Health risks

Sure we all know this.. ED's are big health risks, and there is a real possibility of dying from ED. So far, it doesn't mather if you're Ana or Mia. But ED's can kill. Ana

• Fatigue and lack of energy
• Amenorrhea(loss of menstruation)
• Skin problems
• Dizziness and headaches
• Dehydration
• Shortness of breath
• Irregular heartbeats
• Cold hands and feet
• Bloating
• Constipation
• Hair loss
• Stomach pains
• Decreased metabolic rate
• Edema (water retention)
• Lanugo(fine downy hair)
• Loss of bone mass
• Kidney and liver damage
• Electrolyte imbalances
• Osteoporosis
• Insomnia
• Anemias
• Infertility
• Depression
• Cathartic colon(caused from laxative abuse)
• Low potassium (most common cause of nocturnal cardiac arrest)
• Cardiac arrest and death

Mia

• Fatigue and lack of energy
• Amenorrhea(loss of menstruation) and irregular menstruation
• Dizziness
• Headaches
• Dehydration
• Constipation and diarrhea
• Shortness of breath
• Irregular heartbeats
• Depression
• Tears of esophagus
• Hair loss
• Stomach pain and bloating
• Erosion of teeth enamel
• Chronic sore throat
• Kidney and liver damage
• Parotid gland enlargement
• Electrolyte imbalances
• Cathartic colon (caused from laxative abuse)
• Edema (swelling of hands and feet)
• Low blood pressure
• Chest pains
• Development of peptic ulcers and pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas)
• Gastric dilation and rupture
• Abrasions on back of hands and knuckles
• Anemias
• Cardiac arrest and death

Bracelet Project

Die hard Ana's already know what this means.. off course! But, maybe some newbies don't, soo.... The bracelet project exists so other pro ed girls can recognize each other. Ana girls are wearing a red beaded bracelet around the left wrist. Mia girls are wearing a blue beaded bracelet around the right wrist. The bracelet has to be beaded, and in the right colour, those are the only things that mather. The size/length/shape of the beads can be all kinds. You can buy the bracelet, or you can make it yourself. A lot of girls are waiting to wear this bracelet until they think they're worth it...Don't do it! It's made to show you're an Ana girl, not to show you're underweight already. If we all wear our bracelets, we can recognize each other, and so we can help each other! So please, don't wait!

**Thinspiration - Gemma Ward

Hiding your habits

1. If you find you must go to a family or somewhat thing, get something reasonable like a muffin, and just carry it around with you.
2. Put dishes in the sink, leave evidence from what you've eaten
3. Don't forget to get rid of food you were supposed to eat
4. Put your diet pills in a vitamin bottle
5. Don't tell people you think you are fat
6. Invet some mysterious illness, wich will be a good excuse not to eat!

• Don't raise suspicions, once people realize what you are doing, they'll watch and monitor you every minute. Start hiding your habits and practices from day one, so no one has ever seen any of it. When one thinks your anorexic, there is nothing you can say to convince them you're not.
• Check the fridge when no one is around. Get some food, prepare it, and then trow it away. For example, some eggs.. get three eggs and some butter, bake the eggs, throw them on a plate with some bread, and then dispose them. Leave silverwhere too!
• Don;t ever talk about food with other people, they'll think that your obsessed if you do this too much. And, talking about food may raise the question of you already ate. In case they do, have your excuses ready: 'My stomach is upset' ' I'm to exited/nervous/busy etc. to eat' 'I don't feel like....' 'I'm not hungry yet, I'll get something later'
• Spend different meals with different groups of people, tell them all that you had a big meal earlier or will be eating something later on. Make sure the different people will not be comparing notes. Or plan your schedule so you're too busy at mealtimes to eat then.
• Trash. Watch where you dispose of uneaten food or other "evidence", make sure that it isn't going to be seen or found by anyone. Wrap food up and throw it away outside the house. If you live alone, always take the trash out before anyone else comes over.
• Buy food. People are fairly predictable. If they see you buy food and come home with food, then they just naturally assume that you eat it as well. Get things like crackers and cookies , keep them in your room, and carefully pack them out again later to throw away. Careful, this can be a little dangerous if you're prone to binging and have trouble keeping food around, or if you feel guilty about throwing food away. If the food's something you don't like and won't binge on this may be easier to do.
• Don't get angry. Don't deny everything if confronted. People will believe a little truth with a big lie much easier than a huge lie. Act as if it's no big deal instead of reacting emotionally and people will tend to believe you.
• Tell people you're on a diet, you became a vegetarian, your doctor has you eating only certain things, whatever. Often people will be very helpful in keeping you from eating if they think there's a socially acceptable reason for it.
• Don't show off your weight loss until you've reached the weight you want to remain at. People will start to watch you more carefully and maybe ask questions, and you want to avoid calling attention to yourself.

Getting extra exercise

1. Wear little weights everywhere . The more weight you carry, the more you burn!
2. Do not, under any circumstances set foot in an elevator!
3. Where ever you go, park in the furtest possible spot and walk
4. Don't site unless it's totally unreasonable not to
5. Wiggle around your feet, top your fingers, anything to keep moving and keep burning
6. If you van do something walking, then walk!
7. Do crunches while you watch tv.

Eating less

1. Load yourself with water. Keep your stomach totally full of water at all times! There is less room for food... obviosly!
2. Become a vegetarian! Meat is fat and disgusting!
3. Fat free choclate milk is good for sweet cravings.
4. Set yourself some rules! If you're a true Ana, you won't have any problem following them. Ana girls are strong!!
5. Diet pills, they may be dangerous, but you're not dieting to be healthy. Being thin is more important than anything!
6. When you get the urge to snack, clean something, and use lots of chemicals. The smell wil curb your appetite
7. Chew sugar-free gum. It will make you more hungry at first, but later you'll get nauseas.
8. Don't ever eat out!
9. Don't eat anything you don't know the nutritional values of!
10. Tea helps to calm a hungry belly. It soothes and fills you up.
11. Chew your food untill it dissolves
12. Drink sparkling water or Crystal Clear, it fills you up more!

Tips&Trics general

*Take vitamin B6 and B12 supplements, they speed up your metabolism like none other * Purge in the shower, or in the sink when your music is playing. * If your about to binge, chew some gum, and think of yourself what obese people look like * Drink a glass of water every hour * Eat one meal everyday, this will help to prevent binge cravings * Take caffeine tablets * Smoke when you feel hungry * If you are craving food, brush your teeth * Eat gum all day * Sleep at least six hours a night, less than 6 hours stimulates appetite by 15% * When you sit, move your foot or something, every cal counts! * Tell everyone you're allergic to some foods * Hit your stomach when it's grumbling * Never eat when people are around * Associate food with feeling sick * Never eat anything that doesn't have nutrition labels * Save one dollar for every meal you don't eat, then buy yourself a non food present * Take a bath * Always take your vitamins * Know when your trigger binge time is and avoid it * Drink water in stead of eating * Watch fat people eat, and see how disgusting they are * Listen loud music and sing/scream * Spinning yourself in circels decreases hunger

3 head rules

7-7 rule Dinner must be eaten by 7.00 pm. After dinner no food is consumed until 7.00 am at the earliest. This is basically the same as a 12-hour fast, meaning, if you live by this rule for a year, you have fasted a half year! Mainly one should do this because your metabolism slows down at night, and if you consume food it will be harder to burn the calories. 3 hour eat/sleep 3 hours must pass between the last time you and and the time you go to bed. This ensures that you are actively burning calories while the food is initially digesting, versus, when you are sleeping, when metabolism slows and you burn fewer calories. Very important because you want to burn as many as you can! 2 times a day You must weigh yourself twice a day. Once at night before you go to sleep, and once after using the bathroom in the morning. This is more a self-esteem booster then anything else. You are always thinner in the morning.

Why I starve myself.

• Because I can
• Because I'm the hunger artist
• Because I want to
• Because i van accomplish this, I can do anything!
• Because off all the people in my life who die of jealousy when they see the way I look
• Because it makes me feel brand new every day!
• Because I just won't quit
• Because I have wanted to be this way forever
• Because I don't have any time to waste on food
• Because I can do anything I put my mind to
• Because I have the willpower
• Because it's my life
• Because it's my choice
• Because of my next birthday
• Because it's me. And though I don't advise it to anyone else; I'm too thin, and I don't eat enough, and that's me, and I love it!

5 week plan (To start off with Ana)

Here's a diet plan for those who are still eating way to much! It's a 4week plan to decrease your calorie intake and increase your exercise untill you've reached Ana's standards.

These are just steps you can follow. No one has to do this strictly this way. I've adjusted the plan also. I don't want anyone to go cut themselves, vomit or take laxatives. You're better off without those three.

Step 1: (One week)
* Decreae calorie intake to 1000 cals a day
* Read nutritioning labels
* 100 crunches a day
* 2 hours running a week

Step 2: (One week)
* Decrease calorie intake to 500 cals a day
* If eaten more, exercise more.
* 200 crunches a day
* 30 minutes swimming/cycling/skating/dancing a day
* Take weight loss pills

Step 3: (One week)
* 500 calories a day
* 250 crunches a day
* 2 hours running a week
* Take weight loss pills
* 1 hour swimming?cycling/skating/dancing a day

Step 4: (For ever)
* 500 calories a day
* Create control. Reward yourself for every victory.
* 300 crunches a day
* 2 hours skating/swimming/dancing/cycling a week
* Take weight loss pills

Distractions

* Go on a walk
* Search for health/nutrition info on the net
* Turn up the music and dance
* Clean your house until everything looks untouched
* Read a book or magazine
* Find out about finances and investing
* Find out enough about a national issue to form a strong opinion
* Do that that you were meaning to do for so long
* Rent and follow a yoga or pilates video
* Express yourself creatively
* Wander and browse trough the library
* Read about the toxins and food that build up in the digestive system
* Start writing in a journal about things besides calories
* Make your own, original, unique website
* Have a movie fest
* Volunteer somewhere
* Get a job
* Master your self description
* Play with your pet, they'll love you!
* Call your grandparents
* Go to howstuffworks.com and find out!
* Exfoliate your entire body
* Think about your life goals and how you'll reach them
* Make someone a bracelet or neckless
* Read the newspaper, every word of it!
* Stop procrastinating
* Do some extra credit

70 reasons NOT to eat!

1. Ana sounds so much better than FATSO
2. You'll be perfect
3. You'll be FAT if you eat today!
4. Starving is control, we like control!
5. You'll look prettier
6. Guys want you!
7. You don't NEED food
8. Starving is an excellent example of will power
9. People will see your beautiful bones
10. People will remember you as the beautiful girl
11. Only thin people are graceful
12. You'll be able to run faster
13. You'll have both inner&outer beauty
14. People who eat are selfish and unrealistic
15. FAT people can't fit everywhere
16. If you eat you'll look like those disgusting, fat, trash hookers
17. FAT people are so huge, yet people look away as if they don't exist
18. Bones are clean and pure
19. FAT is dirty, hangs on you as a parasite
20. Thin people look good in ALL clothes
21. Fat people die earlier
22. Ballerina or beanbag?
23. Starving Anorexic girl, or Ugly mingling FAT girl?
24. A minute on the lips, a lifetime on the hips
25. People will congratulate you on how much you've lost
26. You'll use less soap in the shower, and save money
27. People won't think 'what a fat cow' when they see you
28. Skinny people get better jobs
29. Fat people don't get leads in plays
30. Starving works, diets don't!
31. Food makes you fat
32. Fatso's can't be loved
33. People LOVE Ana's!
34. You'll feel more energetic
35. You'll save money on grocery bills
36. Think as Anorexia as your secret wapen
37. When your fat, it's like your invisible
38. You'll look perfect on the outside
39. You'll feel more confident and happy
40. Thin is in
41. Nothing tastes as good as thin feels
42. You'll be free without the fat
43. Everybody else will be envious
44. Perfect body = perfect soul
45. Have you ever seen anyone not noticing a thin girl?
46. You'll be able to wear mini skirts, without blurry legs
47. Friends will envy your body, and admire you
48. Do you want to be the fattest person in town?
49. Do you want to be Morbid Obese?
50. You'll fit in all pretty clothes!
51. Models are Anorexic too!
52. You die beautiful
53. Fat is a lazy person, Ana is control!
54. You'll look good on pictures!
55. You don't deserve food!
56. You'll be able to be proud wearing a bikini!
57. Fat people are ugly!
58. Calories make you fat, food contains calories
59. You'll save time by not eating
60. The word FAT will only be used in a sarcastic way
61. Fatso's are sooo disgusting!
62. Fatso's are lonely because people don't want to look at them
63. Is food more important than happiness?
64. Food is mean and sneaky, every bite makes you FAT, UGLY, BLOATED, and UNHAPPY!
65. You'll look like your favorite model!
66. Fat drags you down
67. Cell-U-Lite? Or perfection?
68. People will be able to lift you up
69. You'll be pure, holy and clean!
70. Do you want your skin to look like it's going to burst because of all the fat?

Ana's Creed

Ana's creed I believe in control, the only force mighty enough to bring onrder in the chaos that is my world.

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

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

I believe in perfection and strive to attain it.

I believe in salvation trough starvation.

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

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

I believe in hell, cause sometimes I think I live in it.

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

Ana's laws

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ana's Psalm

Strict is my diet
I must nog want
It maketh me lie down at night hungry
It leadeth me past the confectioners
It trieth my will power
It leadeth me in the paths of alternation for my figure sake
Yeah, though I walk trough the aisles of the pastry department, I will buy no sweet rolls for they are fattening
The cakes and the pies, they tempt me
Before me is a table set with green beens and lettuce
I filleth my stomach with liquids
My day's quota runneth over
Surely calorie and weight charts will follow me, all days of my life
And I will dwell in the fear of the scales forever

Letter from Mia

Dear Partner,

How are you? I thought I'd take a few minutes to introduce myself. I'm known by some as bulimia nervosa, but seeing how we'll become so close, you can just call me Mia. That's what my best friends call me. My loyal friends. Over time, you will become my loyal friend too. Sometimes you might feel more of a servant, but then you will think of all I do for you and remember that I am your only true friend. You know how everyone around you, all those girls, seem like they have it so easy, I hate that! And I hate for you to feel less, which is why from now on, I will provide you with encouragement, and inspiration to achieve what you thought you never could. Prove all the nasty comments wrong. Also, I cannot spend my life with someone not worthy...so you will have to prove yourself to me. I'll try to hang out with you as much as possible, but nobody will know. Only you will know when I'm around. You will know when you eat something, you will know when you see that chocolate cake on the counter, because I will in the back of your mind telling you things. Sometimes I will tell you not to eat it, and you will listen. Other times, you will disobey me and devour the entire cake. Then I will really make you feel guilty. You should have followed my orders! Now go and throw that cake up you FAT COW! How could you do that to yourself? You will take my comments to heart, and go into the bathroom, turn on the faucet, and force yourself to vomit. You will spend hours vomiting at times. Your face will be red, snot will pour, your eyes will be bloodshot, you jaw will hurt of swollen glands...serves you right! If you want to be my friend and get the full effect of what I can give you, you must follow my orders. You will soon learn that I am in control. Even when you don't do as I say, you can still hear me, screaming at you, telling you to work harder, telling you to take diet pills, telling you how fat you are, telling you what those people across the room are really whispering about. I am sure after a while of this, you will grow to hate me, but you will love me even more. You will love me so much you won't tell anyone about me. If you do, I risk being destroyed, and you don't want that do you? You will have invested so much of your time in me, that you will no longer have anyone else. You have no choice, me or complete solitude. If I'm gone, fat and cellulite will take my place. Which would you rather have? So you must not tell anyone about me. Even if you did, some people would likey not believe you and worse, think you are out for the attention. So hold your head high and look confident. With my help, you can look just as great as your favorite models and actresses. You can look better. I have to go now, but think of me often. Think of me all the time! I am the only one who TRULY wants you to feel loved. Remember that.


Sincerely,

Mia

Letter from/to Ana

Letter from Ana Allow me to introduce myself. My name, or as I am called by so called "doctors", is Anorexia. Anorexia Nervosa is my full name, but you may call me Ana. Hopefully we can become great partners. In the coming time, I will invest a lot of time in you, and I expect the same from you.
In the past you have heard all of your teachers and parents talk about you. You are "so mature", "intelligent", "14 going on 45", and you possess "so much potential". Where has that gotten you, may I ask? Absolutely no where! You are not perfect, you do not try hard enough, further more you waste your time on thinking and talking with friends and drawing! Such acts of indulgence shall not be allowed in the future.
Your friends do not understand you. They are not truthful. In the past, when the insecurity has quietly gnawed away at your mind, and you asked them, "Do I look....fat?" and they answered "Oh no, of course not" you knew they were lying! Only I tell the truth. Your parents, let's not even go there! You know that they love you, and care for you, but part of that is just that they are your parents and are obligated to do so. I shall tell you a secret now: deep down inside themselves, they are disappointed with you. Their daughter, the one with so much potential, has turned into a fat, lazy, and undeserving girl.
But I am about to change all that.
I expect a lot from you. You are not allowed to eat much. It will start slowly:
decreasing of fat intake, reading the nutrition labels, cutting out junk food, fried food, etc. For a while, the exercise will be simple: some running, perhaps some crunches and some situps. Nothing too serious. Perhaps drop a few pounds, take a little off of that fat tub of a stomach. But it won't be long before I tell you that it isn't good enough.
I will expect you to drop your calorie intake and up your exercise. I will push you to the limit. You must take it because you cannot defy me! I am beginning to imbed myself into you. Pretty soon, I am with you always. I am there when you wake up in the morning and run to the scale. The numbers become both friend and enemy, and the frenzied thoughts pray for them to be lower than yesterday, last night, etc. You look into the mirror with dismay. You prod and poke at the fat that is there, and smile when you come across bone. I am there when you figure out the plan for the day: 400 calories, 2 hours exercise. I am the one figuring this out, because by now my thoughts and your thoughts are blurred together as one.
I follow you throughout the day. In school, when your mind wanders I give you something to think about. Recount the calories for the day. It's too much. I fill your mind with thoughts of food, weight, calories, and things that are safe to think about. Because now, I am already inside of you. I am in your head, your heart, and your soul. The hunger pains you pretend not to feel is me, inside of you.
Pretty soon I am telling you not only what to do with food, but what to do ALL of the time. Smile and nod. Present yourself well. Suck in that fat stomach, dammit! God, you are such a fat cow!!!! When mealtimes come around I tell you what to do. I make a plate of lettuce seem like a feast fit for a king. Push the food around. Make it look like you've eaten something. No piece of anything...if you eat, all the control will be broken...do you WANT that?? To revert back to the fat COW you once were?? I force you to stare at magazine models. Those perfect skinned, white teethed, waifish models of perfection staring out at you from those glossy pages. I make you realize that you could never be them. You will always be fat and never will you be as beautiful as they are. When you look in the mirror, I will distort the image. I will show you obesity and hideousness. I will show you a sumo wrestler where in reality there is a starving child. But you must not know this, because if you knew the truth, you might start to eat again and our relationship would come crashing down.
Sometimes you will rebel. Hopefully not often though. You will recognize the small rebellious fiber left in your body and will venture down to the dark kitchen. The cupboard door will slowly open, creaking softly. Your eyes will move over the food that I have kept at a safe distance from you. You will find your hands reaching out, lethargically, like a nightmare, through the darkness to the box of crackers. You shove them in, mechanically, not really tasting but simply relishing in the fact that you are going against me. You reach for another box, then another, then another. Your stomach will become bloated and grotesque, but you will not stop yet. And all the time I am screaming at you to stop, you fat cow, you really have no self control, you are going to get fat.
When it is over you will cling to me again, ask me for advice because you really do not want to get fat. You broke a cardinal rule and ate, and now you want me back. I'll force you into the bathroom, onto your knees, staring into the void of the toilet bowl. Your fingers will be inserted into your throat, and, not without a great deal of pain, your food binge will come up. Over and over this is to be repeated, until you spit up blood and water and you know it is all gone. When you stand up, you will feel dizzy. Don't pass out. Stand up right now. You fat cow you deserve to be in pain!
Maybe the choice of getting rid of the guilt is different. Maybe I chose to make you take laxatives, where you sit on the toilet until the wee hours of the morning, feeling your insides cringe. Or perhaps I just make you hurt yourself, bang your head into the wall until you receive a throbbing headache. Cutting is also effective. I want you to see your blood, to see it fall down your arm, and in that split second you will realize you deserve whatever pain I give you. You are depressed, obsessed, in pain, hurting, reaching out but no one will listen? Who cares?!?!! You are deserving; you brought this upon yourself.
Oh, is this harsh? Do you not want this to happen to you? Am I unfair? I do do things that will help you. I make it possible for you to stop thinking of emotions that cause you stress. Thoughts of anger, sadness, desperation, and lonliness can cease because I take them away and fill your head with the methodic calorie counting. I take away your struggle to fit in with kids your age, the struggle of trying to please everyone as well. Because now, I am your only friend, and I am the only one you need to please.
I have a weak spot. But we must not tell anyone. If you decide to fight back, to reach out to someone and tell them about how I make you live, all hell will break lose. No one must find out, no one can crack this shell that I have covered you with. I have createdyou, this thin, perfect, achieving child. You are mine and mine alone. Without me, you are nothing. So do not fight back. When others comment, ignore them. Take it into stride, forget about them, forget about everyone that tries to take me away. I am your greatest asset, and I intend to keep it that way. Sincerely, Ana


Letter to Ana
Dear Ana,

I offer you my soul, my heart and my bodily functions. I give you all my earthly possessions.

I seek your wisdom, your faith and your feather weight. I pledge to obtain the ability to float, to lower my weight to the single digits, I pledge to stare into space, to fear food, and to see obese images in the mirror. I will worship you and pledge to be a faithful servant until death does us part.

If I cheat on you and procreate with Ronald McDonald, Dave Thomas, the colonel or that cute little dog. I will kneel over my toilet and thrust my fingers deep in my throat and pray for your forgiveness.

Please Ana, don't give up on me. I'm so weak, I know, but only you with your strength inside me will I become a woman worthy of love and respect. I'm begging for you not to give up, I'm pleading with my shallow breathes and my pale skin. I bleed for you, suffer leg pains, headaches and fainting spells. My love for you makes me dizzy and confused I don't know whether I'm coming or going. Men run when they see the love I have for you and never return. But they aren't important to me all thats important is that you love me.

If you stay with me, I will worship you daily, I will run miles a day, come rain, snow, bitter cold or searing heat I will run from the pain and in fright. I will do 1,000 sit ups a day and lie to my family about what I eat and how I feel. I will stop weeping when I feel your warm arms embrace my shivering body. I will numb the hunger pains with razor blades and your strength.

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

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

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

Love Always, Worthless One

**Thinspiration - Kate Moss

Anti Binge!

Cleaning

• Go trough old stuff, throw away everything you never wear/use.
• Mop/dust/vacuum/scrub anything, change bedsheets anything. The harder you work, the more cals you'll burn! Hobby's
• Practice or learn to play a music instrument
• Go shopping, you'll burn cals walking
• Go out for a drink
• Go trough old photo albums
• Make jewellry
• Read a book!
• Have a beauty day! Beautyday
• Have an extra shower
• Take a very long bath
• Give yourself a mani/pedicure
• Brush your teeth
• Eat chewing gum/ drink water
• Detox!
• Put on very beautiful make-up Thinspiration
• Post on an Ana form
• Write your thoughts in your journal
• Watch MTV, let's get inspired by all those skinny's!
• Make an ana video/poster/collage/drawing/poem/story/website.. anything!
• Think of all the things you'd like to eat, and think of how many calories that are... and how many lbs!

Ana Quotes

• Giving in to food shows weakness, be strong, and you'll be better than everyone else
• Do not give up what you most want for what you want at the moment
• An imperfect body reflects an imperfect soul
• Craving is only a feeling
• An ordinairy girl, an ordinairy waist, but ordinairdy is just not good enough today
• If it ws easy, everybody will be thin
• If it tastes good, it's trying to kill you
• Calories CAN NOT make you happy
• Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better
• The beginning is always today
• It doesn't mather how slow you go, as long as you don't stop
• It's the mind that makes the body
• Everytime you say no to food, you say yes to thin
• Eat to live, don't live to eat
• When you resist the pain of hunger, it means your not a slave of your body
• Don't eat! Do you want to stay fat?
• Being thin is more important than everything!
• You want food? Loook at those thighs!
• Bones define who we really are! Let them show!
• Do you really want to be that weight for the rest of your life?
• Eat less, weigh less
• Thin is beautiful, even thinner is perfection
• Anorexia is a lifestyle, not a diet
• I only feel beautiful when I'm hungry
• Skip dinner, end up thinner
• Respect yourself, put down the fork
• Nothing tastes as good as thin feels
• Thin is perfectin, I'll die trying to achieve it
• Your mind should always be on your diet!

Ways to hide ED

@ The Doctor:
- Drink a lot of water (You'll weigh more!)
- Dress warmly, you're temperature will be somewhat normal
- Make sure SI wounds are healed before seeing the doctor

@ Home & Friends
- Wake up late, so you don't have enough time to eat at home
- Convince yourself (and others!) that your allergic to things
- Say your ill
- Say you've already ate
- Go to bed early, you can't eat when you're asleep
- Say you'll eat somewhere else
- Say your on a medication which screws up your appetite
- Leave a plate with breadcrumbs in the kitchen
- Take some cookies, or chips up to your room, and trow it away, then leave the empty packages in a place where parent will notice them
- When you're at a party or something, just find something like a muffin or a piece of pie you can carry around, throw away some bites, and eventually, hide the whole thing
- Don't forget to get rid of food you where supposed to eat, get rid of all the evidence!
- Put your diet pill in a vitamin bottle
- Don't tell anyone you think you're fat!
- Don't tell anyone you're on a diet!
- Tell people you are sooo hungry for a hamburger or something, then disappear, and when you return, tell them it was delicious!
- Invent some mysterious illness, which will be a good excuse not to eat
- Pretend to be in love (takes away you're appetite!)

@ Excuses:
- I'm not hungry
- I already ate
- I feel sick
- I will eat later
- I'm allergic
- I don't have any money (and forgot my bread, and yeah, I'm allergic to everything, so I can't eat yours!)
- I'm a veggie/vegan
- I don't like...
- I have to go somewhere
- Just say no
- It's almost dinner time, and my mom cooked a 3 course dinner

ED Information

• Anorexia (Ana)
  
• Bulimia (Mia)
• Compulsive OverExercising (COE)
• Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
• ED-NOS
• Pica
• Prader-Willi Syndrome
• Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
• Orthorexia
• Bigorexia

Anorexia (Ana)
Anorexia is characterized by a refusal to maintain a normal body weight. There are two types of Anorexia; Restricting and Purging.
Restricting:
The person does not eat, or eats very less. The person does not binge or purge in the episode.
Purging:
The person does not eat, or very less, but finds herself to be in a binge, and compensates by purging (vomiting, laxatives, diuretics)

Bulimia (Mia)
Bulimia is characterized by periods of binge eating, followed by inappropriate ways to loose the food, like vomiting, laxatives, diuretics.
There are two types of Bulimia: Purging and Non Purging
Purging:
During the period of Bulimia, the person has regularly engaged self inducted vomiting, used laxatives, diuretics.
Non purging:
During current episode of Bulimia Nervosa, the person has used other inappropriate compensatory behaviors, such as fasting or excessive exercise, but has not regularly engaged in self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas.

Compulsive Overexercise or Anorexia
Persons who have episodes of repeatedly exercising beyond the requirements of what is considered safe, and will find time at any cost to do the exercise (including cutting school, taking off from work, hiding in the bathroom and exercising, etc.). The main goal of the exercise can be burning calories and "relieving the guilt" from just having eaten or binged, or to give us "permission" to eat.


Binge Eating Disorder (BED)
Binge eating disorder (BED) is the newest clinically recognized eating disorder. BED is primarily identified by repeated episodes of uncontrolled eating. The overeating or binging does not typically stop until the person is uncomfortably full. Unlike anorexia nervosa and bulimia however, BED is not associated with inappropriate behaviors such as vomiting or excessive exercise to rid the body of extra food. The illness usually begins in late adolescence or in the early 20s, often coming soon after significant weight loss from dieting.


ED- NOS
When you don't really fit in the DSM criteria of Anorexia, Bulimia, BED, or COE, but you do have an eating disorder you may get diagnosed ED-NOS.
In real life this can be like this:
- You fit all the criteria of anorexia, but you're not underweight (yet).
- You fit the criteria of anorexia for two months, and then switch over to bulimia for two months, to switch back to anorexia.
- When you don't fit one or two criteria, but there's obviously and eating disorder.


Pica
Pica is defined as a non-stop compulsive caring to eat non eatable things like cotton, paper, dirt, glass, ice...
It's used to fill the stomach, so you won't get hungry.
This is very dangerous, eating glass for example, speaks for itself.
Cotton, paper and stuff can not be digested, and will ruin your body!


Prader-Willi syndrome
Prader-Willi Syndrome is a congenital condition (present at birth) and is believed to be caused by an abnormality in the genes that occurs (though statistically it does not seem to run in families). Children born with Prader-Willi Syndrome may have early feeding difficulties that lead to tube feeding, and often have a degree of behavioral and/or mental problems (some severe).
Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)
BDD, or Body Dysmorphic Disorder is a preoccupation or obsession with a defect in visual appearance, whether that be an actual slight imperfection or an imagined one. Some example of this would be obsessing to the point of severe depression (sometimes including thoughts about or attempts at suicide) over physical attributes such as freckles, a large nose, blotchy skin, wrinkles, acne, scarring. Though the preoccupation can include any part of the body; areas of the face and head, specifically the skin, hair and nose, are most common.

Orthorexia Nervosa Orthorexia Nervosa is an obsession with a "pure" diet, where it interferes with a person's life. It becomes a way of life filled with chronic concern for the quality of food being consumed. When the person suffering with Orthorexia Nervosa slips up from wavering from their "perfect" diet, they may resort to extreme acts of further self-disipline including even strictor regimens and fasting.

Bigorexia
Found typically in body-building circles and known as muscle dysmorphia or reverse Anorexia, Bigorexia is a condition in which the sufferer is constantly worried that they are too small. This goes beyond the typical body-building gym-goer, and transcends into dangerous realms when men and women are willing to go to all lengths to increase muscle mass. Dr. Harrison Pope, of the McLean Hospital, says, "there's nothing inherently pathological about being an avid gym-goer, but it shouldn't take over your life." In likening Bigorexia to Anorexia he comments, "They are both disorders of body image, the preoccupations simply go in opposite directions."

07/10/07

I'm fat today. Really,I'm so fucking fat today!It doesn't make sense, I didn't gain any, and I didn't loose any.But I'm fat.So, that's a perfectly good reason not to eat today! I'm gonna go to the gym in an hour or so, when i got dressed *still in pyjama's!* And after that, I'm gonna but caffeine pills.

They say caffeine speeds up your metabolism, so we'll see :D I just hope I can loose about 5lb this week. My mom is freaking me out, she's on top of everything I (don't) eat, and she thinks I'm vomitting everything i eat...Rigt, I do vomit everything I eat, but that's not for her to know! Anyway, I'm gonna get dressed now, and then on my way to the gym..Burn cals Burn!!! Muhahaha!