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[hellosunshine]

has anyone any other leads with sports nutritionalists?seem to be getting nowhere,infact eating more and still losing weight so well worried.DR tues,told my coach,eerie response of silence,eeeeeek...............blinking stigma of eating disorders,arrgh.IM DETERMINED TO CRACK IT THIS TIME!

[hellosunshine]

Update (boring soz!)changed diet to better quality foods and adopting the gi method.RIGHT!not gaining weight,so is the best way to increase the diet by a set amount ,its a battle mushing up my brains,an athelete trying to kick hell out of an eating disorder.making me a tadge tired and weepy,,damn damn.sososo wana smack this illness for good,i suppose its a bucket of courage,and a bit of biker bloody mindedness.

[Duck on Wheels]

Hi sunshine,
I can so sympathize. Was a time I went into an uncontrolled weightloss spin (due to intenstinal disorder, in my case). I kept looking for weight-gaining diets, but all the well-publicized ones are about losing more, never about putting some back on. I "bottomed out" at 50kg and I'm 5'9", so you can imagine how little muscle I had on me! I ended up getting help from a nutritionist. Turns out I had lost some key nutrients that had to be gained back -- along with getting the disorder under control, of course -- then the weight came back on. In fact, I overshot the mark but was too nervous about over-losing again to do anything about it until recently. Now I am slooooowly inching my way down where I want to be. Slowly seems to be a key here. So my advice:
1) Don't be too stressed out and impatient about this. Work your way gradually back to where you feel you should be, and listen to your body along the way. You want to put on muscle, not just fat, so you'll need to eat just a tad more than you're burning and keep on working out.
2) Talk to a nutritionist, if you can.
3) Take the time to enjoy your food. Make it look good and taste good. Have nice music on, or a good book handy -- whatever makes it more fun. Eating is not a duty, it's a pleasure. You eat because your body wants to eat, not just because it's the sensible thing to do. So take the time to listen to your body thanking you for the good food.
4) You might want more than 3 meals a day. Multiple smaller meals rather than 3 big ones are less likely to leave you feeling stuffed and uncomfortable.
5) Maybe prepare several meals in advance, so you don't get tempted to skip or postpone meals just because of the time and effort of preparing them.
6) Take along energy snacks when exercizing, and remember to eat them. That's in addition to your regular meals. If you're undernourished, you may be "bonking" regularly and taking that to be a normal state of affairs. That could perhaps explain the tiredness and weepiness. Also a burst of extra energy here and there along the race or ride may give you back some of that speed you're missing.

Good luck to you! Recognizing that you're running out of power and that it may be related to the weight loss, that's a good start. And you're also addressing the problem by eating more. Stick with it and you'll get back in shape, maybe better shape than ever!

[spokewench]

Talk to a nutritionist - but you might try some of this too.

My hubby has an incredible metabolism - nothing else wrong with him; if you can call that "wrong".

When he used to train, ride all the time and race, he was "incredibly skinny". Now, he doesn't ride, race, etc. that much and is just "skinny".

What we found helped with him, was he would eat regular meals, many meals, not all low fat. He would eat some things that have a good amount of fat - (you still have to be careful with this for the obvious reasons) but don't try to cut out all fat. Make it good fat, but make sure you get enough. And, of course plenty of carbs, protein and fiber.

Also, add supplements - try the after exercise sports drinks. Drink a whole bottle every time you come back from a work out. (these tend to put weight on or at least with my hubby hold the weight). Now, if he feels like he hasn't gotten enough calories with his meal, he will drink one of those meal replacement drinks i.e ensure to help him hold weight.

[hellosunshine]

NASTY DISEASE!right,10/10 now having a massive calorie intake of the right kinda foods and have risen from 48.2kg - 48.6 and guess what!nasty disease wants me to stop .........yet ive still gotta get up to 50kg to feel stronger again,and nutritionalist reckons 54kg wouls be brill.arrgh.am thinking the anorexia is a football and i need to give it a good boot.hard work.

[RoadRaven]

Hey there Sunshine... sounds like you have a helluva lot of bravery and courage deep inside you that won't quit, and that nasty illness is battlilng, but you and your body and mind are battling back.

Keep believing in yourself an your ability to achieve your goal... you can do this - we know you can... all the women here at TE who have read this thread hold you in their hearts or minds and battle virtually with you.

Keep writing us, every gram you achieve is wonderful and today you write its nearly half a kg!!! WOOHOO!!! And I look forward to hearing that you are feeling stronger and stronger and stronger...

Kia kaha, kia manawanui
(Be strong, be of good heart and believe in yourself)

Arohanui (big/much love)
Raven