I’ve found this tips in a pro ana site. What do you think about it?
1. WATER…I can’t say it enough…WaterWaterWaterWater Water…Any questions?
2. Three words: Crest White Strips. Here’s the deal. You’re supposed to wear these on your upper and lower teeth for 30 minutes each, 2x a day. And you definitely cannot eat while you’ve got these babies on. You can have up to 2 hours a day of literally not being able to eat! If you put them on about 15 minutes before dinner then you can’t eat dinner with your family and they’ll have to let you eat on your own later. It’s perfect!
3. Ride out the hour. When you start to get hungry, just tell yourself that you’ll wait until the end of the hour to eat anything. That way you’ll have time to think about whether or not you really want those calories, and you’ll also feel really powerful since you’ve proved to yourself that you can go for that time without food.
4. Move around. Bounce your feet, wiggle your fingers, every little calorie counts.
5. Feel your bones. Just wrap your fingers around your wrists or along your collarbone. This will help you realize that you’re making progress and will also deter you from eating because you don’t want to lose those bones, do you?
6. Pick a time every night that you will not eat after. Most people recommend that you not eat after 6 pm, but if your family makes you sit down with them at 6:30 or so, this obviously isn’t practical. So choose a time that works for you.
7. Frequent Pro-Ana websites. Do you think you’ll want to eat after reading trigger-happy quotes and looking at skinny models?
8. Keep your wallet at home. If you don’t have money, you can’t buy food.
9. Exercise before you eat. It will give you more time to think over what you really want to eat, and when you do eat you’ll be more comfortable with it since you just burned some calories.
10. Get your sleep. Not sleeping will slow down your metabolism and will make you more likely to over-eat. 11. Buy clothes one size smaller than what you’re currently wearing. Try on these clothes on to keep yourself on track.
12. Okay, this is a little different than what other pro-ana sites may say. Instead of lowering the temperature while you sleep, raise the temperature. Sleep in sweats and under all of your covers. You’ll sweat and lose water weight…It’s not “real” weight, but you will feel great when you get a look at the scale after getting out of bed.
13. Follow the “Thin Commandments”
If you aren’t thin, you’re ugly.
Being thin is way more important than being healthy.
You must do anything to make yourself look thinner.
Thou shall not eat without feeling guilty.
Thou shall not eat fattening foods without punishing yourself accordingly.
Thou shall always count calories.
The scale is everything.
Losing=Life, Gaining=Death
You must become thin.
Being thin and perfect are signs of true determination.
14. Save the money you would spend on food to buy yourself something that you REALLY want!
15. Focus on what you’re eating for the first few bites. After that it gets pretty boring, don’t you think? 16. Work on your posture. When you sit and stand up straight you look taller AND thinner. You also burn more calories.
17. Leave traces of food that you would have eaten. For example, when I was in high school my mom made me eat breakfast. So I would get up a little earlier, go to the kitchen, make some toast, fix some cereal, and get out a yogurt. Toast the bread (leave the toaster out), put crumbs on the plate, pour some cereal and throw it down the garbage disposal, do the same with the yogurt. If the food isn’t there, your parents will think that you ate it!
18. If you’re in college, schedule classes around meal times. You can’t eat in class, can you?
19. Do something you enjoy instead of eating. Take a bath, play with a pet, read a book, exercise, do whatever works for you.
20. Peppermints supposedly curb your appetite. But be careful with this…Each peppermint has 20 calories.
Authors bio is coming up shortly.
I am anorexic because my boyfriend’s friends say that I’m ugly, and I want to feel better about myself.
screw your boyfriend if he cant stand up for you!
Hey Cara,
Isn’t it odd how much words can effect us?
Words… when you think about it, the word ‘ugly’, its just a word, yet when put in a sentence, it can be one of the most hurtful things that anyone can say.
It can be so hurtful it pushes us to the extreme.
I guess im kinda going through what ur going through,
I remember once, years ago a girl from my school calling me fat, i never got over it and have been weight obsessed ever since, sometimes weighing myself 4 times a day.
But you know what? I dont mean to be rude, but becoming anorexic, its not going to make you feel better.
trust me, I’ve been there. because when you eventually reach that weight, you will find something else you will hate and that you want to change.
Its hard, but you have to think “who cares what other people say, i love my body and that is what counts”
And i know its not easy, because it has been years and i still look at myself in the mirror, disgusted at what is reflected back.
I guess all i can say is be strong, and if you want to talk, I’ll try to be there,
best of luck, shygirlxx
But you have to be strong,
Dump him it’ll do ya gud:D
that man is fucke just like this website =)
WTF this website is so wrong people should not be trying to lose weight if they are unhealthily thin. this website should be shut down
@Normalweightandhappy
fuck off, free speech you bastard
if you dont like it dont read it
I totally agree in freedom of speech, no complaints there, but when does it go to far. If were handing tips to girls on basically how to kill themselves through dieting isn’t it a bit much?
Of course everyone says, “I can control it”, but the reality is you can’t. Just like every other addiction on the planet you start out choosing it, thinking that you can control it, choose when to quit, but in the end it chooses/controls you, and your trapped. Handing out tips for anorexia is like handing out drugs to little children. Over half the people who go looking for this kind of information are girls, and a lot of them are under the age of 15.
I understand that people have insecurities, they have things that they don’t like about themselves, things that they want to change, but taking extreme measures that do permanent damage to your body isn’t the answer. Ask almost anyone who’s been anorexic or still is and they’ll tell you they would never want anyone to go down that road.
I’m not trying to telling people how to live, or what to believe, but as a person who has dealt with anorexia on a personal level I can honestly say it’s nothing glamorous, and nothing to be sought after
i agree people like her or him dont need to read stuff like this if there not apart of the suffering we going throw
Who the hell are you to judge us!!!!? Its people like you who make us the way we are to begin with. Shut your mouth and go pretend to care about someone else.
if you are think this webbie is sick or pathetic then why have you even thought of looking anything to do with websites up???? another good thing which i do is tell my mum i have an upset tummy and anything i eat i sick up so i will hardly eat nothing for a few days and just dont eat!!!
it works perfectly on my mum just dont over do it coz she might then take you 2 the doc.
think beyonce. is she skinny? not really. is she fat? no. is she really sexy, curvy and pretty? yes.
you dont have to be stick thin to be attractive.
Beyonce is rather fat, actually. Saw her in telephone next to Lady Gaga? She looks ridiculous.
Shes not fat. I bet your a disgusting skeleton thin girl who has to get a reality check, guys like healthy in-shape skinny girls, not gross anorexic girls.
DEBORAH: We’re people too. And we dont like being insulted by assfaces like you.
hey, this is REALLY unhealthy and DEADLY for girls. please stop it.
your little freaking comments arent going to make people eat, its just going to make people like us more pissed off at people like YOU. go step on the scale.
in a scence i agree with both of you,
ovbiously your not going to listen to a 14 year old girl none of you are!
but point i want to make you dont have to be stick thin to be pretty, beyonce is said to be one of the most ideal figures, look at kelly brook voted ideal figure, rather big thighs curvy body shes beautiful!
but then i know myself there always something i want to change about myself, my family an friends are always i dont need to but ive starved myself once i was that unhappy, im 14 looking back i feel perfetic but thats what these type of websites encourage young girls to do, and many times them young girls have died.
im not saying being fat i good coz its certainly not but you should be happy in your body ignore what them haters say, sorry.
I must agree. If you o not like it why look at it!!!
HEY AM 13 YEARS OLD N PEOPLE SAY THAT AM NOT FAT AND THAT AM NOT THIN BUT THE THING IS THAT I WANT TO BE THIN I REALLY DO MY FRIENDS ARE THIN I DONT THINK THAT AM FAT BUT PEOPLE SAY THAT AM BOTH CAN SOMEONE TELL ME WHAT I SHOULD PLEASEEE!!
your 13? please honey get off this site that just makes me upset your too young for worrying about weight! i bet your beautiful too don’t get brain washed like we all are
Please read websites that give you the TRUTH about anorexia… do you want children (forget it if your anorexic)… do you want to have the bones of a 60 year old before your 21st Birthday (thats if you make it to your 21st Birthday)…. I agree with other comments on this site still understanding that anorexia is an ILLNESS not a lifestyle choice
How an anorexic sufferer could be so selfish as to advise another person on how to become or continue to be anorexic leaves me wondering how sick our society has become, when telling someone ‘bones are more important than health’.. man you must have serious mental issues… Im stunned, truly stunned
Hey overwhelmed. Yes deborah is totally wrong in what she said, but you should set an example not call her assface. Maybe we should remember what you said. We are ALL people who do not like being insulted or treated badly. Maybe we should try and put forward our opinions in the least offensive way possible. After all discussions like this should be there to help people. not anger them.
And stunned…yes anorexia is an illness, therefore when they give tips for other people THEY DO NOT SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING AS WRONG!!! So it’s unfair to say they are selfish. It is the same as a child taking another childs toy before learning they are supposed to share. More than that it is a MENTAL ILLNESS, so yes, they DO have mental issues. We need to help them rather than criticise them
i am thirteen, four feet 11 inches, and 127 pounds. that’s alot, a helluva lot. everyone says i am not fat, except for the few boys in my class. and i don’t know what to think, i just want to be 110 lbs or less like the skinny pretty girls in my skl. all the boys say i would be so much prettier if i lost weight :/
i’ve tried vomiting but it won’t come up, so i’m not going to eat. i only need to lose about 10/20 lbs. is this unhealthy? diets ddont work. exercise don’t work. i’ve tried everything. =[
help.
Devyn,
excercise and eating healthy CONSISTENTLY will always work. And you cant go by how much you weigh, because muscle weighs more than fat anyways. Please dont stop eating, and please dont try to vomit. If you are hungry, eat, and when your full stop eating. Its ok to care about your health and to want to look fit, but not at the cost of your health. Just eat healthy and excercise consistently. And if I may offer a piece of advice, if you’re looking to be skinny so that boys like you, or so that other girls think you’re pretty, you’ll never be happy. God loves you so much just how you are, and He is the only one who will make you happy. Look to Him and find you’re confidence in Him and you’ll find a fulfillment that you cant find by being pretty or skinny.
God bless you!
listen u are wrong about exercise. it always helps. try to exercise every day about 1 hour or 2 and of course eat healthy and all will be alright.
when i was 15 my weight was 110 lb. and 160 cm. but then i became obsessed with my figure i started with diets and exercising a lot, and i lost some weigh but then i get more obsessed and started not eating. And one day everything changed i started eating so much and i couldn’t stop and i gained 34 lb. in 2 months :S it was terrible i was always at home depressed. my life changed completely. i was crying, shouting to everybody, pulling all the things from my house to the ground..it was horrifying. (of course staying at home i left school and i had to repeat in the next year). my mum and dad were so worried and they took me to psichiatric hospital..i thought that it was the end. but luckily the doctors told them that i have eating disorders and they put me in hospital for people with bulimia. i stayed there only 2 weeks becuse the doctor told my mum that i’m ok. then at home i started new life, first of all eating healthy becuse in hospital the doctors tought me that to lose weigh people have to eat healthy. and u know what? in 1 month i lost all the weigh i gained because i wanted it. of course i exercised a lot i was never at home because when you are at home u get bored and start eating.
this is my story. u can always lose weigh fast if u want it. just believe in you and don’t give up.
sorry for my bad english :$
beautifulangelvioletā„
You’re so young to be thinking that way. Shiit. When I was thirteen I was worried about kissin’ boys and what I was going to wear to school tomorrow.
Don’t think this way, epecially if you’re not actually overweight.
It only gets worse the older you get.
When I was 18, I weighed 215 lbs, and in four years, having two babies, I’m down to 155. Now, I realize that’s nothing to brag about, but for where I was at, that’s pretty awesome. Once you start thinking you’re not good enough though, not thin enough, not PRETTY enough, it gets in your head. Takes over you. Makes you literally SICK. You need to love your body when you’re that young, so you don’t wind up like me, 22 on a pro-ana website trying to lose 20 lbs that I can’t afford to.
You’re right. It DOES get in you’re head. and it takes over…literally, it controls you. But you said you should “love your body when you’re that young.” It has nothing to do with being young…whether you’re 13, 22, or even 82..you shouldn’t be looking to things like this. And I’m not trying to tell you what to do, because I’ve looked to things such as this before… and I’ve harmed myself to “look pretty” too. But the only way to “love yourself”….the only way to “love life”… the only to way to be truly joyful…is to know God.
I’d love to hear from ya, we all need support and help:
hesaves2010@hotmail.com
heyy..’kat’
hate to breat it to you but god isnt real. If he was, and he created everything and blah blah blah, then he wouldnt have created something as horrible as anorexia for ‘his people’ to get sick with. And dont give me the whole ‘he let us have free will to make our own choices’ speach cos I know for a fact that this is not a choice. So sure, you have your right to belive in whatever you want..even if it is god. But so do we. You say were crazzy for being stupid enough to go anna. I say your crazzy for being stupid enough to belive in something like god, and even crazzyier for thinking that any of us are gona ask -or need- your help. I would never ever want someone to become anorexic, because it is really is living hell, but its better than befor. And, I also know that -atleast for me- anna is all i need. Not your help. Not god. And most certinly, not food.
this site is sick and pathetic, this and its kind should be wiped off the internet, & I intend to be the person to do so. Anorexia killed my best friend, do you think that is f****n cool? NO!
Being thin doesnt mean being happy. Know the facts. And seriously get some help. you should know what type of behaviour is and isnt normal, wake up lasses.
am 13 too nd am 7 stone !! a mean fsfs that is sooooo fat !:( am tryin tae change that though
:D:D av tried lots of exersice naw eatin chocolate nd cakes nd a healthy diet bt nothin ever works a wuld only lose aboot 1-2 calories a week nd that ws not gd enough !! so i find the best thing tae do is naw eat 
! it works alot better for getting thin 
!! all though ma pals all say am thin nd need tae stop ma stupid diet bt am gonna keep goin untill am ALOT ALOT ALOT MORE THINNER !!!btw a dnt wanna Be anorexic jst alot alot alot more thinner 
:):) xx
are yu madd??? im 9 stone and i thinkk im a healthy waight and im 14 if yur small then thats justt rite waight but if yur tallish then wtf get a grip before you start falling down grids
This Website is soo sickening. There are young children that read this and think: “Oh well, everyone else is doing it.” This is truly sick. For you to come on here and give tips about how to be anorexic? It’s wrong. I agree with half the comments on here. Anorexia is a ILLNESS. Not a life choice. Normally it has to do with alot of stress or emotions. Feeling like you lost control of something in your life or have no control at all. Yes, I know it sucks. It’s life! Everyone goes through it without starving themselves to death! Please, If anyone on here needs to talk about any problems you may have. I will listen. I don’t judge. Email me if you need help or just to talk.
Email: Sharkegirl1@yahoo.com
You say you wont judge and yet you have already done so by saying our way of dealing with things is wrong. Just because EVERYONE ELSE can deal with things in a “healthy and normal” way, doesn’t mean we all can. So are we so dysfunctional because we’ve figured out a different way to deal? You have no idea what our lives are like and what were going through. Maybe you should take a step back and realize that maybe our lives are a little more fucked up than yours.
Wow!!! Really…. Its not about starving yourself as dealing with life!! Let me tell you my life has been hell since I can remember I have never really had a home or a family… I learned the hard way how to deal with life… I was out on the street since I was 13 years old and had nothing to my name.. You wont believe the crap that I went through but I overcame them and now I have a great life. If you let ppl’s words influene your life then you are letting ppl control you… Do you have a mind of your own!! Eating is not a choice… If your choice is to purposely no eat then yeah you are dysfunctional. I am sorry but having a fucked up life has nothing to do with taking care of yourself.
Here’s a trick: Chew and Spit method. You made a big meal: pizza, cookies, pop-tarts, chips you name it: then chew it like you normally eat, but instead of swallowing, just spit it out. It’s fantastic. It makes it so your body thinks it just ate, when really, you haven’t. It’s fantastic: You still get the taste of it, but without those evil calories. But, be sure to not swollow ANYTHING.
You’re right, we are a little more fucked up than the average person, but at least in the long run, we won’t be part of the growing epidemic that is obesity.
Yeah because ull be dead so u wont be counted as part of the population!! I’m just so glad reading a lot of these comments that there are some well balanced healthy people making sensible comments about how disgusting it is to ever encourage anyone to hurt themselves.
You have the right as a person to damage yourself if you wish but no one has the right to do that to anyone else. So for all u sick people out there, I do hope u get better but no one should have to accompany you in ur suffering
april- STOP IT!!! this is crazy. life is short. cmon-live a little. REALLY-not eating is no kind of courage or interesting.
Whoever made this site is a fucking tard. Anorexics need help to get better not thinner! Who important is your weight and looks when your dead? Cos that’s how you’ll end up. Grow a pair and get some help. It’s a mental illness! Don’t support it. You gonna let it rule your life? Fine, waste it. People move on but if you don’t sort your lives out, you lot wont move on but just continue to look disgustingly underweight and keep pushing yourselves one step closer to 6 feet under.
I love this website, it gave me loads of great tips. Thank u
this is the most disgusting thing i have ever seen. i have an eating disorder and it is something that i have to live and deal with every single day of my life. i have accepted the fact that it is and always will be part of who i am, but i would NEVER want any other person to have to live through what i go through. even more so, i wouldn’t ever in my right mind share the sickening tips that i’ve accumulated on my own with other people. i have internal battles every single day – one part of me saying i will hate myself for eating, the other part saying i will hate myself later when the damage i have caused to my body is irreversible. i’ve spent a year working on a project about anorexia and the treatment methods so that some day i can help other girls escape from this dark, lonely hole that i have fallen so deep into. and, by the way, your “thin commandments” are really stupid. whether you have a legitimate eating disorder or not, i’ve interviewed numerous eating disorder patients (and i know for myself) that this is NOT how someone with an eating disorder feels. i see plenty of healthy people out there whom i find to be absolutely beautiful. myself, on the other hand, i will never find to be beautiful. that’s the sadness of having an eating disorder. if you do really have an eating disorder, you should know how sad and lonely it feels. you’re a disgusting person for posting this.
You all keep talking about a lonely feeling. A void. There is only one way to fill up that hole you feel inside, that’s Jesus. No matter how thin you get or how pretty you feel, it will never be enough because you are looking for fullfillment and love in something that can never fullfill you and cannot love you. You are looking for meaning in the meaningless. I know this generation is corrupt and this struggle for happiness is an uphill battle, but you are being made to believe a lie. That lie is that being thin or pretty will make you happy, but you will find that you will never be pretty enough or thin enough in your own eyes to ever be happy. I can never stress enough the joy and love Jesus has shown me and I wish I would have found Him sooner so that the pain I know so many of us go through could have been lifted before I even had to endure it. He loves you more than you could ever imagine. If you want to talk, I’d love to. He’s so worth it.
my email is hesaves2010@hotmail.com
Yeah I love it when Jesus fills me up.
It’s a beautiful thing isn’t it?
He is the one and only source of true joy and fullfillment, and I pray for all those who struggle with the things talked about on this website, because you’ll never find happiness in being thin, but you most certainly will find it in Jesus, and I can only say this from personal experience.
Kat,
I just want you to know…I came on this site to get tips and tricks, but i’m SO glad I read this. I’ve had Jesus in my heart for alot longer than these few pounds i can’t seem to get rid of. Thanks so much for this. It may have just saved my life.
The moment I read that it brought tears to my eyes. Im so thankful that Jesus reached out to you through that comment. It’s hard not to get caught up in things of this generation, I stuggle with that so much myself, but every time I fall back on Him, He’s always there to catch me, and bring me the joy I was craving all along. He’s SO SO great, and I’m glad that through this struggle you’re dealing with, your relationship with Him will be strengthened
Kat,
I’ve had Jesus in my “heart” for awhile…. but i keep falling… i’ve struggled with bulimia…. and anorexia… and now i am starting to see what God really created, how much he loves us, and each and every detail he put into me, to make me perfect in his image.
Your comment really spoke to me aswell.
continue to walk with Christ
-Emily
(Psalm 139:13-14)
Emily,
That’s a verse that really has kept me goin’ on days I didn’t even have the strength to try. I’m really happy you’re seeing the beauty HE created, and how valuable it is. I’m also happy you’re starting to see that YOU’RE one those beauties He made. I like how you put that…that you keep “falling.” I do too. To be honest, I’ve fallen even today, not feeling ‘good enough’… but the thing that I love more than words can express is that when you and I DO fall…He’s there to catch us, and help us stand once again. I just can’t even explain how awesome it is to know that He’s there to love us and to pick us back up when we fall….What would we ever do without Him?!
Praise God that you’re walking with Him and that He spoke to you through the comment. God Bless you Emily, and I pray you cling to Him through this struggle, because He’s only using it to strengthen you
“And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.” – Romans 3:10
Emily,
That’s a verse that has really kept me goin’ when I didn’t even have the strength to stand. I’m really happy you see the beauty HE created and how valuable it is. I’m also really happy you’re starting to see that YOU ARE one of those beauties He created. I like how you worded that… that you keep “falling.” I do too. To be honest, I have fallen even today, not feeling “good enough,” but it’s SO good to know that when you and I DO fall…He’s always there to catch us and to help us stand once again. How GREAT is it to have a God we can trust to always pick us up when we fall. It’s unexplainable the comfort and love He provides. What would we EVER do without Him?!
God Bless you Emily, and I pray that you would cling to Him even through your struggles because He’s only using them to strengthen you.
“And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.” -Romans 5:1-5
I’m glad I read this too. I know Jesus is the only thing that will ever fill me up, but I’m very discouraged because I have gained four pounds in the last month and am the heaviest I’ve ever been. The saddest part is that I am going to be my sister’s maid of honor in her wedding in two weeks. I don’t know what to do… :’( I was just trying to get some last minute tips.
That’s so understandable, and it’s tough, how discouraged we can get about weight… but what ya gotta’ realize is that the reason we get discouraged is because Satan is feeding us lies telling us that we’re not good enough, and that 4 pounds is a big deal…but when we take the time to listen to God instead of Satan, we’ll find that those four pounds, or even wieght in general is nothing to be discouraged about… nowhere in the bible are we told to be thin. Undoubtedly, it’s important to be healthy, and it’s nice to be fit, but don’t let Satan discourage you, because God is who we follow
So im glad you know the Lord, and if you want to lose that wieght, do it the healthy way, but turning to things like eating disorders is exactly what Satan wants, and it will only distance you from God. So, God bless you, he loves you so so much. And God bless your sister in her new married life…Keep on fightin for Jesus, He’s so so worth it!! 
I’m 16 and I’m a healthy size 10/12 but reading some of those things have made me feel really guilty about eating…
Eventhough I know they’re disgusting and wrong…. 
I’m sure you are a beautiful 16 year old. You just gotta look at your self and say “damn look at that sexaaayyy bitch…. mhmmmm damn!”
haha even if you aren’t gangsta…. cus then you start laughing and its fun.
this is the sickest most disgusting thing i have ever seen! giving tips to people with mental health issues is the most repulsive thing i have had the misfortune to come across, i came here to find out how to help my girlfriend feel better about her self. how on earth you can justify this is beyond imagination!
The people who are ‘for’ this kind of website are the’wannabe’ anorexics that crave attention and make themselves sick and starve themselves just because they wish they were anorexic. The people who actually do have eating disorders as mental health issues don’t support this kind of website; they normally try to help other anorexics feel better about themselves. I hate this website with every fragment of my being, and i think it’s pathetic.
You call them ‘wannabes’..maybe this is true. But have you ever thought that these people may have mental problems themselves. I mean, as far as I know no ‘normal’ person would make a site like this. So maybe they have an illness just like anorexics do and need help just as much as anorexics do.
calling them ‘wannabes’ maybe true, but as the same time, they may just be people who are confused and don’t know how else to loose weight because, lets be honest, exercising takes a lot of time to get the shape/size you want to be. Sometimes this is the only solution.. maybe they will only do it to their desired weight.. then stop? But if they aren’t then yes they are attention seekers who need to get lives and not choose to ‘develop’ an illness such as this one.
Rosie,
You couldn’t be more fucking wrong…but good job trying to act superior. I’ve been anorexic for 5 years…not exactly a “wannabe.” I come to this site so I don’t feel so alone, not because I’m “craving attention.” If I was craving attention, I wouldn’t have hidden it for 5 years from my family and friends. If you think this site is pathetic, then stop fucking reading it and go be the “miss perfect” you are.
Rosie,
You couldn’t be more fucking wrong…but good job trying to act superior. I’ve been anorexic for 5 years…not exactly a “wannabe.” I come to this site so I don’t feel so alone, not because I’m “craving attention.” If I was craving attention, I wouldn’t have hidden it for 5 years from my family and friends. If you think this site is pathetic, then stop fucking reading it, and go be the “miss perfect” you are.
I think websites like this are sickening. Eight months ago i was diagnosed with leukaemia, and the first thing I thought was ‘I DO NOT WANT TO DIE.’ I nearly died. So many people die every day, who do not want to die. If you do, fair enough, become anorexic or bulimic or whatever. Die a slow and painful death, because honestly, if you’re that disillusioned, it’s what you deserve. Don’t waste the time of doctors and nurses whose time could be better spent on people who actually want to survive.
I’m sorry if anyone thinks this message is a bit too radical, and “anorexia is an illness.” Yes, maybe it is, but it’s an illness you’ve caused yourself. It’s not cancer, it’s not a contageous disease and it’s not a virus you’ve contracted. It’s something you’re in control of.
Granted, there are people who decide to become ‘anorexic’ to loose weight or what not. But anorexia nervosa is NOT something you can control. Full blown TRUE anorexia nervosa is not something you just decide to be. It is not always society which is to blame, there are genes which influence it, one of which is thought to be ‘activated’ from catching simple viruses such as strep throat, or flu – leading scientists to start to change their views on anorexia, that it may well be an immune system disease or malfunction. Think about it, the way the body can begin to attack itself in other illnesses – anorexia may simply be another form of this, on an external and much more obvious scale. The other theory, which also has scientific evidence, is that it may be a chemical imbalance in the brain which causes it – again another uncontrollable factor – just like epilepsy, you can’t control that with will alone, so why anorexia?
I am swayed to believe that there may well be some truth in these findings, as I myself became anorexic after contracting a winter flu-type virus. That was 7 years ago. Right at this moment, I WANT to eat, but I can’t. I just cannot do it. Another thing to think about, is whilst anorexia may begin as an attention seeking course of self-starvation – your body then becomes weak and more susceptible to infection, which can ‘activate’ these genes linked to anorexia. Then before you know it, you’re down that rabbit hole and gripped by a medical illness which you can’t let go of, even if you want to. Imagine it, you’re thin, you decide you’re thin.. thin enough, finally. But now you try to apply the same level of will that you had to not eat to begin with – only this time, it is to eat. Even that is not enough to make you stand up and eat that bowl of cereal. Because this time, you’re gripped by a disease. The same way as you can wish and pray to force away those cancerous cells inside you, but will alone is not going to get rid of them. It’s up to doctors, and up to your own body’s biology to fight it. Things you are not in control of.
So don’t go tarring all anorexics with the ‘you’re in control’ brush, as it is not a disease you can control. Perhaps in the first instance, but not true medical anorexia nervosa. True medical anorexia nervosa is the grim side of this petty ‘wannarexia’ to me, it is like striving to have cancer or HIV/AIDS. Because trust me, you may THINK you can stop, but you can’t. It WILL kill you eventually. 10-20% of anorexics die as a direct result of the illness. I can pretty much guarentee the other 80-90% of anorexics (that is anorexia nervosa, not this silly wannarexia) eventually die from things related to the condition, be it eventual suicide, a heart condition which they may not have gotten had they not been anorexic earlier in life, and so on.
The majority of illnesses can be argued as being caused by yourself. Maybe if you had looked after yourself better, your body would not have developed a cancer? Maybe if Jane Doe hadn’t worn that short skirt, she wouldn’t have been raped and caught HIV? Maybe if Mr Jones had never eaten sugar, he wouldn’t have developed diabetes later in life? Maybe if Jack Smith had run 5 miles a day, he wouldn’t have gotten heart disease? Maybe if Sarah Jane had lived a healthier lifestyle, she wouldn’t have gotten the flu, and ended up anorexic?
Trust me, when you’re lying there dying from anorexia, you are also thinking “I DO NOT WANT TO DIE”, it is not something you are in control of which is stopping you from eating.
Sources:
http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/medicine_health/report-18394.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article570550.ece
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19626244.000-ecstasy-may-help-in-the-search-for-an-anorexia-drug.html
amen.
I am 15 years old. and I think that whoever made this website is absolutely sick. Why would you want to help anyone go through that kind of pain?? My best friend is anorexic and she took this as an insult. She would never want anyone to go through this kind of torchure. And you helping them is even worse. I just don’t see why you would want this for someone. It’s rediculous.
i am disgusted too. i have an eating disorder and seeing this sickens me. it’s not all about the weight loss too, i wish people would understand that. those “thin commandments”…really, wth??
I feel like I’m fat because my mom is small and everyone is always telling me “wow you’ve always been bigger than your mom” I hate that, my mom is 43yrs old and she’s 116lbs naturally or sometimes her weight goes down more than that. I am 123lbs and sometimes it goes up to 125lbs she can wear little girl clothes and I can’t, before I was an anorexic sufferer. Honestly it’s hard to stay away from that, I’m trying not to go back to that. What else can I do, if I have a mom who’s afraid of getting fat and she thinks her stomach is big? I wonder how she feel about me, I’m bigger than her… Help please!
I weigh so much more than my mom and I feel bad about that too. But people are different shapes and sizes (my dad was a football/hockey player and is huge), so don’t care how much your mom weighs. Just as long as you know that you are healthy and beautiful. You need to tell yourself positive things everyday.
This is freaking funny, can’t tell if its for real or just a fake thing. either way people are pathatic and this is funny.
As a person who has struggled these struggles before, I know where everyone here is coming from. I initially started doing research in order to try to help a friend struggling with anorexia. I saw all of these “tips” and such as ridiculous as well. I’m not sure what happened. I was triggered by a person very close to me commenting negatively on my weight and these thoughts became true to me. As someone with OCD tendencies, the rules became my obsession. No matter what I tried to tell myself, something else took over. No matter how bad I didn’t want to be miserable by these awful thoughts, it became worse. People commenting on me losing weight, just fueled the fire, though I confided in some people that I’ve gone to extremes, they only told me, “who hasn’t?” I was reaching out for help, and they made my problem seem “ok”. I consumed just a few hundred calories per day and made sure each was expended at the gym. If I binged, it meant I went to the gym a few times per day. Or maybe 4 hours at a time, not stopping until the numbers balanced to zero or less. I was so exhausted, that I slept through most of the rest of the days, only to be awake to do checks and balances. I failed most of my college freshman classes. I never answered my door (dorm) if people wanted me to go out, bc I didn’t want to have to refuse the food we’d be around. So I became alone all the time. Preferring to be alone with my delirious thoughts of inadequacy. Depression….suicidal thoughts….totally worthless. Any trips to the grocery store were carefully planned, researched and mapped out, so that I did not stray. I’d go to the store for 1 or 2 things, and spend more than an hour reading labels and debating in my mind. (picture angel and devil) Same thing for restaurants…if I HAD to go…I’d look online at menus and caloric contents so that I didn’t spend an hour at the table deciding what to eat. It was agonizing. The OCD, anxiety, depression….excruciating. It’s been only a few years “clean”, and I still get those days, that I come back to try to trigger myself again. (The struggle continues) Then, I realize what I went through…I now have a husband and daughter, and know that I don’t have that kind of time to devote to such mental battles. I still, in the back of my mind….want that structure, discipline, rules…. It will mess with you for the rest of your life. I can truly tell you that a site similar to this, contributed, in part to my problems. I was predisposed, I know, but it made something click. For those of you who already struggle with this, telling yourself you are not sick and it is a “Lifestyle Choice”. You are kidding yourself. This is something you say to make it sound more like you are in control, which is as a true as a crackhead saying they WANT crack. It might seem true. But the truth is that you just couldn’t stop, even if you wanted to. It might have been a choice initially….but that was only long enough to not be able to ever make a choice again. Get a grip. Stop while you can. Repeat a positive mantra every day as many times as it takes until you believe it. Reach out, ask for help until someone can help you. You are not alone. And please, when you do find the right path…turn around, look how far you’ve come, be proud, and reach out and help someone who is where you were.
XOXO
God bless you all, and I hope you make it out of the woods unharmed.
Kayla
This is fucking bullshit.
You are truly sick! Being anorexic is a painful thing that sticks with you! Don’t give tips on how to fuck up someones life!
When I was anorexic, things were all downhill for me. Yes I was skinny, but all my friends and all the boys thought it was gross. My boyfriend held my hand and I was so weak that when he let go? My arm was shaking non stop. I’ve stayed away from anorexia for about 8 months now and I still very often find myself shaking because my bones are still very brittle. I suffered from the illness until I could cope with it. I still have anorexic impulses, bit I hve the strength to overcome them. I suffer from an anxiety disorder nowadays because of my ED. I get very moody and can’t stand the littlest things. I can barely stand being around my parents who I used to love hanging out with. But I have Jesus in my heart. He let’s me know I’m beautiful no matter what the scale says. I just wanted to be beautiful, bug I almost killed myself in the process. I am beautiful in God’s eyes. I am a princess inthe kingdom of God. For anyone who’s anorexic or just wants to be plain old beautiful, don’t turn to self destructing things such as an ED. Turn to God. Listen to: beautiful by Bethany Dillon. I love you girls whom suffer from an ED, which is why I’m letting you know there is hope. I didn’t want help, but I almost died. It was about time I changed my ways. <3
This is the first time I have visited this website. I was actually looking for tips to help someone with anorexia. I’m 20 years old and my little sister is 15 and battling anorexia now. She’s is a patient at River oaks Hospital in New Orleans, LA. Her eating disorder was not brought on by not wanting to eat.
She decided to become a vegetarian at the age of 13 after watching a PETA video and making a “veggie pact” with 3 of her closest friends. Needless to say we did not believe it would soon develop into this disease. It started innocent enough but then turned into an obsession with being healthy. She began counting calories and measuring amounts of food she would allow herself to eat in order to “be healthy”.
Our family has tried so hard to help her without having to take drastic measures. She has seen countless nutritionist, doctors, and counselors. Admitting her into the treatment center was our last option. She has been told that if she was to get sick with any form of pneumonia or the flu she would not live through it. One doctor finally struck a nerve with her about a month ago when they did an ultra sound. The test revealed that her ovaries had began to shrink and that she might have problems conceiving children when she gets older.
The truth about anorexia is a painful lesson to learn and even more painful to see it controlling a family member or friend. The fact that websites like this exist blows my mind. I can’t fathom why someone would want to be controlled by food. You are not controlling food, food is controlling you.
Please if you are on this website to learn new tips or commandments, take a step back and picture your life in the future.Do you want to live a long happy life? Do you want children? Do you want to not feel like everyone is judging you? Think about the toll that your disease takes on your family and friends. People do care about you. My sister has had to learn that the hard way. We only get to visit her on weekends for 2 hours a day after making an 8 hour round trip drive. I also send her letters and pictures too kept her motivated and let her know how much she is missed and loved.
Please talk to someone or seek help if you have this problem. I wish everyone visiting this website for tips the strength to overcome your disorder. People do care about you but your obsession with food and weight could end your life or have heavy consequences in your future.
This is actually horrible… See if you’re reading this and want to be anorexic just think of how unhappy your life will be. Yeah you’ll be happy for a while because you’ve achieved your goal but the obsession will take over you and you’ll lose the people you love most. If you become ill then you’ll have a weak immune system which will make it incredibly hard to fight your illness. Soon your bones will become brittle and you’ll end up with the hips of a 60 year old woman and i dont know about you but i would not find that attractive. You’ll think that if you’re skinnier, you’ll be prettier and guys will want you more. You’re wrong. I lost so much weight from having this stupid obsession and my boyfriend basically told me to sort out my life or he would have to leave me because he couldn’t stand watching me go through so much pain that would happen if i continued being the way i was. Don’t think that because your friends are skinnier than you that you need to lose weight. Its not about the weight its about your BMI. Calculate it and if its healthy then you are perfect the way you are. And if its overweight then go to your doctor and ask about losing a few pounds because they’ll tell you how to do it properly. xx
i need to loos waight i feel ugly wen i have put waight on, and pluss im going to do some modeling, iv tried eveything to be honest and nothing works so hopfully this will work, i just wanna be thin like all my mates :/ xxx
“Thin Commandments”??? Really? You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.
hello am 13 and am tryin to lose weight i am 7 stone just now (ano so fat man !!)anyway am tryin tae get down tae 6 stone then see where a go from there a dont eat at school and i can manage to resist food nd not eat all the time im at school but when i come home its so much harder coz wen i come in my mum makes dinner see sort of tries to make me eat nd a cant think of any more excusses tae tell her so any1 got any excusses that a can tell her ???? plz help !! thanks xxxxx
Hayy i’m bethany i’m 13 and 5ft 5 and i weigh 9.2 its so much and i think im getting depressed about it. I dont want to be anorexic. yet i dont want to look like this, all my mates are all healthy weights apart from one who is clearly anorexic. Lookin at her i relise i dont want to look like her because it looks sick. ive tried to loose weght the healthy way but its not working. this website does go to far, im goin to replace some meals with a piece of fruit or a yogurt can somone tell me if this will make a differance? x
Ohh my god! Ive been searching for a site like this, thank youu!!! Yeaaah we might be abit different but its better than being the same!! Stay strong girls, i am
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I cannot believe this website, who ever made this site, and which ever fool made up those tips should be ashamed of themselves.
Why is this website still allowed to go on putting more silly ideas into peoples heads?
Disgusting!
People are so self obsessed! I cannot believe this website exists! all everyone seems to talk about is themselves and how difficult things are for them. Get a grip people, eat some great food, drink some lovely wine and be happy, the world can be a beautiful place, enjoy it. xxx
I’m a twelve year old girl, I am 5′5 and about 160 pounds.
I’m tired of being the ‘fat’ one, and this website gave me what I needed to start being anorexic.
I’m starting tomorrow.
I have a question for everyone even thinking about becoming anorexic… or any kind of eating disorder at all…an honest question:
What would you do if you got to be the exact weight that you wanted, and still found yourself unhappy?
hesaves2010@hotmail.com
This site is disgusting, whoever follows theese rules needs to look at themselves and realise you dont need to be stick thin to be beautiful. If anything making yourself anorexic maked you ugly. This is so selfish, there are people far worse of then you in the world you need to get over yourselves and think about your families and otherchildren and adults that dont have food to eat and they cant help being thin. IM DISGUSTED
I’m 18, nearly 19, I weigh 9st 5lb, and am champion belly dancer for leicestershire. 9st anything used to sound horrific to me, and being really determined, dieting (not starving myelf) seemed to work really quickly – I dropped to 8st 10lb in just over a month just by swapping breakfast and lunch with two pieces of fruit or veg per meal (handfuls of fruit in the case of small things like grapes or strawberries). however losing weight did NOT suit me at all. I lost my curves, that brilliant hour-glass figure you can only have by having toned muscle and a layer of fat.
I would say losing weight can make you look unhealthy and less pretty if you go below whats recommended for your age, men greatly prefer toned curves to boney sickness.
If you want my advice, Id take up belly dancing because:
1) its made me feel realyl great about my body, weight and shape. I feel really sexy and my boyfriend approves of the skills!
2) its given me great curves by excising away the excess fat, and toning up the stomach muscles that look fabulous.
3) belly dancing classes are great fun, you meet like minded people and the two hours a week you spend at classes is two hours less you can spend eating. Any activity will make you feel great and stop you eating when your not hungry.
CURVES ARE SEXY, BONES ARE REPULSIVE!
This site is absolutly pathetic, it makes me angry just looking at it. For all the people who are anorexic, it makes it worse, for all the people who are not, it tempts them to dfift towards a serious condition. Its like me creating a site on how to load a gun and pull the trigger. Anorexia is a pyschological illness, and by putting ideas like this on a site , how will they get better, youre just feeding thier minds instead of what they really need! You also make it sound cool and clever, its not! its very serious and should not be promoted. I am sypathetic towards people who have it but they need to realise these tips wont solve anything.
this website is very graphic. i’d like to meet the creator of this webpage. you’re giving people advice on how to SLOWLY kill themselves! you must feel GREAT. i’d LOVE to hear anyone of the people with eating disorders responses. email: elly_babay@yahoo.com
I am 14 and weigh 9st something. I’m not fat but I have a flabby stomach. I used to binge eat. People need to learn that words can hurt because a few months ago my own mum told me I needed to lose my stomach. She didn’t mean to suggest I was fat but that’s how I heard it. I stopped eating. I hated myself for binge eating and being called ‘fat’ put me off food completely. Thank god I didn’t keep it up for long and am now eating healthily. Funnily enough it was seeing really skinny models that made me start eating again; I don’t want to look like them, I just want a flat stomach. I still have a fat stomach but this time I will exorcise and stop binge eating.
Don’t let anyone tell you that you are too fat or too skinny. Be healthy, do it for yourself and no-one else. Please xx
OMG this site is so stupid im surprised its even up here u young girls do me a favor and stop being so dumb! im a man and i llluuvvvv curvy women thick thighs and ass =) 4 example jesikah maximus luv dat woman!! anyday over K.Moss or A.Lima ooh and vida guerra and kim kardasian big hips everytym =)
My daughter is 13 and has had anorexia for 2 1/2 years now. She was in the hospital for 11 months. All I can say is that it breaks my heart to see what is happening to her. She is my beautiful little girl who is struggling to grow up and this disease is stopping her from being all she can be. I don’t understand what drives her choice not to eat but every day I am there to hold her hand and tell her how much I love her. She’s lost her life so early. She’s ostrasized herself from her friends. She searches for the next best way to cheat herself of food. And every step she takes removes her further away from the good life she could have. She is 5′5″ and 92 lbs. I cry inside when I see the bones in her spine and her little hips through the thin skin on her body. She will never get to happiness because she won’t let herself. When other little girls are planning their girls weekends, she is reading sites like this to find more ways to cheat herself. Why? I’ll never know. But I’d give my life to bring her back…..
This website is truely sick and disgusting. Whoever posted ‘Tips for Anorexics’ should be ashamed of themselves! How dare you contribute to another person’s suffering with pathetic tips on how to lose weight. I’ve been anorexic and am happy with myself now and not even in my darkest hour would I have ever encouraged anyone else to hurt themselves or put ridiculous bloody ideas such as if u aren’t think you’re ugly!!
I completely agree with freedom of speech and doing whatever you choose to your own body but you have got to be a really evil person to encourage others to damage themselves, most of all very impressionable young people and even children.
I think whoever is encouraging this needs to get help if they so wish which would be fantastic if they can get better and put their effort into that, not glamourising EDs or trying to make it into a bloody joke!
im 21 and hav been suffering frm anorexia and bulimia as early as 13. im onli 5ft and at 15 i was nearly 9 stone, to me tht was horrific now, at 21 im 6stn5 n size 6/8 buyin clothes from kids sections, SUFFERING frm inflamed gums, cavaties,receding gums,depression,sharp abdominal pains,sore throat,the enamel wearing off my teeth and, still a DISTORTED image of myself etc…..im a hypocrite becos i will giv nebody advice who think tht thy are fat/overweight and starve/purge when, thats exactly wot i do to myself SEVERAL times a day EVERY day EVERY year. my advice is usually helpfull 2 others so why cant i LISTEN to my own???…ill tell you WHY cos its websites like this tht i got HOOKED on as well as slimmin pills wich DONT WORK and DRINKING becos wen i was hungover i COULDNT face food. i had no one around me 2 tlk to and no one noticed so i hav becom trapped, the DEMON CLOWN INSIDE lives forever in my mind and body becos i hav let ths illness get too far, it was the onli thing i could control in my life tht made me feel better as i had no one around for me….if anyone is thinkin of doin the same thing please jus THINK about it and research the long term damage, i am pretty sure i can not have any children now due to ALL the damage i have done to myself with pills alcohol vomiting etc, its not too late for you to not get caught in ths but for me and sum others it is so dnt become another mentally ill statistic
I would like to try and help if you dare to face your demon (clowns) x
@wtf??
am a medium height i wuld say /
well am 5′4/5′5 13 years old nd weigh 7stone(98pounds)=really fat !!x
YOUR ALL FUCKING SICK AND NEED TO GET YOUR HEADS LOOKED AT!! IVE BEEN IS SAME SITUATION AS ANOREXIC GIRLS, AND IT WAS THE WORST TIME OF MY LIFE! I COULDNT EAT WITHOUT THINKING HOW I WOULD LOOK, IM NOW RECOVERED AND LOOK HEALTHIER THAN EVER! BOYS LIKE CURVY GIRLS WITH SOMETHING TO HOLD ON TO?! WHO WANTS TO FUCK A SKELETON ANYWAYS? ANYONE CAN LOOK GOOD, BUT BEEN ANOREXIC IS NOT ONE OF THEM! SORT YOUR LIFES OUT! SEE A DOCTOR AND BE A RECOVERED ANOREXIC, THIS SITE NEEDS SHUTTING DOWN FOR GOOD!
i have had issues with my body and slef image all my life. i’t nice to come online and see i’m not alone….right now i am at my heaviest, and so sad. i see the women who are my husbands friends from his hs days and can’t help but feel inferior. i know he loves me, but my mind won’t let me believe it. how can he when i am a disgusting slob???? I need to work harder at this. good night all.
Hey guys,
Trust me I’ve been there done that and I’m know a healthy size eight!!! I have a butt and boobs to match and now I actually fit into clothes without them falling off me:) woopwoop!!!! This sight is sending you in the wrong direction seriously… (guys like having something to grab onto anyway)trust me, been there done that too!!! haha
Good luck !!!!;)
ok this is very conterversial im personally trying it out….. but not to lose wieght im trying it to see what you have to suffer through….. but so far i hate it..no offenses(my personal opinion) i like my curves and farily i don’t give a shit what other people think….. so i really dont care for yall any of yall this is just my opinion.
this is sick.
I have worked alot with eating disorders and I’ve seen the worst of a beautiful person’s personality that becomes manipulative and deceitful and horrible to people they love. You need to find where the hurt is that you are trying to avoid by controlling your whole world! The hurt can be dealt with if you find true love inside yourself. The pain only gets worse when you spiral into anorexia and you punish yourself and those you love most. Nothing will fill that place but self respect and loving yourself. You are not what others see of you. Only you can know yourself. Heal the hurt and be whole. Fulfil your potential and have the life you’ve always dreamed of. Not a life filled with guilt and misery, forced hospital and psychiatric admissions, forced tube feeding and restricted freedom. Find the root cause. Heal your heart. And let yourself dance the beautiful fullness life has to offer x
im about to turn 17 and i want to weigh 110-115 (im 5′6 by the way) i admire a models figure and want one for myself. im anemic so when i dont eat u can see it on my face cuz ill be pale . have any advice on how to hid it
Any extra tips for a guy that’s wanting to lose quite a bit through this technique?