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‼️PSA: WATCH OUT FOR STARVATION KETOACIDOSIS‼️

Hey guys, I just wanted to make a post about this since I don’t think it’s widely known and can be very dangerous.

What is ketoacidosis?

When your body doesn’t have enough sugar to burn, it burns fat instead. This is obviously what we’re all hoping for and is the basis of the keto diet—burning body fat produces ketones. However, high levels of ketones in the blood leads to lowered blood pH, which upsets your body’s homeostasis. This is called ketoacidosis (literally, high blood acidity due to increased ketones). Most commonly, ketoacidosis is a complication of type 1 diabetes caused by excessively high blood sugar levels but no insulin to use the glucose. Non-diabetic ketoacidosis is a result of starvation and can happen whether or not your blood sugar is low at the time.

Signs of ketoacidosis

Fatigue/muscle weakness

Dizziness

Confusion

Loss of appetite

Excessive thirst

Excessive urination

Blurred vision

Dry mouth

Tingling in the hands, feet, and face

Fruity-smelling breath

Kussmaul’s breathing (rapid, deep breathing; picture below)

I know that a lot of the symptoms above are also symptoms of low (or high) blood sugar, which I’m sure a lot of us experience fairly often. The Kussmaul’s breathing pattern is a pretty sure sign of increased blood acidity and doesn’t happen with hypoglycemia—watch for that especially. This is your body trying to re-regulate your blood pH by expelling as much carbon dioxide as possible.

Complications of ketoacidosis

Dehydration, which can lead to kidney or other organ damage

Low potassium, which can lead to heart problems

Fluid in the lungs

Swelling in the brain

Seizures

Coma

Death

What to do?

REST!!! Stop making your body burn through its fat stores or ketones will just keep building up in your blood!!

Eat something with sugar!!! Real sugar!! I know it’s scary but you need glucose to burn right now!!

Drink lots of water!!! You’re losing fluid, help your kidneys out!!

If you’re not improving, GO TO THE HOSPITAL!!!! You’ll most likely be treated with insulin and supplemental glucose. This will help kickstart the normal glucose-burning process.

I don’t want to scare you guys but this is serious. It’s fairly uncommon but don’t just think it can’t happen to you!! I was fasting yesterday and went into ketoacidosis while exercising. I ate some ice cream and laid down and was fine, but it took a toll on my body. Please be aware of this and please, please be safe.

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I don’t think enough people talk about the social hierarchy of eating disorders.

So, this is simply a reminder that Bulimia is NOT “failed anorexia.” Binge-Eating Disorder is NOT laziness and voluntary lack of self discipline. OSFED is NOT any less valid that anorexia. ARFID is NOT just “being picky.” And, Anorexia is NOT cute or desirable.

These are all horrible and deadly disorders, and there is no way to “fail” at having a mental illness. We are all suffering is different ways and that is always valid and deserving of help.

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September is suicide prevention month. Reblog if your blog always supports anyone with a mental illness.

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Will be stating this ASAP <3 I’m gonna check the cals incase i want to lower them !

edit: day 1 is around 1,400, day 2 is around 1,200, & day 3 is 1,000. which personally is a little high for my liking so i will be cutting off some of the foods in here and eating smaller portions.

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This is the lucky clover cat. reblog this in 30 seconds & he will bring u good luck and fortune.

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How to ACCURATELY calculate calories burned while working out!

We have all seen those cute “easy 100 calorie workout” posts. But sadly, those calories burned aren’t always accurate to what your weight it. A person who weighs 180 pounds is going to burn more calories than someone who weighs 135 pounds. So I’ve done the math behind how to get a perfect count

KEY THINGS TO REMEMBER

• Each workout has their own level of intensity which will therefore burn different amounts of calories

• To get an accurate count, each exercise must be done for a full minute without stopping.

HOW TO CALCULATE

• Each exercise below has a matching decimal

• Take the decimal associated with whatever exercise you did and multiply it by your current body weight

• That number will tell you how many calories you burned in one minute of that exercise

Squats~ .096

Push-ups~ .037

Crunches~ .022

Planking~ .022

Jumping jacks~ .037

Arm Circles~ .007

Mountain climbers~ .059

Lunges~ .059

Donkey/Back kicks~ .030

Walking~ .014

Running/sprinting~ .096

Stairs/ Stair climber~ .044

Weight Lifting~ .022

Box jumps~ .096

Burpees~ .059

EXAMPLE

For a 135 pound person- one minute of burpees will burn roughly 8 calories a minute

For a 180 pound person- one minute of burpees will burn roughly 11 calories a minute

I hope this helped any confusion of how to accurately count calories with out the use of a Fitbit, calorie tracker app, or just guessing. Happy exercising!

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i’m not as fat as i used to be, and that thought keeps me going.

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Let me put you all on pigly.com, it's a weight loss calculator AND it tells you how many cals your gonna need to eat a day to maintain your current weight and goal weight!

It's helped me a lot because my biggest fear is not knowing how much I need to eat to maintain my goal weights, but now I know!

you just plug in some current stats, your goal weight, and when you want to reach it. The website will tell you what you'd need to eat to get there! no warnings or blocks if you would need to eat less than 1,000 cals.

here's a link: pigly.com

(while you can use ft/in or cm for your height, your weight is measured in lbs and I didn't find a way to change that. just a heads up)

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it took some time to gain the weight, so it will take some time to lose it.

whatever you do, don’t. give. up.

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my common sense: so what are you gonna do when you reach your ugw?

me: i'll just eat normally and be normal :)

my ed:

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14/15

reblog with the age ana got you

i was 13.

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Reblog if you’re pro recovery. Whether you’re in it or not

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An apology

I'm sorry if I help fuel your ed

I'm sorry if this account is one of the reasons you have an ed

In sorry if you looked on my page out of curiosity then stumbled down the rabbit hole

I'm sorry if my page influenced your ed in anyway

But let me say something

It might be too late for those people but please I'm BEGGING you if you don't have an ed and are at the "curiosity" stage let me tell you the saying "Curiousity Killed the Cat" has never rang more true, so LEAVE. I'm not asking you nicely I'm telling you FUCKING LEAVE.

I don't care if I seem rude to you, get the fuck off tumblr RIGHT NOW. I ignored these when I saw them and I regret it this disorder is one of the WORST things that happened to me, you know anorexia is the most deadly mental illness ? If you don't recover you will DIE.

I want to scream through my phone, I am so fucking angry, I don't want to influence any eating disorders !!!

As the sister of a recovered anorexic being their family member is horrible, seeing someone slowly deteriorate, hearing the fights escalate, not knowing when you would see them for the last time, wondering why they won't eat this. When I was 8, my parents FORBADE ME FROM WAKING MY BIG SISTER UP IN FEAR I WOULD SEE HER DEAD BODY. DO YOU UNDERSTAND ?! THEY THOUGHT A CHILD, A BABY, WOULD SEE THE PERSON SHE LOOKS UP TO DEAD.

THIS ILLNESS IS NO JOKE, NOT A SKINNY DISNEY FAST PASS, NOT A CUTE QUIRK, IT'S DEADLY.

And as an anorexic let me tell you, it's even worse. You will cry in front of the mirror, pinch your "fat" until it's red, shower in the dark, the scale will be your best friend and worse enemy, you will hate yourself so much more, you will MISS FOOD, you will miss being able to eat fries or pizza or spring rolls or crisps or potatoes, you may be thinking "I'll still let myself eat them from time to time" NO YOU WON'T, you will probably have a breakdown when you have them on your plate, you might purge, you might starve for the next day or more. Your personality will dissolve, you will be constantly angry and irritable.

Oh and also, if you have siblings or cousins I would like to inform you that people are more likely to have an ed if a family member had one and I KNOW you care about your family. (I am not accusing any one of purposefully influencing family members it's just for information)

If you have an already existing ed you can stay, if not then get the FUCK OFF MY PAGE YOU BEAUTIFUL PERFECT HUMAN BEING AND GO HAVE A SNACK. This illness is not beautiful and aesthetic, it's torture.

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Me: omg yes I love when women have chubby bellies and thighs! They're so cute and I I wanna hug them

Them: all women right? Including you??

Me: lol no, I better be able to see my bones or I'm gonna die :)

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You can’t change your bone structure.

Not everyone can have a thigh gap. Didn’t have one when I was 130 lbs, still wasn’t there at 90lbs.

I always have had small arms but a big waist/stomach. At my lowest weight, I still had the same stomach, but I could perfectly see my ribs. Didn’t really lose lots of inches there.

So please, don’t beat yourself up if your thighs are still touching. If your fingers can’t touch when surrounding your waist. Bone structure is not something you can control.

You are doing enough.