ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Gaz, don't worry about falling down the slippery slope of gaining weight when you are already falling off the cliff of undereating!
If you are right about your loose skin (which you plan to have surgically removed) weighing a couple of stone, then the rest of your body already weighs only just over 11 stone and even that weight is falling at 2+ pounds a week. You don't have time to mess about with this, you need to stabilise your weight NOW!
I think you have two eating disorders, not one - SED and undereating which will soon become full-blown anorexia.
Even if you are currently telling us the truth about your weight, I would almost guarantee that you will start fibbing about it soon. I think you will tell us that you are stable at 13 stone, as your weight continues to fall. I've seen it at close hand. Someone swears that they are not losing weight, but absolutely refuses to get on the scales. Meanwhile, extra bones are sticking out every week that goes by ...
I also think that you are overtraining and that is amplifying the problems of your undereating.
I'm sure that if I asked you about your cycling, you'd be able to tell me exactly what heart rate you were at on what hill, how many feet you climbed, what your mileage for the week was, what your average speed was and so on.
If, however, I asked you for a detailed description of your planned recovery sessions during the week, what would you say? When did you take a break from the bike and why? What did you do instead? How was that supposed to help? What are the benefits of rest?
What you have achieved so far has been wonderful but you have to understand that the cure that prevented the fat from killing you is also rapidly becoming the new thing that will kill you.
If you can't force yourself to take in the extra 1,000 to 1,500 cals a day to stabilise your weight, then at least stop overtraining, take some well-earned rest and then you won't be burning so much weight off!
