Listen to the health care professionals about training advice. I know it might seem to you like doctors don’t know shit about training and in many cases they really don’t but this is way too serious to get your advice from the internet. Training will take hits throughout your life, that’s innevatable.
I surely won’t give any advice on this because this is too far out of my expertise.
I agree with this.
Anything I said above I hope wasn’t contrary to your doctor. Just trying to give you a plan that should cause much less muscle breakdown but still be aligned with your strength goals and not be so restricting that you break the rules.
Considering you’ve been told like a bajillion times on here by 20+ different people that what you’re doing is excessive, pretty sure it doesn’t take a doctor to see that.
Especially when she does not eat enough to support the workload. I half suspect, though it is pure speculation on my part, that her parents and doctors only go after the training stuff because they know they can’t get her to see things straight on the nutrition stuff.
Lol my mom actually thinks I eat too much, just “not balanced… and that’s without me sneaking cups of cream cheese and casually polishing off all the fruit
She does eat too much when she decides to eat enough, ie the grill nights. It’s called binging, and it’s the body’s desperate attempt to make up for the dangerous caloric deficit it’s in. Not much of the food is absorbed and it’s damaging to the body in general. She needs a well balanced diet. Her mom is spot on. The overeating is as bad as the undereating and the overexercise compounds everything.
A) I doubt you eat 2000 calorie a day. No way, no how.
B) 2000 calorie is not nearly enough calories a day to support what you are doing
Edit to add: yeah, as @flappinit indicates, you may binge…but that is not the same as a balanced 2000 calorie diet. And you are either shitting all that out anyway, working it off via over-conditioning, or getting those calories out by other means. It is a rollercoaster.
Sorry, not buying it. You might ON AVERAGE eat 2k with your little binges, but the body does not work that way. And people with eating disorders are seldom honest/accurate about what they are consuming.
Anyway, you don’t need help from people like us. Your doctor is giving you advice on what to do for the immediate problem, but you need a therapist to help you find the root of all this.
I managed to undereat to the point where my heart started going on the fritz and my family members were unawares because, after all, I ate the most out of everyone at any gathering.
It probably goes unstated, and for a good reason, but whenever I hear word “binge” the next word I think of is “purge”. I assume that sometimes accompanies this kind of issue.
Sometimes. I wouldn’t say it’s an unwarranted association.
Objectively the number of times I purged could conceivably be counted on two hands.
My behaviour was much more akin to Annas. Binge one day, undereat after. Maybe fast an entire day. Also, food choices during gatherings. Load up on greens. Maybe prop up other stuff on top of low calorie stuff so it looks like more. Avoid caloric beverages.
Also, “exercise”. Turning the 2km bikeride home into a 12km bikeride. Do push-ups in the rest room.
Save calories the day before.
So, purging without the side effect of breaking down teeth enamel with stomach acid.
I’m too violent a vomiteer to have pursued that as an avenue.
And getting involved with what’s served. Suggesting lean meats and butternut Squash over salmon and pasta bathed in olive oil.
So just purging in a different form, really. In any case, as you obviously already know, there is no good that comes from that. I would bet my big toe nail that most of Anna’s issues are related more to this than “too much training”. I mean, the training my be a way of accomplishing the purge, but that is not the root issue.
Something a good therapist could confirm, or reject in favor of whatever the truth is.