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coconut wrote:Rachel - have you tried eating more often during the day? Planning meals 5 or 6 times a day means more opportunities for calories. If you sit down and plan a normal amount of calories of healthy fissure-friendly foods, make sure you have those foods on hand, and eat according to plan, you might find your body weight improving.
I've been around the block with weight loss and eating disorders for a long time. (Some eating disorders are caused by things other than wanting to be thin - I'm not accusing you of having anorexia nervosa! "I have a fissure and I'm afraid to eat enough to keep me healthy" is a whole different type of eating disorder.) If this is what's going on with you, the best treatment for most people is to plan meals carefully, and follow that plan. The food plan should be based on meeting your nutritional needs. If you need help with that, going to see a certified nutritionist is often very helpful.
If you don't know how much calories, fiber, etc, you are eating in a day, I suggest keeping a food journal somewhere online like myfitnesspal.com. The computer will tell you how many calories you are eating and how much a person of your size should be eating to gain weight. You can also start to understand what foods you need to eat more of in order to keep your calories high. For example, nuts are crazy high in calories, especially walnuts and pecans, which we can eat safely. Dried fruit is very caloric.
I've been eating a lot of smoothies, in addition to solid fissure friendly foods. A banana, almond milk, coco, and 2 tbsp of peanut butter makes the most delicious smoothy ever, IMHO. Its also more than 300 calories. (There are those nuts again...)
I've been loosing weight, too. I've struggled with being larger than is healthy for me, so the weight loss isn't a problem with me. However, I've only lost about 5 lbs since my fissure when from bad to worse. Before things got really bad, I was trying to loose weight. I've lost 36 lbs since this started in October. Now I'm not trying to loose, but the fear of fissure pain is keeping me away from foods that cause me to gain, like pizza. That being said, if I wanted to, I could get myself to gain weight. All I would have to do is just keep grazing on food all day.
I hope this helps. If you want more information on non-fat-phobic eating disorders, I'd be happy to share. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia get all the attention, but there are a variety of ways that our eating can get all messed up.
coconut wrote:Rachel - have you tried eating more often during the day? Planning meals 5 or 6 times a day means more opportunities for calories. If you sit down and plan a normal amount of calories of healthy fissure-friendly foods, make sure you have those foods on hand, and eat according to plan, you might find your body weight improving.
I've been around the block with weight loss and eating disorders for a long time. (Some eating disorders are caused by things other than wanting to be thin - I'm not accusing you of having anorexia nervosa! "I have a fissure and I'm afraid to eat enough to keep me healthy" is a whole different type of eating disorder.) If this is what's going on with you, the best treatment for most people is to plan meals carefully, and follow that plan. The food plan should be based on meeting your nutritional needs. If you need help with that, going to see a certified nutritionist is often very helpful.
If you don't know how much calories, fiber, etc, you are eating in a day, I suggest keeping a food journal somewhere online like myfitnesspal.com. The computer will tell you how many calories you are eating and how much a person of your size should be eating to gain weight. You can also start to understand what foods you need to eat more of in order to keep your calories high. For example, nuts are crazy high in calories, especially walnuts and pecans, which we can eat safely. Dried fruit is very caloric.
I've been eating a lot of smoothies, in addition to solid fissure friendly foods. A banana, almond milk, coco, and 2 tbsp of peanut butter makes the most delicious smoothy ever, IMHO. Its also more than 300 calories. (There are those nuts again...)
I've been loosing weight, too. I've struggled with being larger than is healthy for me, so the weight loss isn't a problem with me. However, I've only lost about 5 lbs since my fissure when from bad to worse. Before things got really bad, I was trying to loose weight. I've lost 36 lbs since this started in October. Now I'm not trying to loose, but the fear of fissure pain is keeping me away from foods that cause me to gain, like pizza. That being said, if I wanted to, I could get myself to gain weight. All I would have to do is just keep grazing on food all day.
I hope this helps. If you want more information on non-fat-phobic eating disorders, I'd be happy to share. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia get all the attention, but there are a variety of ways that our eating can get all messed up.
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