Q: Unexplained Weight Gain While Severely Restricting
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June26
on August 20th, 2005
New User
I have a question about something that has really hindered my recovery process. I have been going to an outpatient ed center for about 1 year. For a while, I was only going because my parents made me. I refused to listen to the advice from professionals and ate the same thing every day. My diet was less than 1200 cals and very high fiber. I would have 4 servings of all bran a day for my carb intake. This made me extremely bloated and constipated. 6 months into treatment, I went on a trip to mexico. I had just started taking zelnorm to regulate my bowels and by the time I got back, they said I had lost 8 pounds, even though I had increased the amount and variety in my diet on the trip. I freaked out because they told me how much I had been before leaving. It was six pounds more than I was in the morning on my scale, which gives the same reading as the ed center's. I know I was water logging, but I still can't get over that number. Was it real weight? I struggle with that greatly because I decided to really try to recover. Now I am eating meals with family and having normal foods, but I am continuing to lose weight. I'm just so scared that something is going to happen again where I gain all this weight without knowing it. I'm more than 20 lbs less now and it just doesn't make sense. I have tons of energy now and am not hungry and when I was at that high weight, I was starving and had no energy!!! Please help!
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