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Weight loss, bad habits?? Something's not right

I'm 19, I'm 5'5 and 114 pounds. I've been losing weight since last October maybe, Starting at 11stone 7. I'm noticing I'm getting more and more restrictive with my caloric intake, I keep a diary so I know what's going on. I tend to keep it around 400-700 calories a day. I know it doesn't sound like much, but usually, if I start going into the 600's I'm immediately disappointed and then vow to stick under 500's the day after. I'm very good with watching what I eat, unless there's crisps, chocolates or sweets around. Like even if it's not mine, it could be my brothers, I would think about it most of the day and then sneak at night and eat it. But after I do this, i get upset and feel so stupidly weird. I do make myself sick afterwards. And say the next day I wake up and it says I've gone up a couple of pounds, I know that weight fluctuates every day, but I like lower my calories by 100 again. But I repeat the cycle again and again. It's like I work so hard to lose weight, and then I'm ruining it even though I know I'll hate myself afterwards. Anyway relate to this??
Please don't judge
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Want to stop*
Stupid phone keeps sending messages when I am not finished!!
And, congratulations on becoming a mummy, my brother and his girlfriend had their baby 2 weeks ago xx Best of luck :) Xx
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Thanks for your advice:) And I know it's not healthy to throw up food, I just get impulses and can't stop thinking about what and how much I ate. I've never really had problems with eating and food in the past, I've was always thin until early last year, and before I knew it, I'd gone from like 8 stone to 11 7 in a few months. Even though I'm back in the 8s now, I don't see thin, and I certainly don't feel it. I feel a bit silly trying to talk to a doctor or someone I know, saying I think I may have a problem, because it's like I'm the one trying to lose weight and I'm the one restricting and throwing up. And I'm not underweight. I wouldn't really like to tell anyone, cos i know they'll just tell me to stop trying to lose weight this way, but I don't think I can, let alone wan r
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Thanks for your advice:) And I know it's not healthy to throw up food, I just get impulses and can't stop thinking about what and how much I ate. I've never really had pr
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Crisp***
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Hun. I would say you need to calm down. Bringing you food back up it not healthy. And also a healthy diet needs the odd bag of Chris an hit of sugar maintained proper strength. I'm 5"5 and my BMI is 18... I worry that I'm to fin. It's never going to b hard to loose the weight u may gain. So stop worrying all the time. And have a snack. Don't throw it back up but go for a jog the morning after if you worry. I'm no doctor. But I used throw my food up to. And it almost ruined my life. I got my self to a healthy weight and now I'm happy an having a little bby. ;) my weight has dropped dramatically threw morning sickness a  that scarescares me more the anything.Hope tthis helps. Xx
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