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COACH_TANYA
6/5/08 10:40 A
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I'm really proud of the terrific answers and support you gals have provided here!! 
The longer you starve your body the longer you prolong the cycle. You need to teach your body to maintain its body weight WHILE providing it with all the nutrients you need (protein, calcium, and iron to name a few important ones for teens until around their early twenties) and getting a healthy amount of exercise and not overdoing the exercise.
It is going to take a few weeks to get your body taught so get rid of the scale and only focus on how you are doing with the key nutrients, eating every few hours and being healthy and fit instead of restrictive and calorie only focused. By the 4th of July you will feel different (especially if you stay off the scale until then) and your body will likely feel different as well. Sculpting your body with weight training provides a new shape and definition that can look and feel great so focus on health and get rid of the scale because one number doesn't tell you how healthy and fit you are.
Coach Tanya
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PICES_ZODIAC
6/5/08 6:00 A
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| been there done that... i recently emailed a coach n she said to increase calories slowly as in a 300 calorie rise per week... this should help warm up the body from starvation mode... so just keep faith n excerise 3-5 times a week....
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| But will this weight just come off again after a period of time?
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You should definitely work toward increasing your calories up to 1800. However, since your body has been in starvation mode for a while, you're going to gain weight when you do. Your body will want to store as much fat as possible, to prepare for another famine. Once you've been eating healthier for an extended period of time, exercising regularly, your body will notice that there isn't any famine coming anytime soon, and it'll stop being paranoid.
So, get thse 1800, exercise, and you'll be pretty much set.
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SWEETCANDY26
6/4/08 5:15 P
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okay so i use to eat only 900 calories a day but then i figured its not healthy so should i slowly boost it up to 1200 calories per day to see wha happens
i mean im suppose to have at least 1800 but that seems to much and if i do that over night im obv going to gain weight
im just tryin to maintain my goal weight
and if u have any ideas on doing that please tell me
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