regular 5) additionally the brain can run on ketones if it has to but it supposedly works better when fuelled by carbohydrates. from a medical standpoint your foot problems could just be the start of your deterioration. Please seek help, one-to-one or in a group, ideally from somewhere in your locality. It is difficult to recover on your own. You may also need assistance from a doctor. The trouble with anorexia is that it is one of those conditions that you can die from, that is worse than "jiggly sagging skin", but you need to be in a position to be able to appreciate this and be able to act on it Hey. Yea, I'm aware of all of that. But is BDD the cause for the weight gain? It just doesn't make any sense, logically. Mosumbi, carrot, brocolli, lettuce. How could I possibly be gaining that much weight? I cannot understand at all and its beyond frustrating. BDD (and being habituated to seeing your 41kg (BMI 15.0) figure as 'normal') is allowing you to see something as a problem wheras the problem is how you are perceiving yourself. Your body knows that this is not the right weight for you and if given a chance it will use calories that your provide both for immediate energy and for storage for emergency in case none come (because understandably your body has figured out that calories are scarce) The fact is that if you give your body the adequate nutrition it