I came across this "advice" on pinterest. This is a girl who is seriously suggesting these things to other girls who want to be disgustingly skinny. I've been ultra thin before and dealt with my friends & fam accusing me of having an eating disorder. It was sad & frustrating to have people think I was striving for this image, when I was just going through some serious stress as a 20 year old that caused me to lose too much weight. This isn't that, these poor girls have a genuine problem.
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Sounds like great advice: 1. Drink one glass of water every hour. It
will make you feel full. 2. Drink ice cold water. Your body will burn
calories just getting the water to a normal temperature to digest. Also
it is great for your complexion. 3. Drink 3 cups of green tea daily. It
will help boost your metabolism, plus its anti-oxidants make your skin
look great. 4. Take vitamins daily. Do not take vitamins on an empty
stomache, otherwise they have nothing to catalyze with. 5. Eat ice or
gum when hungry. This will make your body think it had food without the
calories. 6. Do aerobics until you want to faint. 7. Eat spicy foods.
They raise your metabolism. 8. Take cold showers because your body will
burn calories to heat you back up. 9. DON’T take laxatives. They don’t
help you to lose weight. 10. DON’T use diruretics. They only dehydrate
you. 11. Brush your teeth constantly so you won’t be tempted to eat
afterwards. 12. Weat a rubberband around your wrist. Snap it when you
want to eat. 13. Clean something gross (toilet, litter box, boyfriend’s
closet) when you want to eat. You will not want to eat after cleaning a
litter box. 14. Keep your hair in good condition so no one will
suspect anything. 15. Get a job so you’ll have to work through meal
times. 16. Exercise twice the amount of calories eaten. 17. Use
smaller plates and utensils so it seems like you ate more. 18. Chew eat
bite of food thoroughly and then take a sip of water between bites. You
will feel full quicker and will not eat as much. 19. Say you are going
to eat at a friend’s house and instead go for a walk. You will be
burning calories instead of taking them in. 20. Buy clothes that you
can’t fit into and hang them wear you can see them. This will motivate
you to lose weight to fit into them. 21. Sleep at least six hours a
day. If you get less than six this can lower your metabolism by 15%.
22. If you start to feel hungry do situps or punch yourself in the
stomach. You will not feel hungry anymore. 23. Pamper yourself! Give
yourself a facial, paint your nails, anything to make you feel pretty.
24. Make yourself a snack, but instead of eating it throw it away. Leave
the dirty dishes where your parents can find them. They will think you
ate. 25. Prepare a list of excuses as to why you can’t eat - You’re
sick, you’re a vegetarian, allergic, etc. You’d be amazed at how many
good excuses there are. 26. Get out of your house! If you’re not
sitting around then people can’t start shit with you about not eating.
27. Join a pro-ana group or start your own website. Anything that will
keep you motivated. 28. Make an ANA scrapbook with pics of skinny
models. Right down all the reasons you want to lose weight. Keep track
of everything you eat. Look at it daily for thinsperation. 29. Keep
good posture, burns 10% more calories when you sit up straight. 30.
Instead of food, buy something else, a new shirt, flowers, jewelrey etc.
31. Make a list of all the “bad” foods that you crave and tend to
binge on. Each day, pick one to take out of your diet that you
absolutely, no matter what, cannot eat again. Take one off the list each
day until there are no more bad foods you can have. 32. Avoid alcohol!
A shot of liquor has 100-120 calories, a glass of wine has 80 calories,
a lite beer has 110-120 calories, and a regular beer has 140-170
calories. 33. Never eat anything bigger than about a cup, your stomach
will expand and then you’ll get hungry more. 34. Eat in front of a
mirror naked. See how much you can eat then! 35. The smell of coffee is
suppose to supress appetite. 36. Wear perfectly applied lip gloss. It
makes you more aware of what’s going in your mouth. Also, flavored ones
help with cravings. 37. Have 6 small meals a day. Take 2 apples, and
split them so you can make 6 meals out of them. That way your body will
be tricked into thinking it’s eating more. 38. Low calorie hot
chocolate curbs chocolate cravings, and makes you feel full. 39. Take
anti-heartburn pills if you’re really hungry. They nuetralize the acid
that builds and makes you hungry. 40. Take a picture of yourself
wearing a bathing suit or something equally revealing, look at it when
you want to eat. 41. It takes 20 minutes for the brain to realize the
stomach is full. 42. When you get hunger pains curl into a ball, it
makes them go away. 43. If you’re a smoker and hungry, light up a
cigarette. It curbs your appetite. 44. Eat lots of fiber. It makes you
feel full and takes fat with it out of your body. The natural cleansing
helps improve both your energy level and overall feeling of wellness.
45. Before you dig into that cake, bag of chips, candy, or whatever,
take a deep breath and count to 100. Usually by the time you get to 100
you will have coninced yourself that you don’t really want it. 46. When
you’re hungry chug 2 glasses (or how many you need) of straight water.
It’ll make you so full and nauseous you will have completely lost your
appetite. 47. Celery actually burns calories. Every hour eat a stalk of
it. Not only will it fill you up, but it will also get your metabolism
kickin’. 48. Weigh yourslef before and after every time you eat. Not
only will it eliminate unnecessary eating, but it will make you want to
eat less when you see the numbers creep up. 49. Read the nutritional
information. Remember, fat-free does not mean calorie-free. Also keep an
eye on fiber content. Get as much fiber into your diet as you can,
while cutting fat and calories. 50. Don’t eat a lot at once. Spread
your food throughout the day. This will help to avoid binging and keep
your metabolism going. 51. If you like to drink alcohol, you’ll like
this. Make a rule: You can only drink every time you lose 2lbs. So, if
you lose 4lbs a week, you can drink Friday and Saturday night. However,
if you only lose 2lbs a week, you only get to drink one night. 52. Do
not eat in front of the computer or TV. This distracts you from
recognizing you’re full. 53. Save the money you would have spent on
that meal in a jar. Save it in a bottle instead and watch it grow. 54.
Stay away from Slim-fast and other so-called “healthy” candy bars and
shakes… one look at the nutition facts will tell you why. With all the
carbs and excess calories you may as well go eat a freakin pie or
something. Not to mention the rediculous prices… save yourself the
money, and the calories. 55. Instead of buying food, buy yourself
flowers. Food is depressing, but flowers make you happy. 56. When
having cravings drink a couple glasses of water with slices of lemons
and count to 100 and it should go away. 57. Eating 100 cals 4 times a
day is better than eating a 400 cal meal. 58. An occasional binge
doesn’t hurt, in fact it’s quite beneficial if you have reached a
plateau (stopped losing weight). Your body will think you have stopped
starving yourself, and you will drop at least a pound overnight! Just
don’t binge too regularly! 59. Someone told me that if you take a pure
cold bath for 15-30 min and lower your body temp, your body burns around
200 cals for every degree it has to raise itself to reach a normal body
temperture. This person tried it, a 30 min bath lowered their temp
about 3-4 degrees
I'm speechless. This is too sad for words.
Xo - S
