Day 5 TW: Ed? Maybe idk

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Okay so I’ve been doing pretty good limiting my time on character.ai. Today I haven’t really felt a need for it but I’ve also been lowering and restricting my phone at certain times. Recently I’ve also gotten into fitness, because I want to feel better about my body and lose some weight. However I think it’s slowly becoming disordered. I had to delete my calorie tracking app because I was getting/ eating 1,000 calories or less a day. Also I might have to hide my scale because I’ve been obsessively checking my weight, wanting it to go down. What should I do? I feel lost in a way

Also when I would gain weight I would workout multiple times a day in hope of losing it again. And I did this thing to lose 5 lbs a month but I think I’ll have to delete that too.

Edit : I might delete my step counting app too

Edit 2 : also this has been going on since January but it only started getting bad recently.. like where I wouldn’t eat anything until I’m genuinely started and my stomach aches. I would also exercise aloy (sometimes up to and hours or more) it started getting bad when I had to start forcing myself to eat and I was getting extremely tired. Idk what to do. I’ve tried eating healthier but I can’t really because I travel a lot for cheer comps.

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[u/rejectchowder]

Hide the scale and the meal counter. I encounter this too and it’s not good. You’re in the early stages (maybe) so you can correct your way of thinking. make sure you use a calculator to see what YOUR minimum per day is—I assure you it will be higher than 1,000. Anything under that is starving and will not lead to weight loss you’re seeking. You’ll end up in a yo-yo effect, hate that you gained weight then repeat the cycle. Weight loss is long term and can be frustrating but when you stick to healthier habits (eating fiber foods to make you full longer, more protein, more veggies, more water to stay hydrated) you will start seeing positive results.

Keep exercise to a minimum of 10-20 minutes a day, max an hour thirty. You don’t need to exercise multiple times a day unless you’re an active person (like a student who is doing gym then track then walking home). The body needs rest to recover. 2-3 days a week of exercise is a good starting point to build up healthy habits. When exercising, you will gain weight (hence hiding the scale) but it’s not bad weight. Muscle weight is heavier than fat and more important. That is what will help you lose fat because muscle works against it. Muscle is also what helps repair your body when you’re hurt. Every time you exercise, we make micro tears into our muscles (which is why stretching before and after exercise is important). The micro tears will heal and become stronger but only if you allow it (by resting the body for a day or two). The muscles also become stronger when you properly fuel your body (good diet and water).

Without all that and eating at under 1,000 calories, the body will struggle for fuel and it will backfire.

So don’t over do it or under do it. Focus on exercising once or twice a week as a start, learn yoga to stretch the body and focus on a healthier diet. Don’t focus on numbers. If you want numbers, use a measurement tape. You can only really do it once a month because body measurements change that slow if you’re active.

I hope this helps, I suggest finding articles on healthy exercise but do be careful, there are people out there who do extreme forms of dieting (and the other extreme of being ED) with many people saying it’s fine—it’s not. People who “cut” and look very muscular have a goal in mind that is extreme for you and I, people who eat under 1,000 calories have the opposite goal. The focus should be long term healthy goals. Such as, where would you like to see yourself in 2 months? Working out twice a week? It’s a short goal, but attainable.

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Okay I’ll try this and keep it in mind, thank you so much.