Losing Weight After My Eating Disorder

I'm recovered from bulimia, I use to have a very terrible binge eat/purge/starve cycle. Currently, I don't have many urged to relapse into my eating disorder, however, I do overeat quite a bit. I gained back all the weight I lost during my eating disorder, my goal is to not be a certain weight but to not feel the need to over eat all the time.

Here are my obstacles:

- I cannot use the scale to weigh myself

- I cannot "crash diet"

- Calorie counting is very iffy and I'm unsure if I can do it.

- I do not hate my body, I do not think It's ugly. I'm sick of people trying to shame me into losing weight over fear of being "fat" or "ugly".

Every sub I go on seems to trigger my eating disorder. Whenever people talk to me about weight loss they often themselves are using disordered eating as a means to lose weight. I don't agree with using self hatred or disgust to fuel weight loss, that's how I ended up with my eating disorder in the first place.

Does anyone have any resources for me? Is anyone in the same situation?

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I desperately need help with weight loss motivation. I lost 40 lbs 2 years ago and have spiralled even worse now and am at my heaviest weight ever. F/5’7”/245lbs.

As the title says I feel trapped. I was thin in high school and played many sports. Once I left the weight crept on, but didn’t skyrocket until I had to move in with my in laws. Then it exploded, I was depressed and without direction. I now live with my husband in the same house but my in laws have left. Almost everything is the exact same as when they were here. I feel completely lost. I’ve bought multiple gym memberships at multiple facilities but I never go.

I just joined a gym last week that I really like; quiet, not far from me, private. There was an error when we signed up with the card machine and we were supposed to return the next day to receive our passes. I never went back.

I have a lot of issues with myself that I wish I could change and 90% of them surround my diet and exercise habits. I drink between 1-3 sodas per day. If I go for too long without one my mouth feels completely dry. I honestly don’t drink water at all. I always buy breakfast and lunch and sometimes dinner. Despite this I still have a happy disposition, a good relationship with a very supportive spouse.

I don’t know how to help myself out of this mess or what steps I can take to even get myself back on track?

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I binged on chips today

I've been doing so well at calorie counting over the last 4 months. I'm down 10 pounds. I started at 180.2 pounds, an all time high. Yesterday I weighed in at 168.3. Its a bit of a slow weight loss but my routine is sustainable for me. A couple more hundred calories a day in exchange for sanity has always been a good way for me to diet. I feel satisfied and have enough in my calorie budget to have a little treat on occasion.

Until today. (Dun dun duuuunnnnn...)

I came home from work today, absolutely famished. I told myself I could wait until dinner to eat, but I didnt.. About an hour before dinner time I broke, and ate like 3/4ths of a bag of potato chips.

800 calories later, I felt absolutely disgusted with myself. I wanted to give up on 4 months of progress and hard work. I thought about how I'd have to skip dinner tonight and be hungrier in the morning. I was really down on myself, until it was like a switch flipped, and I wasn't sad anymore.

I tracked those chips. I honestly can't say how many chips I ate. I just sort of had to ball park it. But even an attempt at tracking, even if it wasn't 100% accurate, meant that I took accountability for my mistake. No one shoved the chips into my mouth, except for me.

I took a few minutes to get ahold of myself, and went to the kitchen again to prepare dinner. I ate dinner as I normally would. Now, I am something like 500 calories in the hole today, but I told myself I wasn't going to let it bother me. I took it as a lesson that I get snacky when I get bored. So instead of sitting around doing nothing after dinner, I went for a jog.

One binge is not going to ruin our progress. We did not gain weight because of what we ate on Thanksgiving. We gained because we ate like it was Thanksgiving every day.

I messed up. I am taking responsibility for it, but I am not going to let it ruin my progress. Tomorrow is a new day, with no chips. (Especially because I ate them all)

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is losing weight while maintaining a healthy relationship with food possible?

Hi everyone, I am a 17 year old 5'7 (170cm) female weighing around 67kg (148lbs). I would really like to get to 50kg (110lbs) by next year, would you help me?

I have been in a cycle of binge eating (emotional-based) and restricting as punishment for about a year now. I am at my heaviest and am not slowing down as my purging spells have messed up my metabolism quite badly.

In an attempt to resolve this I tried eating 3 meals a day, calorie-counted to a total of 1200, but always end up binging at night when my willpower is on empty.

I want to be able to lose weight quickly, but sustain the new lifestyle instead of yo-yoing back. Does anyone know any healthy weight loss methods that are sustainable and largely effective?

[first time on reddit hehe]

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20 pounds down, 10 in the last 30 days (intuitive eating)

No tracking, no hard restriction, just guidelines:

• don't eat stuff that makes me feel bad (heavy/heartburn/uncomfortable)
• don't eat out unless it's an occasion to be celebrated
• don't eat refined sugar unless it's a special occasion
• eat as much protein as possible (still working on this one)
• ((i already didn't eat bread/pasta/cereal/cow milk))

Workout (usually 1.5h with the last 20m stretching and bodyweight):
MWF - Weights, focusing on core and legs (recovering from surgery, this is a specific pain-management need of mine)
T,Th,S - Cardio

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I don't track my calories daily, but I do log things every few weeks to audit myself and I'm between 1200-1400 calories on a typical day). Intuitive eating can really work if you know how to read/respond to hunger cues. Still working to get more protein.

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I'm pretty hyped, because I've been getting much stronger too, so the weight itself doesn't fully reflect the change in my body composition. My pants fell off going hiking this weekend. It was funny...and makes me want to buy new clothes, but I think I'll just get a belt bc I'm not stopping any time soon. :)

(for clarity, my main motivations are pain management and getting my baseline strength up to get over chronic health stuff that's kept me down for 5 years. I just found an old post from 2015 where I lamented not being able to go on a simple walk around the block in over a year and I just wanted to feel the sun on my skin again. I've come a long way. The weight loss is welcome, but is a secondary concern for me. Still cool to see numbers changing, tho)

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Changing up my weight loss diet

So far I have gone from 252 pounds to 189 over the last 9 months, and I have a little more to go until my "ideal" weight of 175, I have been at 189/90 now for about 3 months, I seem to have "settled" at this weight after losing a steady amount for 6 months prior, So I figure I am going to have to change it up a bit and change my meals and vastly increase my cardio (walking).

On the meals side of things, I am thinking of having a weekly rotation, Eat the same thing every day for 7 days then a whole different thing the next 7 days and so on, and am thinking of something like - Spinach/Egg/Pepper breakfast, as a omelette - Brown rice / Grilled chicken and Broccoli for lunch, But i am really struggling for ideas on what to have for dinner, sure there is tons of recipes online but I want to get actual peoples advice on meals that have worked for you.

I know everyone's body is different but I really would like to know what meals have worked for you, for me Eggs and Broccoli have been my go to food and seem to have worked well, can anyone recommend other good meals to try?, especially dinner ones.

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I lost 37 pounds in two months!

I'm 25 F. Was a long term keto dieter (over a year). I didn't lose a single ounce. In fact, over that nearly two year span, I gained over 40 pounds. I went from 125 to 175. At 5'6, it may seem confusing to some why I even started keto and carb reduction at 125 but it was for seizures, not weight loss. I however didn't expect to gradually gain over 40 pounds. I suspect it was difficult to properly measure the fatty foods/meals. Lack of satiety. Not to mention, bulletproof coffee and fat bombs to curb hunger (which it NEVER did).

I stopped in the middle of June after a reality check that keto is not my thing. Not to mention, my updated bloodwork at the time was showing low cortisol, low glucose, low insulin, low thyroid (especially T3), low blood pressure (despite me salting the heck out of everything). Low EVERYTHING! I also was chronically constipated despite all the fibrous greens and I was getting. I felt like death and could barely function. Had to be hospitalized a few times too either because dangerously low blood sugar, fainting, seizing, fecal impaction, etc.

TL;DR That's when I stopped dieting and basically began eating anything I want in moderate portions. This includes foods like ice cream (Ben & Jerry's), sushi, chips, etc (in addition to some healthy foods). I've lost 37 pounds since the middle of June and am down to 138! Additionally, my most recent bloodwork shows improvement in cortisol, glucose, and thyroid levels. This is without treatment. And my bowels have completely went normal on their own, despite me eating even LESS fiber than when I was strict dieting. My lesson: everything in moderation. Dieting stressed the hell out of my body. Just wanted to share 😊

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