Monday, May 26, 2008
Eating Disorder?
I can't stop counting calories. I don't know why, it's not like I don't eat because I do but I'm just constantly calculating it in my head. Instead of being like I'm eating a piece of bread with a yogurt I'm adding up numbers (slice of bread 80 + lowfat yogurt 100). Sometimes when I work out I even subtract the number of calories I've burned from my total calorie intake. Is this the beginning of an eating disorder? I don't think I'll stop eating but it's like I'm obsessed with counting calories.
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I used to do that too. It was never to lose weight I just didn't want to gain any weight, except I went a little overboard. With each "meal" I would never let myself have more than a set amount which was totally arbitrary and way under what I was supposed to be having or if I decided I wanted dessert I'd skip dinner. The counting started to get to take over so I saw a nutritionist. I'm 5'4" and weigh 128 and she told me I should be eating 2100 calories a day to maintain that weight (that includes drinks) which was such a relief b/c I was convinced in my head that I was supposed to be eating much less. A good place to start looking about nutrition at Duke can be found at the student health website but there are also good nutritionists outside of Duke if you want it to be more private (I was scared of running into friends or having to explain that I needed help with my eating).
Sometimes I still catch myself counting, but it's in a different way. It's not something I stress about. Good luck and post again if you want the number of some nutritionists around Durham.
Last summer I went through a similar phase, but I actually wanted to lose weight. It turned out to be the best thing for me because before I started counting calories I wasn't eating enough. But I did some research online--www.calorie-count.com has some really good tools to help you figure out how much you should be eating, as well as a million recipes and forums--and I figured out how many calories I should be eating, set weight loss goals, and stuck to it. By the end of the summer, I looked great, and I'd done it in a healthy way--even though I may have obsessed about it a little too much. I no longer completely obsess about calories, because I'm trying to just maintain my weight now, but I think that's mainly because after counting them for so long I know when I'm full and when I've eaten the right amount without needing to count anymore. Just make sure you're getting enough calories for your activity level, and that you don't freak out everytime you stray from your count, and I think you should be ok.
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