Audrey's Journal

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Okay, So I guess first I will say a little bit about myself. I am eighteen and 5 feet nine inches. I will have been a vegetarian for 3 years on October 5th and at that time I will have been vegan for 6 months. In ninth grade I was up to about 165 pounds and not very happy about it. I started just eating healthier and slowly lost weight. Then about beginning of this year I think I had some really tramatic events in my life and my brain got a lot of a wack. I was still dieting and dieting by eating really healthy foods and almost pretty much ate like too healthfully. Well obviously it wasn't a balanced diet but it was all healthy foods. i didn't need to diet I was a healthy weight but I guess I though I need to lose weight. So by June I was down to like 115 lbs. Really scrawny and I for the first time noticed it. Now when I look at pictures I really notice it. I went to the doctor and found out my body had of course been in starvation mode only burning about 1100 calories a day!!! Scary.
Anyways, I have worked this summer on getting weight on me and now I weight 130 lbs. But now I'm not eating healthfully. Trying to gain more weight pretty much I just binge on a ton of food before I go to bed. Then i feel sick and I hate it. I just want to be able to eat healthy and be normal again. Not have this fixation on food. So unlike most people here I don't want to lose weight just eat healthy maybe 3 meals and snacks. I am going to exercise a lot and write that in here along with what I eat. i think this will help with me bingeing. I won't want other people to read about me bingeing so maybe I wont? I know if i dont change this bingeing habbit I will start going back up and up and up on the scale and before i know it I wont like my body again. So yeah, any advice is nice. I really am going to try to tone up by working out.
I'm not going to write today what I ate because I bingeing on like a million almonds.
 
Hi Audrey!

Good to have you in here. No doubt you will find many people to help you with whatever you want help with! This is a wonderful place for support. I myself do not have experience with the Vegan lifestyle but I do have experience with trying to gain a bit of weight as well as the binging problem. Its a long story and you can read it in my diary if you want. Anyway, what I know for a fact is that binging is caused by an imbalance in your body. Somewhere your body isn't getting what it needs and it tries to overcompensate by getting you to eat and eat and eat. My binges were always cereal. I could eat boxes of that stuff:eek: When I started eating more well rounded and the amount of calories right for my body on a consistant daily basis it gradually stopped to where there were NO more cravings for anything. Have you ever seen a nutritionist? Do you write down what you eat or what you will eat? Do you track calories at all? Tell us more about your current diet. Don't be afraid to post problems, insecurities or mess-ups (i.e. days you binge a lot). thats what we're all here for, to help each other get through questions about issues that someone else has already gleaned wisdom from through experiencing it! The more we know about you, the more we can help!:D
 
I've been to nutritionist at the beginning of the summer. The days I binge i think is when i don't eat enough during the day and the reason I didn't eat enough during the day was because I had binged the night before. I really want to get to the point I don't have cravings, I used to be like that. Today was good.

Two bowls of multigrain cheerios with raspberries on top with soy milk.

Had to eat out so I ate at Subway and got six inch veggie sandwich and a bag of original flavored sunchips

Fake chicken sandwich with pickles, tomatoes, cucumbers and green peppers, steamed broccoli with ketchup, soymilk

Just had some raspberries, cheerios, and this puffed pastry twist thing.

Went to a step class and a powercut class at the YMCA
 
Ger, Okay so obviously I haven't been keeping up with this. I make myself so angry. I haven't stopped bingeing certain days yet. I am doing pretty good on exercise making it to the Y or just running at home, but I just get bored at night and end up eating. I think I need to make a rule that I can't eat in front of the tv or computer unless I am doing it with someone else.
 
Darn it. Yesterday sucked big time. I had a healthy lunch at noon since I woke up late and my parents had people from church over for a potluck lunch. Then after everyone left at 2 I just ate and ate. Then I was like okay thats ALL the eating I will do today. So I had choir practice from 6 until 8:30. Then I get home and even though I am not remotely tired just bored I eat like 4 oreo cookies, some plain cereal, crackers and some fruit. GER!! I am so sick of this and mad at myself. Of course if I tell this to some one their just like shut up Audrey your skinnier then me blah blah blah. But I am gaining this weight pretty fast. Hummm. Any advice to stop binging? I loved it when I never craved food and only ate when I was hungry.
 
My questions would be if you're getting enough calories, and secondly if you're getting enough protein. Having a protein-carb combination at every meal is important to feeling satisfied (and not hungry immediately thereafter) not to mention the other nutrients. People here use fitday.com to track their calories and diet composition - try doing that. Also try making breakfast your biggest meal - then taper off the calorie intake (over 5-6 meals) as you get towards evening. Hope this helps.
 
How tall are you? You don't sound heavy, just sounds like you need a good eating/exercise plan to tone you up and keep you in shape. Ditto what Stingo said on the eating.
 
Starinsky-
I can say that "My name is Codi and i am an overeater", because I really haven't conquered that whole thing yet. I have been working on my new fitness routine and diet plan which has helped SO MUCH. I use fitday.com like Stingo suggested, I mean, try it. Really! It helps. And stay on this forum for motivation.
I am still working on my diet and making sure I eat enough at each meal. i mean, if you eat enough at each meal, you wont go hungry and I think it will help those of us who get cravings to indulge in foods.

Just wanted to let you know I am here with you, stay strong girlie!
 
Another suggestion - get a scale so you can weigh your portions out... They tend to get bigger without us realizing it, adding on calories we're not aware of til we step on the scale.
 
Thanks for the possitive responses. I Have done well so far today and went to the gym. Yesterday was okay didn't quite need all the food I ate at night but it wasn't too bad.
 
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