I do not eat correctly, but also do not eat junk food. I just do not like eating and cannot loose weight.?

Question

I do not like to eat. I do not have any eating disorder such as bolimia or anorexia, but food is just not important to me. When I do eat, my body acts like a magnet and holds the food I do eat. I am 5-6" and weigh 170 pounds. What can I do to make myself more interested in eating and getting on a healthy diet? I cannot loose weight with the path I am on. I also am 53 and disabled, so exersize ability is limited. Any thing to help me get interested in eating would help. I should be a toothpick, sometimes I go 3 days without eating.
Thanks

Answer 1

My father (62) has a similar issue I think- he also goes days without eating. I have quite a bit of knowledge so I can offer my take on it. You can also goole much of what I say or look on health websites for more explanation if it helps.

When you stop eating, although as you say your mind does not notice, you body does. It sounds like you have conditioned your mind to avoid or ignore your bodies signals for hunger. This is possible if you have been in the same pattern for a while.

When your body realises its requirements for food are not met (and I hate to be the one to tell you but your body will still have requirements for food dispite you not feeling them), your body goes into whats called starvation mode.
Sarvation mode is your body working on reduced power. Its reason is that there is no food, there must be a famine and it conserves the power to keep itself alive for as long as possible- its trying to keep you alive till you next eat. (out minds rationale on modern day technology and no famines in westernised civilisation far out date our bodies which work in simple terms and are still routed in prehistoric civilisation. It feels no regular food, it knows famine.)

The outcome of the body working on a reduced power level is a reduced metabolism. This also means food which you eat is food which you store, and most likely around your middle. This is because its easier for you body to utilise, harder to get rid or, and costs your body less energy to store there. It also keeps your vital organs warm. As your metabolism slows, you get colder, if your organs get too cold you can die. Your body wants to saty alive so it keeps your organs warm by placing fat around them. It does this regardless of your weight, it it simply following a pattern which by not eating regularly, you have promoted.

The best advice I can offer is to firstly get into a habit of eating regualer meals, ideally 6 SMALL (300 to 400 kcals) a day, or 3 larger (600-750kcals) a day. Try to insure you have a meal which consists of one third protien (either meat/fish/PLAIN /UNSALTED nuts/cheese), one third carbs (unrefined is healther for your body and glycemic index- try googling this for a better description/ advice) and one third vegetables or fruit. The more regularly you eat, and less refined sugars and carbs you eat, the more likely your metabolism will return to normal. It will take time.

Also, try taking up some excercise, whatever takes yopur fancy, but with the idea to raise your heart rate, and if possible, raise a sweat. It doesnt need to be gym stuff,- though you can get advice and help from workers there, on ANY health difficulites and programmes, you can also go swimming (to swim not to stand in water though!) or ride a bicycle, take a dog for a run.... try three days a week ,try to have a days break inbetween workouts. Atleast 40mins excercise is best but if you are just beginning, just do what you can and build up to a proper workout. This will increase your metabolism phenominally and also increase or add some hunger so you will be triggered to eat more frequently as oppose to once in afew days.

Its a lot to think about, but if you can get some help from your doctor to maybe writeup a programme to follow, think to yourself "I'll try it for a month and if I cannot stand it/feel worse/want to go back to how I was before" you can do that, but what you are likely to notice is for the first week it'll feel like hell- no one likes change and food is a personal issue for the best of people! but after this it will become very much easier, you will find you are functioning to a level you didnt think possible and your body will have changed shape if not size as well- and its very likely you will actually enjoy food insted of reveering it!!

Good luck!

Answer 2

What are your disabilities? If you can't walk then you should try to move your arms a lot to exercise the upper body and make you sweat. If you can walk then walk. When you increase the body's movement it will burn the food faster and you should lose some weight. You should also challenge a diabetic diet. This is where you learn to count sugar and carbs. It's pretty easy. Measure things by 1/2 cup, veggies, potatoes. Meat should be 3 oz per meal. Fats should be a count of less than 5 and no more than 9. 9 is the ultimate no no. Carbs per day should be 75 per meal. 3 meals a day. Cheat on cool whip lite or store brand cool whip light. This stuff is delicious. And low in everything. Eat the whole tub in one sitting if you want. Just by watching this little bit you should straighten out. Take up an interest in learning the diabetic diet. I didn't say do it. I said take an interest in trying to learn it. It gets to be kind of like a game. And if you decide to try it then every other Sunday use 4 consecutive hours for a cheat treat. Eat whatever you want in those 4 hours. But only once every 2 weeks. You'll see. Things wil change. Good luck.

Answer 3

It's unfortunate that you do not enjoy eating but eating is a necessity in life to keep your body healthy and going. We eat to live. The reason you don't lose weight is because some days you don't eat at all and this starves your body. When this happens, the body will automatically hoard whatever fats it can obtain from the little food when you do eat. The body is preparing itself by conserving as much fat as possible to be used as energy for the next time you starve yourself. Hence, you put on more weight by practising unhealthy eating. Eat well. Breakfast and lunch is important because you need energy during the day. A cereal drink or soup would be sufficient for dinner. If you lack appetite, try deworming yourself ( once a year ) and if your appetite remains the same, try something like Appeton which helps increase appetite. Add some multi vitamins to your daily schedule. All the best.

Answer 4

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Answer 6

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Answer 7

Do not go 3 days without eating! for one thing.
Been there, done that...

You say you are disabled...but you don't say exactly how you are disabled and/or whether you can walk at all. I'm sorry to hear that.

I hope you can begin to get daily exercise; also get outdoors for some fresh air and sunshine. It often helps to improve appetite.

If you can walk,
start to exercise regularly by walking daily, even just a short 5 minute or 10 minute walk twice a day morning and evening then increase as you are able to 30 minutes at least 3 times a week.

Eating a balanced diet is necessary to maintaining health.

I don't like junk food either. If because of your disability, you have a hard time shopping for food, getting it home and then preparing the healthy meals you need - I don't know that my suggestion will be the answer for you - but it could very well be a start.

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

hi, im in a wheelchair, so exercise isnt exactly possible.. i have to watch what i eat... both mum and dad died from heart attacks...

the only control i get is over what i eat, and like most folks i love to eat al lteh things which are bad for me. so, i dont eat fast food, i dont eat prepared food, and i rarely eat a takeaway (curry or chinese) but i do eat maybe 3 or 4 a year...

i buy ingredients. and i cook. i do curry, chilli, pasta... i eat chips, etc etc... but i know whats in it, no sugar, and teh fat is olive oil or sunflower oil... no salt... its all just vegetables prepared differently... get to know a market farmer, they sell fruit and veg wholesale.. sack of onions 2 quid, 5k of mushrooms 4 quid, courgettes and carrots, swede parsnips and cabbage... celery and aubergines... its incredible what you can cook out of that lot... we spend around 20 quid a week on veg... it feeds 4 of us very well...

and we make biscuits flour water and some honey and raisins... we also nibble on dry shredded wheat or mini weetabix... (avoid the sugar puffs.. they go everywhere...as do rice crispies...

just be aware of what you eat, eat small portions regularly... not eating isnt doing your body any good..

good luck

Answer 10

Go bland. Plain, easy, unseasoned food such as grilled chicken, plain rice and a undressed baked potato are nutritious but your palette will tire of them quickly, unlike salty moreish highly processed food, which keeps you snacking and piling about the pounds.