Pro-Ana Tips and Rules (I copied this off of a now defunct website, RIP Anna’s Underground Grotto)
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Cold showers help you burn calories to stay warm. Also, cold water
helps your hair hold in the vitamins in your shampoo and contioner as
well as enhancing volume.
* Water is your best friend. It fills you up and also keeps your skin looking good, not dry or yellow.
* Every now and then, buy tampons or pads. Keep them with you and throw
them out as if you had used them; this will allay suspicion that you’ve
lost your period due to being too thin.
* Drink a full glass of ice water at least 3 times a day. Good hydration reduces hunger, and it’s good for your skin.
* “Spend” your calories on healthy things such as protein and vegetables; why be thin and dead?
* Layers, people, layers upon layers of clothing! Keeps you warm and
keeps people from noticing how thin you’ve become. Gloves and hats are
wonderful, too.
* Manicures/pedicures hide brittle nails.
* Caffeine reduces hunger and gives you energy to get through your day.
* Taking antacids will help reduce hunger pains.
* Gum, coffee, and diet soda. Drink or chew constantly and you won’t feel hungry.
* Drinking something warm fills you up and reduces hunger pangs.
* Drinking something cold makes your body burn extra calories to keep you warm.
The 7-7 Rule
Dinner must be eaten by 7:00 pm. After dinner, no food is to be
consumed until 7:00 am at the earliest. This is basically the same as a
12-hour fast, meaning if you live by this rule for an entire year, you
will have equivalently fasted for 6 months.
The 3-hour Rule
3
hours must pass between the last time you ate and the time you go to
bed. This ensures that you are actively burning calories while the food
is initially digesting, versus when you are sleeping, when metabolism
slows and you burn fewer calories.
When you’re feeling weak…
1.
Pinch your thigh and see how you don’t need food, because you should be
eating your own flesh all away from the inside first, before you are
deserving of actual legitimate s.
2. Go to the library. You can
research dieting or whatever, or you can read the classics, or some of
the aforementioned literature. Or you can do homework, or write letters,
but the beauty of it is, since no food or drink is allowed, you’ll have
no choice but to abstain from a meal.
3. Buy some baby teething gel and rub it on your tongue, to numb your tastebuds.
4. If you’re even considering eating, just hold your breath and count
to 100. Chances are that you’ll convince yourself not to eat whatever it
is you’re craving in that time.
5. The scent of coffee has been proven to lessen ones appetite.
6. Chew the food but don’t swallow it. Spit it in the bin.
7. If you’re feeling dangerous, plan out the next few hours so that
you’re occupied for every single minute. Write a list of things to do
for every 15 minutes. ex.) exercise, surf the internet, email your
friends, clean a room, read a book.
8. If you’re feeling brave
enough to face the kitchen, go there and throw out any potential binge
foods. If you must, pour bleach/disinfectant/dishwashing detergent on
the food, and then throw it away!
9. Pinch your ear! Apply pressure
to the front of the ear, one at a time. The front of the ear is
apparently a pressure point, in the area that controls hunger.
10.
Let perfume replace chocolate. Every time you have a craving, or pass a
bakery, sniff some Chanel no. 5. Apply it to a tissue and carry it with
you. Smell has a powerful effect on appetite.
11. Clean something.
Cleaning something dirty can make you lose your appetite. The toilet,
the litter box, under the kitchen sink, scrubbing out the garbage bin,
anything grimy or smelly. The mess, along with the smell of the cleaner,
can put you off food for a while.
12. Become an artist. Write
anorexic poetry. Anorexics are creative. Collect pictures of skinny
girls. Stick them all in your notebook.
Avoid that plate!
Here are some things to do INSTEAD OF eating:
1.
Clean house! Get busy “hoeing and throwing,” go through old stuff and
purge out what you don’t wear, don’t want, don’t need anymore. Dust.
Vaccuum. Scrub. Keep busy! It engages the attention and keeps the
thoughts off food. If you’re a teen, your mom will be amazed and VERY
grateful, so grateful she’ll forget to nag you about food! If you’re an
adult, you’ll thank yourself when you’re done!
2. Keep sipping on that lemon-water, tea, or diet pepsi while you work! Keeps the tummy sated so it won’t growl at ya.
3.
Put on some music and dance! Or keep the tunes rolling while you clean
house, it keeps the work from getting boring and you can boogie while
you sweat!
4. Work on your new pro-ana website, or update your online ana journal.
5.
Network with other pro-anas through chat, email, messenger or club
sites — get some support and motivation from your sisters/brothers when
you NEED it!
6. Put together a pro-ana scrapbook (or add some new
things if you already have one) with lists of safe foods, low-cal,
low-fat, low-carb recipes, word collages, and of course, TRIGGER PICS!!!
7.
Surf the web and make a list of all the pro-ana sites you can find, or
all the safe-food sites you can find, or all the places online where you
can buy diet pills, shake mixes, etc. These lists are VERY handy for
research and sharing with others!
8. Get up off that lazy cow butt
and take a walk or start working out! You still have fat to burn, don’t
you??? Quit laying around dreaming of donuts and pizza and GET BUSY!!!
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