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Wow, it looks pretty even between the 3 choices on the poll.

I'm 5'6" and 135/140ish lbs, which I think is about average. I used to be more like 170 though. Gotta watch it. But if I don't have a big chocolate shake every day like I used to, I'll probably be fine, LOL.

I usually eat pretty good things, but don't object to treats when they are available. I don't eat much daily right now because I don't do many things that provide exercise at the moment. I don't really have scheduled meals, except for dinner.

There's no need for him to eat dairy to be healthy. Here's some resources for getting more fat and calories into his diet:
http://community.livejournal.com/veganp ... 38460.html
http://community.livejournal.com/veganp ... 65093.html
http://community.livejournal.com/veganp ... 61268.html
http://community.livejournal.com/veganp ... 64190.html

(You'll need to join the community to view some of these, though. But it's a great community!)

I think that's the forum I joined...in fact...

I know that dairy is not necc. for him to be healthy....and I never talked him out of being vegan...I do talk to him about the fact that he does not eat enough...and he agrees with me..especially when he is on the verge of passing out. I have been in his presence twice when he has fainted and injured himself..(I was not able to stop it from happening)...and while not the only reason, not having enough fuel for his body has at least been a contributing factor.

When he is being a strict vegan, he becomes very anal about everything he puts in his mouth, and simply does not consume enough calories in a day for a person with an already hummingbird metabolism, who rides his bike everywhere, and he becomes borderline anorexic. He has a hard time going through the motions of obtaining enough food for himself several times a day....he does not own a fridge, and will not get a fridge, because that would mean having someone come into his apartment. He is, for all practical person an aspie....undiagnosed, but deals with all the sensory, social, anxiety and rigidity issues that one might expect...so that makes certain things kinda rough...I have plied him with non-perishable vegan foods to help him mantain some body mass whenever I have been able to...but I am not always able to. We don't live together....if we did, I'd fix him smoothees and stuff...

When his diet is relaxed enough that he will eat a cheese pizza with goat cheese and olives once in a while, then his desire to eat returns, he takes more enjoyment in it, and and he tends to simply eat more in general....mostly vegan, but with a little cheese here and there...He has very very little body fat...and I have seen him lose muscle in his arms and whatnot...so he needs it...

But I will log back into the forum and read the links...maybe I can get some better ideas...
The ones i recall are smoothees and healthy vegan baked goods...Good ideas, but kinda hard for me to pull off under my stressed-out circumstances. Other ideas seemed more implausible...like getting him any sort of intervention...no way....I could not see that flying well at all for a person as particular and sensitive and whatnot as he is...I am part of his support network..and while I am not perfect, i do the best I can.

One of the reasons I am not vegan myself has to do with stress....I am easily stumped about what to eat and occasional animal products wander into my mouth.

I am aware of how wrong it is though...
Every time it happens, I announce that I am aware that I am already going to hell...

I've dropped nearly 100 pounds in the past 18 months; by the end of the year, I hope to be the lightest I have been since my freshman year of high school. I peaked at 325 pounds (at 6'4")... presently, I'm just a hair over 230 with an eventual target weight of somewhere in the 210 to 220 range at this time.


M.

Was average to skinny as a kid, have been underweight since shortly after puberty.

I am underweight, 5'7 103 Lbs.
I also eat around 2000-3000 calories a day, 150 grams of fat, 160 grams of carbs, and eat 2-3 times more than any normal person. When I eat a meal, I not only eat one piece of chicken thigh with fat, i eat 3 pieces, plus a whole can of starch vegetables. I also eat lots of rice, I eat 1 cup of it in one sitting. though I do have a ton of food intolerance, but I eat gluten free wheat free foods that have lots of carbs, like white rice, those gluten free cookies(10 in one sitting). I even eat peanut butter sandwiches on white rice bread with about 8 tablespoons(huge ones) of peanut butter on it everyday for lunch. I put peanut butter on both sides of the bread, and even spread it on the top (makes the white rice bread tastes less weird).
I was always underweight, except when I was taking seroquel and remeron, where I was 200 Lbs. When I did get off the medications, I was able to lose the weight i put on and more, without even having to diet and workout.
this might sound good, but I was always being accused of having an eating disorder, and still am today. At one point when I was younger, my parents were accused of not feeding me. It was horrible. So pretty much I have learned to live with myself and not dwell on it.

BMI 17,2, have rised from 14-15. Mostly thanks to puberty. At 14-15 you can see almost every single bone in ones body. Nope, no eating disorder, just skinny.
I never realised how picky people can be what they eat, the only thing I use to see if something is eatable is my nose (bet you didn't see that one coming, that's right, I have eyes in my nose, looks really funny when I blink, but very usefull for looking down girls blouses. ), if it smells OK, it's OK. Let's eat. *Man... all this talk about food is making me hungry.*
I'd love to have some bodyfat so I wouldn't have to eat constantly to keep warm during winter or risk to die as soon as I get a cold and looses my apetite. Normaly I can easely eat a normal portion ~ones every second hour, though I can reduce it to twise a day if neccessary.

at the moment I'm pretty fit, I'm 5'9" 175lbs right now but that's because i put on weight since i stopped rowing early this year and didn't compete this fall, I'm usually around 160lbs in the summer and fall. at the end of high school i was a portly 200lbs. when university started i gradually lost weight until the summer after my second year when i was down to 158lbs at my lightest.

I struggled a lot with my weight last summer. I was about 175lbs at the start of the summer and had to get down below 160lbs in order to compete as a lightweight. I was already under stress because of my summer job so I also started stressing about my weight, nearly to the point of bulimia. I never purged but I would feel guilty if I felt full and would want to. Once I got down to competition weight I felt good about my body and about my weight but I still wasn't eating enough. I ate whenever I got hungry and would indulge in beer and other high calorie foods but my metabolism was probably very slow at this point from the weight loss so I wasn't getting hungry enough and burnt out.

This summer I did a lot better, I had a stress-free job, I didn't worry about my weight and my diet was a lot better but I still didn't eat enough. I would start the day with a smoothie containing 800-1000Cal, eat 4 meals over the course of the workday and two more at home with a desert, totaling well over 3000Cal/day, but this couldn't keep up with my activity level. I had two rowing practices per day and I bike everywhere so I ended up doing 4-5hrs of cardio every day and worked an active job as a groundskeeper on a government farm. I ended up burning out again, not as bad as last year though, and was tired most of the time so I cut back on rowing practice and tried to eat more but it's hard to do when you're already eating every second of your free time.

So in a nutshell I've had my fair share of weight issues but they're getting better. Next summer I'll probably see a nutritionist or dietitian to help me with my diet so I get enough food in me.

I'm average I suppose...not skinny, but I don't think I'm overweight either. I'm 5'0" and I weigh about 110lbs. I'm petite, but curvy and a bit musuclar. The heaviest I've ever been was about 125lbs and that was when I was taking meds (Zyprexa, Seroquel and the like). When I'm not medicated stay beteween 105-115lbs.

I usually take great care of my nutrition, almost never eat anything unhealthy (forgoing drunken excursions), but a good mix of fruit, vegetables, cheese, nuts, soya, meat and grains. In truth, if I'm going to the gym daily then it can be difficult to get enough calories in.

Unfortunately, when I'm depressed I eat much more. Don't usually buy vastly more unhealthy food but just eat much more of the grains and meat while neglecting the vegetables and fruit.

I notice this post suggests ‘usual’ is different from ‘depressed’. Far from true much of the time!

Hey, poopylungstuffing, your vegan friend should get a mini fridge; it's small enough to lug into your house by yourself. Get the kind with a separate freezer compartment, and borrow one of those little moving carts if it weighs more than about seventy pounds. Drag the man shopping someplace, or send him pictures from a camera phone if he hates shopping.

Everything he buys should be something that he can literally pick up, unpack, and eat. Fresh vegetables and fruits that only need to be washed; bread that can simply be picked up and eaten (the multi-grain type is good for this); chips, pretzels, and crackers; nuts--definitely nuts--and ask him if he's tried dried, roasted soybeans, which are quite delicious; I recommend them, anyhow; dried fruit; sandwiches; frozen dinners (these take some preparation but it is minimal)... Oh, and a multivitamin supplement, which anybody with a restricted diet should be taking daily.

BTW, it's not just skinny people that have problems with not eating enough because they have problems planning meals; I have those problems and I'm pretty fat. Since I haven't had anybody to prepare food for me, I've basically been eating whenever I got too hungry to ignore it, and then only the simplest possible things I've been able to make for myself--the most complex I can do at the moment is either spaghetti or a simple tuna salad you can make with tuna, salad dressing, and relish. Didn't mean I lost any weight; just that I stayed steady where I was.

So yeah. If you know somebody who's autistic and really crappy at planning, don't assume that they can't have food problems unless they're bone thin... Me, personally, I think I'll manage to learn before any major damage, because I take multivitamins and I can usually get fruits and vegetables (simple to eat, like I mentioned), but I'm gonna bet there are austistics of all sizes out there who don't need a weight gain/loss diet... but education on how to feed themselves.

Last edited by Callista on 21 Oct 2009, 4:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I'm average. I used to be quite skinny and was absolutely miserable all the time. Over the past 7 years I have gained about 15 lbs and I'm happy as can be. I know I need to work out more to improve my muscle tone, but most of the weight went to the right places and turned me from a stick into a curvy woman. I have no desire to go back to being a size 2! I exercise some almost every day and cook healthy meals for my husband and I. Some people are happy skinny, some people are happy heavy, I'm a happy average.

I recommend swimming as exercise, if your sensory system permits it. It's great for all sizes and shapes of people, poses a very low risk of injury, and goes all the way from gentle exercise they use for rehab after major injury to high-intensity training that people do before marathons. The only drawback: You have to find and go to a swimming pool.

When I left school, I only weighed seven stone. I could eat pretty much anything I liked and it would never show. Over the last few years, my metabolism has slowed down a bit and I have had to modify my eating habits a bit -- this is especially important for me because both my mother and father have Type 2 Diabetes and I have a high risk of getting it later in life. At the moment, I weigh about eleven and a half stone, but at one point, I was pushing thirteen stone.

For the last eighteen months, I've been living without a fridge and have to do most of my food shopping on a day by day basis -- not that I have the mental organisation for a weeklong shopping list anyway. My main meal usually consists of rice with either minced beef and baked beans or chicken kievs. I occasionally substitute rice for pasta shells and baked beans for bolognese/chilli sauce.

As far as exercise goes, despite long periods of inertia, I can easily walk six miles in a day and think nothing of it. At one point, I walked fourteen miles a day for two weeks -- it's remarkable what an obsessive fixation on a woman can do for you!

Surely the only reason anyone ever actually exercises, right?

Wow, I can feel better, now! I'm not as underweight as you. I am 6' and 116! I just came from the doctor who told me to gain some weight. I have always been too thin. How about you?

I wonder if my weight has anything to do with the fact that I am almost always fidgeting. I read somewhere that underweight people fidget a lot. Is it cause or effect? Some stims burn more calories than others. When I am really anxious I burn off the nervous energy on my exercise bike.