I know you've heard it before. And your going to hear it again. Water. Its the most important and best thing you have. Its supresses your appetite and it hydrates you. Its especially important for fasting girls. In general, humans can survive for two to eight weeks without food. But that time is cut in half without water. So drink up. Your parents will love seeing you drink it too. Mine did!

 

Theres TONS you could do instead. THINK ABOUT IT!

surf the web.

read a book. reread a book.

make a thinspiration poster. [thats fun]

look through magazines.

take a long bath.

call friends.

take your dog to the park.

play with your dog.

watch movies. [horror movies recommended]

exercise!! [ellipticals, work-out videos, treadmill, gym, yoga, belly dancing]

volunteer, get a job, take drivers ed, something that will take your time.

clean. [your parents will love it]

write a friend a letter.

if you want to eat, write down the # of cals. of the stuff you would be eating and at the end of the day, total it and see what all you would have eaten but didnt.

sleep.

Listen to music while drawing, painting, scultping, DISCOVER that artistic side of you!

 

 

EXCUSES

"I ate before i came" / "i'm eating right after this"

"toothache! it's killin me!"

"no thanks, my stomach kinda hurts"

"I had a huge b/l/d"

"i'm not really hungry, i ate a snack, it must have filled me up"

"ewww i HATE (pizza,chips,ice cream!)"  --- just pretend you hate that food!

"i'm allergic to ___" --- just don't get caught faking an allergy! try this with ppl you don't know.

"eh, i had that yesterday" --- we;ve all had pizza 2 days in a row, just pretend you've had that recently

"ew do you know how they make that?!"/ "what's in that?!" ---just make somethin' up! [excuses found by my friend at xanga. visit her site! it helps! http://www.xanga.com/x3tips2thin]

 

Top 40 Reasons not to eat [found just about anywhere]:

1. You will be FAT if you eat today. just put it off one more day
2. You dont NEED food
3. Fat people cant fit everywhere
4. Guys will be able to pick you up without struggling
5. You'll be able to run faster without all that extra weight holding you back
6. People will remember you as "the beautiful thin one"
7. If someone has to describe you, they'll say "oh she weighs like 100, 110 lbs"
8. Guys will want to get to know you, not laugh at you and walk away
9. Starving is an example of excellent willpower
10. You will be able to see your beautiful, beautiful bones
11. Bones are clean and pure. Fat is dirty and hangs on your bones like a parasite
12. If you eat then you'll look like those disgusting, fat, ghetto and trailer-trash hookers on Jerry Springer
13. The models that everyone claims are beautiful, the spitting image of perfection, are any of them fat? NO
14. Too many people in the world are obese
15. People who eat are selfish and unrealistic
16. Only fat people are attracted to fat people. Do you want pigs to like you because you are one of them
17. Anyone can have "inner beauty" but few can earn real beauty, inside as well as out
18. You'll be able to move as quietly and skillfully as a spider
19. Only thin people are graceful
20. If you slap a fat person you can see a shockwave ripple over their skin. Thats disgusting
21. Do you want people to say "for gods sake get off me youre crushing me!!!" or "you are sooo light" ???
22. Underweight aka perfect body
23. Ballerina? or beanbag?
24. I want to be light enough so a helium balloon could lift me and carry me to the clouds
25. I want to walk in the snow and leave no footprints
26. Starve off the parts you dont need. Theyre ugly and they drag you down
27. Nothing cant be fixed with hunger and weightloss
28. Saying "no thanks" to food is saying "yes please" to THIN!!!
29. Fat people are so huge, yet people look away from them as if they dont exist
30. The only time people do notice a fat person is when they get in the way of that beautiful thin girl walking by (ok that sounds really horrible i know)
31. Have you ever seen a person NOT notice a walking skeleton
32. Nothing tastes as good as thin feels
33. Is food more important that happiness in life? i think not!
34. Eating is conforming to everyone else's expectations
35. When you start to get dizzy and weak you're almost there
36. Hunger is your friend and it wont betray you like food
37. Food is mean and sneaky. it tricks you into eating it and it works on you from the inside out making you fat, bloated, ugly and unhappy
38. Think of anorexia as your secret weapon
39. If you can name one reason to be fat, ill name a million and one to be thin
40. Thin people look good in ANY kind of clothes

Thin Commandments

 [not trying to offend anyone. im a godloving christian]:

If you aren't thin, you aren't attractive.

Being thin is more important than being healthy.

You must buy clothes, cut your hair, take laxatives, starve yourself, do anything to make yourself look thinner.

Thou shall not eat without feeling guilty.

Thou shall not eat fattening food without punishing oneself afterwards.

Thou shall count calories and restrict intake accordingly.

What the scale says is the most important thing.

Losing weight is good/ gaining weight is bad.

You can never be too thin.

Being thin and not eating are signs of true will power and success.

 

 

Allow me to introduce myself. My name, or as I am called by so called "doctors", is Anorexia. Anorexia Nervosa is my full name, but you may call me Ana. Hopefully we can become great partners. In the coming time, I will invest a lot of time in you, and I expect the same from you.

In the past, you have heard all of your teachers and parents talk about you. You are "so mature", "intelligent", "14 going on 45", and you possess "so much potential". Where has that gotten you, may I ask? Absolutely no where! You are not perfect, you do not try hard enough, further more you waste your time on thinking and talking with friends and drawing! Such acts of indulgence shall not be allowed in the future.

Your friends do not understand you. They are not truthful. In the past, when the insecurity has quietly gnawed away at your mind, and you asked them, "Do I look.... fat?" and they answered "Oh no, of course not" you knew they were lying! Only I tell the truth. Your parents, let's not even go there! You know that they love you, and care for you, but part of that is just that they are your parents and are obligated to do so. I shall tell you a secret now: deep down inside themselves, they are disappointed with you. Their daughter, the one with so much potential, has turned into a fat, lazy, and undeserving girl.

But I am about to change all that.

I expect a lot from you. You are not allowed to eat much. It will start slowly: decreasing of fat intake, reading the nutrition labels, cutting out junk food, fried food, etc. For a while, the exercise will be simple: some running, perhaps some crunches and some sit ups. Nothing too serious. Perhaps drop a few pounds, take a little off of that fat tub of a stomach. But it won't be long before I tell you that it isn't good enough.


I will expect you to drop your calorie intake and up your exercise. I will push you to the limit. You must take it because you cannot defy me! I am beginning to imbed myself into you. Pretty soon, I am with you always. I am there when you wake up in the morning and run to the scale. The numbers become both friend and enemy, and the frenzied thoughts pray for them to be lower than yesterday, last night, etc. You look into the mirror with dismay. You prod and poke at the fat that is there, and smile when you come across bone. I am there when you figure out the plan for the day: 400 calories, 2 hours exercise. I am the one figuring this out, because by now my thoughts and your thoughts are blurred together as one.


I follow you throughout the day. In school, when your mind wanders I give you something to think about. Recount the calories for the day. It's too much. I fill your mind with thoughts of food, weight, calories, and things that are safe to think about. Because now, I am already inside of you. I am in your head, your heart, and your soul. The hunger pains you pretend not to feel is me, inside of you.

Pretty soon I am telling you not only what to do with food, but what to do ALL of the time. Smile and nod. Present yourself well. Suck in that fat stomach, dammit! God, you are such a fat cow!!!! When mealtimes come around I tell you what to do. I make a plate of lettuce seem like a feast fit for a king. Push the food around. Make it look like you've eaten something. No piece of anything...if you eat, all the control will be broken...do you WANT that??? To revert back to the fat COW you once were??? I force you to stare at magazine models. Those perfect skinned, white teethed, waifish models of perfection staring out at you from those glossy pages. I make you realize that you could never be them. You will always be fat and never will you be as beautiful as they are. When you look in the mirror, I will distort the image. I will show you obesity and hideousness. I will show you a sumo wrestler where in reality there is a starving child. But you must not know this, because if you knew the truth, you might start to eat again and our relationship would come crashing down.

Sometimes you will rebel. Hopefully not often though. You will recognize the small rebellious fiber left in your body and will venture down to the dark kitchen. The cupboard door will slowly open, creaking softly. Your eyes will move over the food that I have kept at a safe distance from you. You will find your hands reaching out, lethargically, like a nightmare, through the darkness to the box of crackers. You shove them in, mechanically, not really tasting but simply relishing in the fact that you are going against me. You reach for another box, then another, then another. Your stomach will become bloated and grotesque, but you will not stop yet. And all the time I am screaming at you to stop, you fat cow, you really have no self control, you are going to get fat.

When it is over you will cling to me again, ask me for advice because you really do not want to get fat. You broke a cardinal rule and ate, and now you want me back. I'll force you into the bathroom, onto your knees, staring into the void of the toilet bowl. Your fingers will be inserted into your throat, and, not without a great deal of pain, your food binge will come up. Over and over this is to be repeated, until you spit up blood and water and you know it is all gone. When you stand up, you will feel dizzy. Don't pass out. Stand up right now. You fat cow you deserve to be in pain!

Maybe the choice of getting rid of the guilt is different. Maybe I chose to make you take laxatives, where you sit on the toilet until the wee hours of the morning, feeling your insides cringe. Or perhaps I just make you hurt yourself, bang your head into the wall until you receive a throbbing headache. Cutting is also effective. I want you to see your blood, to see it fall down your arm, and in that split second you will realize you deserve whatever pain I give you. You are depressed, obsessed, in pain, hurting, reaching out but no one will listen? Who cares?!?!! You are deserving; you brought this upon yourself.

Oh, is this harsh? Do you not want this to happen to you? Am I unfair? I do things that will help you. I make it possible for you to stop thinking of emotions that cause you stress. Thoughts of anger, sadness, desperation, and loneliness can cease because I take them away and fill your head with the methodic calorie counting. I take away your struggle to fit in with kids your age, the struggle of trying to please everyone as well. Because now, I am your only friend, and I am the only one you need to please.

I have a weak spot. But we must not tell anyone. If you decide to fight back, to reach out to someone and tell them about how I make you live, all hell will break loose. No one must find out, no one can crack this shell that I have covered you with. I have created you, this thin, perfect, achieving child. You are mine and mine alone. Without me, you are nothing. So do not fight back. When others comment, ignore them. Take it into stride, forget about them, forget about everyone that tries to take me away. I am your greatest asset, and I intend to keep it that way.

Sincerely: Ana