Guest guest Posted September 1, 2006 Report Share Posted September 1, 2006 Point of this post: I wonder if I'm going too far... A year ago I had a revelation. I decided that I cared about life and made the choice to live. One of things that resulted was my increased interest in health and my nutrition. With little effort (except for many more trips to the grocery shop), I switched to a diet of raw veggies and fruits, some dairy (including egg whites) and fish. I dropped a lot of weight about 50lbs. Though it wasn't my main goal, I am happier now that my outside healthier appearance matches my inner feeling of health. I'm not starving myself--I eat when I'm hungry, just I eat fruit and veg and stop when I've had enough. Fearing that I wasn't getting proper nutrition I started to monitor what foods I was eating and how many calories I was taking in. I was shocked to find that I eat, on average, less than 700 calories a day! Some days I take in less than 500. This seems dangerously low to me though I eat about every 2-3 hours, the food is just so low in calories I'd have to constantly eat in order to breach 1000 (and I'm just not that hungry). So, I'm doing it for my health and eating a restricted caloric diet--trying to get in enough vitamins and nutrients--I think I'm CRON. It just seems very unsafe consuming so few calories. I would like to have a physician monitor my nutrition, but I fear any doc will simply dismiss it as disordered eating and I wouldn't know where to start looking for a doc who knew anything of CRON. Any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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