Tips

Pro-Ana Tips and Rules (I copied this off of a now defunct website, RIP Anna’s Underground Grotto)* Cold showers help you burn calories to stay warm. Also, cold water helps your hair hold in the vitamins in your shampoo and contioner as well as enhancing volume.
* Water is your best friend. It fills you up and also keeps your skin looking good, not dry or yellow.
* Every now and then, buy tampons or pads. Keep them with you and throw them out as if you had used them; this will allay suspicion that you’ve lost your period due to being too thin.
*Drink a full glass of ice water at least 3 times a day. Good hydration reduces hunger, and it’s good for your skin

* “Spend” your calories on healthy things such as protein and vegetables; why be thin and dead?
* Layers, people, layers upon layers of clothing! Keeps you warm and keeps people from noticing how thin you’ve become. Gloves and hats are wonderful, too.

* Manicures/pedicures hide brittle nails.
* Caffeine reduces hunger and gives you energy to get through your day.
* Taking antacids will help reduce hunger pains.
* Gum, coffee, and diet soda. Drink or chew constantly and you won’t feel hungry.
* Drinking something warm fills you up and reduces hunger pangs.
* Drinking something cold makes your body burn extra calories to keep you warm.
The 7-7 Rule
Dinner must be eaten by 7:00 pm. After dinner, no food is to be 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 an entire year, you will have equivalently fasted for 6 months.

The 3-hour Rule
3 hours must pass between the last time you ate 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.

When you’re feeling weak…

1. Pinch your thigh and see how you don’t need food, because you should be eating your own flesh all away from the inside first.
2. Go to the library. You can research dieting or whatever, or you can read the classics, or some of the aforementioned literature. Or you can do homework, or write letters, but the beauty of it is, since no food or drink is allowed, you’ll have no choice but to abstain from a meal.

.3. Buy some baby teething gel and rub it on your tongue, to numb your tastebuds.
4. If you’re even considering eating, just hold your breath and count to 100. Chances are that you’ll convince yourself not to eat whatever it is you’re craving in that time.
5. The scent of coffee has been proven to lessen ones appetite.
6. Chew the food but don’t swallow it. Spit it in the bin.

7. If you’re feeling dangerous, plan out the next few hours so that you’re occupied for every single minute. Write a list of things to do for every 15 minutes. ex.) exercise, surf the internet, email your friends, clean a room, read a book.
8. If you’re feeling brave enough to face the kitchen, go there and throw out any potential binge foods. If you must, pour bleach/disinfectant/dishwashing detergent on the food, and then throw it away!
9. Pinch your ear! Apply pressure to the front of the ear, one at a time. The front of the ear is apparently a pressure point, in the area that controls hunger.

10. Let perfume replace chocolate. Every time you have a craving, or pass a bakery, sniff some Chanel no. 5. Apply it to a tissue and carry it with you. Smell has a powerful effect on appetite.
11. Clean something. Cleaning something dirty can make you lose your appetite. The toilet, the litter box, under the kitchen sink, scrubbing out the garbage bin, anything grimy or smelly. The mess, along with the smell of the cleaner, can put you off food for a while.
12. Become an artist. Write anorexic poetry. Anorexics are creative. Collect pictures of skinny girls. Stick them all in your notebook.

Avoid that plate!

Here are some things to do INSTEAD OF eating:

1. Clean house! Get busy “hoeing and throwing,” go through old stuff and purge out what you don’t wear, don’t want, don’t need anymore. Dust. Vaccuum. Scrub. Keep busy! It engages the attention and keeps the thoughts off food. If you’re a teen, your mom will be amazed and VERY grateful, so grateful she’ll forget to nag you about food! If you’re an adult, you’ll thank yourself when you’re done!

2. Keep sipping on that lemon-water, tea, or diet pepsi while you work! Keeps the tummy sated so it won’t growl at ya.

3. Put on some music and dance! Or keep the tunes rolling while you clean house, it keeps the work from getting boring and you can boogie while you sweat!

4. Work on your new pro-ana website, or update your online ana journal.

5. Network with other pro-anas through chat, email, messenger or club sites — get some support and motivation from your sisters/brothers when you NEED it!

6. Put together a pro-ana scrapbook (or add some new things if you already have one) with lists of safe foods, low-cal, low-fat, low-carb recipes, word collages, and of course, TRIGGER PICS!!!

7. Surf the web and make a list of all the pro-ana sites you can find, or all the safe-food sites you can find, or all the places online where you can buy diet pills, shake mixes, etc. These lists are VERY handy for research and sharing with others!

8. Get up off that lazy cow butt and take a walk or start working out! You still have fat to burn, don’t you??? Quit laying around dreaming of donuts and pizza and GET BUSY!!! =)