A bit of advice needed

Good day

I'm a 22 year old guy, weigh about 74 or so kg, am 162cm tall. I have developed a binging habit from restricting my diet too much. I do weight training 5 days a week and cardio 6 days a week. Using this I got that I should maintain my weight at 2500 calories a day. What I need advice on is if I eat about 2000 calories a day with the exercise I currently do, will I be able to keep up my weight loss, even after having restricted my diet for so long? I need to stop the binging now, but I don't want to derail weight loss. I just need to do it in a bit more of a healthier way.

Thanks for any help!

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Can somebody give me advice??

Hi! I am 16 and my sister is 13. My sister eats extremely unhealthy. I want to help her eat better! How do i make her realize that she should eat healthy foods?

She does need to lose a little weight but not that much (10 lbs max i think)

I love her for who she is but I know she doesnt feel comfortable in her body

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Advice please?

Basically I started putting on weight about 10 years ago, I have lost, and then put some back on in that time. My highest was 17 stone. I am about half way through my weight loss (70 lbs, 12 stone is my target) the thing is, as the same as most people, the thought of loose skin is freaking me out. I am about half way through my diet now, I can pinch little bit's of loose skin I think on my lower stomach, however there is obviously still a lot of fat under there. Also I am COVERED in stretch marks. But with my diet I am getting A LOT of protein and I drink around 15 pints of water a day! I'm also 24 and 6 ft. I hit the gym 6 times a week, 3 for cardio and 3 for resistance training. 

So what do you think my chances are? 

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Jealousy Towards Partner Losing Weight? Advice?

It seems every time my obsessions over my weight pick up, everyone around me starts dropping pounds like crazy. That's just how life works, eh? Everyone around me is getting skinny, specifically my boyfriend, and I'm stuck. Has anybody ever started to feel disdain or jealousy towards their boyfriend or girlfriend for losing weight?

It's insane - I should be feeling happy for my boyfriend, whose weight fluctuates from 240-170 many times a year. He recently has dropped down to 170 again and is actively trying to lose even more, alongside myself. I feel increasingly jealous and suspicious about him, and find myself being way needier than I have ever felt. When he is complimented on his weight loss by friends or family, I feel angry at him. At times, I've even attempted to sabotage his weight loss or make him feel bad about his slimmer self.

I feel like a horrible girlfriend, how can I get over this?

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Really really bad bloating issues - advice needed!

I am a 15 year old girl suffering from anorexia, height 166 cm  and weight 39 kg. Yesterday I severely restricted because I thought I had binged the day before, and today I have eaten quite a bit more than usual. I have really really bad bloating and indigestion, I am badly constipated and my chest hurts. Is this due to the fact that I restricted and then started eating normally again??

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Please Help me!!!!! Anorexia recovery Advice!

Okay, I'll start with my stats. I'm 13, 157cm and I weigh around 37kg. Before my anorexia I weighed around 45kg and was probably 155cm tall. I started having issues with my body just after I got my first period. At first I didn't know much, so I didn't loose weight very fast and I still got my period two more times. So I researched more and learnt about calories and I starting restricting to 900 calories a day. As I began this I got my last period (in January) but it was light and lasted 7 days (not normal). Next, in March I decided to become vegetarian. I don't regret this decision even if it was partially made by my ED. Then people started realising my weight loss so I have tried to eat more. The problem is that I still want to be healthy! I have trouble eating more then 1000calories and I still get guilty and anxious if I exceed 1200 calories. I'm not really loosing weight anymore even though my calories are so low and I don't really want to gain weight either. The problem is that I want to get my period back! Also, my doctor said that my growth plates have almost closed so in almost finished growing. But I don't have a woman's body and I don't see how I could while being so short! Also, I really ENJOY counting calories and I don't know what to do!

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Advice for recovering bulimia and alcoholism

I am new to the forum and have been on a weight loss journey for 2 years now. I've battled bulimia since my teen years and am approaching 30 now. I have also been sober for just over 8 months. Abstaining from alcohol has aided my weight loss. But, I've found myself regressing to bulimia tendencies when I plateued. I want to be healthy and get better. I guess I'm just looking for advice and tips on what to do next...How to be healthy and keep my demons at bay?

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looking for some advice

I have a goal of doing a sprint tri next june.... it thought this was more than doable considering I'll have 2 century rides under my belt by then and several dozen runs..so then the only thing missing is the swimming.  I also thought this was the only time this race was done. Well last night I found out that I could do one the "last chance tri" by the same group at the end of this august.  That would give me about 2 months to conquer the swim of 1500 meters.  Do I go for it? am I pushing myself too hard?  

I got an email from a friend who thinks I am pushing too hard. That I need to slow down on the running/biking a bit. she's concerned that I've triggered the exercise part of the anorexia. Part of me sees her point and part of me is like no its ok.   She suggested getting a coach/trainer to push me but also to reign me in. However trainers around here are expensive and I don't have the cash to do that at this point. 

I'm so confused at this point! =( Do I wait? do I push and if so how do you train for something like that?

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hey peoples, requesting nutrition advice for my situation

I am currently active duty navy attached to the uss miami. Since the boat is currently undergoing extensive repair due to a fair last year I do nit have to worry about going out to sea for at least two years. For the next two to three weeks ill be working monday through friday from 0600 to 2000 and have either saturday or sunday where I have to be on the construction site from 0600 to 0700 the next day. So there really isnt much time to cook or prepare food and im limited to a fridge and a hot plate currently until the end of the year when I can move out of the barracks. Starting about two weeks ago I have started working out monday through friday for an hour a day starting around noon. I am ordered to work out for 5 hours a week so its not something that I can be lazy about and not do. The main things that I need advice about is what the best excercises are to get me to drop fat and hopefully gain some muscle while im at it. The other thing I could use some help with designing a meal plan that is easy to follow and implement. On the construction site the cooks make breakfast, lunch, and dinner everyday, but seeing them take a brick of butter or heaps of lard to coat the grill or deep frying nearly everything that is served I really dont want to eat anything that they touch. They do put out fruit, but seeing as I have watched the same apple go untouched for over a month and not darken or change its appearance at all I am thinking that the fruit is most likely irradiated or uses some other form of preservation. So I intend to bring in all of my food and not rely on the galley for anything. Just as an example, I saw them melt 5 pounds of butter just to make bread sticks...I can normally eat at any time throughout the day, so I intend to start eating small snacks and meals to try to keep my matabolism going throughout the day. What would you all recommend? Also I have no problem with eating the same thing every day and for simplicity sake I would actually prefer to figure out a set schedule to follow every day. I have shaklee multi vitamins and b vitamins that I take daily and would like to know if I should start taking extra protein or not on days that I lift weights...I guess I should probably state, that I want to lose 80 pounds total, gain as much muscle as I can. The calculator on this site says that I probably burn around 3200 calories per day. I was thinking of going for a goal of around 2000 calories per day intake and around 500 burned through exercise. Im probably thinking to aggressively, but im not really sure what a good setup would be so I look forward to any advice that is given. Thank you all who took the time to read through this and especially to those of you with any advice

.Oh and im thinking about doing only cardio when I work out at around noon and then lifting weights with a friend of mine at night when I get out of work. So if that happens then ill probably do 5-6 hours of cardio per week and 3-4 hours of weights.

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in need of support and advice.

I don't know where to start, how to keep it up, or how to eat correctly.

Background: 28, mother of a 9 month old who breastfeeds. Currently weight 170lbs 5'4" I used to have an eating disorder prior to finding out I was pregnant. And currently dealing with a growing umbilical Hernia.

Before becoming pregnant I was 117lbs. I never learned how to eat properly and healthy so I don't know where to begin. I have found myself fighting "disordered eating" thoughts and want to learn how to become healthy and lose this weight the right way.

Any suggestions on how to keep focused, motivated and get over this initial anxiety and fear of failure?

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I feel like my body is falling apart, any advice?

symptoms:

knee pain, joint pain in general, I don't have my period at all, anemia, headaches, fatigue, diahrea/indigestion/bloating/undigested food and blood in stool/ tooth aches/ hair loss/ abdominal cramping as well as outrageous appetite (trying to control my binges), frequent thirst, pains in liver area, and sometimes it hurts to swallow foods like bread and peanut butter.

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Hi!! I'm new... need some advice, supporters and people to support!

Hi there!! My name is Chan?l. I'm a 23 year old female student from South Africa. I'm in a long term relationship that makes me extremely happy. I have no children, but plenty of brothers and sisters!! My favourite colours are grey and charcoal.

My favourite movie genre is drama and I love psychological thrillers! I like reading and any outdoor activies.

My favourite snacks are muffins and yoghurt and I love ice tea and red wine. My biggest obstacle is my studies; it is extremely stressful, tiring and time consuming. Thus, I tend to eat when I have time and whatever is available. My current weight is 60,8kg and my goal weight is 56kg. I have lost 1,2kg in a week so far!! (62kg to 60,8kg)

My least favourite chores are sweeping the floors and mopping them.

I found Calorie Count on the internet. Actually, I stumbled upon it after researching diets. I'm happy to be part of this community!!

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Non teenage first time ED advice *possibly triggering?*

Hello. This is my first post here, though I've been looking up posts on this forum for a while.
Essentially, I feel I could do with a little support/advice from anyone who's been in a position they feel is similar. Also, from anyone who has recovered further than I have.

I'm currently 26 years old. I am 5'5 . I have a lifelong history of depression. For the first time at the age of 24, and a weight of roughly 10st 5lbs (145lbs, and I now believe this to be my 'set-point'), I began to seriously restrict my eating, and began to lose weight. The rate of loss seemed to be exponential, and by christmas of that year (6 months into restriction), people were telling me I looked 'better'. I was probably around 9st 4lbs at that point. I was still having periods, but generally lacked energy, due to over-restriction.

By my 25th birthday in the spring, I had lost roughly another 10lbs. I had also been on the mini pill for a month. My periods had been irregular for about 3 months, and dwindled for a couple more months, then stopped. This did not deter me from losing weight. I assumed it was entirely down to the birth control (which I was only on for a month - I had to stop due to the hormones affecting my state of mind) and so kept on restricting. At this point I was walking several miles each day, obsessively, and playing sport twice a week, for an hour or two at a time.

Around July, I recognised that something was wrong with my mental state, and at around 8st, sought help. This took several attempts, as three different doctors were astoundingly dismissive as I was not YET in the high risk weight range, and am quite bulky in appearance. The one doctor who took me seriously referred me for therapy (though I didn't get access to this until around christmas just gone).

By November, I had dropped to around 7st, and just before christmas, dropped to about 6st 12lbs. I had made a couple of fairly pathetic attempts at recovery, but clearly this was not yet happening.

To cut the rest short. I began therapy around christmas time, and now, 6 months later, have gained up to around 9st. I still have no period. I still struggle a great deal, and restrict a little on some days. I'm having a lot of trouble adjusting to my body the way it is now. I've been at or around my current weight for about 2 months.

If anyone has any experience of people who have developed eating disorders for the first time this late in life, and then if anyone has recovered menstruation subsequently.

Thank you, and sorry about the length of the post.

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The Kardashians take legal advice over “vile” Ford ad

The Kardashians have confirmed that they have planning to take legal action after a spoof Ford advert showed them bound and tied in the boot of a Figo car.

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Just got admitted... I really need some advice :(

I'm a 16 year old male who just got admitted to the hospital for a low heart rate. It was in the 30s. I dangerously under ate ate about 800-1200 calories. I lost about 60 pounds in 9 months. Despite this my BMI is healthy, at right around 18.6. I'm afraid because I was a very active athlete who exercised at least an hour and a half a day. I now can only sit here and do nothing. I'm so afraid ill never be able to work myself back into shape once I leave and I'm afraid they are going to turn me into a huge butterball again because my metabolism probably sucks. Any advice from personal experience?...

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Am I doing well on my journey so far? (opinions? advice)

Ive been up and down on this journey but finally I have a few other people working with me that also want to lose the weight an we've created this nice little support system. I wanted opinions an advice because I'm over 300 pounds an was wondering if I seem to be doing everything ok so far, or if I should improve at all?? or if I'm pushing myself to hard at all

Basically the plan is to walk 6days a week for atleast 45mins-1hour an to try an keep active during the day so far its going onto day 6 an I've walked 1whole hour 5 out of the 6 days and did some work out dancing or playing with the dogs for a bit, Ive been feeling tired and weak but it could just be my body getting used to it..I wanted to make sure I'm not pushing myself to hard or to far for my weight, is this fine?? so far I still feel motivated just very weak an tired but Ive been told this is normal as I'm just starting out all over again

as for meals I typically eat 3 meals a day unless I wake up later then I'll just have brunch and dinner and a snack around 8:00, no eating after 9/10

example of my meals have been

breakfast: A bowl of oatmeal or a 1 egg omelete with cheese and one slice of toast

lunch: a sandwich or a cup of soup

dinner: a small serving of mashed potatoes with mushrooms n gravy over it an 2 small pieces of chicken, or a salad with chicken in it

snack: a small bowl of whole wheat cereal

hope I'm doing this right, sometimes I feel like my calories are to little or to much..I just try an watch my portions mostly instead of focusing to much on calories, an I try an drink lots of water, occassionally Ill have milk with my meals but its rare because I usually save it for snack.. a lot of the time I'm 80% full but get hungry through out the day an night an I typiclly drink anywhere from 6-10 glasses of water

anyway what do you think?? any advice??? opinions? how am I doing so far??

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I need some unbiased advice here. :)

I know this is asked a lot but math makes my head whirl so having some expert CC member advice would help me a ton. :)

Okay so here come the stats

20 years old

5 ft 8 inch

164 pounds

I'm lightly active most days and on days I work at Subway I'd say I'm moderately active

I eat about 1400-1500 calories a day, however, when I work out and/or have a shift at work I calculate what I burned and usually try to eat back half of the deficit. So some days are 1700 days and others are 1400 depending.

Is this all healthy? Any tips or tricks?

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advice ?

Hey i just got put of inpatient treatment for my bulimia/ana . I have a feeling I'm not fully recovered but I'm afraid to tell my parents because i don't wanna go back to that place , i don't like their system or staff ! But i do think I'm doing good and i think its gonna be hard to transition from 24-7 staff to just my parents . And i don't like to tell them things . So any advice on conquering the real world ? And how to keep myself on recovery ? Thank yah

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any advice will help!

so the website says my caloric intake should be 1600 calories a day to lose wieght im only eating 1200 and have been losing on this calorie intake but i workout hardcore 7 days a week and burn about 400 and recently have found myself hungerier as the days go by i want to up my intake to 1600 but im scared its just going to make me gain instead of lose idk how to get over the fear of going above 1200 and eat 1600 please no negative comments i just want people with good intentions to comment to give you a break down of my days 

breakfast 

banana 105 calories

better'n peanut butter 100 calories

lunch 

turkey sandwich with whole wheat bread turkey lettuce and a orange 340 calories

snack tuna and crackers 200 calories

dinner homemade pizza 400 calories

i would like to add another banana to that and some more peanut butter that would add a extra 200 calories but i feel like it would just make me fat! 

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Cont. to run during pregnancy, advice?

I am about 10 weeks along. I was an avid runner(half marathon and marathon trained) all the way up till the day that my HPT came back postive. I stopped running because I am a new mom and wanted to talk to my doctor first before continuing any exercise. I also wanted to make sure that everything was going smoothly before getting back into my running habit.
My doctor told me I can continue to run, but in moderation; i.e. no more 12 mile runs :( To keep hydrated and not to overheat. I've been walking alot more because I am kinda nervous about over-doing it with the running. I tend to be a pusher when it comes to physical fitness. I went for my first run last weekend(about 3 miles) and took walking breaks. I felt great, didn't have any issues post-run, besides being tired. But I wanted to know if any other running mommies have advice for me.
Can I run straight through or do I really need to take those walking breaks?
How far is too far? My doctor didn't specify, she just said no more long runs, which could mean anything to me since I've run 26 miles.
Do I need to run slower? I'm not talking sprinting, but I avg. about 9:15 min/mile, should I tune that down to 10:00 or even 11:00?
The doctor, I feel can only tell me so much from what she knows, and I like to hear about experiences. I learn more when I read other peoples errors and triumphs. So any advice is wonderful. :)

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