I'm not qualified to give you a suggested weight but I believe you received a lot of good advice in your previous posts. Click your name and view your posts. Of all the advice I remember reading, I believe the best was to go see a good sports nutritionist.

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"your horse is too high" - tigerchik

At age seventeen, I'd eat whatever the freak I wanted. Course then again, that's what I do.
I'm 5' 9"- 5" 10"ish and I bounce between 130's and 140. So long as you are a little under two pounds per inch of height I wouldn't worry about it.

Also, make sure you don't have a calcium deficiency. That could lead to a weak skeleton, and also a low body weight.

Let me say this emphatically, don't seek help from anonymous posters on this forum and seek professional help. Either from a nutritionist, physician, psychologist or any other health-care practitioner familiar with eating disorders.

You are describing my ex-wife when she was in high-school, and in the following twenty years she recovered, un-recovered, recovered, un-recovered, recovered and un-recovered. It's a disease, like alcoholism, which you never get rid of, you only control. It's a manifestation of a deeper emotional problem. Not controlled, it can lead to other things like alcoholism. In the end it destroyed her her marriage, her family and her life.

Having gone through the therapy with her for over 15 years, I am intimately familiar with the disease. From your post alone there are red flags that tell me that you are not recovered. Don't take it lightly. Trust me. Get professional help.

(If you want any more help you can send me a private message and I can point you in the right direction.)

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Irondad is right on the money. We all care about. You know we do, or you wouldn't be back with this question. We all want to help you. We just want the best for you, BUT we know we are ill equipped to provide the best care you need.

You have to go to someone that can lay their hands on you and measure your skeletal size, estimate muscle mass balance/imbalance, follow your calcium levels, find out anything else that may be of importance in your particular case, etc. Do it on Monday, July 26th. Don't wait until Tuesday. Every day you put it off is a day that can be wasted. If it is determined that you are PERFECT for your individual needs, wouldn't that be a big weight lifted from your shoulders? If you need to do some tweaking, wouldn't it be great to have someone do that for you?

Monday, July 26th...THE DAY YOU MAKE AN APPOINTMENT! If you don't want to do it for you, do it for us, the people that care about you.

Write back and tell us the date you have arranged to go meet with a trained local professional about this question you have regarding your health. It's more important than anything else you have on your agenda on Monday.

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Quid quid latine dictum sit altum videtur
(That which is said in Latin sounds profound)

My wife has suffered from Bulemia for a long time now and was an athlete like you at her age and she still stuggles with it. Eating disorders are a challenge and not who you are. Get help for it now the longer you wait the harder it gets to fight it. Get professional help, I and other concerned posters can offer support, but we can not help you like the professionals. I hope and pray you move forward.

Grace and Peace to You

Hey!

I know you've gotten some great advice on the forum in the past. Seeing a professional is really the only way to go........even if you're afraid of what they're going to tell you (and I suspect that might be the case) you just gotta suck it up and go. No excuses, no questions........just do it. You are risking your long term health here, trust me, it's not something to take lightly.........you will pay down the road for the choices you make now.

As a fairly lightweight (5'6", 116lb) female athlete, I know all about the struggle to be lean, fit and healthy. I have dealt with my own disordered eating for years (I am now 46).........starving, binging, purging with laxatives and exercise........believe me, I've been there. I still struggle with body image........many days I look in the mirror and still see a "fat, flabby cow". Pretty damn sick! ;-)

Tri training has been the best thing for me. It helped me take the focus off of my (distorted) body image and turn it to athletic performance. I now eat to fuel my training and racing........not to make my body fit somebody's (maybe mine) screwed up standard. Takes all the pressure off.

I eat more every day than I used to eat in 3 or 4. I feel great. I am lean, strong, healthy and getting faster every year. Had my bone density checked recently (trust me, you'll worry about this one day) and they said I had the bones of a 30 year old. Life is good!

I feel for you in your struggles with this demon, but if you go to a professional, listen to what they have to say and then, most importantly, follow through with their suggestions, you will reach the weight that your body wants to be at. I have been 114-118 for 3 years...........someone who used to fluctuate 10+ lbs in a couple of days. No one can really predict, but you will know, and feel great, when you get there!

Feel free to PM me if you just want to chat. I'm a mom, I'm good at it ;-).

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It's a little like wrestling a gorilla.........you don't stop when you're tired.........you stop when the gorilla is tired.

I am beginning to smell a rat. I think I have read all this before. Down to the emoticons and wicked kewl slang. If you truly are a 17 year old girl who "just loves 2 run", take the advise that has previously been given and seek professional help. If you are really a 47 year old man, as I suspect, seek professional help.

Thank you all for your comments... I see a therapist for 3hrs a week and a physician once a week. How can I find a doctor who specializes in athletes? As far as nutritionally, i have an upcoming appt with Nancy Clark. would love to find an exercise physiologist in my area though... I live in Maine, but am willing to travel as far as Massachusetts.

Thanks...

tigerchik

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

man, josie, you're more cynical than me!

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Well, there's this one http://www.orthoassociates.com/Sports1.htm

Or, this one http://southcoast.org/sports/sports-mds.html

Or possibly here http://www.acsm.org/...S/online_results.asp

Or, you could search this page http://www.healthgrades.com/...p;subact=city_search for yourself.

Or, you could ask your doctors to refer you to someone.

It doesn't come easy, frogonawire.

If you're not sure if tigerchik is a 47-year old man who can take care of himself or 17-year old girl in obvious need of help, (pardon my language) what the Hell do you think to achieve by posting something like that?!

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"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." ~Anne Frank

 I have followed all of the posts tigerchik has made as well as the well-meaning, thoughtful advise that has been offered. The subject of eating disorders is clearly one that has impacted your life, as well as many others. I am not trying to make light of the subject, I am just unsure of the motives of this poster. It seems that if tigerchik is earnestly seeking a cure from anonymous strangers on a board, then she has not made much progress towards recovery. I would submit that seeing as how she is seeing several medical professionals, there is little we here can offer this anonymous individual. I have witnessed too many instances of people on forums claiming to be something they are not and in the process, eliciting personal information from other posters. Since March, tigerchik has posted essentially the same question, while giving more and more personal data. If tigerchik is not a 47 year old perv, then she has no reason to be offended. If I am wrong, and this poster is not a man but really a 17 year old girl suffering from an eating disorder, what are you trying to achieve? If she is looking for a rescuer, she appears to have found one.

I'm a little bit skeptical too I hate to say. No more mention of 13 miles a day this time. If it's true tigerchik is seeing some kind of treatment, why not mention what's the current ongoing treatment? What improvements have been made since the prior postings? If I were a high school coach and one of my athletes was 97 lbs and running 13 miles a day and had an eating problem, would they honestly let them race? How many 17 year olds actually run ultras for that matter? Not to mention the costs involved in hours of therapy, doctors and specialists.

If I'm wrong then I apologize. I hope I'm wrong, but if you're still fixated on your weight then your therapy must be going poorly. The only thing that should matter is your health not what the scale tells you.

Get over yourself!