I’m trying to recover. :]?
I’m recovering from anorexia on my own. I can’t talk to anyone about it. My parents would literally disown me and the counselors at my high school have a very bad history of not keeping the patient privacy policy. I was on a foreign exchange program last year inm Japan and got a major blow on my self-esteem. I dropped over sixty pounds to 94 pounds. Now I’m 115. I’ve been gaining a half pound every week with weight lifting, cardio, and sticking to a mostly vegan diet rich in whole grains, nuts and fish for protein, fruit, vegetables, and soy milk. It’s a start, but sometimes I can barely bring myself to eat 1000 calories. Today so far I’ve had three bananas, one cup of whole grain ceral, three glasses of soy milk, sunflower seeds, orange juice, two bottles of water, and later on I plan to eat sashimi, steamed brown rice, and miso soup along with a two mile jog. I’m fifteen, 5’6, and 115 pounds. I plan to maintain a BMI of 18.5 for now. I’m just wondering of your opinion? Thanks! :]
Thats a great start. I am dealing with an eatind disorder currently. My parents are non-accepting and think its all my fault, when you have no control over it. 18.5 is healthy. Consuming 2,000 cals will help maintain weight. 2,500 and up with help you gain weight. Anything lower than 1,800 you will loose. Help 3 square meals a day and 2 snacks per day!
Diet Recipe – Oh So Scrumptious, Salmon Sashimi Salad!
|
|
Good Calories, Bad Calories $6.59 In this groundbreaking book, the result of seven years of research in every science connected with the impact of nutrition on health, award-winning science writer Gary Taubes shows us that almost everything we believe about the nature of a healthy diet is wrong. For decades we have been taught that fat is bad for us, carbohydrates better, and that the key to a healthy weight is eating less and exercising more. Yet with more and more people acting on this advice, we have seen unprecedented epidemics of obesity and diabetes. Taubes argues persuasively that the problem lies in refined carbohydrates (white flour, sugar, easily digested starches) and sugars-via their dramatic and longterm effects on insulin, the hormone that regulates fat accumulation-and that the key to good health is the kind of calories we take in, not the number. There are good calories, and bad ones. Good Calories These are from foods without easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars. These foods can be eaten without restraint. Meat, fish, fowl, cheese, eggs, butter, and non-starchy vegetables. Bad Calories These are from foods that stimulate excessive insulin secretion and so make us fat and increase our risk of chronic disease all refined and easily digestible carbohydrates and sugars. The key is not how much vitamins and minerals they contain, but how quickly they are digested. (So apple juice or even green vegetable juices are not necessarily any healthier than soda.) Bread and other baked goods, potatoes, yams, rice, pasta, cereal grains, corn, sugar (sucrose and high fructose corn syrup), ice cream, candy, soft drinks, fruit juices, bananas and other tropical fruits, and beer. Taubes traces how the common assumption that carbohydrates are fattening was abandoned in the 1960s when fat and cholesterol were blamed for heart disease and then -wrongly-were seen as the causes of a host of other maladies, including cancer. He shows us how these unproven hypotheses were emphatically embraced by authorities in nutrition, public health, and clinical medicine, in spite of how well-conceived clinical trials have consistently refuted them. He also documents the dietary trials of carbohydrate-restriction, which consistently show that the fewer carbohydrates we consume, the leaner we will be. With precise references to the most significant existing clinical studies, he convinces us that there is no compelling scientific evidence demonstrating that saturated fat and cholesterol cause heart disease, that salt causes high blood pressure, and that fiber is a necessary part of a healthy diet. Based on the evidence that does exist, he leads us to conclude that the only healthy way to lose weight and remain lean is to eat fewer carbohydrates or to change the type of the carbohydrates we do eat, and, for some of us, perhaps to eat virtually none at all. The 11 Critical Conclusions of Good Calories, Bad Calories : 1. Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, does not cause heart disease. 2 |
