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Hello,
My name is Aerica and I'm 23 years old.
I spent some time lurking this forum until I decided to join. I'm not much of a forum person but I hope that I can find some good suggestions (and maybe insight?) here.
My problem is that I don't eat enough!
I'll make this story as short as possible. Since I was a teenager I've only eaten about once a day but when I was 16 I found myself homeless and ate about once or twice a week for 4 or 5 months because I wasn't able to really go out and get food whenever I needed it. After that period, I became pregnant and my living situation changed and I started to eat 3 times a day. I was very careful to eat healthily and drink plenty of water and totally cut out caffeine but I gained 75 lbs because of the starvation mode I'd put my body into before I was able to eat again.
Well, now my daughter is 6 and I've been struggling with losing those 75 lbs that I put on in a mere 9 months.
I still have an extremely hard time eating more than once a day and if I try to force it I feel nauseous. I often go through phases where I am obsessed with counting calories but I rarely make it above 1,000 per day. The only time I do is when I've had more soda than usual (a problem, I know. I'm determined to ween myself off of it).
There are obvious things I know I should do like cutting the caffeine and drinking more water (I don't drink nearly enough) but how do I make myself eat more? Even on a regular workout regimen I cannot, psychologically, seem to get past this problem. My co-workers & boyfriend harrass me about not eating enough and I feel bad because I know I should be okay with it.
Is anyone else experiencing a problem like this? It's comforting to read about how people are overcoming their overeating habits but I kind of feel like a freak of nature; a fat girl who won't eat anything!
My name is Aerica and I'm 23 years old.
I spent some time lurking this forum until I decided to join. I'm not much of a forum person but I hope that I can find some good suggestions (and maybe insight?) here.
My problem is that I don't eat enough!
I'll make this story as short as possible. Since I was a teenager I've only eaten about once a day but when I was 16 I found myself homeless and ate about once or twice a week for 4 or 5 months because I wasn't able to really go out and get food whenever I needed it. After that period, I became pregnant and my living situation changed and I started to eat 3 times a day. I was very careful to eat healthily and drink plenty of water and totally cut out caffeine but I gained 75 lbs because of the starvation mode I'd put my body into before I was able to eat again.
Well, now my daughter is 6 and I've been struggling with losing those 75 lbs that I put on in a mere 9 months.
I still have an extremely hard time eating more than once a day and if I try to force it I feel nauseous. I often go through phases where I am obsessed with counting calories but I rarely make it above 1,000 per day. The only time I do is when I've had more soda than usual (a problem, I know. I'm determined to ween myself off of it).
There are obvious things I know I should do like cutting the caffeine and drinking more water (I don't drink nearly enough) but how do I make myself eat more? Even on a regular workout regimen I cannot, psychologically, seem to get past this problem. My co-workers & boyfriend harrass me about not eating enough and I feel bad because I know I should be okay with it.
Is anyone else experiencing a problem like this? It's comforting to read about how people are overcoming their overeating habits but I kind of feel like a freak of nature; a fat girl who won't eat anything!