Weight Gain

Let's all post with putting our gaining weigh ins and stats!

What are you doing to gain?? How much have you gained?? And what is your goal??

I am 5'7 and currently 118-122. My lowest was 94 so you do the math!!!

My nutritionist says that 130ish is where I should be..anyone else?

FINKKKKKKKKKKK-thats amazing!!!!!  how long had it been?  it was natural or induced by medication?

youre 5'2, rt?  can i ask hgow much you eat and weigh?

congrats!!!!!!!!!!!

Thankssssss!!!! Well its been around 10 months, before that i had an on/off one for a couple of months since that was right after I had physically 'recovered' the first time- and its natural! No BC/medication induced! Veryyyy exciting!
Yes, I am 5'2...my current weight (well as of tuesday, so three days ago) was around 96 lbs- I'd went up around 3 lbs in two weeks, but I'm guessing part of it was the pre-period weight because i definitely felt more water-weighty and I guess I saw it coming because I've had really sore breasts the past two weeks as well as some mood swings...hmm when it comes to eating, I'm still not eating the amount I should be, I am gradually increasing- my guess is probably around 1500-2000/day, but I don't really exercise (besides free weights/toning activities). I am still trying to up my calories though, because everything I've seen is indicating that I need more than that ;)

The good thing is my appetite has started to come back making it loads easier :p

Height: about 5'8

LW: 90ish 

CW: 110.5!

GW: 117-120

 

I'm getting closer...... YAAAAY.

I've been actively attempting to recover for about a week now, but I did gain some weight a while ago because I picked up my old habit of extreme binging within the past 5 or so months. Anyways, here are the stats:

Height: 5' 10.5"
LW: 121.5
CW: 125-ish
GW: I don't have one. I just want to tone up and have a healthy relationship with food again. It's a lot freaking harder than I thought it would be.

Aimee: Yay for tall girls :] And I admire your comment to your goal weight, too. Mine is actually higher than I've ever weighed in my life, but I want to be in the healthy range quite firmly, and want to tone and be curvy and yum for once rather than "Gosh Ellie, you're so thin!" >>; I wish you all the luck in the world on your recovery. It's tough, but it's possible - and the benefits are endless :D Good luck! :D

lala - I'm a little jealous of your height! I'm at the short end of being tall, so never really feel like it's fair to call me tall. Not to mention that two of my closest girlfriends are 5' 11.5" and 6' so I'm the short one when we go out.
I also don't want to make a goal weight, because I don't know what's a healthy  weight for my body any more, and I can't trust BMI as a good judge since I have a bit of an abnormally small frame. I trust that as long as I work at being healthy, my body will make it to a place where it is happy to be.

After a week of my increased intake to a consistent 2000 i am up 0.7kg or 1.5lb to 84.0lb or 38.2kg!! Eek, scarily fast weight gain happening here but I AM NOT GOING TO CUT DOWN ON THE CALS, just gonna keep strict with myself and keep them up at 2000 and see what happens.....

 

Height: About 6 foot

Lowest Weight: 108lb

Current Weight: 112

Goal Weight: Aimee, I agree with you, I don't have a target weight, I just want to have a normal attitude towards food again.  Also, being able to knock into something without getting purple bruises would be nice!!!

Hurrah for us tall girls!  Even if trouser and shoe shopping becomes a nightmare.......!

Can I ask, to the other tall girls out there, what are your calorie levels to gain?

Had my weekly weigh in...CW= 95 lbs...down a pound from last week despite conquering many risky foods (chocolate cheesecake, etc)...I'm not too concerned though because last week at this time I was about to get my period, so i'm sure that i was carrying extra TTOM weight...

shooting for 96 next week! :)

Ug, I weighed myself today and it's scary to gain. I'm at 131.0 lbs and I can see it on me. Keep going, keep going, keep going. This is worth it, really.

theofournay - I don't really have a set calorie level, I'm just trying to eat more. I'm probably somewhere between 1800-2500 right now, but I really don't count calories... It's actually something I'm trying to get away from.

theofournay: I eat 4000 calories a day give or take, but I also seem to have REALLY screwed up my metabolism.


I need to stop weighing in daily. I've jumped a pound a day again. Crap, crap, crap. When does this stop?

yes! im happy i gained! 1.3 pounds

 im still bloated and constipated =[ slightly swollen a such but that shouldnt really give me a false weight..hmm.hopefully its mostly all real weight .

anyways i just need to gain back the 2.2 i lost on accident and then the rest of the weight i need to gain. 3500-4000 is my gaining number = ] and 4000 + when i excercise for 30 min.

congratulations everyone!

Relena I am sorry that you are dealing with these problems. I am sorry that you are choosing to let your ed consume you. It really takes tons of WANT and DESIRE to get healthy and to live a better life. Hopefully you will soon find that recovery is the only living way out!

If you ever need support we are always here. I have faith in you. I believe that if you start with finding yourself first, then you can escape this awful killing disease.

Congrats on getting your period back...but I really wish you would consult a doctor and therapist. You can beat this....don't let ed win.

In the meantime, my thoughts and prayers are with you.

Any POSITIVE GAINS lately?? UPDATES??

I am still in my maintanence phase, up and down about 3 pounds, but I guess that is what life and fluctuations and health are all about!! Good luck everyone!

thanks girl..i really need some prayers. i'm sorry to be posting this one but the reason i came back was to delete my former post and then, it was already deleted..from both forums ..i'm not angry or anything, it's the right thing you people stay positive and don't let some discouragings bring you down...

thanks again and good luck!

please delete this if you want..i don't belong here

I've made some positive gains! Not too much weight wise since I was set back in France but I'm up to 109.5 as of yesterday :)

most importantly though I've been doing a million billion times better emotionally. I'm finally starting to feel like myself again and remembering who that person was. I'm going out with friends regardless of whether the occasion revolves around food or not. I'm staying out later and breaking away from my schedule, which I"ve been really rigid about up until now. I also have not counted in over a week now I think because I trust myself to know what and how much I need to eat. I'm still eating what I would assume to be ~4000 calories a day. when I get the urge to exercise I make sure I"m not compulsive about it, 20 min or so on the bike or 30 minutes of yoga and then I'll go do something relaxing like read a book or watch a movie. I've realized I can eat all I want but it won't help me if I burn it off.

School and work will all start up again at the end of august so I'll be super busy and hopefully that will also help me normalize a bit and go back to the old me.

Hope everyone else is doing well!

I've made some goal weights / checkpoint weights.

Weight 1: 134 lbs
Weight 2: 141.5 lbs

I really don't want to hit weight 2 right now. It's just a scary number and is way more than I've ever weighed in my life. Even 134 is my highest weight.

So... I'm scared. But I'm going to eat lots until I hit weight 1. Hopefully I'll be able to get to a nutritionist or something before then, but since I'm 130ish right now that might not happen. I guess I figure that if I gain more weight than I want, at least I will fix up my metabolism along the way, and then I'll be able to lose any extra in a gradual and healthy way. But seriously... Not a good day today mentally. Grrrrrrrrrrrr....

hello there!

my name is lela, 17 yrs and recovering from BED. can i join in?? actually i got this site from a friend of mine who is also recovering from an ed, anorexia. her name is relena, i've known her from school and i still keep in touch. my ed started when i was around eleven...i was always naturally thin and i still am. surprisingly, i'm not fat at all even now through ed. i guess that whenever i eat too many calories i'd gain for a couple days then my metabolism catches up and i lose it all again. sadly, this only made things worse as i thought, "hey i don't gain on 4000 cals, so i can eat all the time and not become fat!"

anyway, i got a lot of complications as well, like, stomach pains, constipation and horrible bloating. and now i want to stop and change that and just eat normally...i'm 5ft2, 100 lbs. not bad huh? do u think if i started eating normally which is much less than i do everyday i'd lose weight??

p.s...i noticed that relena stopped posting. i called her and talked with her the whole day long,, she's really very deppressed, not eating, exercising all the time and her family is devastated and not talking to her. they will take her to a hospital soon for a whole week's hospitalization...i'm really feeling bad for her, please let's pray for her to get better, she's just turned 16 last month!!

another 1.4 pounds gained!

ive been adding strength training to build lean muscle mass on my arms and legs about 3 times a week for 30 minutes. hopefully i can keep on gaining at this rate with stregth training

that puts me back at 102.5