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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Threads like this make me so glad I recovered from my eating disorder. I'm 5'4", weight always around 125, counting calories obsessively and starving to get to 120, then immediately rebounding up to 130. In eating disorder recovery I started eating a normal amount of food every day (between 2000 and 3000 calories depending on how active/hungry I am on any given day-- I don't work out but I walk a lot) and now my weight comfortably sits just below 120. I can't imagine living on 1000 or 1500 calories a day anymore.

This is just to say that the obsessiveness can actually keep you heavier. Getting back in touch with your body's hunger cues can be a really good thing. [/quote]

How do you maintain 120 on 2000-3000 a day? [/quote]

I assume this is just my body's natural set point. I walk between 10 and 20k steps a day and eat whatever I want, not counting calories but I know its generally above 2000. Some days are more or less depending on appetite. I've been between 118 and 121 for more than 5 years now since recovering, excluding part of that time when I was pregnant and gained about 25 pounds. The pregnancy weight came off on its own between months 4-6 postpartum (I was breastfeeding so my appetite was high and I was eating a lot at the time).

Here's an example day of eating:

Breakfast: Bagel with a couple of slices of cheese and a couple of slices of tomato
Lunch: Bean and cheese quesadilla with guacamole and salsa 
Snack: An apple and a kind bar
Dinner: Fairly large portion of Thai stir fry with chicken, veggies, noodles, and sauce
Dessert: smallish bowl of ice cream

I have a theory that people who restrict their calories so low end up eating more in a "rebound" effect than they would if they just ate a satisfying amount of mostly healthy food every day. I know that was true for me before I recovered from my eating disorder.
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You must know that you have a very fast metabolism.  Most women cannot have ice cream daily.  If I ate this much a I would gain a tremendous amount of weight. If I eat even 1500 calories, even with 10000 steps and working out, I gain a lot.[/quote]

How old are you? Not being able to eat 1500 calories in a day without gaining despite being very active seems like something could be off with you metabolism.

"Most women cannot have ice cream daily" is not really a logical statement. You can eat whatever you want within the boundaries of the amount of calories you can have without gaining. [/quote]

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