Just to preface, I have never had an eating disorder, nor a body image issue.
Recently I put on about 10 pounds and now weight 175 lb at 5'10", female, 29 yo. My doctor recommended I loose a few pounds, between 8-10 as that was what I weighed less than a year ago. I started fasting 8 weeks ago, 16 - 8 & 18-6, usually 5 days a week. Up to 2 weeks ago, I was getting my 1700 calories in a day. I have been hitting the gym, about 5 times a week with 30 mins weight training and 30 mins cardio (give or take)
I generally eat very healthy during my window of eating. These last 2 weeks, I have been having a hard time eating more than 1000 calories a day. I am just not hungry. I sleep about 7 hours a night, go to school 17 hrs a week and work ~18 hours serving tables on the weekend (I do not workout saturday and sunday for this reason). I usually get up at 6:30 am and go nonstop until 9:30 pm between school, kids, dogs etc. Then it's downtime with school readings and bed at 11:30 PM/
I have no idea how I am functioning on such few calories, but I am genuinely worried. Even though I haven't had an eating disorder before, I am worried because seeing food and watching people eat is starting to repulse me. The other day I tried to eat pizza and felt sick to my stomach. I ended up eating a large spinach salad with meat and dressing instead.
My question is, should I go see my doctor because of this change in how I am seeing food? is the amount of calories I am eating too low? I am not trying to restrict my calories, I just cannot seem to get the food down.
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