It started off like this-
I was working out/on a diet, lost a considerable amount of weight. Then when I was transitioning into more "normal" eating, I started overeating some things to the point that it hurt. It ended up only going on for about 2 weeks, but one week in I decided to call someone to try to get help.
I talked to a counseler and a nutritionist. The nutritionist told me that my "binge eating" was just my body trying to reset. She told me to stop excercising (at the time I was goign 5x a week in the morning for no more than 1 hr). She also told me that the amount of calories I ate on the days that I binged was really the amount of calories that I should be eating normally.
They told me to eat 6 times a day, 3 meals, and 3 snacks. The meals have to have a protein/carb/fat and the snacks have to have 2 components and preferably not veggies. I jumped in, and I've been doing this for about a month now.
I honestly feel like it's another diet though, and I feel like the binge eating was a really short lived thing for me. My boyfriend is really skeptical of the whole thing and says he never really thought that I had an eating problem, just a body image problem... and I kind of agree. I feel like I've been put in a "eating disorder" box and I don't really know if I belong here.
I was slightly overweight before I started excercising, I was in a normal body weight range when I was at my lowest weight, and even now that I gained a little bit of weight, I am still "normal".
I stopped excercising this last month, started eating the way they asked, even stopped using my fit bit (I still weigh myself every so often). I honestly feel like it's too much and I don't want this to have such a big part in my life. I was just hoping to talk to someone every so often to hopefully help with my body image issues. It's hard to want to excercise other than to look a certain way for me. I really have not known any other motivation other than in team sports during high school (hard to get into as an adult though).
They did a medical examination. My magnesium was a little low. My othostatic heart rate test came out high. My estrogen came out super low. They said birth control does not effect the estrogen reading, and that the low reading I got is due to my eating disorder. My gynacologist says its unwise to do an estradiol reading while on birth control because there is no "normal" while on birth control. Fertility is really important to me so the fact that these statements are completely contradictory is really stressing me out.
I'm just really confused, and I'm not sure if this whole plan is right for me or not. I just feel terrible coming here and asking because I feel like it's a lot more real for a lot of you and I don't want to step on any toes or hurt anyone's feelings. Any thoughts? Does it sound like I should continue seeing them?
Thanks <3