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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Fast/slow metabolism at 5'4'' really affects your BMR by 200 calories or so max, typically more like 100 calories.  The real difference that people say is "metabolism" has to do with how much people naturally move--fidgeting and being restless and postural differences can burn up to ~300 calories a day.  Then if you exercise regularly, additional calories burned during exercise from that and from muscle/tissue repair.

If you are gaining eating 1500 calories a day as a woman ~120 lbs, either you are really sedentary, or you are really bad at calorie counting.[/quote]

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