When anorexics eat again, they do not gain it all back right away?

Question

If they start eating healthy and gain weight thats right for them, they wont gain it all back. Do people say they gain it all back because they want more and more food and keep eating? and they don't exersize if they have the energy?

Answer 1

yep it true, i ended up gainin all of it back with in a year

Answer 2

you definately wont wiegh more than you did before, but you will go back to about the weight you were originally and you wont INSTANTLY gain it back, it will take a while.

but its kinda diffrent if you eat healthily, because you wont gain it all back, if you are are on a strict diet then you will still lose weigh by becoming healthy

Answer 3

The problem with starving yourself is when you start to eat again your body will hold on to the food because it does not know when the next meal is.  So it stores it and you gain weight.  The key to maintaining a healthy weight it to eat often.  THe more you eat the faster your metabolism speeds up and you burn more calories.  Try weight watcher count your intake on a daily bases and you see results within the first week.  It is so easy.  

Answer 4

You most likely will gain it all back, and rather quickly.  Unless you change your eating habbits from before the anorexia.  

Answer 5

i've known 3 anorexics ...  1 died of heart failure at 17 years of age and 88 pounds ...  the other 2 gained back all of the weight within 6 months to a year of eating "normal" plus a couple of pounds ...  the starvation slowed their metabolisms to below the "normal" amount of food that is healthy for them ...  so the weight came back fast ...

you have to ramp the calories back up very slowly and get the metabolism to respond before the next stage of the ramp-up ...