BabsieGirl said:
Tom.
Listen to what the room has to say.
Get your meals in order. (3 -4k calories)
Start weight training
STOP THE CARDIO..you're going to blow away.
Babs
Well I'm getting my meals downpact, I'm eating 2800 calories and on sunday I weigh myself to see if I gained weight or not (I ate 2100-2300 calories for one week and lost a pound). I've been lifting weights now for a little longer than 2 months, and as I've explained before I just can't stop the cardio, I just can't. Lol and I doubt that I'll blow away. If you and jaim91 haven't yet then I won't for sure, cause you two are alot thinner than me.
BulkMeUp said:
when u were overweight did u have a state of mind such as "i have always been fat and can't imagine myself being slim" ??? I dont think so.. The fact that u have managed to make such a great change to yourself is proof enough. U put in a lot of hard work into your body to get where u r and that is commendable.
Similarly, u need to work towards changing your state of mind to work positively for you, just as u did for your body.
A persons body is not the only thing that needs work.. the mind does too...and it IS possible to work at and change both ..IMO
And u hv changed one, why not the other??
Well when I was overweight (like 170lbs, pretty much all of it was fat) I did have that state of mind "i have always been fat and can't imagine myself being slim", thats why my eating disorder went on for 3 years. I's do it for a couple of months then think "This isn't working I'm always gonna be fat and I have to accept, hell who am I even doing this to please?" so then I'd stop for a couple of months with an occasional throw up here and there, and then after I while I'd become sick of how fat I was and I'd start over, and it went on and on like that. I know my mind needs just as much work as my body if not more, and that'll probably be my most hardest thing to do.
jaim91 said:
I got by mf measured at the gym and it said 3%...which is really low for a girl. Don't trust your reading. You have to get it done at a hospital or something. Either underwater weighing or 7 point calipers. Get them to do it 3 times so the results are consistant. And the online bf calculators are shit.
Ya I'm not trusting the bodyfat% I got at the gym, the guy had no idea what he was doing, my fist clue shoulda been when i called and asked if they did body fat % measurments down there and then he said :ummm sure...ya I guess we could do that.."
SportinStyle said:
Look here's the deal; you say you are worried about getting fat but you are eating 2700 calories. You are still gaining weight doing this it will just take longer, so why not speed up the uninevitable and just do it.
Well i wanna gain about a pound a week, nothing to fast, that way I can tell if I'm gaining fat or muscle, I'm also taking it slow because I don't want to relapse, it's only been about 5 months since I've gotten out of the hospital and theres no way in hell I'm ever going back there. So by gaining a pound a week instead of like 3 pounds a week, I can mentally handle that ALOT better.
I know alot of you guy's are thinking "god he's so stupid I don't understand why he just dosen't eat more, and stop the cardio if he wants to gain some muscle" but it's not as simple as that, I wish it was but its not. It's a battle within myself everyday, I have two voices in my head always fighting against each other, one voice is me, and the other is the eating disorder. I know it sounds stupid but it's the best way I can explain it, the only one who probably really understands is jaim91. When I went into grade 9 I was happy with myself, I didn't care what other's thought about me or my weight I finally thought I beat the eating disorder and there'd never be never be any more day's without food or, stuffing mydelf so much that I couldn't even walk so I could throw everthing up so much easier. But then in P.D.R. class we started up the eating disorder section and all the same old thoughts came back but this time it was so much worse, There'd be weeks upon weeks without food, the only time i'd eat anything thing is if I collapsed, I'd eat half an apple so I could get on with my day and exercise some more, I would always put myself down about everything, I'd constently call myself fat, even when I weighed 105 pounds, I called myself a fat ass. This went on for 5 months untill I was hospitilized cause my heart rate was in low 30's, which meant it was in the mid 20's while I was sleeping, They said within 2 days I probably would of had a heart attack. So It isn't as easy as just waking up every morning and stuffing my face full and saying to myself that I'm not gonna bother doing any cardio this morning, I've already made some pretty big steps forward and I don't want to take any back.
