A HUGE warning about gaining back weight and metabolism and stuff.
If you are heavily restricting and losing weight, eventually you will get to your goal weight. You metabolism will have slowed so if you go back to eating even something like 1400 calories you will likely gain. But don’t worry!! I have a fix.
Many people with eating disorders act like they hate food - but I know most of us love it. It’s wonderful. But scary. And too tempting. But once you’re at your goal weight, don’t you want to go back to eating at least semi-normally? While doing this process, it takes about 3-6 months to complete. There might be times when you gain a pound or two but I promise you, it’s physically impossible to. (Unless you went from 200 daily calories to 1000 in one day) Give your metabolism time to adjust and trust the process.
If you want to stay the low/goal weight, you need to maintain it that weight. For a while. Your body has a set weight it wants you to be at. It can take 3-6 months for your body to normalize and move the set point to your new weight.
In this example let’s say you have been restricting to 500 calories everyday. Once you hit your goal weight (or within 5 pounds of it) you should increase to 700/800 calories per day for a month straight. You may gain a pound or two in the beginning but don’t freak out. It’s not real. You are likely to even lose more weight.
For the second month you should increase to 850/950 calories per day. Same thing might happen with a tiny bit of weight gain but it will go away within a week or so. And yes, you still might be slowly losing weight. For the third month you should eat around 1000/1100 calories everyday. Expect the same as above.
Fourth, fifth, and half of sixth month should be 1200-1400 calories. I know it’s scary. You can do this. Even an increase up to this high, you physically can’t be gaining weight. I promise.
If you want to stay at that calorie limit, you can. Or you can figure out your TDEE with an online calculator, and slowly increase calories (no more than 150 per month)
Good luck! Don’t binge, drink your water, and take your meds!!! 💗
This was my old blog!! Reblogging to hopefully reach more people
