[BlackholeEF]

I think you are mixing up high and low res.

High res is a few hundred below TDEE and low res is like a LOT under TDEE.


But yes. People who do low res also binge frequently. It's just not talked about too much. It should be because claiming you do low res only, isn't true. Yes some can do low res for quite a while. But most don't.

When I did low res I was also bringing a lot.


I do High Res. My TDEE is 1400s and I have 1200.

Yeah, I think I was. It's confusing to me and I think I've seen people using them both ways around, because to me "high restriction" would intuitively mean that the level of restriction itself is high? So low calories.

 

[BlackholeEF]

Thank you all, these replies have been very interesting. I think it validates the idea that my judgement of levels of restriction have been skewed a bit by reading the totals of bedbound 5ft teenagers on edblr. My 500-600ish average of late is feeling a lot less inadequate, which is probably a good thing (I've been repeatedly trying lower intakes and bouncing back off them for the past month :v)

Edit: then again I'm seeing people talk about doing days-to-weeks long fasts, and I don't even understand how that is possible. I would crash out after a day, maybe I could stretch it to two if I wasn't working or could sleep a lot, but I feel my body just wouldn't let me not eat for extended periods, it's such a fight just to restrict as much as I do with regular low cal meals...

 

[not_my_body]

Yeah, I think I was. It's confusing to me and I think I've seen people using them both ways around, because to me "high restriction" would intuitively mean that the level of restriction itself is high? So low calories.

Yeah it makes sense and I know on other sites it's a mix of both but generally speaking here, high res is close to TDEE and low res is close to basically nothing.

 

[not_my_body]

Edit: then again I'm seeing people talk about doing days-to-weeks long fasts, and I don't even understand how that is possible. I would crash out after a day, maybe I could stretch it to two if I wasn't working or could sleep a lot, but I feel my body just wouldn't let me not eat for extended periods, it's such a fight just to restrict as much as I do with regular low cal meals...

I absolutely can't fast any more (I get non-diabetic hypos/low blood sugar) and there is no need to really.

In my past I would fast but it ALWAYS ended in a binge fest for days or weeks or even a month.

Not worth it.

 

[PoisonedFairyLips]

I’m doing anywhere from 0 to 250. I’m dirty fasting since a terrible event happened to me in case I want to pull myself out of the void but the most I’ve had was a protein shake (no carbs or fat in it) and Brazil nuts for the selenium. This is day 5 of my dirty fast and I plan to keep going until my body breaks down. Idk what that’s going to look like tbh since my current UGW is 7 lbs 😂

 

[cnamha]

Thank you all, these replies have been very interesting. I think it validates the idea that my judgement of levels of restriction have been skewed a bit by reading the totals of bedbound 5ft teenagers on edblr. My 500-600ish average of late is feeling a lot less inadequate, which is probably a good thing (I've been repeatedly trying lower intakes and bouncing back off them for the past month :v)

Edit: then again I'm seeing people talk about doing days-to-weeks long fasts, and I don't even understand how that is possible. I would crash out after a day, maybe I could stretch it to two if I wasn't working or could sleep a lot, but I feel my body just wouldn't let me not eat for extended periods, it's such a fight just to restrict as much as I do with regular low cal meals...

I would not do long fasts, the risk to your health goes up pretty high, and VERY quickly. TBH I think a lot of the people saying they're doing weeks+ long fast are doing that thing where they are actually eating but it "doesn't count" for whatever reason (I have seen people say anything liquid doesn't count so they drink several meal replacement shakes, people saying under x amount of cals doesn't break a fast etc). I fasted for 2 weeks with actually not intaking anything but water and ended up in the ER close to heart failure. Fasting for long periods of time is how I ended up with refeeding syndrome a few times.

 

[celty_moon]

I consume anywhere from 190-700 daily now. Every other Sunday I have a date night and allow myself to consume a bit more, but even then I hit about 700 in that meal alone and can’t find the appetite for anything else. 700s days are good days for me though because I feel happy and energized

 

[0calMonster]

My intake varies anywhere between 0-1800 depending on the day, but usually I eat around 600-700 on average lately

 

[the same dark]

Over the last 4 weeks:
Consumed: 1270
Expended: 1673
Deficit: 403

My favorite chart that shows the surplus or deficit/net total

The deficit is the number I'm obsessed with

 

[the same dark]

Thank you all, these replies have been very interesting. I think it validates the idea that my judgement of levels of restriction have been skewed a bit by reading the totals of bedbound 5ft teenagers on edblr. My 500-600ish average of late is feeling a lot less inadequate, which is probably a good thing (I've been repeatedly trying lower intakes and bouncing back off them for the past month :v)

Edit: then again I'm seeing people talk about doing days-to-weeks long fasts, and I don't even understand how that is possible. I would crash out after a day, maybe I could stretch it to two if I wasn't working or could sleep a lot, but I feel my body just wouldn't let me not eat for extended periods, it's such a fight just to restrict as much as I do with regular low cal meals...

Yeah Tumblr was absolutely awful for me when I first developed my ED. I was constantly comparing myself to the people doing low res and also felt super invalid and bad about myself eating 700 cals a day which I now consider low res and do not love doing. I prefer high res with shorter (1-3 days) fasts occasionally

 

[onemoretime]

Recently it’s been around 1200, but my ED has gone through phases where I’ve struggled to restrict at all, and others where I’ve been able to be consistent at much lower (wish I still had access to my food journal from before inpatient)

 

[t0xicwast3]

It really depends on the day but I find I binge more when I consume 200-300 cals for multiple days. So lately to avoid binges I've been trying to consume at least 900 a day.

 

[kuromiwren]

It widely varies but because of that my average is my TDEE because I've been fucking maintaining the same lbs i know because of how my size 6 pants and favorite comfort shirt fit.

insane, my random binges have been like 3000+ calories... but i haven't binged since feb... so let's hope the scale is going down by now (i dont know i havent weighed in over 2 weeks??? or around 2 weeks idr)

 

[Lee404]

Somedays 3000+, right now 2000, it use to be 1000-1300… to say it depends is an understatement 😅

 

[the same dark]

Over the last 4 weeks:
Consumed: 1270
Expended: 1673
Deficit: 403

View attachment 1666194

The deficit is the number I'm obsessed with

Added a photo of my intake to show how much it varies. Peep that binge lol.

 

[SashaAshley]

800

 

[cineraria]

I would not do long fasts, the risk to your health goes up pretty high, and VERY quickly. TBH I think a lot of the people saying they're doing weeks+ long fast are doing that thing where they are actually eating but it "doesn't count" for whatever reason (I have seen people say anything liquid doesn't count so they drink several meal replacement shakes, people saying under x amount of cals doesn't break a fast etc). I fasted for 2 weeks with actually not intaking anything but water and ended up in the ER close to heart failure. Fasting for long periods of time is how I ended up with refeeding syndrome a few times.

It is almost certainly this. Additionally, those who report that low of a calorie count are typically only doing that on the (honestly probably infrequent) day their intake is actually that low.

 

[voguelite]

I don't count calories accurately enough to know for sure (like being at least kind of close to the correct ballpark is enough for me at this point) but based on the weight loss my daily average should be somewhere around 1200. I have fasting days (or more correctly "very low only liquid calories" days but fasting is a lot faster and easier to type), low/med restriction days of maybe 200-500 kcal, I have maintenance days, I have binge days (which might not be OBJECTIVELY binges but ya know). But yeah, TDEE estimations, half-assed calorie counting and speed of weight loss and so on would lead me to the 1200 kcal figure.

But also I'm neither underweight nor currently diagnosed with any EDs so idk how valid or validating my intake is to anyone else.

 

[.1553531]

I do 1450-1650 on average when I just have work (hospo) with occasional days of going lower and higher and skewing more consistently towards 1650 with a few maintenance (2050-2450 TDEE depending on activity level, so maintenance is 2100-2300) or somewhere between 1650 and 2350 on my period/leading up to my period because my mood + hunger is heavily controlled by my period and my hormones. When my weight was a bit higher I ate at the lower end of that, then once I hit about 56kg I progressively increased it to the higher end.
I'm now back at uni/still working part time and I'm not quite at goal weight but I'm closer to it and I'm aiming to raise my intake permanently (until the mid semester break) to an 1450- 1850 average, with some days under (trying not to go over but just come off my period so will see how successful I am). I'm ok with losing mega slow or maintaining as I'm not far off UGW and I've messed my grades up with restriction before and don't want to do it again. Worst case scenario I hop btwn cw and a kilo lower and a kilo higher for the entire year and lose the last few kg in the first month of Summer. I think that's unlikely though, amd that I will just continously lose 1kg every month to month and a half....
I have done an extended fast of about 212 hours once when my weight was higher and I had very little else going on in my life - uni break + minimal work and it was not a perfect fast I definitely chew spat on day 4. That month I did a lot of fasts, mainly to try cure myself from binging and it worked because my brain was so depressed but there's no way in hell I'd be able to do it without binging with my current lifestyle. I think I was just in another dimension mentally that entire month due to my mental health being in the pits.

 

[Travis]

It depends on the day... my accountability thread is all over the place 😂 typically more when I'm at work. Example, today was 1074