Ana/Mia Tips

#1. Don’t be stupid. If you wish to continue eating habits in order to lose weight DON’T tell other people. If you wish to quit DO TELL other people. If you are Pro-Ana, it means protecting Ana at all costs- don’t tell you parents or your therapist/counselor (if you have one) don’t even tell your best friend. Ana is secret, and she is unique for every person. In order to continue to help you, she must be at all times a complete secret. This also means your eating habits have to go unnoticed. Only eat around other people so they won’t be suspicious, purge quietly, put out dirty dishes, ANYTHING to keep others from being suspicious, because it will be harder for Ana to do her work if they do.

#2 Don’t break your diet- you break it, even for one day,  you have to start over from square 1.

FOOD:

1. Stay away from food at ALL COSTS! temptation leads to guilt, and once you taste, your risk of bingeing is increased by 75%.

2. Drink TONs of water/unsweetened tea to keep from dehydrating.

3. Exercise self-control at all times, don’t even fantasize about how something tastes.

4. If you have to eat, make sure it is high-quality, low-fat food. Preferably as fresh and natural as you can get it. The best would be raw veggies and fruits as they are high in nutrition and low in calories.

5. Absolutely DO NOT eat breads, carbohydrates, fried and high sugar junk food, or put sweetener in anything. You want to be as close to natural as you can get. Fish instead of meat ect.

6. Try as best as you can to HATE food, I know it’s hard.

7. Don’t use words like “about” or “almost”, when in doubt round-up, and I don’t mean decimal places. numbers don’t lie.

8. Find out the calories in EVERYTHING you ate.

9. Remind yourself constantly of why you’re doing this when confronted with food, and how sad you will feel if you set yourself back by bingeing.

10. Remember: Once you binge, its like having to start over ALL OVER AGAIN. Do you really want to go through that when you’re SO CLOSE?

11. Drink a sip of water between every bite, it will fill you up faster, and is a good habit because if you binge you will have more time to think about what you are doing and the food will come up easier.

12. hot and very cold beverages are great because they also burn calories as you body must adjust their temperature.

13. Go to bed at LEAST one hour after your last meal.

MOTIVATION:

1. Say “I will” instead of “I want to be skinny”.

2. Do menial work to get your mind off hunger, or simply go to sleep.

3. In the morning tell yourself exactly what you will and will not do in the day.

4. Do NOT make excuses for yourself. You know damn well you have the strength and willpower to stick this out. Don’t be a failure, you’ll just sink lower into the fatty abyss. Don’t you want to pass Ana’s test and be accepted  as part of the beautiful society?

5. Learn from your mistakes and don’t you DARE repeat them.

6. Obviously; Thinspo, you need something to feed your hunger for emptiness.

7. Food = Pain because it leads to fat and guilt and depression. Starvation= exhilaration because you are that much closer to your goal. Never lose sight of your goal.

8. Build up your willpower, this will happen slowly, but you will gain more control over yourself as motivation becomes habit.

9. Never doubt yourself. Ever. You are strong and courageous, and not alone, you have Ana and us; the rest of the Pro-Ana community. You know exactly what you want and are willing to suffer for it. You are a revolutionary.

10. Carry something around with you that reminds you of your goals, or repeat your reasons list when faced with food.

11. Watch other people eat. It is disgusting, especially if they are extra hungry.

BODY:

1. Massage your body; it helps with muscle soreness and deep tissue massages help break up fat stores if done over a long period of time (cellulite)

2. If you feel sick, it’s just a natural process, and usually will pass if you eat something light.

3. Remember that although your mind may become sharper, your body is weaker, therefor prepare your schedule in advance to make sure nothing embarrassing happens (like fainting). Ex- prepare an egg for protein and some fruit about an hour or more before physical exercise.

4. You WILL feel crappy for the first two weeks, expect it and toughen your mind.

5. As your body purges rancid oils stuck in it, you may stink for a while, as well as develop some acne.

6. Everyone thins out in different places, so don’t expect any “target” weight loss or toning to work until you have lost significant weight overall.

PURGING:

1. Throw everything up as fast as you can if you have binged. You start to digest food as soon as it enters your mouth. By the time 20-30 mins have passed, you have digested all the fats and oils in the food.

2. How to Purge Quietly: Get a napkin/tissues/paper towel/toilet paper, anything disposable, and hold it tightly against your mouth as you purge. The only noise that should be heard is a slight muffled coughing, and the sound of your bile hitting the toilet water, so it’s a good idea to purge when the shower is heating up, or loud music/fans are on.

4. If you want to stop, don’t. Yes its painful and awkward, but YOU decided to eat and binge in the first place. You have no one to blame but yourself so suck it up and stick it out. Don’t let the weakness that just controlled your binge control your determination to be thin.

3. Purging can cause clogging of your toilet. Don’t ever purge in the shower, sink, unless it is into a bucket, because there will be questions asked when someone has to unclog the drain. When you are done, take the waste outside, dump it in the garden/ outside trashcan and wash down with water. NEVER leave it in the house as it will stink horribly.

5. Remember that you will not get up everything. That is why the average Mia weighs more than the average Ana. Sad but true, so if you binge you must make up for the calories in another way; exercise or reduce even more calories from the next day.

4. If you have the luxury of foreseeing a binge, then eat something with a noticeable color FIRST, so that when it comes up, you will know you threw up everything (ex- lemon jello)

5. After a purge, rinse your mouth, do not brush your teeth until 1 hour after or else you risk rubbing the acid into them. Drink lots of fluids to replace the ones you lost.