Losing weight w/ crackers & water?

No,no no! I am not lying to you here, you will become sick and then gain it all back anyway.

I am recovering from anorexia, I see dieticians and I listen up, I also managed to destroy my metabolism in a matter of months and then what happens is when you eat again, even a tiny but more you gain weight back and gain it back fast, you then have to keep eating to heal it, fine for me since I am underweight but why lose your weight only to gain it back? A damaged metabolism can take a while to heal.

And the implications are terrible, so many potential health problems can arise and very suddenly too, I was not even undrweight and I was weak, got low blood pressure and my hair starting to fall out, by the time I was underweight I was strugling to walk, doctors told me I could go into cardiac arrest and die and my organs could fail, this was not just due to my weight being so low, it was malnutrition, I was also iron and vitamin deficient even taking suppliments and had sores in my mouth.

Go to a TDEE calculator online and get a guide of your daily burn, then eat 500 below it to lose 1 pound per week, TDEE is total energy expenditure from all daily activities including walking to your bathroom, taking a shower etc, BMR is a different thing, your BMR is what you need to sit in bed all day and blink, never eat below that ever.

Once you have an idea of your intake requirements for weight loss take that amount and split it as follows:

Breakfast

Morning snack

Lunch

Afternoon snack

Dinner

Evening snack.

That way you will never feel too hungry, snacks can be simple like fruit too, you fit the intake in but you can place the calories where you need them most, for me it's dinner, most of my calories go in from lunch onwards because I get most hungry then but you adapt it to suit you, just don't skip anything, hunger is miserable.

My husband is overweight and he is doing the above and losing weight nicely, he honestly thought it would never work and that his anorexic wife was in no position to give advice but then he met my dietician and gave it a go, he is 8 pounds down in 4 weeks, the first week you often lose a bit more because water weight comes off from any overeating you were doing as well as fat loss.

Do not aim to lose more than 2 pounds per week either, you will lose muscle, look awful.feel weak and muscle burns calories more effectively than fat so you don't want to lose that.

And don't ban any foods at all, moderate them,people who ban foods tend to rebound eat and no food is bad, some just need moderating more due to calorie volume and because they may not provide esssential nutrients but the body needs everything, even fats so you need a good variety in there and that can include choccolate, cake etc, just balance it and research portion sizes.

No.

Crackers is not what you want to eat to lose weight. Search for a couple of 3 Day Tuna Diets. In spite of the name, there is really not much tuna eaten with these recipes. I looked for a couple of 3DT recipes and substituted foods that I like for ones I don't. They are basically 1200 calories a day diets.