Question by ChristinaGrimmieisawesome!!!: Using Sleeping Aids at 14 to not eat ?
I’m 14 and I don’t like to eat with my family because we live in the South and the food is really fattening. I only eat about 1,000 calories a day which is easy because I’m home alone with my 8 year old brother till about 5. Well when my parents come home I go straight to my room and the only way I can get out of eating is by sleeping. My dad has a lot of sleeping aids in the kitchen cabinet and I just want to know if I take them will it hurt me or will they be able to tell ?
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Answer by inmate
sleeping aids will slow your system. will help you hold weight and not burn fat for energy.
After spine surgery I gained 60 plus lbs. From family being nice and giving me all the things I wanted. From the surgery I could not exercise and walking was a chore. So with spine damage and no chance at exercise I remembered what my high school coach told me.
“It calorie in and calorie burned” The way to burn weight is burn more than you take in. If you do this you will loose weight. So I counted calories and I nearly starved.
I started reading the diets out there. Atkins and south beach. Tried Atkins and lost weight. After loosing several lbs I shared the diet with friends and it worked for them as well. One fellow went from size 48 to 38 pants, stopped taking BP medication and stopped taking diabetes medication. Ate eggs and bacon for breakfast and life was good. I just had trouble holding to the diet. In time I gained the weight back. After the yo-yo dieting and radical eating soups and such, I started to do the common sense diet.
I found something that works and I plan to write a book on it. In the mean time I am will to share this much. The more your bowels work the better you will feel. Turn your diet into a high fiber diet and the more you eat the more you will loose. I find that “Total” raisin Bran will speed your digestion. So eat two or three bowel per day. Salads of fresh veggies will help as well. Yes, use dressing of some type and you need fats. Whole milk, (have documentation to prove it). And Metamucil in the mornin and after noon will help clean your bowels and keep you going. In time you will be able ot eat most any thing you like (as long as it makes you poop) and eat all you like. Things like steak with fat and good cuts of meat. Stay away from burgers and processed foods. Chicken meat and good cuts of pork are OK.
If you snack at night eat the Raisin bran and it will move you in the morning. No white bread, high grain breads are OK.
You need to eat 5 or 6 times per day. From early morning on. Eat small meals and in the am add fresh fruits.
I promise you will loose weight and in time start feeling much better. I have given this info to many people and all have lost weight,. None have had medical problems from it.
I wish you the best.
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At 14 you don’t need sleeping pills. It’s OK to eat what your parents eat, just eat small portions.
they would make you hungry and sleepy.
Seriously, you’d rather be on drugs, than properly fed, you have an eating disorder, you should really get some help, before you destroy yourself.
This will end in serious problems for you, and a lifelong problem with maintaining proper weight(because you’re destroying your metabolism).
You need to either eat small portions of the fattening foods they prepare, or you need to straight up tell them that you’d rather eat something else because the food they’re cooking is so unhealthy. The latter is actually very effective if you have open minded parents- I did it, and it changed the way my family ate for the better.
Sleeping pills will cause your body to work at a slower rate, so you’re not going to be losing much weight.
I also have issues with you eating only 1000 calories. The caloric aim for women is no less than 1200 calories daily. Right now, you are trying to starve yourself, and if you succeed, this means that your body will start to consume your muscles for calories, your bones are going to start breaking down, and you’re going to lose your hair. Is this really what you want?
If you really want to change your body for the better, try this link. It’ll help you get to your goal weight
without depriving you of your caloric needs. You may have to put that you’re 18, though.
http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/calories-goal.php