Teqniques to eat less

-Drink lots of water! It fills you up fast and is good for clearing your body of toxins and hydrating your skin. 

-Drink cold drinks/water. For your body to maintain homeostasis (the same temperature), it burns more calories drying to heat the water. 

-Sit up straight and walk straight. You burn 10 calories every hour for doing this. 

-Split up a single serving into three or four seperate parts and eat one part at your meal. Therefore you are only eating one serving yet it serves as three/four. 

-When your hungry or feeling hunger pains, boil water with one or two bullion cubes. The warm water will help your stomach feel better and the bullion helps restore the decreased sodium intake in your body. (Bullion only contains 10-15 calories per cube)

 -If you're going to drink diet soda, drink quickly in large gulps. This will help fill you up faster and prevent hunger pains 

-Chew ice cubes if you feel hungry

 -Most people just want the taste of food, so chew the food you want and spit it out. Don't swallow the food!

-Drink a glass of water every hour. It helps your stomach feel full.

-When fasting, suck on low calorie candies or mints. It will help supress hunger (peppermints mostly) and keep your mouth busy.

-When you eat, set your fork down in between bites

-Chew slowly, it takes thirty minutes for your stomach to realize its full

-Excerise in the morning when you HAVEN'T eaten. You'll start burning fat and calories instantly. If you wait till later in the day it takes 10-20 minutes of excersize to start burning fat

-While watching television, do crunches during the commercial, NOT situps. Situps make your stomach larger with muscle while crunches tone your abs.

-Lower the tempeture in your house 10 degrees lower than what you are used to. It will make your body burn more calories to maintain homeostasis.

-Eat around 7-9 AM. That is when your metabolism is fastest

-Building muscle helps increase metabolism

-Drink tea when you're hungry. It fills you up and calms your stomach. Also, green tea boosts metabolism

-Chewing gum can increase hunger, but it helps keep your mouth busy

-Don't eat after 7 PM. You're metabolism is at its slowest

-Don't eat 3 hours before bed. The food can keep you semi-awake.

-Get at least 6-7 hours of sleep a night. For every hour that you miss of sleep, your apetite is increased by 10%

-Eat on a navy blue or black plate. It helps you eat less

-Eat on small plates, so if it is filled with food, your mind sees a full plate

-Go shopping after eating, grocery shopping after eating helps you buy less

-Sleep when you get a craving. When you wake up, you'll most likely no longer crave that food.

Weightloss helpers

Bmi Calculator
http://www.calculator.net/bmi-calculator.html

Ideal Weight Calculatorhttp://www.calculator.net/ideal-weight-calculator.html

Calories burned calculator
http://calcnexus.com/calories-burned-calculator.php

http://www.nutritiondata.com/tools/calories-burned

Things to do instead of eating

1.      Chat on Yahoo!
2.      Check out craigslist.com 
3.      Work on your site
4.      Go for a walk
5.      Do an ab workout
6.      Lift some weights
7.      Do jumping jacks
8.      Feed your pets
9.      Watch a movie
10.  Get caught up on your TV shows
11.  Make a list of why not to eat
12.  Call a friend
13.  Do your nails
14.  Whiten your teeth
15.  Try a new make up look
16.  Have a bath
17.  Try on some clothes
18.  Go shopping
19.  Buy vitamins
20.  Take an appetite suppressant
21.  Do hand wash laundry
22.  Clean up your desk
23.  Clean the bathroom
24.  Redecorate 
25.  Vacuum
26.  Organize something
27.  Do a load of laundry
28.  Visit a friend / have a friend visit
29.  Go get a wax
30.  Put on a facial mask
31.  Read a book / magazine
32.  Look at thinspo
33.  Work on your weight loss journal
34.  Surf the Internet
35.  Play a computer game

Why you don't give into cravings

1.      You’ll stay fat forever if you do
2.      You can eat when you’re perfect
3.      Food happiness is momentary
4.      You’ll regret it tomorrow
5.      You’ll pay for it later at the gym
6.      You really don’t want to
7.      You already decided not to
8.      Cravings are your brain misbehaving
9.      If you still want it tomorrow, eat it then
10.  A second on the lips, forever on the hips
11.  You’re stronger than this
12.  You’ll be strong and in control
13.  You’ll be happier
14.  You’ll be closer to your goals
15.  You can prove to yourself how strong you are
16.  Do you really want to spend money on food
17.  You are above giving in to cravings
18.  Too many times already you have given in
19.  You will never reach your goals if you’re weak
20.  Cravings are for fat girls
21.  Being weak is for fat girls
22.  Do you want to be a fat girl
23.  Guys will be able to pick you up easily
24.  Guys will be surprised at how light you are
25.  All clothes will look good on you
26.  You’ll look good in a bikini
27.  You’ll have a ‘delicate’ build
28.  You’ll be able to see your bones
29.  You’ll be able to keep your stomach flat
30.  So you can show everyone.

Rules and Comandmants of Ana

Ana's laws

Thin is beauty; therefore I must be thin, and remain thin, If I wish to be loved. Food is my ultimate enemy. I may look, and I may smell, but I may not touch!

I must think about food every second of every minute of every hour of every day... and ways to avoid eating it.

I must weigh myself, first thing, every morning, and keep that number in mind throughout the remainder of that day. Should that number be greater than it was the day before, I must fast that entire day.

I shall not be tempted by the enemy (food), and I shall not give into temptation should it arise. Should I be in such a weakened state and I should cave, I will feel guilty and punish myself accordingly, for I have failed her.

I will be thin, at all costs. It is the most important thing; nothing else matters.

I will devote myself to Ana. She will be with me where ever I go, keeping me in line. No one else matters; she is the only one who cares about me and who understands me. I will honor Her and make Her proud

Thin Commandments 

1. If you aren't thin you aren't attractive.
2. Being thin is more important than being healthy.
3. You must buy clothes, cut your hair, take laxatives, starve yourself, do anything to make yourself look thinner.
4. Thou shall not eat without feeling guilty.
5. Thou shall not eat fattening food without punishing oneself afterwards.
6. Thou shall count calories and restrict intake accordingly.
7. What the scale says is the most important thing.
8. Losing weight is good/gaining weight is bad.
9. You can never be too thin.
10. Being thin and not eating are signs of true will power and success.

Dear Ana,

I offer you my soul, my heart and my bodily functions. I give you all my earthly possessions. I seek your wisdom, your faith and your feather weight.

I pledge to obtain the ability to float, to lower my weight to the single digits, I pledge to stare into space, to fear food, and to see obese images in the mirror.

I will worship you and pledge to be a faithful servant until death does us part. If I cheat on you and procreate with Ronald McDonald, Dave Thomas, the colonel or that cute little dog. I will kneel over my toilet and thrust my fingers deep in my throat and pray for your forgiveness. Please Ana, dont' give up on me. I'm so weak, i know but only you with your strength inside me will I become a woman worthy of love and respect.

I'm begging for you not to give up, I'm pleading with my shallow breathes and my pale skin. I bleed for you, suffer leg pains, headaches and fainting spells. My love for you makes me dizzy and confused I dont' know whether I'm coming or going. Men run when they see the love I have for you and never return. But they aren't important to me all thats important is that you love me.

If you stay with me, I will worship you daily, I will run miles a day, come rain, snow, bitter cold or searing heat I will run from the pain and in fright. I will do 1,000 sit ups a day and lie to my family about what I eat and how I feel.

I will stop weeping when I feel your warm arms embrace my shivering body. I will numb the hunger pains with razor blades and your strength.

Today I renew our friendship and resolve to be faithful to you year long, life long. I begin the year with a 3 day fast in honor of you. If you give me the strength to fade away I will love you and worship you forever.

When i'm finally faded to nothing, when you've given me the gift of ending this torturous life. I will float on to the next world and be thin and beautiful payment for my undying love for you in this world.

I ask only one more thing you, please ana, remove me from this hell, from this world ASAP. Please take away this hatred for my pain and allow me to be free and light.

Forever, Worthless One

Ana Psalm

Strict is my diet. I must not want. It maketh me to lie down at night hungry. It leadeth me past the confectioners. It trieth my willpower. It leadeth me in the paths of alteration for my figure's sake. Yea, though I walk through the aisles of the pastry department, I will buy no sweet rolls for they are fattening. The cakes and the pies, they tempt me. Before me is a table set with green beans and lettuce. I filleth my stomach with liquids, my day's quota runneth over. Surely calorie and weight charts will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the fear of the scales forever

Ana Creed

I believe in Control, the only force mighty enough to bring order to the chaos that is my world.

I believe that I am the most vile, worthless and useless person ever to have existed on this planet, and that I am totally unworthy of anyone's time and attention.

I believe that other people who tell me differently must be idiots. If they could see how I really am, then they would hate me almost as much as I do.

I believe in oughts, musts and shoulds as unbreakable laws to determine my daily behaviour.

I believe in perfection and strive to attain it.

I believe in salvation through trying just a bit harder than I did yesterday.

I believe in calorie counters as the inspired word of god, and memorise them accordingly.

I believe in bathroom scales as an indicator of my daily successes and failures

I believe in hell, because I sometimes think that I'm living in it.

I believe in a wholly black and white world, the losing of weight, recrimination for sins, the abnegation of the body and a life ever fasting.

Ana lingo

Here's a glossary of abbreviations and terms that are used here, as well as other sites and forums.

Ana - Abbreviation: Anorexia

Ana Bracelet - Bracelet that is worn in specific colour combinations to identify the various eating disorders.  Does not apply to only bracelets that denote anorexia, may be used to denote mia, or ednos bracelets as well.

BED - Abbreviation: Binge Eating Disorder

COE - Abbreviation: Compulsive Over Eating

CW - Abbreviation: Current Weight

GW - Abbreviation: Goal Weight

ED - Abbreviation: Eating Disorder

EDNOS - Abbreviation: Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified.  For those who do not meet the clinical criteria for a defined eating disorder.

Food Porn - Pictures of food that an individual may like to eat.  Usual to replace a food that a person may want, or like to eat.

IP - In-patient (treatment)

LW - Abbreviation: Low Weight / Lowest Weight

Mia - Abbreviation: Bulimia

OCD - Abbreviation: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Pro-Ana / Proana - Those who believe that anorexia is a lifestyle choice.

Reverse Thinspo - Opposite of thinspo, visuals of what a person fears may happen to them.  May consist of pictures of overweight individuals, or people eating messily.

Table of Contents

SI - Abbreviation: Self Injury / Inflicted.  Those who cut or otherwise physically harm themselves.

Thinspiration - Any pictures / video, that inspires one to stick to their weight loss goals.  Will vary for each person, usually consists of visuals of an ideal body.

Thinspo - Thinspiration

UGW - Abbreviation: Ultimate Goal Weight

Ana culture- Bracelets and more....

Ana bracelets were an idea someone came up with so that individuals with eds could identify each other.  The original text has been copied and pasted many times, so why not again?

IFOF is a term that means "identification friend or foe" most commonly used in the aircraft industry. It is a thing on an airplane that tells people reading the signal if they are a friend or foe. We now have a system of our own. I got this from another site:

Have you ever wondered if the skinny girl you see has an ED (A or M)? And proud of it? You so desperately want to ask, or even try to make friends but are scared? Well, no more ... since we have our ribbon "Ana is a lifestyle..." and its red.

I propose that we all get a red beaded bracelet. You can make it or buy them. Wear it daily or when you go out to secretly say that you are proud to be pro-ana or proud to have an ED that is. Anytime you see someone wearing a red beaded bracelet, capture their eye contact and point to your bracelet, and if they return the same point to theirs ... then they are ED friendly. If not, then its just someone whom is wearing one. If you for some reason cant wear a red bracelet, then wear a red shirt every Monday!

Well, the red t-shirt thing never quite caught on, but the red bracelet has.  It's the only ED identification bracelet that's really standardized.  Most bracelets are beaded, and quite a few will have a dragonfly bead or clasp regardless of the colour.  Some say that ana bracelets are worn on the left wrist, and mia on the right.  Others say that the bracelet should be worn on the wrist that you eat with.  Here are the EDs and their corresponding colours.

Ana - Red

Mia - Blue (some also wear purple as mia, some wear dark blue for SI)

Ednos - Pink

General Ed - Purple (some also wear as mia)

SI - Black (some also wear dark blue)

White - to denote someone who is fasting.

There are other combinations listed, for those who are recovering etc., but I don't think those ever caught on, kinda like the red t-shirt thing.

You can make your own bracelet, or have someone make it for you.  If you don't have a friend who does this you can check online at eBay, or other sites.  You can search 'ana bracelet' but remember any beaded bracelet will do, so you may find it cheaper to find a generic bracelet. 

At one point all ana bracelets were made by the disordered, now a quick search on eBay shows me many sellers who are seeming to just want to cash in on the 'trend' by selling over priced bracelets with dragonflys.  Only a couple of sellers actually seem to have an ED, research who you buy from.  Try to keep it in the community.

Thinspo

Workout of the week

Here's the official workout of the week. This will help you drop pounds fast and easy.

30 squats
35 crunches
25 push-ups
40 crunches
35 squats
100 jumping jacks

Repeat as often as desired

It's a really good workout that will get your body moving. Also it can be done anywhere and except for the jumping jacks it's super quiet and easy to hide!

Letter From Ana

A letter from Ana

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 nowhere! You are not perfect, you do not try hard enough, furthermore 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 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, two 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 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 lose. 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 who tries to take me away. I am your greatest asset, and I intend to keep it that way.

Sincerely,

Ana