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How many calories should I eat a day?
I recently recovered from anorexia, so I was wondering how many calories a day I would need to maintain my weight. I am 15 years old, 5' 4" and I now weigh 105lbs. I will be running 3 miles everyday for cross country season as far as exercise goes. I heard recovered anorectics need more calories to maintain than normal teens, but how much? I lost weight on 1800 calories with no exercise, but have no idea what to maintain on with excercise! Help!
September 3rd, 2011 - 21:09
An average person should eat about 2100 to up to 3000. Under your circumstance you should eat about 2300-2400
September 3rd, 2011 - 21:09
I’m much larger than you, as well as a male, but for you running 3 miles a day I would think about 3000 calories. Good calories also, don’t eat fatty foods or anything.
Try to eat about 5 times a day, smaller meals to keep your metabolism up also.
September 3rd, 2011 - 21:09
If you’re doing cross country, you should porbably eat 2500 calories a day to maintain. But the treatment center I went to did exchanges which is probably better for a recovering anorexic (You’re never fully recovered. You may have less thoughts about it etc. but you never know when they can pop up again.)
My maitnence plan was
Breakfast: 2 starches (bread, grain, cereal. etc)
2 protiens 9sausage, veggie sausage, eggs, yogurt etc.)
1 fat (there’s 1 fat in peanut butter, 1 in 1% milk, 1 in soy milk… etc)
1 milk
1 fruit
Snack1: 2 starches (a bowl of kashi cereal, 2 bowls of cherrios without milk. 4 graham crackers etc.)
Lunch: 2oz of protien (or 2 protiens)
1 milk
1 fat
1 fruit
1 vegetable
2 straches
snack 2: 1 fruit
Dinner: 3 oz of protien (or 3 protiens)
2 starches
1 milk
1 fat
1 fruit
1 veggie
Good job on your recovery:)
September 3rd, 2011 - 21:09
Well, it all depends on your activity and your current weight, normally a regular intake of between 1000 – 2500 is the norm, but it really depends on your activity level.