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Drink tons of water... most of water intake is through food, this means that if we are reducing food intake we reduce water intake, therefor it is imperiative that "pro-ana's" drink lots of water. Sides it tastes good and no cals
Vitamins and minerals. We need to have these to survive. I recomend to take at least a daily multivitamin. Vitamins are vital in keeping our bodies functioning and our skin / hair / teeth healthy.
For every cup of tea, coffee or diet soda drink one glass of water.
Sit up straight and keep stomach flexed at all times (burns cals)
Get plenty of sleep. Take naps whenever you can and rest when you need to rest. Sleep deprivation increases appetite and makes you age faster.
Keep a scrap book. Write down everything you eat, anything else you feel might be helpful to know and keep a few of your favorite pictures for thinspiration. This will allow you to measure progress and track patterns over time.
Eat slowly, and in small bites. Remember to chew food a minimum of 30 counts, after every bite take a drink of water this will make your brain think that you have eatin more
Think about food before and while you eat it. Think about where it came from and exactly what happened to it before it reached you.
Give yourself permission before eating. Stop and think about it, consider if you really want to eat whatever-it-is. If your answer is yes, then say (or think) something like "I'm allowed to eat this" or "I have permission to eat this".
Plan your meals in advance, for the day or week or whatever. Decide what you are allowed to eat each day.
If you feel yourself starting to lose control while you're eating, stop. Set your food down, take a long drink of water or some other cool liquid, and take a deep breath before resuming eating.
*Remember to remind yourself that you are still going to finish your food and that you aren't stopping, just pausing for a moment.*
Ruin your food. Make it with too much water, too little sugar, an ingredient you don't care for. Add too much salt or pepper before you eat. You will eat less of it if it tastes bad.
When munchies set in eat or suck on ice cubesI
Brush your teeth. A clean mouth can make the thought of eating less desirable. Also, if you brush after every meal and every supposed meal, it's less obvious whether you've eaten or not.
Take a shower. Hot steamy water can suppress the appetite, and paying close attention to your body will serve to remind you exactly why you're losing weight in the first place. If you feel clean you may not want to "dirty" yourself with food.
Chewing gum works to suppress appitite, but check for calories. Keep yourself occupied.
Exercise. Find something you love to do and do it. Make it interesting. The best I've found? Dancing. Find music you love, cover the windows up, and don't even think about what you may look like since there's nobody to see.
If your gunna drink up all the cals of alcohol then drink to the point of puking... you wont wanna drink for long, but you puke up all thouse cals!
I might also include some information about my personal history: where I grew up, where I went to school, various places I've lived. If I have one, I'll include a picture of myself engaging in an activity I enjoy, such as a sport or hobby.
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1. Salad. Eat lots of salad.
2. Eat a little something, less than 70 calories, when you get up to get your metabolism started. After that, hold out as long as you can before you eat again
3. Try to avoid situations where it will look weird if you don't eat.
4. Vary your calorie intake so your body doesn't go into starvation mode and stop burning fat.
5. Look at some thinspiration pictures when you want to eat.
6. Try not to keep food in the room that you spend most of your time in
7. Suck on hard candy
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Advice from various webpages:
Drink a glass of ice cold water every hour; it will make you feel full.
Between each mouthful of food that you eat, take a sip of water; it fills you up and slows down your eating so that you stay in control.
Chew sugar free gum.
Eat in the same place every day. Somewhere solitary. not in front of the TV or computer.
Eat what you crave. But eat in moderation; instead of a whole chocolate bar, get one of the small ones and only eat 1/2 of it. Allow yourself to enjoy it. Deprivation leads to binging.
Sleep at least 6 hours a night. Less than 6 hours sleep a night stimulates appetite by 15%.
If you're really hungry, buy a bag of low fat, low calorie hard candies. When you suck on them a lot your stomach will tell you that you are full.
Try drinking more hot beverages, especially in fall and in winter. Hot liquids expand the intestinal tract and make you feel full. A warm drink can help take the edge off your hunger, preventing overindulging later. In fact, soup can do the same.
Focus especially on the first three bites. After that, the excitement of eating will begin to slowly subside, and you'll probably be content with a smaller portion.
If you feel like you want to eat, go to a friend's house where you cannot just raid the fridge.
When you go out take only a few dollars with you so that when you walk past the pastry shops you can't afford anything.
If you love a certain food, save the wrappers even after you've eaten it. Smell it when you're hungry.
Don't Swallow! Take a bite, chew, and spit it out.
Track your triggers.
A little envy is a good thing. Competition is a great mobilizer.
Sit up straight. You'll burn at least ten percent more calories sitting upright than reclining.
Drink 2tbsp of vinegar before the meal; it well help suck out the fat out of it.
If you're being watched, try the opaque cup trick: pretend you're eating, and spit the food in the cup while you pretend to be drinking - don't forget to get rid of what's in the cup.
Go to the kitchen often, and pretend you're snacking. Take a bite out of something and take a long time, look in the fridge, etc. People will think you're always in the kitchen eating, and won't suspect anything. If you never go in the kitchen, your family will notice.
Go vegan or vegetarian or just cut out red meat. Meat products have a lot of fat in them.
Have a peppermint; peppermints decrease hunger.
When you got hunger pains curl up in a ball. It really helps them go away.
Hit your stomach when it grumbles because that will make the sound go away and your stomach will hurt too much to eat.
Diet soda is only 1 calorie a can or calorie free so drink as many as you want without feeling the guilt.
Drink a lot of coffee on an empty stomach.
When you get the urge to eat, rinse your mouth with strong mouthwash, or brush your teeth. Food won't taste that great so why eat it?
MOVE CONSTANTLY! When sitting move your leg or something. Every calorie counts.
Use Crest Whitestrips when you want to binge! It takes 30 mins for each strip to work and you have to do each side seperately, so it's one hour where you can't put ANYTHING in your mouth and you won't want to because of the taste of the gel, and you get white teeth in the process! You have to do it 2 times a day so you might as well when you get hungry! That's 2 hours without food.
This trick exploits the guilt of eating a high-calorie, high-fat item; I usually eat lots of v. small meals through the day, but I'm in the mood to lose big. For the past few days I've eaten somthing fattening (but healthy) in the morning -- like an avocado. Then all day if I think about eating, I remind myself how I've splurged already, then I don't eat. In the morning I'm starving, repeat the trick, voila. It's working like a charm. In contrast, if I skip breakfast and lunch, come 6PM I feel like I've 'earned' a small meal, which often rolls into something more substantial than I intended. As the French say, "Eating brings appetite" and it's really true. The best way to stop a food avalance is not to start one.
~Feeling Full Tips~
1. Bulk up. Fiber expands in the stomach, so you fill up fast on few calories. Add more veggies, fruits or whole grains to meals.
2. Wet your appetite. Drinking water with meals can help your tummy reach capacity faster.
3. Take it slow. It can take 20 minutes for the brain to realize the stomach is full, so bide your time.
4. Pump up the volume. Snack on "air-filled" foods, like popcorn, instead of denser pretzels or chips to eat less.
5. Get satisfaction. Add small amounts of unsaturated fats like avocadoes, unsalted nuts, and olive oil to meals for greater satiety.
6. Table it. Eating in front of the TV can distract you from the body's fullness signals, so you could eat more before you register as satisfied.
7. Sample a selection. Enjoying different flavors can be more gratifying than a large portion of one food.
8. Spice it up. Bland food may send you in search of something more exciting, so use herbs, spices, and condiments to add zip.
9. Downsize dishes. Eating your meals on a smaller plate can create the illusion that you're eating more.
10. Color yourself satisfied. Aim for a rainbow of hues to please your visual senses as well as your palate.
Eat celery when hungry! Celery is almost 100% cellulose and humans don't have enzymes to break it down and take it in, so it burns more calories then what you get from it.
Take a daily multi-vitamin which includes calcium, iron, vitamin B, and lecithin. While you are not eating, your body is still being given its essential nutrients without the calories. B vitamins and iron give you energy, calcium keeps your bones/ teeth, hair healthy, and lecithin helps your body to metabolize saturated fats. This way, your body burns fat and stays healthy!
Eat lots of Jello Light, it's very filling, but has only 7 calories in each serving.
When serious hunger strikes, grab a few ice cubes from the freezer and munch on them. It gives you the feeling of eating AND fullness without any calories, sugar, or fat.
Eat the same thing every day for breakfast lunch and dinner. Eat at the same time every day. Eat only one thing for each meal, so by the end of the day you have only eaten three things. Small medium or large, just as long as you have only
eaten three things by the end of the day. Also, try a diet pill right before you eat your one thing for lunch.
Eat with chopsticks. Unless you're really good, this forces you to slow your eating, thus reducing your intake.
'I already ate at school' or ate work, always works.
Say you already have plans to go out and eat with a friend. Just go out and walk.
Hang around in the kitchen, everyone will think that you're eating.
Complain of a stomach ache, headache, anything to get you away from that table.
Say you'll eat in your room, but you know what to do afterwards.
Tell your friends that you have an ulcer, and you have to be really careful with what you eat....then don't eat much at all, with that as your excuse.
Take a nap when it is time to eat, they can't make you eat when you are sleeping or pretending.
If your parents are suspisous tell them that you love them and wouldn't do anything like that because you love them and wouldn't want to hurt them.
Say you ate a really huge breakfast, if your friends keep asking why you don't want lunch. Unless they slept at your place the night before, they won't know the truth.
Get a job which means you're working through meal times, and when you get home again you can say you ate at work.
Before your parents get home from work, find some food cut it up into small pieces rub it all over a few dishes and leave them on the counter; it looks like you had a meal and your parents will be convinced.
Say you'll eat at a friend's, and if you're with your friends say you're going to eat with your parents.
Complain of a toothache, any kind of illness!
Tell people you are a vegetarian or a vegan.
Tell your friends you are allergic to some foods, especially dairy products!
If your parents are constantly on your back, making sure you eat every meal with them. Find some hobbies, projects,clubs that interferes with your eating schedule. Then just tell your parents to set aside your dinner, or pack you a lunch/dinner but toss it away.
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THIS IS WHAT YOU SUPPOSE TO LOOK LIKE THIS GIRL IS PERFECT JUST KEEP PURGING OR FASTING BOTH WORK GOOD OK ...
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MORE TIPS
- Eat. I know food is our enemy, but you have to eat a little bit, even if it's just one bite of an apple, but you need food to live. I'm anorexic to be skinny and to have control of my life, not to kill myself.
- Brainwash yourself! Okay, I know it sounds bad at first, but it really works. Make up mantras like: "I feel full" "I hate food" "I love excercise" and say these 500 to 1000X a day. Your body will believe whatever your brain tells it to.
- I'm a fan of restricting now, eating a LITTLE bit of something for breakfast, lunch and dinner will help avoid binging.
- Keep an anorexic journal! Write out all the tips you've found, paste pics of skinny girls, or write about the feelings of being an anorexic.
- If your parents give you a meal to eat, say you have homework to do and you'll finish the meal in your room. Then, throw the food out or even flush it down the toilet.
- Imagine your food has maggots crawling through it, or that your parents/friends found it on the sidewalk and now want you to eat it. That'll sure make your hunger disappear!
- Remember, hunger is a good feeling! Don't you love feeling your stomach flat and empty? Don't ruin it by eating!
- This shouldn't be too hard, but think of how much your life SUCKS. Now don't add another thing by being fat.
- Avoid eating things you enjoy like the devil! Or to cure yourself of liking it, eat as much of it as possible- an all out binge. Don't stop until you absolutely can't eat anymore of it.Then barf it all up and vow never to eat that horrible stuff again. Cured me of my obsession with hamburger meat (shudders).
- Find the dictionary meaning of anorexia, you know, the ones which state all the tendencies and stuff. Now follow that to the letter, if it states something that you aren't doing, you better do it.
- Know that your parents probably suspect something is wrong with you already, but they aren't going to say anything about it (bitter laugh- this is the case with me and my parents) so you don't have to pretend to eat anymore.
EVEN MORE TIPS
Drink LOTS of water! At least 8-10 glasses of water a day.
No snacks--unless dinner is very low-cal.
Snacks: Can only come from negative foods!
Take multi-vitamins everyday!
-Potassium and calcium pills
-iron pills separate-5 cals for 2(optional)
Purging is NOT recomended, but if you wnat to do it it is better to do it right after.
Eat a bag of Equal if craving something sweet.
-add equal to water if you feel like you can't frink anymore--0 cals!
eat sugarless candy if craving something sweet--not best choice-still has cals--but its better than cookies!
Never order what you crave in a resaurant, that way you'll avoid binging.
If you really want to taste something, taste it! But do NOT swallow it! Take a bite, chew until you've gotten a good taste and then spit it out!
Stay away from juices and anything outside of teas, water and diet sodas.
Drink a full glass of water before meal times.
Distraction is a miracle for false hunger.
Grapes and prunes are natural laxatives.
Apple cider vinager or vinager in general help raise metabolism and burn fat. Don't drink more than a few teaspoons at a time. Twenty minutes before dinner or workout.
Jello Light-7 cals per serving
Drink your water COLD-burns more calories/warm water fulls you more though.
Don't ever say anything that will make your parents suspect anything
Drinking hot drinks makes you full
Keep a food diary
Go to pro anorexia sites often and look at thin people in magazines.
YOUR TIPS: "Buy a movie where your thinsperation is on and watch it when you feel like eating-even better if it shows your thinspiration in a bikini or showing lotza skin!" Victoria, AZ
If you're in a yummy restaurant with your friends and are tempted to eat think about how far you've come or going to get and how you're getting thin and they're getting fat! And also, you should feel good knowing you have something they don't-self-control.
For these occasions you can always use the "I already ate, I'm not hungry", "I think I'm catching a cold", etc.
Buy an anorexic ring that you can feel all the time/bothers you so it reminds you not to eat and keep your faith to ana.
Chew slowly!!
Always count your calorie intake.
Research a topic every week to keep you busy and away from the kitchen.
Another thing I do at dinner, either at home or a restaurant is put ALOT of salt on the rest of the portion of the meal so I don't eat it. You can try the fake sugars too. (Equal, Sweet-n-Low, etc.). That way I avoid binging.
I heard a healthy thing to do is, for example, if you eat 100 cal one day, 400 the nest,etc, etc, then go up to 800 cals for a few weeks, and then go back down again.
Make yourself HATE all the fatening foods, and convince your friends you hate them too so that way you can't eat thsoe fatening foods infront of them! And soon you'll get use to it and start to hate them.
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Purging
· If u have the problem of not being able to throw up coz it makes to much noise and your family will hear,you can throw up in the shower. If u cant use the shower u can turn the music up really loud in your room and throw up in a plastic bag, hide it, and dispose of it later. You can go for a walk (burning more calories)and throw up in the park, some public toilets, a vacant block or whatever.
· There are certain foods that are not good to purge. I mean you still may have to do it but think before you eat it next time if u know youre gonna throw it up. Such as chocolate, citrus fruits/drinks etc, bread and pizza are very hard to force up too.
· Be careful not to scrape the top of your mouth with your nails. That's happened to me and if the contents of your stomach are acidic trust me it stings like hell. My friend when she is purging at times gets blood noses from the pressure, or actually throws up blood. If this happens to you (more so the throwing up blood) Id stop straight away and take a break from purging for a couple days at least. Blood is never a good thing and could mean an internal rupture which could kill you (ever heard of a burst oesophagus?)
· Always drink a lot of fluid before you purge. It comes up quicker and more gently as it is diluted (less acidic). If u think you've got rid of everything, drink water and try again, and guaranteed more food will come up.
· Throwing up is never good for your teeth but the best way to protect them to a degree is to brush them BEFORE purging. This provides an amount of protection against the stomach acid and is more effective than brushing after. It is better after to rinse your mouth with water.
. There are some alternatives to sticking your fingers down your throat. My friend Nat uses a toothbrush, she said it came up quicker as u can shove it further and the bristles are more irritating. I haven't tried this before but after eating swallow 2 tablespoons of rocksalt and drink 1.5 litres warm water. Youll throw up without
shoving anything down your throat.
1. Chew your food very well. It will come up much easier.
2. Drink lots of liquid while you're eating and right before you purge. I've heard that drinking milk or diet soda will help the food come up easier, but I've never really tried it.
3. I don't really like throwing up in the toilet; I hate when it splashes up at you. Instead, I stand at the bathroom sink and purge into a cup and then empty it into the toilet.
4. There's a spot in your mouth where your tongue goes down your throat. Instead of following your tongue down, rub your throat at a little spot kind of above that point, more towards the top of your mouth. At least, that's the spot that works for me; you might have to find you own.
5. Keep your fingers in your throat after the first gag reflex. I've been doing this for a while and I still have to gag a few times before any food comes up.
6. Don't be discouraged if you don't throw up everything you ate on your first try at purging. It takes a while to develop the stomach muscles. It gets easier and easier.
7. There's no need to scratch at your throat. Just rubbing is fine.
8. When you're done purging, don't brush your teeth. Instead, use a mouth rinse and chew a few antacids, like Tums or Rolaids. Make sure you keep the antacid on your teeth for a few minutes to neutralize the hydrochloric acid from your stomach.
9. Don't ever use Ipecac syrup. I tried it twice before I know how fatal it can be. Ipecac syrup is used in hospitals to make poisoning victims vomit. It is only used when the dangers of the poison outweigh those of the Ipecac syrup. Ipecac syrup can cause a heart attack or failure with no warning. It's dangerous, and you don't deserve to die from something like that.
- Water. We absolutely must drink water to survive, and it has zero calories, so there's no excuse to not drink it. As we typically get much of our water content through foods, when we reduce food intake we begin to dehydrate ourselves, which is dangerous. Also, cold water chills the body and may raise metabolism to get warm again.
- Vitamins and minerals. We must have these, too, to survive and so again there is no excuse to not take at least a basic daily multivitamin (which may help reduce some cravings as well). Vitamins are vital in keeping our bodies functioning and our skin / hair / teeth nice. Particularly be aware of electrolytes (potassium, magnesium, salt, along with water balance) and calcium.
- Protein. Protein is necessary, particularly if you're exercising. It maintains and repairs our muscles, including heart muscle, which is (last I heard) kind of a requisite for continued survival.
- Watch fat intake. Fat has, per gram, more calories than any other source of energy and is stored more easily. Switch to lowfat everything, then progress to nonfat. Nonfat food tends to taste like crap (in my opinion) and you may end up eating less because of that
- Caffeine. While caffeine can be an appetite suppressant and can increase your metabolism, it will also act as a diuretic. Drink a glass of water for each cup of tea, coffee, or diet soda you have. Again, dehydration is a potentially serious problem.
- Always read labels to avoid nasty surprises. This happens to me all the time and makes for some panicky stress-moments. Also, look up food charts and be aware of the caloric / nutritional content of everything you eat.
- Understand yourself. Learn what you need, and when, and why. Everyone is unique and there are no hard-and-fast universally applicable laws. Our bodies are very good at telling us what we need, and knowing what you need gives control over how you choose to satisfy those needs.
- Find your binge triggers, be they food or places or people or feelings. Avoid them at all costs. Figure out more acceptable ways of dealing with those triggers than stuffing yourself silly.
- Learn when you tend to eat and why you eat then in particular. Plan to be doing something unrelated to food at those times. Many of us find night to be the hardest time to avoid food.
- Get plenty of sleep. Steal naps whenever you can and rest when you need to rest. Sleep deprivation increases appetite and makes you age faster.
The Bathroom is my holy confessional. I shall bow daily before the toilet and do penance for my sins which are many. I am guilty of wanting. I am guilty of not appreciating what I am and what I have. I am an emotional hurricane. A flush will wash these sins away, leave me start anew tommorow. I will confess every day, if I do not there will be an act of contrition. I will cut or otherwise punish my body because it has always been too much. I will strive to thin and perfect like my sister ANA. I will support others like me. I will protect other MIAS from abuse. I will perfect myself!
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Do not try to purge anything citrus.
After you have done purging, drink a tall glass of water and purge again. You will see that more food actually comes out!
Ice cream is the best to binge/purge with! It pratically pukes itself. If you binge on low fat/ sugar free, it doesn't have so many calories anyway (80 per 1/2 cup) so even if you don't get it all up, it's OK!
After purging, lye on your back with a cool damp cloth on your face. The coolness of it will bring the puffy redness down.
Mix a tablespoon of mustard with an 8oz glass of water. It's supposed to make purging easier.
The best place to purge is in the shower. The sound of running water will cover up the sound of you puking and is also really relaxing. Also, there is soap and water to cover up the smell, and the drain won't clog if you just binge on ice cream or pudding.
If you can get your hands on a good papaya, it will serve as a laxitive- yummi fruit too, and only 120 cals for a medium fruit.
When the food is coming up, us your tummy muscles to help push it out.
Drink a litre of warm fluid, then swallow a tablespoon of rock salt the way you would vitamin pills. The food should come up in about 10 minutes, but make sure that you are near a place that you can easily dispose of it as the vomiting tends to come on rather suddenly and unexpectedly.
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Bulimics
When purging, use only your finger. No foreign objects, especially no ipecac. I know this can be tempting, but ipecac is a poison and can very quickly cause cardiac arrest. Very very risky. Never brush your teeth immediatly after a purge. chew an antacid like tums and wait 20 minutes to brush. brushing right away will only spread the acid. from personal experience.. steer clear of bingeing on extremely spicy or crunchy food. when purging it can really irritate and scratch you throat.
001.drink some Pedialyte after purging. It's meant for babies but you can drink higher doses, and it'll replenish your electrolytes
002.Smiling supressed the gag reflex.
003.get a really strong spray bottle, open your mouth, and spray right at the back of your throat. the food will come up easily
004.when gagging find that little hump in the back of your throat and just keep rubbing it around in circles
005.drink a whole glass of diet coke just before you binge, it really helps the food up
006.If you can't get regular laxatives for some reason, sugar-free sweets with sorbital do the job well
007.Do not kneel by the toilet stand in front of the toilet tilt your head up and put your fingers down your throat when you begin to gag, bend down over the toilet and BOOM the food comes up. Much easier and less effort needs to be put into it
008.The bristly end of a tooth brush works well for purging. slightly irritating, but gets the job done faster and more comes up
009.After you are all done purging drink a tall glass of water and purge again. you will see more food actually comes out! So drink up and get rid of it
010.DO NOT eat granola bars, bread or raw veggies. They do not come up easily if at all
011.Use soft food to purge, it's easier
012.Drink diet soda after you eat, makes you puke and there are no cals since it is diet
013.Use markers such as Doritos, so you know everything is up when you see the orange
014.Ice cream is #1 for puking...tastes SO GOOD (fatty, but hey that's what bingeing is for) and practically pukes itself out
015.Do NOT try to purge anything citrus-if you've done it you know what I mean (i.e. pineapple)
016.Drink 'smart water', it is fortified w/ electrolytes, which is what you lose when you puke (by glaceau)
017.Drink A glass of water before you puke, and then take a break and drink another one when ever it gets a little hard to get it all up...then after drink another glass and brush your teeth you will feel refreshed and ready for the rest of the day
018.After purging don't brush your teeth!! It just rubs the acid in a eats away at your tooth enamel. Instead rinse your mouth out with water or mouth wash.
019.Throwing up more than one hour after eating is useless. all the calories and fat have been absorbed already
020.Exercise 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes at night... and use dexatrim and/or lax
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