Eating disorders! HELP!
By vikkiz
@vikkiz (518)
October 25, 2009 4:20pm CST
Hi all ill start of by saying i DONT have an eating disorder but cant understand how i dont put on weight??? I have been a very skinny person all my life my mother,sister and grandmother are all the same. I am 23, 5 foot 5, and weight under 7 stone!, I have been trying for years to put on weight, all my friends say im lucky and they wish they were like me but its sooo untrue! I have boney hips,boney shoulders non exsistent breasts!! Its horrid, when i look at busty, curvy models in magazines i yearn to have curves even if it ment me being fat!!! The recommended calorie intake for a woman is 2000 calories per day, i eat well over that and after taking tests online all of them have come back that i am overweight and an overeater?? Mabe the overeating is true but not the overweight bit.
My docters even gave me complan shakes (an extra 2000 calories per day) and guess what! after 1 month id LOST four pounds!!! I even did an experiment with my sister where we ate all meals everyday at mcdonlds and we only put on a couple of pounds each! The doctors keep putting it down to a rare metabolism but im not so sure are they just fobbing me off??? Im obsessed with putting weight on as im so insecure with my skinny image!, after nights out i look at the photos and think yuk my arms look like twigs! Is anyone else experiencing the same as me or do you have any answers to what i may be suffering from??? I would love some advice!!
1 response
@vbaguinat (28)
• United States
25 Oct 09
i was thin before i had a baby. when i was your age i used to obsess too about my weight. it was embarrassing to note that i was a nutrition student then, and at the top of my class, but when i looked at myself i would think, who would believe me when i tried to give advice to other people about ideal body weights when i myself was stick-thin. there are a lot of factors that affect your metabolism, hence how much your body burns off calories at what speed. tall and skinny people have higher metabolic rates than short and fat people. genes also play a role, if you come from a family of skinny people, chances are you will be skinny too. i'm just worried that with your obsession to gain weight, you neglect to really watch what you eat. i know it's hard because i've been there and it's depressing whenever i look in the mirror. but it's better to still eat healthy and stay thin, than gain a lot of weight and have problems later on in life.
