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Diet and Autism (formerly the 'My Diet Hell' thread)

Steven

I attended an ASD advice session a couple of weeks ago and, amongst other questions, I was asked if I obsessed over anything (it was put more gently than this, of course). I'm often a bit slow to realise obvious things, so I couldn't come up with an instructive answer.

Hours later, it dawned on me that I'm needlessly over-concerned with losing weight. I am 5-foot-9 and exactly 11-stone which, as far as I'm aware, isn't over-weight anyway; so why the obsession? It perhaps doesn't help that I'm truly terrible at everything from basic mathematics to understanding weighing-scales in an ordinary fashion (I frequently think of '11-stone' as '11 o'clock', and can't get out of the rut of thinking that mistaken way). Obviously, this obsession features the usual calorie-counting routines and fretting about the *enormous* calorific legacy of adding a single sweetener to a cup of coffee. All this is difficult to explain because, like most people, I defiantly tell myself that I don't care what others think of me or my appearance...while secretly worrying about what others think of me or my appearance...and vice versa.

Anybody else have this or similar problems?

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  • Something like it but I don't know if I would consider it a problem per se'. I know I used to be very concerned with my place on the BMI scale and one day it started to look very bad despite me feeling very healthy, in fact more heathy and stronger than ever before, and that was because I had been weight lifting for some time so despite my food portion sizes only marginally getting bigger I couldn't account for the seemingly disproportionate weight gain until I reaslised that muscle weighs more than fat and I'd been converting the extra fat ito muscle. I'm at a weird placve now where losing weight has me worried as it usually means I've been sedentary for too long so started to lose the muscle. To paint the picture (and hopefully this helps explain by way of context) I'm 5 ft 7 inches and 75kg, but I leg press 150kg which is twice my weight. So at this point weight loss for me eqautes to strength loss since my size is actually stable regardless for the first 2-3 weeks I stop my home gym activity.

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  • Something like it but I don't know if I would consider it a problem per se'. I know I used to be very concerned with my place on the BMI scale and one day it started to look very bad despite me feeling very healthy, in fact more heathy and stronger than ever before, and that was because I had been weight lifting for some time so despite my food portion sizes only marginally getting bigger I couldn't account for the seemingly disproportionate weight gain until I reaslised that muscle weighs more than fat and I'd been converting the extra fat ito muscle. I'm at a weird placve now where losing weight has me worried as it usually means I've been sedentary for too long so started to lose the muscle. To paint the picture (and hopefully this helps explain by way of context) I'm 5 ft 7 inches and 75kg, but I leg press 150kg which is twice my weight. So at this point weight loss for me eqautes to strength loss since my size is actually stable regardless for the first 2-3 weeks I stop my home gym activity.

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