These "tips" were found on a Pro-Ana site.
I’ve found this tips in a pro ana site. What do you think about it?
1. WATER…I can’t say it enough…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. It’s perfect!
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 and will also deter you from eating because you don’t want to lose those bones, do you?
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. Okay, this is a little different than what other pro-ana sites may say. 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, don’t you think?
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. For example, when I was in high school my mom made me eat breakfast. So I would get up a little earlier, go to the kitchen, make some toast, fix some cereal, and get out a yogurt. Toast the bread (leave the toaster out), put crumbs on the plate, pour some cereal and throw it down the garbage disposal, do the same with the yogurt. If the food isn’t there, your parents will think that you ate it!
18. If you’re in college, schedule classes around meal times. You can’t eat in class, can you?
19. Do something you enjoy instead of eating. Take a bath, 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.
What makes this even sadder, is that I can understand why many girls to this to themsleves. (Understanding and condoning are two different things, however.) I'm sure we've all heard it before, there is ridiculous amounts of pressure on girls to be 'attractive'. (Though skeletons aren't very pretty to me...) And which girls can say they haven't submitted to that pressure somehow? Shaving your legs, plucking your eyebrows, straightening your hair, doing your nails, make up, the list goes on. I would argue that these things aren't really bad, but they do tie into that need to feel attractive. And hey, who doesn't want to feel attractive? It's a good feeling! It only gets scary when this want (want, not need) to be attractive ends up overriding your need of self preservation.
Too bad there aren't more messages around like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcRiXOONqf0
(Yes, Mika is a guilty pleasure for me. Shush.)
Or even better yet, a message telling woman to be HEALTHY. I'd post one here, but none come to mind.
Oh. I wonder why.
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That's horrifying.
On the one that says "Losing=Life, Gaining=Death" you have the same statement if you move the equals sign.
"Losing Life=Gaining Death"
I realize that's extremely obvious and doesn't actually say anything at all, but that's what I at first thought it said - I thought it was some kind of propaganda like, "don't think of it as losing life... think of it as GAINING (death)"
You should bring this to our attention when we get to the gender roles part of our advertising unit.
Yeah I couldn't keep reading after like the first two, so i jumped to the bottom.
That youtube movie is hilarious.
You can't possibly suggest people be themselves. People are predisposed to want to improve. Thus they go away from themselves. And thus I think, and thus is law.
To Kelly:
I think you misunderstand the meaning of being yourself. We're constantly changing, so we're always moving away from "ourselves" by your definition. (Which I disagree with.) I think self improvement is just putting that change into a postive direction. Just because people are always changing doesn't mean they're not being themselves, it just means that they're changing.
I don't think I could put into words what it means to be yourself, but it's certainly not what these girls are doing.
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