[lalareb05]

ok so i'm 20 years old 5'2", 125lbs and i feel horrible. I'm not fat, but my clothes are not fitting right and i just dont like how i want to look. I've done every stupid thing you can possibly do to lose weight. About 3 years ago i took stackers (with ephedra) and lost weight so easily. I went from 118 to 108 in no time, but i know now that it was VERY stupid. I stopped taking those and my weight just kept creeping up and my freshman year i got to about 127-128 and so i jumped on the low carb bandwagon. Got down to about 118 lbs and then stopped the low carb thing and the weight crept up again to about 126-127 lbs. Then i decided i would just stop eating. From January-March this year I was depressed and i wouldnt say i was anorexic, but i had anorexic tendencies. I would fast for days...only drinking water. I got down to 113 lbs and then after a month of trying to "restrict" (meaning less than 800 calories a day) and occasionally bingeing on everything in sight my weight is back up to 125. I realize that not eating is TOTALLY the wrong thing to do. I'm trying to get back into a routine. I've been eating about 1200-1500 calories a day, working out twice a day 5-6 days a week (elliptical, treadmill, bike) and burning about 600-1000 calories each day with that, and lifting weights 3-5 days a week. Ok so to get to the point. Do y'all think my metabolism is so messed up that it will take me much longer to lose weight? It's so weird eating 1400 calories a day...i spread it out to about 4 or 5 small meals a day. I just really don't want to do this for a month and see no results and feel like i have to go back to restricting. What do y'all think? Will i be able to lose weight this way?