No Thinspiration

December 12, 2006

Tips for anorexics

Filed under: Ana, Ana Mia, Anorexia, Celebrities, Disorders, Health, Internet, Thinspiration, Tips — NoThinspo @ 1:26 am

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.

Find more: , , , , , ,

139 Comments »

  1. I don’t know how old is this post, but hey! how can anyone read such stupidity and not comment on it… it’s freaky, creepy to say the least… I cannot understand how anyone could say: ‘being thin is more important than being healthy’.. wtf is that! I do understand by reading those ridiculous commandments that it is a disease… no one with a bit of sanity could live by those rules… i would say to you, if you are considering to go into this way of life: What is essential can only be seen with your heart. I understand that it is hard, but don’t give up, try to leave healthy, if we were created with a digestive sistem, why should we prevent ourselves from using it, we must eat to live… if you do not eat you will DIE, is that simple, and it will be painful and it will be slow.

    Comment by Mequetrefe — December 12, 2006 @ 6:35 pm

  2. The above list is pure evil, please understand this. I had a friend who was _insanly close_ to dying from anorexia nervosa, but somehow sorted it out (or, as she puts it: I got her out). It is my deepest wish that she will never-ever stumble across this list, as I am sure it would very possibly influence her to try her hand at a slow suicide once more. Had she read a list like this one during 2005, she would have died. And I would not have been as sensible, as I am now trying to be, in this post…

    I am well aware of the great (seemingly impossible) difficulties you, as people living with an eating disorder, face and I wish for you all a succesful recovery.
    If you feel that you absolutly do not have the power to fight your disease off then at least do me this one favour:

    DO NOT ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO LIVE LIKE YOU.

    Sure, keep empowering each other and offer support but let your struggles instead be aimed at fighting this curse they call anorexia. No one ever had it worse than my friend did (no. I promise you, not anyone) and yet she managed to return to a normal, better life, thus providing proof that there is _always_ hope. Best of luck to you!

    Comment by Purty Bonaparte — January 13, 2007 @ 5:32 pm

  3. this site helped me sooo much… because of this site i am down to 86 lbs. thats amazing. i’m 5′2” and i’m 17… thank you to whomever created this.

    Comment by nichole — January 16, 2007 @ 3:47 am

  4. that’s so sick… how can anyone think this could be helpful?? it’s a perfact way to make teens kill themselves…

    Comment by ?? — January 23, 2007 @ 11:23 pm

  5. As long as the information is out there, people will be 1) ridiculous enough to post this sort of non sense and 2) some are not mentally well enough to realize that this is NOT A WAY TO LIVE, if you are reading this and honestly thinking this is a good idea, please, I urge you to seek help. I have a little baby girl and I pray she never falls victim to these unrealistic ideas of body image. However, if for some reason, at some point in her life, she is feeling like this is a good idea, I know that somewhere deep inside of her she will know that is it NOT RIGHT. If you are in this position, I am sure that your mother or grandmother or aunt, any woman in your life that is of sound mind and loves you will do all that she can to help you.
    Seek the help that you need. This information that you are reading to make this pro-ana life seems fine and normal, is anything but, it is as if the recipe for poison that willsurely lead to your disease or death has been given to you, do you follow that recipe or choose to live your life to the fullest? Please choose life, your mother carried you for 9 months, and held you as a baby wishing for your absolute safety and happiness, the least that you can do is choose to live that life.
    There are ways to be thin and healthy. EDUCATION IS THE KEY.

    Comment by C J — January 31, 2007 @ 3:26 pm

  6. how could any slate this website i now weigh 79 lbs and im 5″1 and 16 anyone can be thin if they want 2 be xxx

    Comment by tinkabelle — February 2, 2007 @ 6:34 pm

  7. how could any slate this website i now weigh 79 lbs and im 5″1 and 16 anyone can be thin if they want 2 be x

    Comment by tinkabelle — February 2, 2007 @ 6:34 pm

  8. Anyone can die if they want. But we’re trying of help girls to not kill themselves.

    Comment by NoThinspo — February 3, 2007 @ 9:35 am

  9. Thanks for the tips I’ll be sure to follow them. If it wasn’t 4 u i never would have found them this easily !!!!
    XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
    FUture Nicole Richie ;)

    Comment by ME — February 5, 2007 @ 12:13 am

  10. Love some of these tips, there are some there that I haven’t read before or thought of. I’m totally gonna use the wait an hour one, that sounds great. Thanks so much.

    Comment by Sam — February 5, 2007 @ 9:33 am

  11. how the fuck can u tell people to this it is wrong and sick you are a murderer u mite aswell change ure name 2 adolf hitler because you are becoming a follower of him!! you are killing innosent girl who deserve life unlike you!!

    Comment by Jess — February 5, 2007 @ 1:41 pm

  12. im not gona be cruel 2all da ppl dat follow these tips coz my friend did n i supported her with her wishes. i am now 16 and ive had 2live 2 years without my best friend coz she died of anorexia as she followed sites like these. think about it clearly and GET A FUKIN LIFE U STUPID BIATCHES!!!

    Comment by rach — February 5, 2007 @ 1:44 pm

  13. u SAD SAD SAD SAD people, who ever listens to this stupid ‘advice’ as the physco calls it are THE dumbest people on the planet! So u idiots who are following these ‘commandments’ have no self respect or self esteem! Fair enough, neither do i! But i don’t make a decision that could very well end my life! Think about what your doing! If you want a future do NOT stop eating! eat 200 caloroies a day! U will NOT put on wiegh, to put on one single puind you have to eat an extra 2000 calories in one day! if u eat the recommended amount you won’t oput on weight! So don’t be so FUCKIN stoopid and listen to this evil witch!!! Ur all stoopid if u listen 2 this physco murderer! She like Stallen and Hitler combined! EVIL!

    Comment by Naomi — February 5, 2007 @ 1:53 pm

  14. These tips are so great, i have started dieting and want to be thin. i still have a long way to go but these tips should help me loose weight quicker.

    Comment by Bev — February 6, 2007 @ 11:10 am

  15. The girls and boys who are dealing with anorexia and other eating disorders are not “dumb” or “stupid”.

    This need to control their bodies in such an extreme way is a symptom of unhappiness and a feeling that they have no control over things in their lives. They know that what they are doing will probably make them physically ill, but they are too frightened to face up to what they are really doing to themselves. Continuing to chase the dream of being thin and (as they see it) beautiful is almost impossible for them to give up. But it can be done. They need love, understanding and professional help.

    As a recovering alcoholic, I understand how frightening it is to think of giving up your “crutch”, the thing you have relied on for so long, your “friend”. Once you recognise that anorexia (or alcohol, or whatever it is that has a hold of you) is not your friend, only then will you be able to think about recovery.

    Anorexic people are usually of above-average intelligence. Please, lovely boys and girls, use your intelligence to find the right help for yourself.

    Good luck.

    Comment by Emma — February 6, 2007 @ 6:30 pm

  16. I would like to ask the people that follow the above tips if they ever considered that the person who made this site was joking? It seems so cliche and a parody that it cannt actually be designed with the serious intention of helping girls lose weight…also, for the people who found the tips useful, i understand that people with eating disorders have problems yadda yadda yadda, but do you really need help knowing that you can lost weight by not eating? That really shows you arent just troubled, but stupid. There has to be a certain disposition of person susceptible to eating disorders, not just from the media, because if I see Nicole Richie i feel sick and sorry for her, not envy.

    Comment by Hannah — February 6, 2007 @ 10:31 pm

  17. Hannah, there are now many internet sites written for and by girls with eating disorders. They are full of such “tips” as these. These girls are not “dieting”, they have a serious psychological condition. The tips above are typical of the sort of “support” these girls (and sometimes boys) give eachother. The sites give a semblance of support and friendship, but in fact just serve to perpetuate the unhealthy psychology of these devastating eating disorders.

    I think your use of the words “yadda yadda…” and “stupid” show that you reallly have no understanding of such illnesses. I am glad that you do not envy Nicole Richie, but please try not to judge such troubled girls in such an insensitive way.

    Comment by Emma — February 6, 2007 @ 11:02 pm

  18. i resent being called insensitive, seeing as i understand that girls with eating disorders do not think that they are attractive in any way, let alone by being so thin. Most anorexic girls are so during times in their lives when they face they most upheaval and loss of control. also understand that my wording was actually very poor and i can see you found it insensitive, but i actually am very empathetic towards the people who suffer from eating disorders, and any mental illness (which is what it is). i did not once use the term ‘dieting’, and my comment about Nicole Richie was using me as an example, to defend these sufferers from comments that accuse the girls of being purely stupid, attention seekers etc. Eating disorders are an interesting sociological and psychological area that need to be explored to see what makes these people different from those unaffected by media images. that is what i meant, and im sorry if it was worderd badly.

    Comment by Hannah — February 7, 2007 @ 11:45 pm

  19. Thanks for explaining, Hannah. It’s very difficult to communicate sometimes on a screen! You obviously have a lot of sympathy towards people.

    Comment by Emma — February 8, 2007 @ 12:27 am

  20. i cannot believe that young girls on here are comming here to get advice and tips on how to become anorexic.
    “if you arent thin you arent attractive”
    thats so pathetic
    men hate girls who are skin and bones, they want to be able to hold onto something
    take marilyn monroe for example she has an amazing figure and she was a size 14, men all over the world lusted after her so why do all these teenagers want to be so thin?
    im a size 8 and im not at all anorexic im curvy i eat what i like and i feel great, everyone always comments me on how i look so i dont get why girls cant be curvy. Girls with curvs are far more attractive then girls who are a walking skeleton. Im sure its not that great i can go out and eat chocolate, fast food, junk food anything i want, as long as i moderate it. i eat healthy and it pays off. starvation is just a slow and painful death, people die because of it, they dont have any energy and they are hungry all of the time. Why not enjoy life to yr fulliest by eating food that you like and desire and then you will be happy. Boys like people like beyonce, tyra banks someone who looks incredible good and isnt skin and bones, and eats what they want. Starving yourself is just pathetic, its stupid its like condoning cancer. Anorexia IS a disease, you even wrote all of “dangers” you can get. its well not worth it at all.
    blatently not attractive thats why madrid have band skinny models and why victoria beckham is known all over the world for being too skinny. i understand why some people may do it because of issues but girls that are doing it because they think they need to loose abit of weight are pathetic. dont you understand you will be eating through a drip if you carry on.

    its awful.
    having boobs,hips and an ass its far more attractive then skin and bones.

    i dont want my rib cage sticking out thanks.

    and if they are troubled why not offer help,
    why do you condone it and say if you arent thin yr ugly.

    stupid pathetic excuse

    stop it before too many young girls sucumb to this shit.

    Comment by gemma — February 8, 2007 @ 4:47 pm

  21. Hi, can i explain something i feel very strongly about. you open a mag and al you see is skinny celebs and then if they put on weight at all, they make it out to be a living crime. it gives me the impression that nobody wants curved person, the cameras always want a thin person and that puts pressure on people.. I walk into shops and all i see is size six and ten and it gets me down because i have not reached my goal as yet.
    I ave being dieting from before christmas and have lost a lot of weight and i want to be nine stone and maybe go further if i feel the need.
    There is so much pressure on being thin these days. i think the magazines and other media are the main causes for this illness.

    I dicovered at the start of the week that i suffer from this illness and i have told no one yet and im so scared. im 21 and my 21st is next tues and i feel sick at the thought of people looking at me. Last night i broke down in tears in front of my boyfriend and i could not tell him my problem. bev x

    Comment by Bev — February 8, 2007 @ 5:00 pm

  22. Bev, I feel so sorry for you. Please use the internet to find a help group, or go to your doctor. You are not the only one who feels like this, and there is lots of help out there, but you must look for it. Oftentimes, family and friends will not understand because it’s a very difficult illness to understand. Find professional help, and talk to other people who want to recover. I promise you it can be done. Lots of luck.

    Comment by Emma — February 8, 2007 @ 6:49 pm

  23. gosh. this is pretty weird. encouraging teenagers to die is not just twisted, it’s evil. do you seriously think this is good?
    “if you’re not thin you’re ugly”
    everybody is beautiful
    fat or thin
    why can’t you people see that?

    Comment by rosemary — February 21, 2007 @ 1:27 pm

  24. fuck off everyone thats dissing this

    Comment by For_Ana — February 22, 2007 @ 4:19 am

  25. I think these are the correct statements/questions to follow:
    1) If you’re too thin, guys won’t like you. They want hips to grab.
    2) You can lose weight faster AND not feel hungry. It’s called normal dieting?
    3) Not eating anything gives you the most vile breath. Ew.
    4) People will respect you for dieting like a human, not like a mindless sheep.
    5) Would you rather die thin or live slim?
    6) Nobody is perfect.
    7) If you ever feel ‘ugly’ or ‘fat’, do anything you can to reassure yourself. Apart from becoming anorexic of course. 8) Take a look at people who are suffering from severe anorexia. It will remind you just how unattractive they look.
    9) Ribcage sticking out and spinal cord making it uncomfortable for you to sit down…mmm sounds lovely.
    10) Living a life in your own home with your friends and family, or being stuck in a hospital with tubes up your nose because of Anorexia ?
    11) Severe anorexia controls your life, and in serious cases leads to never being able to properly digest food again.
    12) Think of Christmas time and christmas dinners, birthday cake, special occasions. Wedding cake. This should stop you from resisting food.

    I hope you read this and realise what’s right and what’s wrong.

    Comment by rosiee — February 22, 2007 @ 11:38 am

  26. I think these are the correct statements/questions to follow:
    1) If you’re too thin, guys won’t like you. They want hips to grab.
    2) You can lose weight faster AND not feel hungry. It’s called normal dieting?
    3) Not eating anything gives you the most vile breath. Ew.
    4) People will respect you for dieting like a human, not like a mindless sheep.
    5) Would you rather die thin or live slim?
    6) Nobody is perfect.
    7) If you ever feel ‘ugly’ or ‘fat’, do anything you can to reassure yourself. Apart from becoming anorexic of course.
    8 ) Take a look at people who are suffering from severe anorexia. It will remind you just how unattractive they look.
    9) Ribcage sticking out and spinal cord making it uncomfortable for you to sit down…mmm sounds lovely.
    10) Living a life in your own home with your friends and family, or being stuck in a hospital with tubes up your nose because of Anorexia ?
    11) Severe anorexia controls your life, and in serious cases leads to never being able to properly digest food again.
    12) Think of Christmas time and christmas dinners, birthday cake, special occasions. Wedding cake. This should stop you from resisting food.

    I hope you read this and realise what’s right and what’s wrong.

    Comment by rosiee — February 22, 2007 @ 11:39 am

  27. I admire these girls with anorexia. They are so strong and determined. I wish I had their strength. Fat kills too.

    Comment by greta — February 23, 2007 @ 5:53 pm

  28. Being healthy is important. If your immune system really breaks down and you’re looking sick all the time, that’s not attractive no matter how thin you are. So get enough Vitamins and protein and all that. Heart failure is also not sexy.

    Otherwise, I don’t see the harm in trying to be thin. Though having curves can be sensual, there’s a real elegance to being thin.

    What I learned about losing weight is that extreme diets don’t work, as in, the binging always happens. Drop the short-term diets, go for a lifestyle change. Don’t punish yourself for not having behaved well that day (ate more than you wanted to). Instead, find out what went wrong (what led you to suddenly give up), forgive yourself (don’t hate on yourself) and exchange that forgiveness for the promise that you’ll never make that mistake again. You end up feeling better AND you won’t do it again. Works for me.

    Take care.

    Comment by Lisa — February 26, 2007 @ 7:11 pm

  29. Listen ladies, I’m a 22 year old male who’s a senior in college, and I can reassure you of one thing:

    Guys do NOT go for this really thin look.

    Is it good to be in shape? Yes. But that does require having some meat on you and looking healthy. It requires hard work, not quick losses that will damage your body.

    There’s no shame, and there never will be shame, in being what God made you. It’s who you are. Anorexia, bulemia and other eating disorders contradict the nature of your body and I feel sick everytime I hear about some young girl DYING because of it.

    Right now, I have a beautiful 15 year old sister who’d dedicated herself to being in shape. Yeah, she’s an athlete, but she’s not risking her health. She runs every day, eats healthy and over the months, I’ve watched her slim down tremendously with the right effort.

    Here’s a fun little tip to: your metabolism increases if you eat 5 small meals a day. Eating any less actually slows the metabolism down, meaning you won’t burn as many calories. Couple the 5 meals with working out, and the changes will be far more noticable, not to mention more healthy and appealing.

    I like to ask people if they can dedicate just ONE percent of their week to working out. Many say yes and laugh at the notion of not being able to. One percent of your week translates to just 90 minutes of exercise a week. That’s it. That’s what doctors say will help a person’s cardiovascular system and increase their metabolism.

    I know how hard this can be, and i know the media and society as a whole places SO MUCH pressure on young women to be “perfect”, but don’t buy into it. Perfection is a buzz word people throw around when they feel down; when they feel like they need something to strive for. But striving for perfection is an impossible goal.

    Instead, I STRONGLY recomment striving for something far greater; happiness.

    I hope my words are taken seriously by certain individuals here. Good luck.

    Comment by Phillip — February 27, 2007 @ 8:03 am

  30. Phillip, the guy above, you’re so wrong.
    I am now a girl with a beautiful thin figure, size 4.
    All thanks to this site.
    Even thought typing this comment leaves me breathless,
    my energy isn’t as important as how i look.

    the girls at school now envy me.

    thanks.

    Comment by Lauren — February 28, 2007 @ 1:17 pm

  31. i’m 16 by the way

    Comment by Lauren — February 28, 2007 @ 1:17 pm

  32. i think you girls do look great who wants to be fat and unattractive. the thinner the better thats what i think.

    Comment by john — March 1, 2007 @ 4:39 pm

  33. thanx this site is well good will use sum of the tips and pass them on! Why are u guys on a pro ana site if u dont like it so much?? any1 who says bein happy is more important than bein thin is obviously FAT themselves! or born thin and doesnt have to worry! NOTHING TASTES AS GOOD AS THIN FEELS!!!!

    Comment by sarah — March 2, 2007 @ 11:20 pm

  34. to all those people slating this sight:- its not your life we are affecting is it. thank you for the people who are trying to help but the people who are like “boys wont like u if ur skin and bones” you have no idea about us. and not every boy likes curves. were doing this for us. please stop hassiling us all u haters.

    Comment by rachel — March 3, 2007 @ 1:38 am

  35. i am 16 years old, and have been anorexic for over 4 years. I do know that my way of living will kill me someday, which scares me as much as the thought of being fat. this is why i made a promise to never go lower than 80 pounds. (Right now i’m about 5′8, and about 82 pds.). i want to live, only to show people my exceptional, thin body. you should see how girls stare at me at my long thin legs; and how guys just want me. its amazing. i also like how i can pull off the skinny jeans look effortlessly. so, even if my weight is still very low, some of us don’t always want to die just to become skinny.

    Comment by Leeann — March 3, 2007 @ 3:24 am

  36. Anyone who supports anorexia is wrong. thats a fact. if you support it of course you will disagree me but that doesn’t change the fact that you’re wrong. you just can’t see it yet. maybe you’ll recover then you’ll see it. maybe you’ll live with it miserably all your life and never see it. maybe you’ll die soon and never get the chance to see it. Its tragic. Don’t take advice from this site. The person who wrote this either meant it as a cruel joke or is mentally ill themselves. anorexia is a mental condition not just an appearance. becoming thinner wont make you happier because however thin you get you wont be happy, you’ll lose more until there’s nothing else to lose, until your body starts eating up its own organs and your heart stops beating. don’t put yourself through that, seek help from people who care. live life to the full. be fit and healthy and happy as a slim girl of normal weight. be proud. youre so much better than this.

    Comment by Aimee — March 3, 2007 @ 2:46 pm

  37. sarah rachel and leeann
    i am sure you girls know what you want and being skinny is your choice so keep on doing what you feel. i am a fan of thin its so much sexier but thats my opinion. keep thin and beautiful girls.

    Comment by john — March 5, 2007 @ 1:46 pm

  38. :) thank you so much john xxx

    Comment by rachel — March 5, 2007 @ 8:08 pm

  39. :) thank you so much john xxx

    Comment by rachel — March 5, 2007 @ 8:08 pm

  40. hi rachel
    i just think that you are probably old enough(if your over 16) to make major life decisions i.e marriage etc so why do people presume you are not mature enough to choose your body size.people would never openly slag off someone for being fat but think because your thin that its ok to make nasty comments.people who are overweight are killing themselves but nobody dare tell them as it would be insensitive but they think nothing about saying it to girls who are thin.i am sure all the comments about your size upset you but dont listen its your choice and i for one support it.if anybody wants to debate this with me then dont hesitate to mail me at temple001@mail.com i welcome the challenge and support the right to choice

    Comment by john — March 6, 2007 @ 11:30 am

  41. I’m not into the whole anorexic idea and i think if your under weight your stupid. I’m 5′2″ and about a size 3. I dont starve myself and i dont diet, but i do exercise sometimes. Yet Lauren (above ) is the same size as me with anorexia and these stupid, what do you call them? Tips? now whats with that. I have friends that are pretty close to becomeing anorexia but their not & I’m soo pround of them. All I wanted to say is being healthy and this is better than being skin and bones and 6 feet under.

    Comment by crystal — March 6, 2007 @ 6:43 pm

  42. I’m a size zero and guess what I whatever I want, whenever I want. Anorexic people are pathetic if they can easily be pressured to stop eating because of what they see in magazines then obviously they have no self-esteem, If you saw a model jumping off a building you’d probably try it.

    Comment by abby — March 8, 2007 @ 5:56 am

  43. eat* =]

    Comment by abby — March 8, 2007 @ 5:57 am

  44. I am not going to say that what you are all doing is wrong or right, i am pro choice. But endangering you self, and your quality of life could be seen as silly, and not worth it. The problems any girls and guys go through are unfair, and those guys that only like skinny girls, there are guys that like girls with a bit of meat on them, after all thats how in the cave man times they picked their women. I’m not perfect. I’ve had situations where i couldnt eat in front of people as i thought ir was something to be seen as sexy, but soon realised, if i wanted to eat i was going to eat.

    Comment by Maxine — March 8, 2007 @ 12:12 pm

  45. rosiee (11:39:11) :

    I think these are the correct statements/questions to follow:
    1) If you’re too thin, guys won’t like you. They want hips to grab.
    2) You can lose weight faster AND not feel hungry. It’s called normal dieting?
    3) Not eating anything gives you the most vile breath. Ew.
    4) People will respect you for dieting like a human, not like a mindless sheep.
    5) Would you rather die thin or live slim?
    6) Nobody is perfect.
    7) If you ever feel ‘ugly’ or ‘fat’, do anything you can to reassure yourself. Apart from becoming anorexic of course.
    8 ) Take a look at people who are suffering from severe anorexia. It will remind you just how unattractive they look.
    9) Ribcage sticking out and spinal cord making it uncomfortable for you to sit down…mmm sounds lovely.
    10) Living a life in your own home with your friends and family, or being stuck in a hospital with tubes up your nose because of Anorexia ?
    11) Severe anorexia controls your life, and in serious cases leads to never being able to properly digest food again.
    12) Think of Christmas time and christmas dinners, birthday cake, special occasions. Wedding cake. This should stop you from resisting food.

    I hope you read this and realise what’s right and what’s wrong.

    you are seriously a sick person. just as sick as all of us with anorexia or another eating disorder. an eating disorder isn’t about wanting to look “cute” for all of the guys out there, it’s about self control. and knowing that you have your thin body and no one can take that away from you. it is one aspect of life i can control. you would never bitch at someone for having alcoholism or heart disease. i don’t see how we’re any different or where you get off being a complete and total ass about this. it is a disease and a lifestyle for us, and you are a horrible person for treating it as though it is a fun little thing we do in our spare time.

    Comment by Kaylaaaaa — March 9, 2007 @ 12:29 am

  46. first off i have to say im neither against pro-ana nor am i with it.
    however i admire anorexics for being so strong-willed and determined..i wish i had their self-control.
    i wouldnt call myslef anorexic but i would say i have unhealthy eating habits…
    im 5′3 and i weigh 98 pounds, compared to these girls..im obese.
    when i read the opinions people who think this is wrong (Phillip) it makes me want to eat normally again..
    but when i read these pro-ana sites, it makes me want to not eat at all.

    i would give nothing more in the world then to be thin. im weak.

    Comment by Elle — March 10, 2007 @ 11:28 pm

  47. first off i have to say im neither against pro-ana nor am i with it.
    however i admire anorexics for being so strong-willed and determined..i wish i had their self-control.
    i wouldnt call myslef anorexic but i would say i have unhealthy eating habits…
    im 5′3 and i weigh 98 pounds, compared to these girls..im obese.
    when i read the opinions people who think this is wrong (Phillip) it makes me want to eat normally again..
    but when i read these pro-ana sites, it makes me want to not eat at all.
    my normal day includes..
    -eating breakfast
    -school (never eat lunch)
    -running (im in track and cross country, i average about 35 miles a week)
    -and then i sometimes eat dinner…if i dont have to i wont.

    i would give nothing more in the world then to be thin. im weak.

    Comment by ...confused... — March 10, 2007 @ 11:30 pm

  48. sry i didnt mean to leave the same comment twice…
    just dont read the 1st one.

    Comment by ...confused... — March 10, 2007 @ 11:34 pm

  49. “Being thin is way more important than being healthy.”

    If this isn’t all the proof anybody needs that these “pro-ana” lunatics are technically psychotic, then I don’t know what possibly could be. I have a hard time imagining how somebody’s entire life could possibly revolve around starving herself to death, but then again, I’m not mentally ill…

    That said, the idea that somebody finds death and disease more appealing than healthy living is both disgusting and terribly tragic. A rational mind can’t comprehend such craziness.

    Comment by Paul — March 12, 2007 @ 8:32 am

  50. “im 5′3 and i weigh 98 pounds, compared to these girls..im obese.”

    Sweetheart, compared to ANYBODY, you’re underweight. Stick to the healthy activity and enjoy a sandwich after you finish running or what not. You’re already too thin, and if you don’t nip this in the bud now, you’ll probably be dead before you see 30. And if that doesn’t scare the shit out of you, it should.

    Comment by Paul — March 12, 2007 @ 8:35 am

  51. “Take a look at people who are suffering from severe anorexia. It will remind you just how unattractive they look.”

    Unfortunately, they won’t see them as unattractive. That’s half the tragedy right there. Once the disease takes root, these people can no longer equate being thin with anything other than discipline and/or physical perfection. It’s sick, but that’s why the call it a disease. While you or I might look at a picture of one of the Olsen twins and think, “My god, she looks like a fucking skeleton with enormous fucking hands and gigantic feet,” these girls don’t see it that way. They think it’s NORMAL to have a five-inch gap separating one thigh from the other. This is why the only anorexics who manage to survive into their 30s and 40s are the ones whose families are close enough to them to hospitalize them once their weight dips into the 80s and begin force-feeding them. Left to their own devices, they blissfully starve themselves to death. If only there were some way to lift the veil that clouds their perceptions, they’d realize just how disgusting human beings under 100 pounds really look. Unfortunately, Karen Carpenter is like some sort of folk hero to these girls.

    Comment by Paul — March 12, 2007 @ 8:40 am

  52. “people would never openly slag off someone for being fat but think because your thin that its ok to make nasty comments.people who are overweight are killing themselves but nobody dare tell them as it would be insensitive but they think nothing about saying it to girls who are thin.”

    John, you’re either being disingenuous, or else you’re the dumbest kid on your block. No offense, but all you’re doing is feeding the monster that is anorexia with your ignorant comments.

    Obesity is widely regardly as the no. 2 killer in America, hot on the heels of heart disease, and has been recognized by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a preventable risk factor responsible for half a million deaths annually in the USA alone. The government has spent millions on anti-obesity ads that run on national television, the WHO has officially recognized obesity as a disease, and the International Congress on Obesity has deemed that there is currently a worldwide EPIDEMIC of obesity in effect.

    What’s more, the overweight are routinely ridiculed in pop culture, on the schoolyard and probably all points in between. While this sort of insensitivity has provided an incentive for many to lose weight, it has also had the unintended side effect of bolstering the delusions of weight-obsessed anorexics the world over.

    Are there apologists for the overweight? You’re damned right there are. Check out “size-acceptance.org” if you want to see the obese response to websites like this one. Just as so-called “pro-ana” communities have rejected the idea that it’s unhealthy and disgusting to be grossly underweight, so too have pro-fat communities turned a blind eye to the dangers attached to obesity.

    In short, there are all kinds of eating disorders in the world, and NONE of them are healthy. Of course, unless you’re an idiot, you should know that none are as immediately dangerous as anorexia and bulimia. The body starts to eat itself alive once an average-sized person’s weight dips too far below 100 pounds or so. Organs shut down, the stomach shrivels and dies, and then so does the afflicted patient.

    Comment by Paul — March 12, 2007 @ 8:56 am

  53. “you open a mag and al you see is skinny celebs and then if they put on weight at all, they make it out to be a living crime.”

    It’s not.

    I’ll continue to be a straight-shooter and tell it to you plain as day: you’re young, and what you probably don’t realize now is that nobody in the real world gives a shit about the cult of celebrity. The only people who DO care are those with nothing fulfilling in their own lives, and shouldn’t it be each of our responsibility to aspire to something beyond such emptiness?

    If you’re reading celeb-skin mags outside of your doctor or dentist or optometrist’s waiting room, you should find something more gratifying to do instead. Read a book - the kind your grandparents used to enjoy! - or go to law school. Learn to fly a plane, build a statue, paint a chapel, do SOMETHING that actually matters instead of obsessing about stupid, vacuous bullshit that self-respecting adults don’t care about. Your life is your own, and if you ever find yourself comparing it to Lindsay Lohan’s or Courteney Cox’s, you should at least pause long enough to ask yourself the following question: “Why do I care so much about these total strangers who don’t even know I’m alive?” Your boyfriend doesn’t. Your family doesn’t. Celebrities are nothing more than momentary diversions, something to fill up the last five minutes of the nightly news broadcast on a slow news day. My advice is to start looking up to those members of society who have actually contributed to it in a positive sense.

    Comment by Paul — March 12, 2007 @ 9:08 am

  54. This message its to all PLEASE dont listen to this trash live youre live love youre self this people are killing people there stupid. this people dont live happy with there life, and thats why there killing inocent people. Please dont listen live youre live, being thin does not make you special, What makes you special is what youre really are in the inside, dont put attention to those bitches, live youre life be a happy person love youre selfes.

    Comment by Jessie — March 13, 2007 @ 8:07 am

  55. I HAVE BEEN ANOREXIC FOR THE PAST 4 YEARS I HAVE BEEN IN THE INTENSIVE CARE UNIT FOR THE PAST 3 MONTHS AFTER I HAD A BREAKDOWN, I’M JUST DYING SLOWLY I CAN’T DO ANYTHING TO SAVE MYSELF, IT’S TOO LATE! I GOT AS LOW AS 65LBS I’M 27.. I HAD A DAUGHTER AT THE AGE OF 19.. I CAN’T HOLD HER NOMORE I’M TOO WEAK…DOCTORS DON’T GIVE ME HOPE I TAKE FLUIDS THROUGH A TUBE, AND I CAN’T EVEN HOLD MY OWN CUP. AT THE RATE THAT I’AM DETERIRATING DOCTORS HAVE GIVEN ME 4-5 MONTHS OF LIFE.. PLEASE DON’T KILL YOURSELFS…BEAUTY=THIN= (DEATH) THAT’S THE PART THAT I NEVER SAW UNTIL KNOW. THANKS TO MY SISTER I HAVE THE CHANCE TO SEND THIS E-MAIL.

    Comment by ANOREXIC=DEATH — March 13, 2007 @ 11:04 pm

  56. that comment above is a load of rubbish.
    you people anger me.
    stop attention seeking, no-ones going to give a monkies if you openly tell the world.
    grow up.

    Comment by "ANOREXIC=DEATH" — March 14, 2007 @ 12:51 pm

  57. why dont you just eat.
    simple solution.
    and dont give me all this rubbish saying “its not about eating its about self control” theyve got self control, too much of it. just force feed them nburinh :@ agrh. and to the comment above, thats so false. grow up. now.

    Comment by cvnbfgnbofgol — March 14, 2007 @ 12:53 pm

  58. The best tip that I could ever give:

    Think about your best friend, or your pet, or a family member that you really love:

    Would you willingly choose to do to them, what you do to yourself every day? Would you knowingly and willfully do this to someone you love?

    …
    So why do you do it to yourself?

    There is help, it is possible to overcome this. Ask a good friend or family member or teacher, they will be so happy that you came to them. You’ll feel so much better when you get it off your chest, and you’ll see that so many people really do care.

    Comment by Elizabeth — March 14, 2007 @ 2:59 pm

  59. WHY DON’T.. ALL YOU PEOPLE THAT ARE ANOREXIC GO TO SOME VERY, VERY POOR COUNTRY AND JUST STAY AND LIVE THERE…YOU WOULD PROBALBLY BE SO, SO ASHAMED OF YOURSELF AFTER SEEING HOW MANY BABIES AND KIDS ARE DYING OF HUNGER EVERYDAY!!! THESE ARE PEOPLE IN NEED OF THE PIECE OF BREAD, YOU PEOPLE THROW AWAY IN THE TRASH CAN OR DOWN THE TOILET…JUST STAY THERE AND DIE WITH THEM. PEOPLE THAT HAVE WHAT YOU GUYS CALL (ILLNESS) IS JUST A BUNCH OF BULL-S**T JUST TO MAKE YOUR SELFS FEEL BETTER… IT’S SAD HOW SOME PEOPLE NEED TO STARVE THEMSELFS JUST TO GET SOME ATTENTION…HOPEFULLY YOU CAN ALL FOLLOW MY TIPS AND LEAVE SOON…SO OTHERS DON’T GET CONTAMINATED WITH THIS *ILLNESS*..

    Comment by I HAVE A VERY GOOD TIP — March 14, 2007 @ 3:47 pm

  60. Thank you, Paul, for your excellent and insightful comments. As to “I Have a Very Good Tip”, I suggest you take an honest look at yourself before you accuse others, who are seriously ill, of attention-seeking. Further, it appears to me that a little more relevant reading, and a little less irrelevant ego might benefit you. the anger you feel with the world is clear in your post. I suggest that you try to deal with your own problems, rather than offer spiteful and unintelligent advice to others.

    Comment by Emma — March 14, 2007 @ 4:26 pm

  61. WELL I HAVE AN ANSWER TO WHAT YOU JUST SAID… I’M A VERY HAPPY PERSON WITH ALOT OF LOVE FOR PEOPLE WHO RESPECT THEMSELFS AND OTHERS. AND IF YOUR TALKING ABOUT( EGO)..WELL LOOK AT YOURSELF..WHICH I’M SURE YOU DO EVERY MINUTE OF THE DAY, AND ASK YOURSELF WHY PEOPLE REALLY DO THIS TO THEMSELFS.. IS IT BECAUSE THEY ARE “SERIOUSLY ILL” LIKE YOU SAID YOURSELF, OR BECAUSE OF THEIR BIG EGOS TO LOOK BETTER…?? IT’S SAD HOW YOU PEOPLE CAN’T EVEN ACCEPT YOURSELFS AND YOUR BODIES, WHAT REALLY MAKES ME MAD IS THAT YOU PEOPLE ARE STILL GIVING ADVISE AND TIPS TO OTHERS ON HOW TO BE MISERABLE!! IT’S SAD HOW FAMILIES ARE TORN APART BECAUSE OF A RELATIVE DYING OF ANOREXIA…IT’S VERY EASY FOR ALL YOU TO JUST DIE AND GET IT OVER WITH, BUT HOW ABOUT YOUR FAMILIES? WHO TAKES THE PAIN AWAY AFTER LOSING A LOVED ONE???? DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER FOR THAT???

    Comment by I HAVE A VERY GOOD TIP — March 14, 2007 @ 5:06 pm

  62. size zero is soooooooooooooo out even nicole richie is not doing anymore and i was very close to anerexia and because of that i now ave no friends ,please get help because everyone is ‘cute’ thin of curvy but i do agree that fat people are killing themselves to so people should lay of anas and concentrate on them for awhile!!!!!!! lol

    Comment by laura — March 16, 2007 @ 7:18 pm

  63. if being thin is more important than being healthy and having energy, think of all the things you’re all missing out on: dancing at a club, walking around the mall with friends, having sex, jumping up and down at a concert, hiking in the mountains, swimming in the ocean, picking up a baby or small child, etc.

    anyone who thinks this website is good, is obviously easily influenced by media (ie skinny models in magazines).

    in reference to “if you arent thin, youre ugly”, beauty comes from your personality, not your pant size.

    “3 - Shapes and sizes! Okay i touched on this issue earlier, but let’s take a look at what society has tried to shove down our troats so far. In the 20s, society wanted women to look like men. Long, skinny bodies, with no curves what so ever. In the 30s, Rosie the Riviter took over, and women wanted to be big and strong to prove they were as good as any man. The 40s and 50s welcomed curves! Marilyn Monroe was a sex goddess and everyone wanted to be like her. That woman had hips, she had curves where every healthy woman should. Did you know she wore a size 14? By the 70s, long and lean was the name of the game. Everyone wanted to look like Charlie’s Angels. the 90s brought in a time of perfection. Every woman was expected to be slim everywhere, except for her boobs and her butt. A nice firm bottom, and a D sized chest, matched with a tiny waist, was considered ideal. Unfortunately we’re still stuck in the rut of the 90s. But don’t go overboard trying to look like the ideal, you never know when the magazines and society will change their mind.” (http://www.geocities.com/liquid_rainbows/basics.html)

    im not saying to be overweight or fat, being overweight is just as bad as being underweight (like anorexics). im saying to be healthy ie:eating balanced meals 3+ times a day and exercising. it is possible to be thin, beautiful (on the inside and out), have energy to do the things you want, and eat things you want. it takes self control to stick to an exercise program and a diet (one that actually involves eating), so the argument of self control is now null and void.

    one last thought, there are innumerable groups devoted to recovery from anorexia and no groups devoted to recovery from traditional diet and exercise programs….hmm.

    Comment by livelifetothefullest — March 16, 2007 @ 10:56 pm

  64. thing is its all and well saying that but i bet u wouldnt go for a 200 lb + girl would u

    Comment by rachel — March 17, 2007 @ 12:28 pm

  65. *all good and well

    Comment by rachel — March 17, 2007 @ 12:29 pm

  66. helooo skinny people.

    we are curvy smoothed toned girls we dnt try and be anorixic!we get along wit all de boys and they dnt take a look at the skinny SKINNY girls, well wat can i say they dnt hav tits…… boys want somtethin 2 grab onto not see they bones of the girls when hes shaggin her… if u wanna be skinny why dnt u work hard if u want it that bad excerise u aint gna get anywhere by nt eating are u! seriously think about what ur doin if u starve urself u will die!! yes ppl do die of bein obese yh we get it when ur sayin that but be heatly and happy not b thin and die!! and with those fuckin commandments whoever made them up U NEED HELP!!! ommg we were soo shocked readin them how can u do that 2 urself!!!!! EATTTTT , eat creamy choc cake….ummmm xmas dinner…. ummmm….. easter….choc eggs….ummmm……. wedding cake…..ummmmm…..

    …. EAT! ….. please

    Comment by becky boo and livi lou — March 19, 2007 @ 3:06 pm

  67. helooo skinny people.

    Comment by becky boo and livi lou — March 19, 2007 @ 3:10 pm

  68. the eleventh commandment reads: RIP

    Comment by the realist — March 19, 2007 @ 5:43 pm

  69. Some of these tips are really good, im currently uk size 6 and working on becoming 4, also, i’ve found that smoking helps, and can anyone tell me where to buy crest white strips?

    Comment by Louise — March 20, 2007 @ 12:18 am

  70. Comment by becky boo and livi lou — March 20, 2007 @ 2:59 pm

  71. You don’t know it if you haven’t lived it! I have been on both sides of the fence. Three years ago I lost 120 lbs. From 220 down to 100 in a mere 7 months. I must say that all of the attention was awesome, but there is still a constant gnawing to be thinner. It sucks when everyday you weigh atleast two or three times, it consumes your every day! Yet, I would not go back to the fat me either. So for you girls battling with this disorder,much love to you. Only you can make yourselves happy,most of you are probably adults, and you need to do what you want to do. To hell with the rest of the world!

    Comment by nvrthinenuff — March 20, 2007 @ 9:24 pm

  72. thank you for the comment above xxx

    Comment by rachel — March 20, 2007 @ 9:26 pm

  73. this website absolutly disgusts me?! I’m a normal 17 year old girl. I’m 7 stone, five foot and I go to the gym. yet i eat WHATEVER i want. My BMI says im *underweight* though.

    i cant believe people are sactually striving to *die* anorexics are essentialy the only people who think other anorexics look good?!

    whats wrong with dieting like another normal person? AKA, eating small healthy portions five times a day, an hour of exercise every day and cutting out smoking, drinking etc.

    oh and if you just stop eating all together your body thinks its starving and HANGS ON to your fat for as long as it can! its alot quicker and easier to do it healthier!

    its just really beyond me why someone would want to be a size 0 (UK size 4) I’m a size 8 and i look great! who wants bad skin, bad breath, no boobs, no curves, limp hair, dead eyes, and a personality overruled by being an anorexic? yeah I understand its a medical condition but sheesh do yourself a massive favour and check yourself into a phsychiatric ward!

    do you want a family of your own when your older? do you want a job and a husband and children and a house? do you want to go out with your friends, meet new people, travel the world and have fun?
    follow these tips and thats exactly what you want have ‘cos you’ll be dead by 30.

    wish there was so much more i could say but i know these girls (and guys that are affected) won’t listen to this. ‘cos the illness has already taken common sense away from them.

    michelle xx

    Comment by michelle — March 21, 2007 @ 3:10 pm

  74. This website really terrifies me.
    I am not “dissing” anyone or trying to make anyone feel “stupid” but anorexia is not a lifestyle choice. You can “choose” not to eat, but other people are telling you that you are not good enough as you are, and by not eating, you are listening to THEM.
    Anorexia is a disease. It is the recognition and extreme response to society’s limit to individual freewill. Just be aware that you are not choosing to be anorexic.
    Everyone is posting to these girls as individuals, dubbing anorexia as the “teenage girl” problem. Really, we need to revamp the way we think, the way society functions, so that individuals do not turn to anorexia as a legitimate response to societal pressures.
    Believe it or not, WE are applying the pressure to these individual’s until they acquire this disease.
    Sites like these are dangerous, but they reflect (even though I understand it is quite more complex than a pure reflection model) society’s ideals.

    Comment by Allie — March 27, 2007 @ 6:55 pm

  75. I honestly think that these “Tips” are ridiculous and a bunch of bull!! How can you honestly post a thing like that!!! Do you honestly believe that “Anorexia is glamorous”? Well In reality Anorexia is not galmorous, Its a disease which is depressing and mentally scarring and is often fatal.and for those of you who think “Being anorexic will make me popular or will get me attention?” Well NO!!! All you will be thinking about all the time will be food, exercise, weight, etc. You will have no time for friends or popularity. As for the attention comment, if you crave attention so badly, you obviously have attention issues. I would strongly advise seeking help if you would want attention so badly that you would be willing to destroy your life for it. It is impossible to just wake up one morning and say to yourself “I’m going to become anorexic” and then follow through with it. Its a disease. I can’t stress the fact that it cannot be taught by reading “tips and tricks on how to be anorexic” on some bullshit website ( such as this). Honestly,I’ve had a friend pass away over this and I almost got sucked into iit as well! it is a living hell and is extremely destructive. Please dont listen to any of the nonsense on this site!!!

    Comment by Jazmine — March 28, 2007 @ 12:22 am

  76. I’m an 18 year old girl and I suffered from anorexia for 2 years from age 15-17yrs and I’m still recovering- its a slow process. Anyone who encourages anorexia in anyone is disugusting, its one of the most horrible, painful, troubling times in my life! I’ll tell you what anorexia is like first-hand: Imagine the only thing you think about all day is food- that’s it- when you can eat it, how much of it you can eat, what you are going to eat I was so obssessed with food that if someone asked me what I was going to eat that week I would be able to tell them exactly what I would be eating each day that’s how sad it is. You stop trusting anyone else who makes your food paranoid they are secretly putting in “extra” food. I used to eat hardly anything a day. My day was waiting for assigned times where I could eat I was so hungry that I just couldn’t wait until I allowed myself to eat. It makes you stop socialising with your friends cause you don’t want to have lunch with them because then you have to eat resturant food which is higher in calories. I would a strict food plan as I knew exactly what I was eating like a comfort zone- I am serious I ate the same thing everyday 95% of the time. I would exercise 14 hours a week, my exercise instructor cried after class one time seeing how thin I had become- that hit me hard. But you don’t realise what you actually look like and how people percieve you- as being way, way too thin. Your mind is manipulated into this obssessive, controlled, rigid, sad world. You develop a unnatural relationship with food and it scars you forever. I’m still recovering and am a healthy weight now but still have remnants of my anorexic experience with me like not being able to eat a whole chocolate bar I haven’t for 2 years stuff like that. Anorexia is not to be taken lightly if possesses you mentally and takes over your life its what your life revolves around entirely even when you want to think about something different. Love yourself for who you are naturally embrace your own inner and outer beauty because we all possess it I just wish I learnt that sooner, I wish all girls would realise it so there wouldn’t be problems like anorexia, believe me ANOREXIA IS NOT WORTH IT it might seem like it at the time. When you have anorexia you so through this stage of thinking anorexia is your friend- sound stupid right? But then you realise its not and thats when hell kicks in and you escaping seems so close but so far your mentality is so heavily distorted and smothered by anorexia. So please girls I’m serious don’t think there is anything positive about anorexia its not just a physical thing it also heavily effects your mentally and not just temporarily but forever and I’ve had to learn the hard way. Please don’t take the advice of this those tips!!!

    Comment by Em — March 28, 2007 @ 10:55 am

  77. […] left us her story and her fight against anorexia, thanks Em I’m an 18 year old girl and I suffered from anorexia for 2 years from age 15-17yrs and […]

    Pingback by Em’s fight against anorexia | No Thinspiration — March 28, 2007 @ 8:40 pm

  78. PLEASE. Doesn’t anyone here realize that anorexia is not a topic up for debate? Harsh words and insulting remarks will never “convince” an anorectic to recover. I respect the opinions of girls who have been there and know what an eating disorder is like, but believe me: if YOU have never starved, purged, or indulged in anorexic/bulimic behavior–you have NO RIGHT to lash out at us.

    Comment by Sylvia — March 29, 2007 @ 8:10 pm

  79. Diagnosing ‘mental disorders’ is NOT an exact science. That’s what makes it dangerous sometimes. I worked with ‘autistic’ kids in a hospital setting, and the ‘Psychiatrist’ had intense psychotropic ordered for ‘acting out behaviors.’ WBR LeoP

    Comment by Pharmacy Man — March 30, 2007 @ 6:35 am

  80. i think this site is distgusting! theses sites need to be banned !! your all sickos!! and thinking that seeing your hipbones is nice?? you all need your heads checked!!!!!!!!!!! love from 4 nice and NORMAL!! size 10-12 people!! xx

    Comment by gemma — March 30, 2007 @ 10:51 am

  81. we are 4 15-16 year old girls who are size 10-12s!! that is NORMAL!!!!!! we dont no why you girls think this site is good because it isant!! its sick!! i no its an illness and woteva but lads dont like it!!!!!!!! seeing your bones is NOT attractive its distgusting to look at!! if u dont eat you will have smelly breathe errwww and youll probly just go fatter, you need a healthy normal diet and exercise !!!!!!!! go on a diet or summfin if you wanna loose wieght dont NOT eat!!! its so stupid!!! eat some chocolate or something!! your really missing out you know!!!!!!!!! eat!!!!!!!!!!!!! lv gemma, danielle, chelsea and jordana!! xx

    Comment by gemma — March 30, 2007 @ 11:05 am

  82. thanks sylvia.but look. u dont know us and u dont know what goes on in our lifes i wouldnt bother u if u wanted something would i

    Comment by rachel — March 31, 2007 @ 9:16 am

  83. that comment was meant for gemma etc

    Comment by rachel — March 31, 2007 @ 9:17 am

  84. i am a size 10-12 and have been for about a year now, n i cudnt giv a crap that i cant see my hipbones! if i wanted to see them id just lie down, but i dont!!! alot of my friends have tiny frames, but not purposely, and they eat wateva they want (chocolate, cookies and cake) so u dont have to starve urself! my friends often admire my figure cos ive got big boobs and A bum! n i can were wateva i want cos it looks cos ive got bib boobs (low tops) so sort ur heads out! n whoeva made these tips, im just lettin u know that every1 is laughin at u for bein so sad n tryin 2 get people to look disgusting! ur an ediot! n i cud probably push u ova wiv my lil finger!! HAHAHAHAHA!! X
    SORRY FOR ILL ANOREXIC PEOPLE! I UNDERSTAND ITS AN ILLNESS! XX LUV DANIELLE X

    Comment by danielle — March 31, 2007 @ 3:12 pm

  85. DONT BE SO OVER DRAMATIC RACHEL! WE THINK IT SICK, THAT TIPS LIKE THIS ARE SHOWN!!

    Comment by danielle — March 31, 2007 @ 3:13 pm

  86. i’m fat & i want to become thin so i can become a model, also skinny jeans are in & my thighs look shit in them, i’m a size 12 & when i moan & say im fat my mom says it’s cz im tall but that’s bull. I’m thankful for the tips cz they’ll help. & Also Vogue is a great inspiration, if you see all the gorgeous models, it helps.

    Comment by Lex — April 1, 2007 @ 3:23 am

  87. Firstly, can I just say, I doubt anyone on this site is doing this for guys, so fuck all this ‘guys don’t like bones’ shit, because that’s not why we’re doing this. People like me with eating disorders can’t just snap out of it and eat some chocolate. It doesnt work like that.

    I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but plenty of the diet tips on here would be perfectly acceptable in another context, along with the pictures. If this was a fashion mag, then that would be fine. Do you not think that at least looking at these tips on a ‘pro ana’ site rather than a fashion magazine at least suggests to the girl that she has a problem? I know I have a problem… I’m just not ready to recover yet. not until i hit 9 stone, anyway!

    If you don’t like what you read here, DONT COME ON THIS SITE. If you don’t want your kids reading it, put on parental controls. We have freedom of speech, don’t we? It’s your responsibility to protect your kids… plus I had to look for this site to get here… do you not think that maybe we’re here cos we want to be, not because we’re sucked into this underground pro-ana culture. Get over it, and let us get on with it.

    Comment by Firefaerie — April 5, 2007 @ 10:48 am

  88. Hey Bev,
    I understand your angst. I am 23 and hate birthdays, i am a natural curvy girl with a butt and boobs, i am lucky in the fact i have a small fram and a small waist. But i dread putting on any weight. it was only after stumbling across this site i realised i am on the verge of a problem. I weigh 8 and a half stone and want to lose anoth stone. I get told i have a great figure, but i just don’t see it.
    It is a fact that people with ED do not look at themselves the way others do. yes it is a control thing. I went through this a year or so ago. It is a pattern. Whenever you are not happy with life you find a way to take control. Your perception of what looks good is warped.
    I personally would rather not eat than be a UK size 12. I would rather be hungry then put on a single lb.
    I wasn’t aware at how obsessive i have become until i saw this site. So thank you for heloing me see i do have a problem. I am going to try to make changes in my life and try to get healthy.
    For those of you who think people become anorexic to impress the opposite sex, you are the ones who are silly. This is not an image thing. it is an illness and it takes control of your body and mind. People with anorexia do not necessarily want to impress a guy by how thin they are. I have loads of close guy friends and i know they would go crazy if i lost too much weight and lost my curves. but i do not care. I want to look the way i want to look.

    Comment by Natasha — April 12, 2007 @ 10:53 am

  89. hi evry1,

    i jus wanna say that im not goin to judge the ppl hu do this 2 themselves, i no y they do it n i hav dun it myself so thers no point in me sayin its rong n that ther stupid because ther not, they need help and ppl callin them stupid wont help, itll make them more quiet about it n not want 2 seek help if they want 2 at all, i hav also tried purging so i no wer they r cumin 4rm, i still du it sumtyms, dependin on if i eat a lot or not, i hav also tried crash dieting, in fact i am now, in sum perspect

    i jus want 2 offer a lil advyc 2 the ppl hu suffer 4rm this mental illness (that is wat it is, a mental illness, not sumin 2 du 2 get attention) if u want to become thin and skinny, du wat i do, i eat 3 small meals a day and i try 2 du this as healthily n balanced as possible by includin a lil of each food gd (protein, carbohydrates, fat *sounds bad but its healthy 2 have sum fatty acids* water, fibre, vitimins n minerals) it has wrked, ive lost about 5-7lbs in 3 week (changes each tym i go on the scales)
    a food plan wud b:
    BREAKFAST: a cuple of handfuls of cereal (fibre)
    LUNCH: half a ham sandwich (carbohydrate, protein n fat)
    DINNER: 2 lettace leaves (vitamins *bonus-low calorie*)
    SNACKS: fruit (vitamins)
    DRINKS: water (minerals) coke, coffee n tea (energy)
    it works and 2 all tha ppl hu think i am promotin this as gd, all i can say is its betta than totally starving urself, at least ther eatin sumthin this way

    sumtyms, if my parents force me 2 eat 2 much, i purge myself, but onli so much so that i still hav a lil bit insyd my stumach 2 survive on. if u du this n ppl say summin 2 u, u can turn arond n say well at least i am actually eatin n they cant deny that

    i also exercise 5-7 days a week for 40-90 mins a tym n sumtyms 4 10 mins on the uva days jus b4 i go 2 sleep, it helps n it makes me feel betta that im burnin the calories put on durin the day

    if any1 wants 2 tlk further email me on sasha200692@hotmail.co.uk

    i hope sum ppl take my advice n eat at least a lil bit of food insted of completely starvin

    sasha x x x

    btw, im onli 14 yrs old

    Comment by Sasha — April 18, 2007 @ 11:08 pm

  90. oh yh, im jus unda 5 foot, size 10-12 n 9.0 stone (dunno in pounds) i used 2 b 9.6 n ive dropped that in 3 week while still eatin chocolate n crisps n the occasional heavy meal, if i hadnt i cud hav lost a lot more, but u hav 2 treat ur slef 1ce in a while, 1ce a week will not hurt n if u exercise afta wrds n get ur heart rate up, u will burn most of these calories

    Comment by Sasha — April 18, 2007 @ 11:17 pm

  91. most of the ideas listed abuv r gd 2 stop u snackin b4 each meal if u wer 2 follow my advyc, but plz plz plz i beg, dont listen 2 the thin commandments, they rnt helpin u how 2 ova cum hunger they r commandin u not 2 eat, so if u wer 2 listen 2 my idea, use sum abuv for how 2 surpress ur hunger but plz eat 3 meals a day, they myt b small but u r eatin n duin it healthily

    Comment by Sasha — April 18, 2007 @ 11:22 pm

  92. what is really scary is alot of the tips up there remind me of the size zero diet this diet is going mad all over the world so i take it size zero is the new name for anorexia? that is so scary! giving anorexia a new name is like saying hay its ok im size zero not anorexic

    Comment by stephanie — April 21, 2007 @ 1:44 pm

  93. right i dnt believe in anorexia, but u cnt have a go at them coz its ther choice and it makes them happy, im 15 and im 9st, im happy with myself and wldnt chnge, but wen i read magazines i can see y young girls choose to become anerecic, its because thers gorjus models evrywere they look and they get loads of guys and just get nethin they want, i think they think tht being thin = sucess, which in a way it does, coz if u become anerecic, then all eyes r on u, just not 4 good reasons, but wht i dnt get is if ur anerexic people have a go at u, and slate u but if ur huge and fat, and r like 50st people say nothin and feel sorry 4 u it’s wrong coz fat people r just the same but the other oppiste, and if these girls and boys choose 2 do this then we cnt stop them coz they just find a way 2 rebal againast what u think and do to stop them, they r so determined and read tips and things to help them, but dnt have a go at them they cnt help it coz theyve probally been doin it 4 so long tht they dnt kno ne other way, all u can do is offer support in case they deside 2 chnge, dnt pressure them into nethin.

    Comment by holly — April 22, 2007 @ 11:48 pm

  94. This is not a pro-ana site, it’s the exact opposite. But posting these types of things make it seem like a pro-ana site.

    Comment by Jason — May 1, 2007 @ 5:54 pm

  95. I cant imagine what some of the sufferers are feeling, well, maybe the self esteem part as i think alot of ppl hav SE issues,but i dnt think its right posting tips like those above. I think its a good idea to have the community forums though for support and such, but the tips seemed to make a bit of a joke about it, I know a few ppl with eds, (im sure one is very close to home)and i cant imagine them sharing tips to starve, from what they say, i get the immpression that they dnt want anyone to be doing that to themselves, they just cant stop cos they r ill. Although they obviously do have common sense,know they are harming themselves,but have a problem.I also think it is kinda distasteful saying things like “go eat a chocolate cake” like it is that easy for them!!!!!!!!!!

    Comment by Mary — May 4, 2007 @ 9:52 am

  96. What I do not get is how young people actually seems to strive to live the life of a 80′year old. Very probably, a lot of us will at some point reach the ripe age where our diet, digestion and bowel-movement becomes the primary focus of attention. But WHY for God’s sake do young people want to limit their horizon of interest to their own navel? Is this not the future generation that should try to engage in the world in the hope of making it better? What have we done to our young?

    Comment by Ally — May 4, 2007 @ 7:49 pm

  97. wow i came on this site because a friend told me that there are actual people out there who are pro-anorexia and i didn’t believe her. WOW. You poor girls, don’t you understand that the media is brainwashing you? Think of when you get older and looking back on your lives, do you want to remember yourself as someone who actually did something worthwhile with their time or someone who obsessed with calories and fed into the media bullshit? There is so much potential out there for you girls, so many things that you can DO and BECOME (doctor, humanitarian, politician, singer, the possibilities are ENDLESS) and when you meet that perfect person who you will spend the rest of your life with, he’s not going to care about how much you weigh or how many cubes of jello you consume each day, he’s going to want to love you for who you are on the inside and know that you love yourself enough to take care of yourself. No one is going to give a shit in 10 years how much you weight, there are so many things that are more important in the world (Darfur, anyone?) but I guess this is what happens when you are 16 and immature.

    I just hope you women can find peace.

    Comment by choose life not death — May 4, 2007 @ 8:41 pm

  98. did you know that once you get below a certain BMI, you can’t experience orgasms? yes. thats right. But I guess that doesn’t matter for you because no guy is going to want to fuck a skeleton.

    Comment by pretty baby — May 4, 2007 @ 8:46 pm

  99. Clever people. More males are anorexic than females. Stated statistic. It’s just that more pressure is burdened on women to lose weight and look thin, rather than on their male counterparts. How can we accuse girls of being sick, when it’s the media that gives them no choice! They rag on people for being skeletal, yet if someone in the media spotlight gains a pound, they speculate on the whole baby bump theory.
    Even people who are healthy in their minds, read that crap and it sticks with them on a psychosemantic level.
    Pretty baby, nice. Do you realize that these girls suffer from an inferiority complex, a shit life at home, or are perfectionists? It’s about control and it’s a diagnosed disease of the mind. SO be careful, ALL of you what you say to these girls. They need proffestional help, not catty and ignorant remarks from yourselves. Who are you to judge? Look at yourself in the mirror carefully, and if you like yourself and EVERYthing about you, from physical, to mental, to intelligence, to personality, then cast a stone. Until then, remember you’re living in a glass house.
    Who says being overweight is any better? High cholesteral, Omega 3’s (a cancer causing fat), high risk of heart disease, gout, and diabetes. To be on either side of the spectrum is just as shocking.
    Less than a quarter of the Western world’s population is Anorexic or Bulimic, yet a little over HALF is overweight to the point of obesity (fifty percent of that are CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 8). Yet no one comments on that. I could go on and on.
    Educate yourselves.

    Comment by Allestra — May 5, 2007 @ 4:19 am

  100. you ignorent bitch pretty girl…..you have no idea what is going on in all of these peoples life and to suuport them( becus thats what this site is about ) u come up with that comment. half these people couldnt care less what others think of them im sure they have much more to worry about right now…..show some sympathy as im sure you wouldnt like it would u.

    Comment by rachel — May 5, 2007 @ 11:53 am

  101. Rachel, if that was directed at me, that was pretty biased and obviously you didn’t read the post carefully. As a recovered sufferer myself I know EXACTLY what these girls and boys are going through as I went through 6 years of it. It affected me profoundly to be in a hospital with girls much like myself, emaciated, depressed but still striving to appear thin; much to the point where I went for my psychology degree in order to help them. Like I said, there are two problems at hand. Other people’s ignorance of the disorder (as though eating chocolate would rememdy their underlying problems) and unhappiness of those people with the illness. And the money comment? Where does money come in to eating disorders? Just as much attention should be paid to ALL issues of health and mind. That’s why I mentioned the other side of the body image issue which is also a very serious eating disorder.

    Comment by Allestra — May 5, 2007 @ 12:52 pm

  102. Scrap the money comment.

    Comment by Allestra — May 5, 2007 @ 12:59 pm

  103. ok…i will tell you my story…
    i am a girl.. who all her life were living with a weight of 97 kilos…well till the age of 17 i can say i was happyy with my look… when i understood something in my life.. they have changed and ofcoures the look and the boudy have changed too.. i started to look for diets..i was eating for 600 kalories in day it helpd..then i stoped to lossing weight.. i decided not to eat at all.. fairst day.. it was prety tuff. and second too.. the thieird day i liked the way i look so i didnt take anything to eat i continue.. the day after i felt like i am deppresed i thought all day about things about life.. i couldent do anything i liked this setiuation i found a place to hide in this deppresion…i dont know why but this wierd and unanderstanding feeling of emptiness became into great feeling i liked to be unhelpfull and tierd and the sturving feeling only made me feel that i am the winner..i can say i was living by this starving.. i can say i anderstand this girls…if normal ppl are living for eatting..then those are living each day just not for the eatting.. for the victory on the food..from one side we can say it is victory.. how much ppl from us can win the choklat that ask us to eat him.. how much diets we tried?? did we get over those problems?? no… but anna`s ppl win this thing which calld the food.they are stronger it make them stronger and happy..so if they are happy with their life i think they should live them like that..if you think you wanna help annas ppl so the best you can do is trus your annas person… they know what they do… and if they want make their life shorter they can do it..and if they wanna look tierd its all becouse they need someone to anderstand them or tallk to them or just look to thier side.
    from me rachel

    Comment by cleopatra — May 5, 2007 @ 7:30 pm

  104. Firstly, I think alot of people who try to give advice of people with anorexia should seriously do some research into WHAT CONSTIUTES ANOREXIA before doing so. Giving advice on something you appear to know imperfectly (and yet on something, you are, nevertheless very opininated about) is ridiculous. I’m not against giving advice, but for god’s sake, don’t build your arguments around stereotypes that simply don’t apply to some anorexics, because it’s just as offensive as is uncredible and ignorant. Namley, I am referring to the idea that anorexics don’t excercise and it’s just a ‘lazy’ way to lose weight- you should know, alot of anorexics suffer from excessive and compulsive excercising (we’re talking one to three hours a day). Secondly, the idea that you want to be thin for a guy may apply but the argument that you should get curves just for a guy is just as rubbish-as both ignore what YOU want. Also, the person who told others to go to a starving country and see how you feel afterwards with all your food-well, I can tell you one thing, sweetheart, I’ve been to a starving coutnry, witnessed the wealth gaps, and I can tell you, that when I returned to the family’s five star hotel, I didn’t really feel like stuffing my face with food-after all, it just reminds you of how terribly dependant one can be to transitory things like food and as a result, you feel even more out of control and insecure.

    Comment by georgia — May 5, 2007 @ 9:31 pm

  105. noooo allestra that comment wasnt for u it was for the person who commented just before u

    Comment by rachel — May 7, 2007 @ 10:56 am

  106. It’s so hard to figure out direction with posts– thanks for clearing that up, Rachel.

    Comment by Allestra — May 7, 2007 @ 7:25 pm

  107. Oh my god! Loving the tips ere!! Keep them coming! I can feel myself getting smaller already! :-)

    Comment by Kelly — May 7, 2007 @ 8:30 pm

  108. hey

    Comment by jess — May 9, 2007 @ 1:33 am

  109. you guys this is sick. these sites are sick, speaking as a recovered mia I have to discourage you from looking here for help. Go to your parents. This is a disgrace.

    Comment by jess — May 9, 2007 @ 1:37 am

  110. i’ve heard about tips like these on the internet in my psychology classes - i was hoping that they really did not exist. for those who have an eating problem or disorder i feel for you and wish you strength in dealing with it and the problems that have helped lead to this sickness. everyone else - this is a very difficult problem/disorder to ‘get over’. provide kindness, caring and love to someone who is ill - it may be what brings them back.

    Comment by Jenn — May 9, 2007 @ 10:13 am

  111. this is extremely twisted & sick.
    did you know that the average pant size of girls in america is between an 8 & a 12? you can’t fight who you are & besides people look best when they are a healthy weight & fit & toned.
    whatever though. if these girls want to kill themselves so much i guess let them. one less human to pass on these ridiculous genes to others.

    Comment by felicia — May 9, 2007 @ 8:24 pm

  112. To all those people calling anorexics stupid and idiots, get a grip. Anorexia is a mental illness, would you go round calling disabled people cripples? I don’t think so. These girls need to find help, and they sure as hell wont find it on these ridiculous websites. Listen girls, you’re beautiful, every single one of you. Whether or not you think you’re perfect is another thing, but nobody can be perfect. It’s just not possible. I know you’ve heard it so many times before, but that’s only because it’s true. You’re all beautiful and you don’t need to starve yourselves.

    Comment by Sparky — May 13, 2007 @ 5:00 pm

  113. There will always be a demand for pro-anorexia material. Whether or not the recent increase in such atricles and images have anything to do with the media, pro-anorexia material will always have readers, as it will always be an issue. Why come on to these sites if you do not agree with the image they promote?

    Comment by Cait — May 21, 2007 @ 12:50 am

  114. I agre with Cait.
    If you come to these sites and yell at the people reading the material, there’s a problem.
    Why would you be SEARCHING for this stuff if only to yell at the people who believe they need to follow it?
    that not only makes those people feel bad about their bodies, but now their mental stability and intelegence level.

    Comment by Bree — September 13, 2007 @ 3:46 pm

  115. thanks for posting the tips!! I’m a bulimic, but am trying to eat as little as possible, so thanks again for posting these!!

    and to everyone who’s being irrational and telling the author they’re evil, WELL, her post says in the beginning:

    “I’ve found this tips in a pro ana site. What do you think about it?”

    WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT?

    she didn’t make these up…

    what do I think about it?? I love the tips!

    Comment by Amy! — November 25, 2007 @ 4:36 pm

  116. Hey, jus like to say i LOVE the tips and it is really helping but id like to say sumthin to ppl who come here and diss ppl with ED, i think that is completely out of order, ive been fighting with my disorder on and off and now im back on, i used to cut my self as i was so depressed so please before u start dissing ppl, look at urselves first be4 u start commenting and so on, u have no idea what goes on behind closed doors, everyone is different and everyone has their own way of dealing with problems…
    i recently have been living on soup and jello (jelly) as i was having real bad migraines and felt extremely dizzy and i cant afford to get ill as i work full time, but trust me if u start feeling any symptoms just have soup, jello (jelly) and ice cubes…. dont 4get ur body has to work twice as hard to to keep u warm so having ice and ice cold water really helps….drink a glass of ice cold water first thing in the morning, u wont feel hungry till bout 3ish!!! i really appreciate this site so pls dont ruin it for us with ur nasty comments, this is like a shelter for me and u guys sayin horrible stuff about being size 0 and looking like models and men like women with a bit of meat on them and so on really does get me even more depressed…..
    luv Candy
    *HUGZ*

    Comment by Honey_UK21 — December 3, 2007 @ 6:56 pm

  117. This is not wrong and not bad these are great tips im glad i found this website Skinny is good Fat is not i wont be happy until im like the ultra skinny models its just a mental thing and you cant help it people will do what they want and think what they want if this is what they want them do then more support to them because its what im doing and even though everyone else thinks its bad who cares its what you think and how you feel and you have to do what makes you happy and doing this makes me happy so thanks for these tips they will be put to use

    Comment by Kortney — December 20, 2007 @ 1:34 am

  118. First please dont judge how we think its rude and you have no idea how this