Got to the start of week 4 last round - a perfect run up to then, under limit each day.
I binned everything due to butterfly stalking & creepy 'teach me how to starve' DM's - pretty pissed off about nuking everything
I tried going back to Project Shapeshift (too dark) & Accountability here (too full of self pitying normie a-holes/too busy & difficult to navigate) so I've thought about it & I don't see why I have to abandon something I worked hard on for fear of others making themselves ill thru misadventure/misuse of my info/daily logs
I'm going to restart as I've lost all the info from my first 3 weeks & I'm pretty anal about capturing every little thing about each day
Butterfly 'diets' are gross, but ABC is the one I remember from the late 90's,
My ED has always been a coping mechanism for me & I'm going thru a lot of life shit, so the regimented, structured nature of ABC calms me down (I'm type one bipolar)
I quit drinking on June 18th 2020 (not an alkie, just can't afford it/booze gives me migraines these days) & overall (incl 21 days of last ABC) up to today, my loss pre-this round of ABC is:
19.4lb
3.0% fat
4 waist inches
I had lost 26lbs up to mid October, but I regained weight as my activity level plummeted recently - partly shit weather, partly steroids for a bad patch of asthma - hence ditching my intended sensible maintenance & doing this crap again.
I'm posting Fitbit info, but my step count will be shit as the weather has been shocking, plus we're going back into lockdown - oh joy.
I've been following intermittent fasting for about a month which has been pretty interesting - weight was pouring off without much effort, although sugar cravings thanks to steroids fucked that up & I regained 7lbs.
I'm therefore applying the principles of 'The Obesity Code' by Jason Fung for this ABC.
The basic gist is that constantly snacking means your insulin is always being activated & insulin makes you fat.
When you sleep & obviously aren't eating, your insulin drops - after not eating for 12+ hours, your body is like 'shit, there's no glycogen left, let's use this bitch's body fat'
I usually hit 16-18hrs of fasting, then I have a short time to eat before I fast again.
With 'The Obesity Code' it goes a bit further - when you eat, it's basically keto/Atkins with a blanket ban on sugar, etc.
It specifies that you should eat unprocessed meat, bone broth, etc but I'm poor so as long as I'm following low carb (20-50g depending on the ABC calorie limit that day) I don't really care & I'll eat Peperami, cheap peanuts, etc.
There's not really any calorie limit on Obesity Code as the dude's whole ethos is calories don't make you fat, it's sugar, insulin & cortisol that does.
Obviously with ABC, calories do count...
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Just some boring CYA stuff now:
- I don't reply to DMs so don't bother
- Requests for 'starvation tips' will be ignored, but laughed at
- I never divulge sw, gw, etc (due to butterflies), never post selfies (due to incels) so don't ask - all you need to know is I'm tall & in the normal BMI range
- Glorificus is not liable for any improper use of the info on this thread
- Glorificus assumes no responsibility for anyone's use of the info in this thread
- Glorificus is not liable for any damages of any type arising in any way out of use of this thread
Tl,Dr:
if you're a 13 y/o wannarexic & black out in Hot Topic & hit your head because you copied my meals so tell your mum on me in some warped 'Starving in Suburbia'-esque fantasy of blaming your idiocy on me (it's happened to people in the wider pro-ana community IRL before, incl real legal action, hence my thread nuking/return but with legalese disclaimer)- it's 100% your issue, not mine
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- This time around, if I'm not hungry on a particular day, I'm not going to force myself to hit the limit that day
- I'm allowing myself gum/drinks to a MAXIMUM of 25 cals total on fasting days - my bipolar meds cause brutal cotton mouth & last time, fasting days were horrendous with no gum & I was gagging and guzzling water like it was my job. Not great when you're in the middle of a park & have to pee there & then a 1000 times a day.
- I'll report lbs, fat lost, etc weekly as opposed to daily due to natural fluctuations due to water, etc being demotivating & depressing
- As before, exercise cals burned have no impact on the limit/intake that day, so no 'net cals' type stuff - if the limit is 200 & I burn 2k, the limit is still 200.
PS:
Apologies if I come across as a snarky bitch, but unfortunately I am a snarky bitch.
I'm also a veteran, diagnosed eating disordered person with a rainbow of other issues, so it's not that I think I'm 'better than you' - trust & believe.
It's that if I could wake up tomorrow 300lbs but blissfully happy, married to Margot Robbie with an army of huge dogs, I would in a heartbeat, hence it annoys & upsets me when normal people deliberately try to induce a brutal, unrelenting mental illness for a couple of weeks to look cute for a party.
That's not the way eating disorders work - I started mine when I was in middle school & Vanilla Ice was topping the charts & now I'm the wrong side of 40 & still just as fucked up as little girl-me. My friends from school are married with teenage kids while I'm still psychologically frozen at 12/13yrs old & it sucks.
I literally just have my eating disorder going for me - I worked hard at school, uni, etc & had a glittering career until it all went to shit due to mental illness.
I'm now living on welfare & should really have spent my teens drinking cider & getting fingered at the bus stop for all the good excessive studying & related development of my ED did me.
Be thankful if you have a job, kids, partner, etc & don't let following ABC bugger that up for you
If you're under 20, your brain is still developing- don't fuck that up thru malnutrition.
If you're hungry/passing out/too tired to go to work/school, the maintenance of your responsibilities & relationship with your loved ones comes first
'Failing' ABC is not as bad as being fired because you messed up at work due to starvation induced brain fog/called in sick because you didn't want to go to an important, all expenses paid working lunch with your dept's new client/got caught purging in a plant pot by your boss at an important conference/burst out crying for no reason in a room of 200 colleagues because your brain is so tired, etc (been there, done that).
Trust me, you don't want this life - if you're a normie/wannarexic & intend to just temporarily flirt with disordered eating via ABC, you might just find yourself stuck here permanently - how much do you think you'll enjoy that party you dieted for if you're now too terrified of the nibbles/big family dinner/cocktails & either spend the event sitting sullen in a corner/nope out of the entire thing in order to do a million star jumps in your bedroom?
if you medically need to lose weight, as in you're legitimately deemed overweight/obese/morbidly obese by your GP, eat a minimum of 1200 cals a day, walk a minimum of 10k steps a day & get on with your life
My advice re: walking is to get the bulk of your target steps done first thing in the morning - it means you can't nope out of it when you're tired & just want to chill after work/school. Exercising outside first thing can nuke your appetite too (it's a hunger hormone thing).
You can also eat more if you do 10k steps a day & lose a decent amount of weight with very little restriction of calories - my Fitbit wants me to eat 1600 cals based on my activity levels & that's on the 'really hard' weight loss target setting (normal BMI) - essentially eating my BMR (calories you burn being alive, even if you're in a coma). You don't need to starve yourself - 2lbs a week is easily done on 1200-1500 cals, with or without (non insane levels of) exercise
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And you're doing amazing !
