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[FitFossil]

Do you ever wish you could eat more food but still be tiny?

It can happen. The secret is muscle. 1 pound of muscle takes up LESS space than a pound of fat. It looks better too. Plus, muscle burns calories even when you're doing nothing. Fat just goes along for the ride. Because muscle requires calories just to exist, it raises your metabolism. Having muscle helps keep the fat off.
But you have to eat (and train) to get and keep the muscle. When you're eating regularly, you'll have more energy. Your higher energy levels also helps your body burn more calories.

Take it from an old broad who wasted 20 years of her life with an eating disorder. If you keep going down the starvation diet road, you'll eventually end up fat (because you've burned up all your muscle, and your body will preferentially store fat when in starvation mode OR you could end up dead, because severe dieting weakens the heart (it's a muscle too), causes electrolyte imbalances, which can cause fainting or worse. Even if you don't die, there's the possiblity of kidney failure. It also messes with brain chemistry, which makes anorexics so hard to treat, as they become paranoid that everyone trying to help them is just trying to fatten them up.

 

[xtinytinax]

well i took the first ride to recovery by joining a gym-i never work out because i dont have the energy which is obviously from not eating enough-im unsure on what to eat and how much because im so used to eating very little-any suggestions?

 

[FitFossil]

I'd recommend reading the book Body For Life. Most libraries have a copy. It explains a lot about nutrition in an easy to read way. Their eating plan works well for me. They advocate eating 6 small meals a day, with each meal containing a balance of protein, carbs, and fats. This really makes a difference in your energy levels. Also, you're never really tempted to eat too much because you know your next meal is right around the corner. Eating small frequent meals also helps with fat burning. The book explains the science behind it, but this way of eating was really good for me psychologically.

I started out by making one small change at a time. This made it seem almost too easy, but gradually those small changes started adding up, and I was really amazed at the difference it made in my workouts. Before, I'd always had the 'all or nothing' mentality, where I'd go all out doing something, make one mistake, and then blow it all to hell. The slow steady way took a lot of patience, but at least it meant I was getting somewhere and no longer going in a continuous circle.

One thing about the Body For Life book, the author owns a supplement company and recommends a lot of their products. They have good products, and I do use the Myoplex lite shake for breakfast, but you really don't need to spend your $$ on the other stuff until you get your diet straight. All the training and supplements in the world will not make up for a lousy diet. A training diet is all about getting the right fuel for your workout.