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I starved myself for a while then started eating and gaining weight fast what should I do please any advice?


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i am your sunshine in the
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:22 pm Post subject: I starved myself for a while then started eating and gaining weight fast what should I do please any advice?

I starved myself for a while and lost 40 lbs then I started eating 1200 calories and now I'm gaining weight so fast like 5lbs already. I KNOW it was stupid I'll never do it again but what do I do now to prevent this? Will I eventually stop gaining and start losing? I exercise 30min a day too, is this a good diet plan? Any help much appreciated! (

Devine
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject:

this is why it sucks because you can gain all your weight back. you made a bad choice by starving our self and now you'll probably gain back a lot of weight. now i would just suggest you to eat healthy, small meals followed by exercise. don't over do it and good luck =D

Speak
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject:

Exercise is good, as long as you use moderation. Your body is afraid that it's starving so it's sucking up weight. Don't worry, it will stop, just get into good eating habits and keep it up and your metabolism will get back on track. What happened was you slowed down your metabolism so now it has to get going again. Don't worry, the same thing happened to me. It stops.

x babe
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject:

Well, like you said. It WAS stupid of you to starve yourself. You just have to let it be really..Once your body adjusts and is stable with the calories consumption , you'll be normal again & start losing then.don't stress on it right now. You'll definitely gain weight since you're eating so much compared to nothing . & your metabolism is working like a snail.

Masseur_at_Play
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject:

as long as you are exercising, I mean doing far more exertive stuff than say walking, the weight should come onto you fairly well distributed and nice looking... you shouldn't fret over weight that comes onto you as such, it tends to make you look better, if you were gaining it without being in shape or exercising daily it would be different

Dillon
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:28 pm Post subject:

I'm not a professional or anything, but what I believe happened (go middle school science class!) was that your body adapted to the less amount of calories, and then when you started eating, it was still used to the lack of calories, so it put the extra into weight. Try to start eating more slowly, and work your metabolism back up. Exercising will also help get your metabolism up. Unless you are really skinny, or just starving, just slowly start eating a little bit and a little bit more per day, and eventually your metabolism should return to the level it was.

WoRDWiz
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:29 pm Post subject:

Cut out carbs and junk food for at least a week. Not NO carb but thats usually what the mindless drone inside you that thinks its always hungry goes after. My psych told me Talk to the lady driving.

sexy21hotness
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject:

This is what happens when you starve yourself. Just continue to eat good and healthy food. You might start to gain weight back but DO NOT go on a starvation mode again. Your body needs its food to function properly. Just eat healthy and exercise as well and drink lots of water. If you start focusing on the fact that you are gaining weight back and go back on to a starvation mode then you might end up killing yourself in the process or end up in the hospital with huge amounts of bill to pay plus the added stress. Continue to eat right, exercise and although your body is gaining weight, once your at a normal condition where your body knows that it will be no longer in a starvation mode then you will continue to lose weight as well! Hope this helped!!

Traci D
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:45 pm Post subject:

The major issue with stavation diets, fasts, juicing, what ever you are doing a 'crash' diet you are on, they are drastically slowing down your metabolism. Your body's natural metabolism slows WAY down in order to reserve what natural healthy muscle mass it has left. When you don't feed it, at first you will lose weight quickly. But as your body starts being hungry and under-nourished on a regular basis, it holds on to what you eat longer to get through the starvation periods. Think of it how a cactus works. It goes so long without rain that it has to hold on to its reserves until the next rainfall. When it does finally rain, the cactus bloat right up and go through a growth spurt. When we starve ourselves, once we do start eating again, our body's natural defense is to reserve the nutrition. Once we toy around with our body's natural metabolism, it is alot harder to re-regulate it.

Aden Sickle
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Posted: Fri Feb 22, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject:

You need to starve yourself again...sorta. Whatever your lowest calorie intake was while you where starving yourself, return to that. Stabalize on that for about two or three days. Now gradually add more calories. Like 25 every two days. This is going to take a lot of will power, if you splurg, you lose like 5 days progress. You sent you body into starvation mode and slowed our matabalism way down. Now you need to reboot it in a sense. Exercise is good. Three 30 minutes cardio workouts would be best, until you get your matabalism back to normal. Go here, http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm and you can calculate your ideal dail caloric intake.

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