⤷ remember that these tips are for me, and me only. i could not be held responsible if you decided to follow them as well, so please be careful. ⤶
⭐ microwave food around people then take it to your room and throw it away, everyone will think you eat all the time.
⭐ don’t suddenly wear baggy clothes to hide weight especially if this isn’t your usual style of clothing, layer clothing instead.
⭐ say you ate with a friend or when you were out.
⭐ press on your stomach when it grumbles. if people hear it, say you ate recently and it’s still digesting.
⭐ get rid of food in the fridge when no one is around so it looks like you’ve eaten.
⭐ say you are allergic to certain food or than you are vegetarian or vegan or that you only eat gluten free food.
⭐ eat a tiny piece of onion or a pinch of garlic powder so your breath will smell like you ate.
⭐ if you don’t have your periods anymore, make sure you still continue buying/asking for tampons/pads and just carry them with you in case a friend needs one.
⭐ if you’re at a party try to drink from opaque cups or beer cans, you can bring it with you to the bathroom, dump it and then refill it with water.
⭐ paint your nails so people don’t notice that they are starting to get discolored.
⭐ if you go down in dress size cut the size marks out.
⭐ take sun, you always look healthier when you’re tan.
⭐ before going to the doctor, drink tons of water, also load up your pockets with spare change or rolls of change. you can also sew quarters or other small weighted objects into your underwear or bra. if you’re deperate, you can wear ankle weights under your pants but if you’re discovered it’s a dead giveaway and probably not worth it.
⭐ talk / post on social media about fitness a lot so people will think you’re just thin from exercise and healthy
I do NOT support promoting eating disorders. If you do not have an eating disorder please PLEASE log off of this hell site and ask for help :). This post is for me.
TIPS
General
Make Rules For Yourself
Drink a LOT of water
Keep track of calories
Sleep more
Keep a list of safe foods and bad foods
Use measuring tape more often than a scale
Standing and Eating burns more calories
Use small dark coloured plates
Don’t take laxatives
Keep Good Posture
Have excuses ready
Get yourself an ana friend
Weigh yourself once a day in the morning
Tie a piece of string around your waist and another for what you want your waist size to be, keep it on your wrists or ankles like a bracelet
Set Goals For Yourself
Take Vitamins
Hiding Your Ed
Medical
Chew Gum- Eating Disorders Give you bad breath
Invest in good shampoo and conditioner
Keep your nails painted
Your skin will become dry, so be sure to use a lot of lotion where needed and take multivitamins
At a certain weight you will lose your period, don’t tell anyone and have a believable date in your head in case you go to a doctor
Your body will start to cover itself in fine hairs, to get rid of them simply shave, wax or use hair removal cream
Dehydration speeds up tooth decay, because you won’t have enough protective enzymes in your mouth to prevent the saliva from doing damage to your teeth. Don’t restrict liquids.
Dress warmly enough to keep warm without making it obvious.
Excuses:
Say that you don’t like that particular food.
You have a sore throat. (use wisely)
Just say that you don’t feel well
Say that you forgot your lunch. Be sure to disopse of it earlier in the day though.
I already ate
I can’t eat that it looks disgusting
I have to do homework
Etc:
Don’t eat dinner, then come down later and pretend to make some food
Hide your food in a bag, pockets, etc
Wake up late to skip breakfast
Give out all your food at lunch
The more that you insist that you’re fat, the more likey people are going to become suspicious.
Your body often mistakes thirst for hunger.
The artificial sweeteners like those in diet soda have been shown in studies to promote the body storing belly fat. And some have been linked to brain tumors.
When You’re Hungry
Avoiding Food
Take Heart Burn Pills When You’re Super Super Hungry
Hit The Lower Part Of Your Stomach If It’s Growling
Coffee and Tea are your best friends
Keep food out of sight
Have excuses ready
Find activities and say you ate there
Dispose of foods that tempt you
Dispose of foods you have hidden
Check the fridge when nobody else is around. Find foods that you would have eaten and get rid of them.
When you go out, take very little money or only enough to buy whatever non-food item you plan on buying. This will make it harder to buy food on impulse.
Strip off naked in front of a mirror and look at yourself
Chew on some ice
Your body burns about 8 calories per glass of ice water trying to get it up to a temperature in which it can be processed
When Eating
Eat Peppermint, It’s An Appetite Curber. It Does Have Cals Tho.
Drink a LOT of water
Avoid Oil and Butter
Eat Denser Food
Think before you eat
Don’t eat distracted
Never eat anything bigger then a cup
Set a time you cant eat past or before
Never eat in secret
Drink water before eating
Spicy foods raise metabolism
Never eat anything bigger than a cup
Don’t eat a lot at once
Chew your food more
Only eat around other people
Only eat until you’re satisfied
Every Calorie Counts, remove ingredients from recipes when you can
Eat Veggies first, then protein, and lastly carbs
Avoid Dairy when possible
Drink a shot of apple cider vinegar before eating
Never eat out of a box or jar
Always order sauces on the side
Avoid condiments if you can
Find Low Cal Foods Your Enjoy
Blotting greasy foods like bacon and pizza with a napkin can save you about 100 calories.
Use baby utensils to prevent overeating
Cravings:
Have a shower
Do some exercise
Go To bed early
Drink warm water – it fills you up
Watch America’s Next Top Model
Look at thinspo
Read Meanpso/sweetspo
Listen to Ana music
Read some ana quotes
Read a book about anorexia
Watch an anorexia documentary or movie on youtube
Visit pro ana websites
Eat some hot sauce
It takes about 20 minutes for your body to feel full from the time that you first put a bite of food into your mouth.
Exercising
Break your exercise up into smaller 5-15 minute blocks. It’s easier to stomach that way.
Quietly exercise
Exercise when you wake up at night
Exercise in the shower
Exercise before/after using the bathroom
Endurance exercises should be done more
As soon as you wake up in the morning workout for at least 30min to an hour. Studies show that working out in the morning has been shown to burn up to 3 times as more fat as opposed to working out at any other time during the day.
Walk 10,000 steps a day & lose an extra 10 pounds a year
Before beginning to do any type of exercise the first thing you should do is warm yourself up.
Practicing Yoga positions is also a very healthy habit and helps in burning the extra fat.
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• the carbonation in diet soda (0cal) helps suppress your appetite (but make sure to drink plenty of water, tea, and coffee as well!)
• if you need a snack, eating celery, grapefruit, lemons, limes, apples, lettuce, and broccoli can burn over half the calories they’re worth !!
• some things you can do instead of eating: read an interesting book, go on tumblr, watch a scary movie, take a hot bath, take a nap, learn a new language, reorganize your room, go outside, hang out with a friend or s/o, ride a bike somewhere you’ve never been before, make a bullet journal, watch funny youtube videos, dye your hair, do homework, design a tattoo on your body with sharpie, write a story, etc.
• make a wishlist of skinny clothes you can buy as soon as you lose enough weight – ex. oversized sweaters, thigh high stockings, high waisted shorts/jeans, sundresses, crop tops, a new swimsuit, new bras/bralettes, etc. make sure to look at it daily for motivation !!
• always politely decline food offered to you if you don’t know how many calories it has !! don’t let other people be in control of your weight loss journey !
• make a thinspo lock and home screen !!
• mint suppresses your appetite – whenever you feel hungry, grab a piece of mint gum !! chewing it burns the calories it’s worth as well !
• color can affect your appetite ! eating off darker plates makes you less hungry, and the color blue can do the same thing (you could paint your nails blue or have a blue water bottle with you !)
• wear a rubber band / hair tie on your wrist and snap it whenever you’re hungry so your body associates hunger with that same pain !
• most importantly: be safe. this is not a list of life hacks for someone who wants to develop an eating disorder. this is a list for people who are already trapped inside one and want to lose weight in a safer way. if you need someone to talk to, message me anytime.
-put a straw in the glass so you can subconsciously drink it -exercise obviously -if you are new to exercise just start with streching and gradually do more and more -if you dont wanna gain a lot of muscle do only cardio -take vitamins -eat only fruits and veggies if you’re able to -dont drink smoothies, they’ll make you less full then when you’re actually eating + blending takes away some vitamins -if you dont count calories it helps knowing what you put in your body -black coffee -dark chocolate if you are craving something sweet (its actually good for you) -also sugar filled fruit helps the cravings as well -GREEN TEA GREEN TEA GREEN TEA -or any detox tea -white tea helps not to absorb carbs so drink it after a juice cleanse or a water fast -weigh yourself in the morning -don’t weigh yourself too much cause you might become obsessed with it -exercise before you eat that way you wont be losing cals but actual fat -DONT DRINK SODA ITS SO BAD FOR YOU -theres so many unnecessary junk in it -bye carbs, red meat and candy -don’t eat too much salty food -don’t eat the same amount of calories everyday -if you’re able to cut out dairy -if you’ve hit the plateu dairy might be the reason as well -wear tight clothes -drink warm water before and cold water after you eat -find a workout buddy
If you struggle with binging -chew on something like cellery or gum
-you just got junk food and you’re struggling no to eat it? -give it to you siblings -go for a walk, go run, go to friends house -just get out of the house -distract yourself -scroll through your social media -google the bad sides of binging -look at fitspo on my blog -send me a random ask -take care of yourself -brush your teeth, pluck your eyebrows, take a long bath, shave -lay in your bed,play some music and imagine how would your goal body look like -then make a plan how to make it yours -mints make you supress cravings -when you feel a binge coming on, or are already in the middle of one take 2 tsp of raw apple cider vinegar and put it in a shot glass of water and drink it. It literally just stops your cravings
Motivation
-so many cute outfits you’ve always wanted to wear -your eyes literally get bigger as you lose weight -being lifted by a significant other -sitting in someone’s lap and not feeling heavy -everyone being jealous your body -the simplest outfits look good on you -like baggy shirt and leggins -being someone’s goal -your legs look long even if they’re not -CROP TOPS -high wasted jeans and shorts -people whispering about how good you look -cute underwear and pajamas -looking good without putting any effort -beach and pool parties -guys talking about asking you out -getting random compliments from strangers about your figure
(Guys these actually happen. Ever since I lost weight people are so much nicer to me like its annoying but it’s the truth)
003. Avoid greasy and sugary food; they’re very easy to overeat
004. Avoid eating anything “enriched” or “bleached”
005. Avoid refined flour; it makes you hold onto to stomach fat and bloat up
006. Gum makes you bloated and wreaks havoc your digestive system
007. Find an exercise (or several) that you genuinely enjoy, and stick to doing those
008. If you don’t enjoy a certain exercise, don’t force yourself to do it. You’ll get burnt out and want to stop exercising entirely
009. Diet soda makes you bloated and is worse for you than regular soda
010. Replace your dairy based milk with plant based milk (like almond milk); it has way less calories, and way more calcium
011. Take the stairs instead of the elevator
012. If you have kids, go outside and play them instead of watching them play on the floor
013. Jumping on the trampoline is a fun exercise that burns a lot of calories
014. If you live within 60 minutes of your job (or less), try bicycling to work 3-4 days of the week, every week
015. Please don’t purge your food! You can’t get up all of the calories anyway
016. If you don’t like exercising, just walk. It burns around 300 calories per hour, and is super easy to do a lot of
017. Eat at least 2-3 hours before bed
018. Avoid the midnight munchies
019. Eat 3 balanced meals and 1 snack; eating a bunch of snacks and tiny meals will only spike your insulin and make it harder to lose weight
020. Make sure that you’re sleeping for at least 7 hours every night
021. Don’t stay up later than 11:00pm
022. For every 15 minutes that you watch TV or Netflix, do 10 reps of any exercise (squats, lunges, jumping jacks, etc)
023. Sneak dark leafy greens and vegetables into your fruit smoothies
024. If you don’t drink smoothies….start
025. Jumping rope burns 10 cals per minute. Do it every day for 10 minutes, twice a day, and you’ll burn 1,000 cals a week
026. Dab the oil off of your pizza / burger / fries / greasy food
027. Skip meat as often as you can; it’ll make you bloat up
028. Make 80% of your plate healthy foods, and the other 20% unhealthy foods. Eat your healthy food first, and if you’re still hungry, then you can eat the unhealthy food
029. Replace your grain-based pasta with bean/legume based pasta
030. Your body works harder and burns more calories to use protein, so eat lots of it
031. Chew your food slowly! 80+% of the digestion process happens in the mouth
032. Eat until you’re 80% full, and then stop
033. Replace your high cal ice cream with low cal options like OutShine Popsicles or Halo Top ice cream
034. Taking a shower burns 62 cals every 15 minutes
35. Drinking 1 8oz glass of water burns 8-12 calories. Drinking 1 gallon per day is ideal.
036. Bake your fries in the oven instead of frying them in oil
037. 1 tbsp of oil has 120 cals… Just sayin’
038. Replace your cooking oil with water
039. Eat veggie noodles (like zucchini) instead of pasta
040. Treat yourself once a week to avoid cravings and binges. Don’t eat the whole box and you’ll be fine
041. Singing at the top of your lungs (belting like Ariana Grande) burns 200 cals per hour
042. Believe in yourself! If you don’t believe that you can do it, how will you ever achieve your goals?
043. Tell your friends and family about your new lifestyle change / diet. If more people know, you’ll be more motivated to put in the extra effort required for people to notice your weight loss and progress
044. Bagels are worse for you than donuts. One glazed donut has 255 cals, whilst one bagel has around 320-330 calories
045. Donut holes have 59 calories per individual cake donut hole, and 55 per individual glazed donut hole
046. Keep small dark chocolate squares on your freezer to nibble on when you have cravings
047. If you love to swim, you should know that its a full body exercise that burns around 600-800 calories per hour
048. Replace your sugar with zero calorie, plant derived sweetener (like Stevia, Splenda or Truvia)
049. Take before and after photos for motivation
050. Don’t weigh yourself more than once a week; this way, you won’t become obsessed
051. Always weigh yourself on an empty stomach
052. You burn an extra 150-300 calories (depending on the person) on your menstrual cycle. Don’t eat any more than usual, and you’ll be effortlessly burning more!
053. “Light Life” has a meatless veggie hotdog with 7g of protein and 50 cals per hotdog link (1 serving)
054. Corn and soy tend to make most people bloat up; take notice of your body’s reaction
055. Green tea is an appetite suppressant that also burns calories
056. Green tea burns calories, but Oolong tea burns even more calories
057. I think that we all know that coffee is an appetite suppressant; it works even better if you hate the taste. Nobody wants sweets after drinking bitter bean juice
058. Never add milk to your tea. It eliminates the weight loss benefits / properties, and has the opposite effect of unsweetened tea
059. Avoid drinking fruit juice. It may sound healthy, but it isn’t. It has no fiber at all and is loaded with sugar. If you want juice, either make your own at home using veggies and fruits, or eat a whole piece of fruit
060. Weight loss pills are a scam and a waste of money. They don’t actually work, and no one pill will ever make up for a bad diet
061. Don’t waste your money on “weight loss tea”. Tea naturally helps you burn fat and boosts your metabolism. That’s just a scam to make you waste extra money.
062. When you order food at a restaurant, ask for a to-go box before your meal. When your meal arrives, put half of it in the to-go box and save it for another meal
063. Instead of ordering fries or another unhealthy food as a side dish or appetizer, order mixed fruit or veggies, or a side salad
064. If you don’t want to drink plain water all of the time, infuse your water with fruits, spices, herbs and vegetables
065. Always eat the peelings of your veggies and fruits. They contain the most fiber.
066. Adding lemon or lime juice to your water and tea adds flavor for 0 cals
067. Weight lifting won’t make you bulky (if you’re a girl). It will, however, make you burn more calories than cardio, make you replace fat with lean muscle, and make you burn more calories while resting / doing nothing.
068. Oh, and weight lifting is especially important if you’re severely overweight. Skip the intense cardio until you’re such smaller / a healthier weight. Cardio will leave you with lots of baggy skin, but weight training will help tighten that skin.
069. Eat more oatmeal / porridge. It has 150 calories per ½ cup (uncooked) and contains fiber, protein, vitamins and minerals. It also helps you to feel fuller for longer, which will make you eat less throughout the day
070. Drinking apple coder vinegar in your water helps you to burn more calories
071. Air popped popcorn is a very low calorie snack that’s healthy and full of fiber
072. Eat more beans and legumes for healthier, plant based protein and fiber
073. Cauliflower rice is an excellent healthy, low calorie replacement for rice and potatoes
074. Seaweed is another healthy, plant based, low calorie snacks
075. Avoid eating dried fruits. They are packed with sugar and calories, and are extremely easy to overate. Opt for whole fruits instead.
076. If you really want something crispy to munch, try freeze dried fruit. It has the texture of a chip, and the flavor of a sweet treat!
077. Weight loss is 80% nutrition and 20% exercise. Squats and pizza won’t work as well as vegetables and walking.
078. If you eat eggs and poultry, try adding spinach, tomatoes, mushrooms and bell pepper to your scrambled eggs or omelette
079. Gluten isn’t bad for you unless you have an allergy or intolerance, but it can sometimes make you hold onto that last tiny bit of belly fat. If you’re already almost at your goal weight (within 10-20lbs), try cutting out bread / pasta / etc to shed those last few lbs
080. Be aware of how much you’re eating. Its easy to over or underestimate your calories, so try tracking them for 2-4 weeks, just so you can become more aware of the foods that you’re eating when you don’t count, and so that you can become better at estimating
081. Eat on a small, blue plate. Our brains are naturally turned off by the color when we eat, so this will help you to eat less overall food.
082. Speaking of small plates, its also helpful to use a small plate to trick your brain into feeling full. You could eat the same amount of food on a bigger plate, but still feel hungry be because your eyes send a message to your brain that the plate isn’t filled up. Switch to a smaller plate to trick your mind into thinking you’re eating more than you actually are.
083. It takes 20 full minutes for your stomach to realize that its full, so eat SLOWLY
084. Chew your bites thoroughly. 50-60 chews per bite is ideal, but 40 is good, too.
085. If you get tempted by restaurant food, avoid eating out with friends until you can gain better control of yourself
086. YouTube has tons of healthy recipes and easy workouts
087. Negative calorie foods don’t exist. No matter what anybody tells you, food just doesn’t work that way. Not even celery.
088. Eat your fruit / carbs last. Eating them first makes you absorb more calories from your foods. Try starting the meal with healthy fats.
089. Oil is not good for you. Not even olive oil. Oil is essentially liquid calories and fat that have been stripped of all vitamins, minerals, and nutritional value. Eat fats in their whole form, like olives instead of olive oil, coconut instead of coconut oil, etc.
090. Premake / meal prep your food in order to stay on better track with your eating and snacking
091. If you want to take up exercising, try getting a gym buddy to workout with you. This can be really motivating for some people.
092. If you’re like me and you go into “leave me alone” beast mode while working out, try working out by yourself for better results
093. Back to workout advice, keep your headphones in with some of your favorite music playing. Upbeat music or music that makes you feel powerful is ideal. Create your “bada$$ boss b!tch” playlist beforehand, for best results
094. If you’re nervous about going to the gym, workout at home. YouTube some has great workouts for at home space!
095. Nut butter is a great snack, but if you love it as much as I do, you know that it is very easy to overeat. Try measuring your nut/seed butter when you eat it
096. In fact, if you don’t want to track calories, measure all of your portions, just so you have an idea of how much you’re eating
097. Never eat whilst standing up or doing other things. Turn off your phone, your TV, and any other distractions, then sit down and eat your food. Eating while distracted is a huge factor in overeating.
098. Drink 2 big glasses of water at least 10 minutes before you eat. Drinking water before a meal or snack helps you to digest your food better and make you want to eat less
099. Practice self control by saying “no” to junk food half of the time, or you can start by only saying “yes” once a week
I NEVER binge!! I bet you wanna know why. Okay so I eat 3 meals a day. BUT BEFORE YOU SCROLL AWAY!!! I usually eat about 800-500 cals a day while still eating 3 meals a day. And they are still full sized meals! My tips so you can never binge as well:
1. Get rid of all your junk food in the house. NO EXCEPTIONS! GET RID OF ALL OF IT!
2. Get healthy snack alternatives. My favorites are
– skinny pop popcorn (3 ¾ cups=150 cals)
– delightful bread (45 calories a slice)
– rice cakes! You can get the flavored ones that taste like candy! (Anywhere from 35 cals to 50 cals)
3. My salad recipe is a full bowl for 93 calories. Here’s what’s in it:
Lettuce- 8 cals (one cup, Romaine)
Cauliflower- 10 cals (half of 1/3 cup)
Celery- 6 cals (one stick)
Green beans- 13 cals (half of 1/3 cup)
Cucumber- 16 cals (one cup)
Dressing- 40 cals (one tbsp of kens steak house lite raspberry walnut vinaigrette) ((ITS SO GOOD!!))
4. Cauliflower rice! Basically you grate cauliflower, steam it, and put a little bit of butter in it and BAM great substitute for rice! It’s 25 cals a cup I believe
5. I drink 3 cups of green tea a day (one before each meal)
6. If you’re craving something sweet, take the bread a mentioned earlier, make it into toast, and put a little honey on it! Super sweet and filling! (No more than 1 tbsp tho)
7. If you eat three meals a day you won’t be hungry! And with plenty of low cal fruit like blackberries or strawberries you’re cravings won’t get the best of you either!
If you want low-cal recipes that actually have an accurate amount of calories, check out what I eat everyday on @ana-meal-tracker
(Its a new account so there isn’t much on there right now)
Stay safe my loves! Never go below a BMI of 16 and if you feel weak eat something!
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1. Always eat breakfast. Studies prove that those who eat breakfast tend to make better food choices later in the day. You don’t want to skip off a breakfast of 100 calories for a 500 calorie slice of cake at desert. Besides, breakfast gets your metabolism revved up for the day ahead.
2. If you drink a lot of water on an empty stomach it just makes you gassy. Never fun. Small sips throughout the day is better. You’ll also have to pee a lot.
3. If you have things you shouldn’t (think diet pills, tape measures, thinspo, bag of spat out food, etc.) make sure you hide it. Leaving it below the bed or in your undies drawer is a surefire way to get those things found.
4. Overuse of laxitives and/or diuretics are bad for your body. Over time, abuse of laxitives and diuretics cause incontinence, and embarassment for you. And if you overuse laxitives, when you stop, your body won’t be able to have a proper bowel movement. Use them only on an as-needed basis, as defined by ‘normal’ people. As in, only when constipated.
5. If you sleep less than 6 hours a day, your metabolism goes down between 10-20% depending on the person. And your body produces more of the hormone that makes you feel hungry. So even though you can burn more calories by staying up all night on the exercise bike, opt for the sleep instead if you don’t want to overindulge the next day.
6. Don’t deprive yourself of anything. That just leads to bingeing. If you want chocolate cake, have it, even if it’s on your list of ‘bad foods’. BUT, only have a few small bites. That way, you can enjoy what you want without ruining your diet.
7. Smaller meals throughout the day help keep your metabolism up, burning more calories.
8. Your body burns about 8 calories per glass of ice water trying to get it up to a temperature in which it can be processed. That’s 64 calories a day, translating to about 6 or 7 more pounds burned off in a year. Make ice your new best friend.
9. Fiber keeps you fuller longer, and helps keep your digestive system in good shape, thus reducing the need for all those laxitives.
10. Smaller dishes make it seem like you eat more. You often times eat by eyesight, not by stomach fullness. Studies have shown that in 2 groups, with the same amount of food, but one group using large plates and the other small plates, the group with the small plates reported feeling fuller.
11.Horizontal stripes and light denims make you look larger. Avoid them like the plague (Or maybe not)
12. Purging too hard can rupture your esophagus. You might die alone and in pain hunched over your toilet. Just saying.
13. If you’re having a food craving, and smoke, light up and the craving goes away. However, in a short time, that craving will return with a vengeance.
14. If you have a large binge, then your stomach expands massively, and the pressure kills off blood cells. Over time, this leads to a severely damaged stomach that may rupture. Once again, just like a ruptured esophagus, this could lead to you dying in pain.
15. The negative calorie foods actually only burn about 10% of whatever they put into you. A stick of celery at about 2 cal will only burn off 0.2 cal.
16. Purging doesn’t get rid of all of the calories. You still have about 1/3 or 2/3 of those calories left in you, depending on how soon after you eat you decide to purge.
17. If you wait more than an hour to purge, then there’s no point in doing it. Even if food comes back up, your body will have already absorbed all those calories.
18. Your body doesn’t register the calories from liquid the same way as it does calories from food. Your stomach won’t send the same ‘stop eating’ signals to your brain like with food.
19. A good substitute for soda is ICE Sparkling Water. It has pretty good flavor, small amounts of B Vitamins, and green tea extract, all for 0 calories.
20. Prolonged fasting/starvation messes up your metabolism.
21. Take a multivitamin every day. Yes, even if it has 5 calories.
22. If your body hits a plateu, a ‘binge’ helps. It makes your body think that you’ve stopped starving yourself. In fact, make it a goal that you have a day a week in which you eat at least 1000 calories if you want your metabolism to work properly (meaning it actually keeps burning calories and digesting food).
23. Blotting greasy foods like bacon and pizza with a napkin can save you about 100 calories.
24. Whole-grains have fiber and make you fuller longer.
25. Take the stairs instead of the elevator.
26. Alcohol is calorie dense. Say goodbye to going out drinking with friends unless you plan to be the designated driver.
27. If you chew and spit it out, you’re doing just as much damage to your teeth as vomiting, maybe even more, because saliva has acid like that in your stomach, that starts digestion.
28. Over time, purging depletes tooth enamel. Yes, dentists can recognize it.
29. If you cook pasta, don’t use butter. But you get sticky pasta.
30. When your periods stop, osteoporosis sets in. You could be a 12 year old girl with the bones of an 80 year old woman. Sometimes, your bones never regain the proper density. You’ll become prone to stress fractures and breaking bones. Calcium supplements are gold right here. Buy the ones for elderly people with osteoporosis if you can.
31. Brushing your teeth right after purging causes the enamel to wear off, making your teeth decay faster. Chewing gum or mints releases saliva, doing the same.
32. Drinking a lot of water can make it seem that you weigh more, which can help when visiting the doctor. If a lot of liquid is consumed in a short period of time, you might cause yourself brain damage, swelling of the brain, water logging of the brain… So be careful about waterlogging.
33. Dehydration speeds up tooth decay, because you won’t have enough protective enzymes in your mouth to prevent the saliva from doing damage to your teeth. Don’t restrict liquids.
34. Make yourself lunch. A nice big sandwich with a juice and pack of chips. Then when you get to school, give it away to someone who forgot theirs.
35. If you hide food that you were supposed to have eaten, make sure you do something about it ASAP. Same with the bag of puke in the closet.
36. Be prepared for all the questions of ‘have you lost weight’ and ‘are you eating’.
37. You can only make the excuse of food poisoning a few times before it becomes fishy.
38. Laxitives don’t affect calorie consumption.
39. The more that you insist that you’re fat, the more likely people are going to become suspicious.
40. Don’t use thinspo with people showing bones. It raises eyebrows.
41. Denying things just makes people get more suspicious.
42. Running to the bathroom right after you eat makes people assume that you’re going to go purge.
43. Hot water fills you up more, but cold water burns more calories.
44. When you go into ketosis, your breath is going to smell like hell. Mints are your buddies.
45. Your body often mistakes thirst for hunger.
46. Track progress by measuring tapes, not scales or mirrors. Your eyes will show you a hippo, even if you’re a skeleton with a skin covering, and scales get affected by everything, and I mean everything.
47. If you take too many diet pills, or even just one on an empty stomach, it gives you some pretty nasty side effects. Make sure you take one with something food. Like a few bites of an apple.
48. The artificial sweeteners like those in diet soda have been shown in studies to promote the body storing belly fat. And some have been linked to brain tumours.
49. Eating on a dark blue or black plate has the effect of making you eat less.
50. If you want to prevent a binge, just buy the food that you need for the day if you live by yourself.
51. Frozen foods take longer to eat, so you feel occupied longer, and you might feel fuller. Oh, and your body has to burn calories to get it to a temperature that it can be digested, so win all around!
52. If you get bad headaches, it’s probably because you’re dehydrated or your blood sugar is too low.
53. If you don’t eat enough, your blood sugar drops, and then you start feeling weak and dizzy and get horrible headaches.
54. Don’t take aspirin on an empty stomach. It’ll make you puke.
55. Be careful about sitting with your legs crossed, they might fall asleep and cause you pain, and if you’re thin enough, you might pinch something, leaving you in pain or unable to walk.
56. If you don’t drink enough, you’ll get dehydrated, and then your muscles will hurt like a bitch. And no, painkillers probably won’t do anything for this.
57. It takes about 20 minutes for your body to feel full from the time that you first put a bite of food into your mouth.
58. Some sugar free gums have 3 calories, and some have 5. Even though you aren’t swallowing it, you should count these.
59. Get really good at math. That way, you can easily mentally add up whatever you’ve eaten for the day, without having to write it down. People get suspicious if they come across a food diary.
60. Dress warmly enough to keep warm without making it obvious. People get suspicious if you’re wearing a coat in 90 degree weather, or complaining about being cold while they’re ok or even too hot.
61. Spicy foods and seaweed boost the metabolism. Seaweed soup (35cal) with 1 tbsp soy sauce(10cal) and hotsauce (5cal) makes a great dinner.
62. Eating cabbage to lose weight is good, but smelly.
63. Eating in front of the TV or computer distracts you from feeling full.
64. Eat while standing burns more calories than eating while sitting.
65. Talk a lot and eat very little at lunch or dinner and people won’t notice.
66. Keep food spread out and close to the plate and people will think it’s more.
67. Your skin will turn gray or yellow if you don’t eat right. Tanning might help counteract this.
68. Your hair will get super dry and maybe even turn gray in places. Have extra strength conditioner and hair dye on call.
69. Your nailbeds are going to get blue from lack of nutrients. Find a pretty color nailpolish that you like.
70. Every 20 minutes or so when sitting, get up and take a short walk if you can.
71. Delete your browsing history. It’s hard to explain away your sudden weight loss when there’s all the pro ana tricks in your computer.
72. Weight lost slowly will stay off, whereas weight that is lost rapidly will come back, with more, when you start eating even somewhat normal.
73. If you lose weight too fast, you also lose muscle. When that happens, you burn off calories more slowly.
74. People with more muscle burn off more calories doing the same activities as people with less muscle.
75. If you burn off too much muscle, then your body burns calories more slowly.
76. Only eat when people are going to notice. And then, only have something small.
77. Excuses will be your new best friend. Use them like a cheap whore.
78. Lack of nutrients make you depressed.
79. Fasting for days on end makes your metabolism go down and increases cravings.
80. Break your exercise up into smaller 5-15 minute blocks. It’s easier to stomach that way.
81. It’s not so hard to put some exercise into your daily life. Take the stairs instead of the elevator, walk to nearby locations instead of driving, clean your house…
82. If you keep doing the same exercise day in and day out, your body will get used to it.
83. If you keep consuming the same number of calories per day, your body gets used to that too. Your metabolism goes down.
84. Coffee on an empty stomach makes you nauseous.
85. Diet pills can sometimes give you heart damage if you use too many or for too long.
86. Losing too much weight too fast might cause organ damage, especially to your heart, since in effect, your heart is just one big muscle.
87. Splenda with fiber is better than sweetener or fiber by itself. Add it to everything you need to make sweeter and you will get more fiber too.
88. Your body takes a long time to digest protein. So eat fish, it leaves a smell behind to make people think you’re eating.
89. Dish out food for yourself, then feed it to the dog below the table. Be careful though because if you feed your dog the wrong thing, you might make him sick.
90. Heat up food in the microwave and leave the door open. It makes everything smell. Double points if it splatters all over the inside.
91. Leave dirty dishes in the sink or dishwasher or on the counter.
92. Take food in a bowl from the kitchen, eat some of it at the dining room table, then act like you’re going back for more. Dump most of the food back into the pot, and leave only a few bites behind. Go back and eat those at the table.
93. Cook often for people. They usually assume that you ate some in the kitchen while you were making it.
94. When you cook, just the act of seeing so much food and smelling it is often enough to fill you up.
95. Remember that if you eat too much you’ll become fat. They don’t make cute clothes for fat people.
96. When sitting, maintain good posture. It burns more calories.
97. Black pepper makes your heart rate go up in case they think your blood pressure is too low. Be careful about the difference between sitting BP and standing BP though.
98. Get yourself a pair of jeans that are at a size or two smaller than what you are. Make it your goal to get into them. Even if the size that’s smaller than you is in the kids sizes.
99. Improper diet often leads to insomnia. Take up a hobby for when you’re unable to sleep, or when you’re craving.
100. Better yet, get sleeping pills.
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