting history.
I grew up overweight and at 13 I took up a carb diet, starting at 140 lbs. Within 2 months, I had lost 20 lbs. I gained most of it back. This was around the summer of 2019.
Around December 2020, I was around 130-140 lbs and wanted to lose weight the healthy way. I reduced my portions and started exercising. I didn’t calorie count nor was I obsessive about results. I approximately ate 1200-1300 calories every day, with a cheat day where I ate 2000+ calories. I lost around 25 pounds in a few months.
Around the summer of 2021, I started getting obsessive because I wanted to lose more weight. I was told that in order to lose weight, I must subtract 500 calories from my BMR. This put me around 800 calories. I ate around this much until the summer of 2022. I did multiple HIIT workouts at home, averaging around 60 minutes of pure HIIT every week.
During this time I experienced very significant hair loss. I felt very weak and cold all of the time. I had a Biotin and Vitamin D deficiency, low blood sugar, and low blood pressure. I fainted multiple times and became unconscious. I felt extremely dizzy all of the time. I experienced severe congenital dysfunction. I could not comprehend anything in school. I skipped most of the school year due to fatigue. I experienced severe constipation too. My period cycles lasted 46 days and the bleeding was very light. I do have PCOS, but this was out of the ordinary. The cycles were becoming more prolonged with time.
During this time I barely lost any weight. Initially, I might have lost 5 lbs around the summer of 2021. For those 1.5 years I stayed at 110 lbs. In July of 2022 I visited a doctor, desperately wanting to recover and she told me I was experiencing metabolic adaption.
Right after that visit, I increased my calorie intake from 800 to 1500 because I thought it was still my maintenance. I ate at this intake for about five months believing it would help my metabolism. I gained 10 pounds. I thought my metabolism was back to normal and tried a slight cut, a large cut, weight lifting, walking a lot, intense cardio, and slightly low carb. Nothing worked. I did realize that I increased my maintenance from 800 to 1100 calories. I've been maintaining at 1100 calories since the spring of 2023, staying at 55 kg. I visited many doctors but they didn't know what to do, even consulted with an ED dietician. From the spring of 2023 to the winter of 2023 I tried to figure out what was happening to my body. Just recently, I tried reverse dieting, increasing my calories by 50 each month. I’ve been eating at around 1200 calories since December and gained 1 kg.
It had always been a breeze for me to lose weight but now I'm so lost. I've recovered for the most part and will never go below my current calorie intake. I just want to get my metabolism to my estimated maintenance. I don't want to lose weight at this point.
I want to know how much I need to be eating in recovery. I’ve heard that people with an ED need to eat 2500+ calories. But I have never gone below a BMI of 20.5. I’m not sure if this approach would fit me. For reference, I’m 56 kg and 5’2. I also have read that I need to go to my initial weight of 140 lbs.
Could you please give 2 meals gain weight and build muscles im under weight chicken rice and potatoes my bmi is too much low dinner and lunch? Thank you
When people come to you for weight loss, do you ever help people accept their natural bodies without trying to loose weight or do you just recommend some sort of diet?
I never recommend a diet, the conversation is always about accepting your body at its current size and fueling your body well. I will give feedback based on hunger/cravings/energy on things they could do differently with food! But everyone’s recommendations are different and it is NEVER restricting
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This was really helpful. Thank you.
Glad it was helpful!