A bit of background on me: 20 year old female, who has suffered with disordered eating/binge eating disorder since 14. Unlike the typical image, my lowest BMI was 21.8 (so I was never actually very critically skinny/small), hence why I never got taken seriously by professionals. I am 100% one of those people who gains weight after merely sniffing chocolate, so weight loss is difficult. I'm 5 ft 2 and currently weigh about 59kg, 3kg of which I have put on in the last 2 months.
Due to my eating disorder type thoughts I had to take a break from all things weight lifting/exercising/calorie counting since about June, consequently leading me to gain a lot of fat, and lose a lot of the muscle I had gained in the prior 6-9 months of weight lifting. Because of these personal circumstances, I went cold turkey on exercise and nutrition as I simply couldn't do it in a healthy way - it was very much obsessive and for the wrong reasons.
Now that leaves me in a bit of dilemma. This month I am starting a full-time job in an office (extremely sedentary), and I am planning to go back to the gym about 3x a week (1 x glutes, 1 x upperbody, 1 x legs) and eat in a deficit. However, based on my weight/height, I am recommended to only eat about 1300 calories at most, which I personally think is ridiculous, and as soon as my calories drop that low, I start getting very unwell, not to mention it feeding my eating disorder.
So where do I go from here? How do I get back into the gym and healthy eating, with reasonable results? Shall I go on a cut and follow the ridiculously low calories? Or do I start off with maintenance whilst I reintroduce myself back to the gym? Also, is it best to jump straight back into it, or ease my way in (e.g. start off with lower weight/high reps, and less frequent, and build up) so my muscles don't go into shock?
Ultimately my goal is to lose my belly fat (my love handles absorb anything I eat), but also build up my glutes and legs (they're pretty big naturally). Currently my goal is to shed a bit of weight/fat (just how much I gained in the past two months, which is 2-3kg) as i HATE the way I look and feel currently. I just don't know how to mesh it all together, and how to get from A (now) to B (back in the gym, gaining muscle etc). Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated, as all that my brain is telling me to do is not eat and do excessive cardio, which I know isn't the way forward.
Due to my eating disorder type thoughts I had to take a break from all things weight lifting/exercising/calorie counting since about June, consequently leading me to gain a lot of fat, and lose a lot of the muscle I had gained in the prior 6-9 months of weight lifting. Because of these personal circumstances, I went cold turkey on exercise and nutrition as I simply couldn't do it in a healthy way - it was very much obsessive and for the wrong reasons.
Now that leaves me in a bit of dilemma. This month I am starting a full-time job in an office (extremely sedentary), and I am planning to go back to the gym about 3x a week (1 x glutes, 1 x upperbody, 1 x legs) and eat in a deficit. However, based on my weight/height, I am recommended to only eat about 1300 calories at most, which I personally think is ridiculous, and as soon as my calories drop that low, I start getting very unwell, not to mention it feeding my eating disorder.
So where do I go from here? How do I get back into the gym and healthy eating, with reasonable results? Shall I go on a cut and follow the ridiculously low calories? Or do I start off with maintenance whilst I reintroduce myself back to the gym? Also, is it best to jump straight back into it, or ease my way in (e.g. start off with lower weight/high reps, and less frequent, and build up) so my muscles don't go into shock?
Ultimately my goal is to lose my belly fat (my love handles absorb anything I eat), but also build up my glutes and legs (they're pretty big naturally). Currently my goal is to shed a bit of weight/fat (just how much I gained in the past two months, which is 2-3kg) as i HATE the way I look and feel currently. I just don't know how to mesh it all together, and how to get from A (now) to B (back in the gym, gaining muscle etc). Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated, as all that my brain is telling me to do is not eat and do excessive cardio, which I know isn't the way forward.
by danuutka via Bodybuilding.com Forums - Female Bodybuilding
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