ABC diet?

[Painted_Indian_Horse]

has anyone done it? i tried it once but only lasted like a week and a half. i started it again today. i want to look good for halloween and i'm really overweight. i'm 5'3" and i weigh anywhere from 160-165. i hate being fat. i see all the skinny beautiful people all around me and all i can think is 'why don't i look like that?' but i'm a bigger person to begin with. i don't have the pretty, skinny, naturally petite body. it would be nice, but i'm just another unlucky one. i know i'll never be that pretty, but i can sure as hell try. i'm so average looking. brown hair, brown eyes... boring! i'm average weight, below average height--which sucks. i want to be extravagant without even trying, and steal the floor. but no. i'm just another average person. i have no outstanding talents, so i don't even try.

i am also getting blood work to check my thyroid gland soon too, so hopefully some sort of med will come out of that. maybe then i'll lose more weight. but right now i take green tea weight loss pills and bought a bunch of protein bars to replace meals. i feel so shitty cause i ate wayyy over the allotted 500 cal for today. i ate like maybe 900 or 1000? i don't know. i'm gonna start a food journal tomorrow to keep track.

[closed]

900 is below the healthy line for a diet
It makes you think about what you eat but it can be as well,
Apple pie (not diatetic)
Biscuits
Cheeseburger
etc.
so it's just a tool to make you think about what you eat and jot just toss everything to your mouth, so in this sort of way it helps, but as a physical diet and not emotional? i doubt eating menu of apple pie biscuits and cheesburger will make you thin.

[Syvelocin]

Whoah there hun. Please, rethink this.

Do not diet like that. The ABC diet is not good for you. You need to be eating so much more than that. Your health is so much more important that "losing weight fast."

I put it in quotes because it doesn't work like that. Sure, you might start dropping five pounds a week, maybe even more. But you can't live on that much food. You should be losing weight at no more than two pounds per week. You have loads of time to lose weight, but that time will be decreased if you don't give your body nutrients.

I think I have the sort of body you seem to be alluding to, and I'm sorry, but it's not what it's cracked up to be. I'm shorter than you, at 5' 1". And brown hair, brown eyes... there's nothing wrong with that. Actually, I have brown hair and brown eyes as well ^.^ But my mother was small. Her sisters were small. Her mother was small. My mother was bulimic and her youngest sister was anorexic. And further, I'm anorexic. Well, I'm a recovering anorexic. At my worst point, I was 70 pounds. You know how I got there?

I was fed up with my body. I thought I was fat, when I was of an average weight for my body type. I thought I should be even smaller compared to the rest of my family. I restricted my eating, until I was so obsessive over it. Only 1000 calories a day, no more, no less. Then I kept decreasing it. Sure, eventually you get thin. You know what else you get? Your hair falling out. You get chills when it's warm outside. You can't seem to get up in the morning, you have such little energy. Your hands can't stay still long enough to even tie your shoes.

Oh yes, you'll steal the floor. Anorexics who get that far always steal the floor. But they're not looking at your face or your waist. They're looking at your knees, or your elbows. Your hips if you're in a swimsuit. Because you can see those bones, and it's not pretty.

I eat 1800 calories a day, and that's so I can get to a healthy weight. To stay at 80 pounds for me, 1500 calories. And eventually, when I'm ALL better, I'll be eating 2000 calories a day, at a healthy weight.

I want to stop you before it gets too far. Cause after it isn't just a diet anymore, you'll either be obsessive to lose weight even if you've reached your goal, or if you don't become anorexic, you WILL gain it all back, it's very certain. The only way is to make permanent, healthy lifestyle changes, and to eat enough (I actually highly recommend Weight Watchers. From what a friend of mine tells me, you can eat whatever you want as long as you eat a certain amount of calories/points, and still lose weight if you follow the program. It's healthy, and you're losing two pounds at the most a week, which is all you should be).

Talk to me anytime, please. Don't hesitate to if you ever need to talk.

[Fiction]

500 Calories is no where near enough. Eating that much your body will soon go into starvation mode, meaning you metabolism will slow right down and you won't be able to loose any weight. If you are overweight as you say there are so much better and healthier ways of loosing weight, without having to starve yourself. if this gets into a habit you could get seriously ill.
Starting a food jounrla is never a good idea. Believe me i've done it. It makes it obsessive. You feel you HAVE to write in your book. Writing it down doesn't help at all.
Feel free to PM/email/VM me anytine :)

[Painted_Indian_Horse]

thanks for all your replies, and i am aware of how bad it is. i just feel like if i had a clean slate to start from, and then lived healthy like my mom keeps telling me to(she's a fitness GURU and a personal trainer), i'd be better off. but right now i'm not even unhealthy. i eat all the things my mom says are good. i don't even like candy or chips or anything like that except for random occasions. i ride horses nearly every day, which is more difficult than people think. but i'm still fat. my mom looks like a model still, and she's 42. but her life is devoted to exercise, which i don't think sounds like much fun. it's her job, her hobby, everything. she's tall, thin and beautiful. she does say i'm overweight, and always lectures me about what to eat. she thinks i don't listen or take her advice, but i do.
i'm not going to let it get far, i have too many people who would notice. i just want to look good, and get a date and small bathing suit.

by the way, syvelocin, i like your avatar. the dresden dolls are awesome. my favorite song is bad habit.

[Fiction]

it's easy to say it's not going to go too far but it will. After a while you can't help but feel guilty when you eat and it's this guilt that stops you from eating... maybe you could sit down and talk about it with your mum? Ask her ways to loose weight she seems like the type of person who will know about this stuff. She will be able to tell you a healthier way to loose weight.

[Triceratops]

I've done it. It will NEVER work for anyone.

You end up restricting like absolutely mad, and then end up binging in a few days as your body is STARVING.

I don't know anyone with an ED that's completed it without failing eventually. The amount of times I've started this diet over and over is crazy.

It's not worth screwing your metabolism over it.

[Syvelocin]

You know, every girl I've seen who is 30 pounds, 50, even twice my weight, I've been jealous of. There isn't one girl I wouldn't rather look like (well, you know what I mean) than myself. Everyone is beautiful, and not just in that "it's what's inside that matters" way. You're a human being. You're this incredible creature. Or, in the case of Christianity, you were shaped by God, yes? Are you calling God's creation ugly? ;)

Lol, anyway. You don't need a super slim body to be beautiful. Confidence is the one difference between an average girl and a gorgeous girl.

Find out the calories you burn everyday, by an online calculator, based on your height, weight, age, and activity level. Eat 500 calories less than that. Without exercise, you will lose a pound a week theoretically. Exercise, and you'll lose a bit more.

[Painted_Indian_Horse]

yeah, my mom knows a lot! and don't worry, i hear it every day, multiple times. and does anyone know about an online calculator thingy i can use? i will research it later, but any recommendations? and the thing is, i've never had confidence. it's definitely easier said than done for me. i have tried to talk positive to myself, and i still am not confident. i have never been well-liked or popular, and that makes it hard too. it's difficult for me to be happy, in general, and the sooner i'm thin the less i'll have to worry about. if i quit this, it's just another thing i didn't see through to the end, which will make me feel like even more of a loser.

i'm not trying to shoot down all the advice, i'm just trying to explain my views. i love the advice, and this is the first time i've really talked about all this. i haven't even covered it with my psychiatrist.

[Syvelocin]

I wasn't confident when I was heavier, I wasn't confident at 70 pounds, and I'm not confident now with my body. I'm in the same boat. I have an overly-confident best friend though. Through her, I've found that confidence really is the key. It's definitely easier said than done, you're very much correct. But it's something to work on. Is there anything you like for starters? I like my feet and my hair ^.^

Being confident with your personality and your views is important. You might not be confident with how you look, but sometimes borrowing the confidence you have from something else can serve as a good substitute.

http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/calories-burned.php

^^

[Painted_Indian_Horse]

everyone is always complimenting my hair, so it's pretty, i guess. and my gift with animals, though that's kind of off topic

[Fiction]

There we go, you have nice hair and a talent for something... those make you far more beautiful than being thin would do :)

[Painted_Indian_Horse]

sometimes... but sometimes it doesn't seem like enough. the main reason i am quitting horse showing is because i am overweight. all the girls are thin and have naturally good seats for that type of riding. i have to force myself to try and look like that to where it's painful, and i still lose. in the 6 years i have been horse showing, i have never been grand champion. most people get one of those at least a year into it. i don't really expect anyone to understand this exact thing cause it's all horse talk, but just know i fail at it. and my mom was really good at it all, so she wants me to do it.

[Fiction]

My mum wants me to be all sciency being a doctor, but that isn't my thing at all. I like english and that's what i'm going to study. You need to realise that what you do with your life is not up to your mum. You need make your own decisions and find something you enjoy and are good at :)

[Painted_Indian_Horse]

i have, which is a good thing. i told i was fed up with that BS of the horse shows and i'm doing my own thing now. i just have one left to finish the year and then i can focus on training my new horse. so that's something to look forward to.

[TaylorLestrangeNee]

You shouldn't be so obsessive over your weight. Diets don't work. It's proven, in the beginning, yeah, maybe you'll lose weight, but they usually end in you gaining it all back, and then someone, you're 16, you're young, just start getting out more, go for walks, bike, jog, play sports with friends, don't ever compare yourself to other people. Don't mess yourself up like that, don't pay attention to them, pay attention to yourself, just be more conscious of what you put into your body. Think of it as a life choice. NOT a diet.
But be happy with who you are, be proud to be you, be proud of what you look like, be proud of every aspect in your life, self confidence, that's key. Look at yourself differently and this whole journey will be so much easier. Don't call yourself fat. Don't. You're changing your life, that's it. That's all. You want to get healthy, so that's what you're doing. Okay? You're beautiful, you're smart, you're independent, and you're your own person. Be who you want to be, not who everyone else expects you to be.

[welcome_to_chaos]

First of all having experiance with this diet first hand (unfortunatly im a recoverin ana). please try eating more. it really isnt worth it. you may say that "weakness is just a feeling" or "if your feeling weak your almost there" ..yes ur almost close. ur almost close to dying...that diet doesnt allow for much room. and the entire time on it i couldnt get up and when i did the room would spin. trying to walk was horrible i would bump into walls. and for what? trying to be what someone else thinks u should be. 2.u shouldnt give up ur life just because u feel u are too fat for it. dont ever think that. ur a good weight. your you. dont ever forget that. your who you are supposed to be. please stop this before u end up seriously hurt. please