Ana Tips and Tricks

Tips!

 

 

1. WATER…you get those sick feeling hunger pains…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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

18. If you’re in college, schedule classes around meal times. You can’t eat in class.

19. Do something you enjoy instead of eating. 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.

21. Dont go out to eat often, if you do, soup is one of your best options. Its mostly water, and has the least amount of calories.

22.Take vitamins B12 and B6 together, it does wonders on your metabolism, and keeps you from anemia.