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I have put on 5 stone

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SammySueTwo · 05/09/2022 16:17

I don't know how to feel about putting on so much weight.
I used be very overweight, lost a person and enjoyed being slim, then skinny, then super skinny and ended up really underweight with no energy.
I put weight on and meant to stop with a bmi of 20. But of course, once I started eating again, I remembered how much I liked food and I am now 3lbs overweight and feel like an elephant.
Theoretically I should be able to lose again but 5;2 is not possible - I now exercise 7 days a week and cannot cope doing a hard aerobic workout on 2 days when I am eating very little - it makes recovery impossible and I end up exhausted.
I am wondering if I could do 16:8 but I exercise at 7-8 in the morning and feel light headed if I don't eat afterwards. The children aren't home until 8:30/9pm after activities twice a week so I'd never eat with them in the evenings.
Realistically I need to stop eating sugar and I'd easily lose weight but I crave it so much, that each of the last 4 times I have tried, I have failed within hours. I wish there was a drug I could take that would make me feel sick every time I ate sugar!

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lljkk · 05/09/2022 16:24

3lbs overweight

How tall are you & how much do you weigh now?

Blowyourowntrumpet · 05/09/2022 16:27

Can I ask how tall you are and how much you weigh? You do sound like you're being very hard on yourself

SammySueTwo · 05/09/2022 16:40

178cm - so relatively tall and I weigh 12 stone 9.

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lljkk · 05/09/2022 16:45

At 7stone 9 your BMI was 15.3. Now BMI is 25.3. You are so much healthier now.

You're right you have a disordered relationship with food & you haven't sorted that. What help have you sought to recover from the ED?

SammySueTwo · 05/09/2022 16:59

Never had an ED. I got down to a reasonable weight, then suffered a bereavement and just couldn't eat at all.
I have physical health issues meaning I spend a lot of time on steroids hence some of the weight gain. I had counselling for other reasons and insisted I saw a psychiatrist who advised I never had an ED - it was situational. I've always been a bit overweight as an adult - because I love sugar and so I eat a super healthy diet to compensate for the calories consumed in sugar.

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DarkDarkNight · 05/09/2022 22:20

Doing hard aerobic exercise 7 days a week is a lot. Could you cut down to 5 days then use the rest days to do the fasting part of 5:2?

You would probably be in more of a calorie deficit from the fasting than the exercise anyway, and the rest would be beneficial.

lljkk · 06/09/2022 06:23

Do you honestly think your relationship with food is healthy? "Except" for the sugar thing?

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