but first , that Protect Item prayer looks dank <| sep |> When I was 1617 , I restricted and ate under 500 or 400 didn ' t measure the calories well at that time , and didn ' t know much about nutrition or water weight for 6 months . I stopped eating at school and only ate small portions when I was at home . I lost 12 kg during that time , but I had to stop because I got sick pretty often and one day I just couldn ' t sit without having to vomit and my stomach couldn ' t even bare water for a whole week . I had to lay down and struggled so much to drink a bit of water , tiny sips by tiny sips so I won ' t throw it up all , and just getting up to go to the bathroom was hell . I don ' t know of the sickness was ED related , but it was enough of a trauma for me at that time to consider recovery . Now I try to be more careful and I ' ve been eating between 600 and 1000 kcal a day , allowing me some no calorie count days and I still lose weight . If I eat under that , I tend to binge , so I think it ' s better to lose slowly than to not lose at all