| Subject: Starting to be Ana |
Author:
Bee
|
[
Next Thread |
Previous Thread |
Next Message |
Previous Message
]
Date Posted: 11:06:07 06/06/02 Thu
Author Host/IP: NoHost/12.110.19.97
If you have a desire to be anorexic (ana) then you probably have some sort of eating disorder (ed) or some issues with food and weight. Here are some ideas on how to be ana:
Count your calories and keep track of foods you eat. You must know what you put in your mouth. There are tons of calorie counting books out there, and some on the internet, so there’s no excuse not to. Packages are labeled, most restruants will have an idea of what the calories are for their foods (always guess up). Fast food places and other places that serve the same items should have the calorie counts for foods (you can find fast food “nutritional” information on the web). Don’t worry too much about fat and carbs, all these become calories anyway. You can count those if you want, but the calories are the most important. However, do try to eat low fat, low carb items, too, because they’re usually lower in calories anyway.
When you know what you’re eating you can eliminate the “evil” foods. Most ana’s choose certain foods as their “safe” foods. If you want to eat something evil, then make that one of your safe foods. You may have to change your foods for that day.
Keep track of your progress in losing weight. A scale works great, but remember that if you do toning/muscle exercises you will loose inches faster then pounds because muscle weighs more but takes up less room then fat on your body. Record your progress. You can use measurements to keep track. You can use how your clothes fit. You can use sizing of clothing (however, most clothing manufactures aren’t the same, so just keep that in mind). You could use the amount of food you eat in a day (usually when you’re at your goal weight). Find some way to keep track, this will help motivate you. For weighing yourself, remember that everyone and body type is different. Some have small bones, medium size, or are large boned (your wrist can be a good place to tell if you’re not sure, under 6 inches small boned, over 6 ½ inches large boned, or somewhere around there depending on if you have extra fat around your bones). Don’t become too obsessive about the number on the scale. Some things that can make it different from day to day are: water weight gain, eating too much salt, that binge you had catching up on you, that time of the month for women, stress, anxiety, time of day, etc. Keeping a log of your progress and eventually keep a log of your maintenance can help.
Start an ana thinspriation (thin+inspiration) book. This can be anything from a wire bound notebook to a binder or anything you want. Cut out photos of skinny people from magazines and newspapers and glue them to blank pages. Add quotes, notes, tips, anything that will inspire you to be thin. You can do this on the computer by downloading photos or starting a web page.
Exercise. This will burn calories. It will lower your overall calories for the day. For example, if you eat 1000 calories and burn off 400, that’s only 600 for the day. But remember that you cannot eat more just because you exercised. And if you do eat more, it’s probably not wise to exercise more just to get those off (of course some people have that stamina). When you become real thin and eat very little, exercising maybe hard so do what you can at that point. However some can exercise for hours when they’re thin and existing on few calories, but most can’t. Others can exercise and eat a lot and still be thin. Everybody’s different. Do what works for you.
Use competition as a motivator. Find someone thinner then you. Compare yourself to them (how much fatter you are). Try to be thinner then them. Another anorexic works great. You may not want to tell them that you’re ana, and they don’t need to know. If you want another anorexic to know, be careful because of this competition thing we have they may resent it if you get thinner then them and who knows what they’ll do.
You probably don’t want to do anything that leads to excess. Such as not eating for a week (unless you are healthy enough to do that, most aren’t), purging, using too many pills (laxatives, diet pills, etc.), self injury, spending all day thinking about calories/weight/etc and not doing things to live, etc. Just try and notice what you’re doing and if it ends up to be too much, stop.
Diets. You can try out various diets throughout your life. One popular one for getting over the pleau is the 2-4-6-8 diet (or a variation). On this diet you eat 200 calories one day, 400 calories the next, and so on. After the fourth day (800 calories) you can do what works best for you. Some will very this diet and do more calories or less. There are various “fad” diets. You’re welcome to try them. Most will find that a diet low in calories works best for weight loss. Choose an amount of calories that works best for you. If you’re eating a lot, you may not want to reduce very much at first. Lower your calories day by day (or week by week) until you find the amount that works for you.
Keep a diary or journal. This always a good idea. It’s free therapy and it won’t tell you what to do. There are several free diarys/journals on line that you can use. Some will let others reply back and others won’t. You may be able to do guest books and such. These can also be kept private, no one has to know who you are. You can also do a paper journal.
[
Next Thread |
Previous Thread |
Next Message |
Previous Message
]
| |
Feedback: 