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Make
a plan and stick with it. Too many alternatives lead to wavering,
indecisiveness, and ultimately, failure. It is one thing to have a
back-up plan to implement when circumstances warrant, but another thing
entirely to plan for failure by having too many alternative plans, too
much "either this or that or the other", in case you waver from the
original plan. In those cases, you set yourself up for failure, because
you conceive of a plan and then you tell yourself, "but if I cannot
handle this --" (translate: if this causes me any discomfort) "-- I can
always do X or Y instead." This sets a domino effect in motion, for
then when you come to this X or Y, you repeat the process, moving onto
Z or Q or whatever other of a dozen alternatives present themselves. In
the end, you make no real decisions at all, execute nothing volitional,
but are simply tossed here and there by the whimsical tide of emotion,
feeling and sensation. The stomach growls a little more than you
anticipated, so you modify your plan. The fragrance of forbidden
morsels calls to you more insistently than you thought it would, so you
modify your plan. Stop modifying endlessly. Decide upon something and
stick with it. Replace it with something else when it ceases to be
effective, or because you have finished your experiment with it and
decide rationally to move on to another plan -- NOT because suddenly
you feel inconvenienced by it.
An end to this nonsense:
"I
am going to fast on water only for three days, except if I feel weak or
hungry then I will have some chicken broth, or else I might eat one
nutrition bar, or two nutrition bars, but if I do that then I will just
switch to 2-4-6-8 for the week, only if I end up eating too many
calories I'll just reverse it and do 8-6-4-2, except if I really binge
bad, then I will have to fast on water only for at least a day to make
up for that."
ENOUGH! Can you not yet see
that this is literally PLANNING TO FAIL? When you plan around the
possibilities of failure, of wavering from your determinations and your
plans, you are planning for failure to happen. You might as well give
it up before you start and go ahead and make a pig out of yourself.
Obviously that is what you want to do when you play games like this.
Don't try to tell me it is not. Instead, get serious, quit playing
games with yourself. What you really want, you must choose, and what
you choose, you must give priority. Personal discomfort and
inconvenience is not sufficient reason to give up on your plans.
Endure, press on, in spite of it. No pain, no gain. No loss, either.
The stink of sweat is the odor of toxin leaving the body. Fat is
like toxin; the poison of pointless hoarding, the physical
manifestation of the spiritual equivalent of a pig wallowing in filth.
The odor of sweat indicates fat is leaving the body, being consumed in
the metabolic furnace. That is the only usefulness it has: to be burned
like refuse, consumed, and discarded. The sound of your stomach
growling and its hollow gnawing are signals that your furnace is
burning and your body is seeking fuel. Give it the fuel most readily
available: that which it has already stored.
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http://www.plagueangel.net/grotto/id8.html
 
These people have all struggled with an eating disorder.
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| 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!!! =)
Tell 'em what they wanna hear!
So
what do you do when others are pushing you to eat? Here's some
effective ways to excuse yourself from joining the piggies at the
trough:
1. "Oh, thank you, but I already ate at work (school, friend's house, on your way home, etc. wherever you just came from)."
2.
"Well, I haven't really been feeling well today. My stomach is kind of
queasy; maybe I'll just have some hot tea and see if it settles for
now."
3. "Man, I've got a massive headache -- I'll just take
a big glass of water and an aspirin (tylenol, ibuprofen, whatever) if
you don't mind ..."
4. "Well, I had a really HUGE breakfast (lunch, snack, whatever) and I'm still full from that ... maybe later."
In
ALL cases, if you are really being pressured to eat (from parents,
friends, boyfriend, whomever), often nibbling a few safe bites here and
there and drinking a TON of water at the table serves as a good
compromise. Often they won't notice how little you are eating, or will
overlook it if you combine a few "brave" nibbles with one of the
excuses listed above.
 
I hate this.
To eat is to die, and to starve is to live.
But starving is slowly killing yourself.
To be as light as air.
To be as a whiff of smoke, to move gracefully and float and curl up and around the others.
To become transparent and to disappear.
I will accept that air that is within me,
it is all I need to survive,
Drunk on water. Feeding on the air.
reducing and disappearing until I am nothing,
but gone.
Everything up is from this site~~
http://www.plagueangel.net/grotto/id4.html
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Start Position
Lay on your back with your knees bent, as if you were setting up for a
traditional crunch. Put your feet on the ground, your left hand at the side of
your head, and your right on the left side of your midsection. Keeping your
knees together as one unit, let them both fall to the right. Make sure you keep
your head and chest facing the ceiling.
The Movement
Crunch your chest toward the hip that is facing up. Even though your lower trunk
is twisted to one side, crunch your upper torso straight up. When you have
completed one set, change your body position to exactly opposite, and do an
equal number of repetitions with your knees and lower torso turned to the other
side.
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This is a solid, basic oblique exercise. But like any of the exercises, with
focused intensity, you can generate an effective load on the muscles.
To increase the range of motion (which is limited by doing these on the floor), place a half foam roller
under your lower back/hips, or try a more advanced version of this on the Swiss ball or Roman chair.
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Keep one hand on your obliques (i.e., the hand of the side that your knees are
facing on the side of your obliques that are facing up at the ceiling).
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Breathe out as you crunch your chest into your hip, in on the way down.
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Keep your eyes on your left heel when your knees are facing right, and vice versa.
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Picture in your mind touching the side of your ribs to the side of your pelvis.
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Start Position
Lie on your back, knees bent, so your left foot is resting flat on the floor.
With your right knee bent, place your right foot across your left knee. Your
neck and head should be relaxed with your left hand at the side of your head and
your right hand on the left side of your abdominals.
The Movement
Curl your body up with a twisting movement, bringing your left shoulder toward
your right knee. "Unwind" as you slowly lower yourself back to the floor—touch
your shoulders to the floor and repeat. After completing the set number of reps
on the left side, switch to the right side and do the same.
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This is a great variation on the classic ab crunch. The variation in the leg
positions (crossing the leg over the other) can increase the contraction of the
oblique.
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Put your free hand on the side of your abdominals opposite to that hand, just
below the rib cage.
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Breathe out on the way up, in on the way down, so you are not holding in any air
at the top of the crunch.
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Make sure you twist your torso. Don't just move the elbow across your body.
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Start Position
Lie on your back with your knees bent and your feet together six inches above
the floor. Place your hands behind your head, like you would if you were getting
ready to do an ab crunch.
The Movement
Keeping your feet close to your hips, contract your lower abs, slowly bringing
your knees toward your chest and lifting your butt off the floor. Once you have
curled your lower body as far as you can, slowly lower to the starting position.
Repeat.
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This is one of the easier lower ab exercises, but that doesn't mean it is easy
to do. When you effectively isolate the lower abs (as best as you can) they
fatigue rather quickly, and you'll feel them. You'll really feel the
lower abs when you kick in to high gear and move through this exercise slowly,
with focus.
This is a perfect exercise to learn (or relearn) how to focus on the lower abs—to
contract the muscle in this Region. Use it, build from it, and then return to it
when a higher degree of difficulty is too much.
Women generally have longer legs and shorter upper
bodies than men, which makes this exercise easier for them. Thus, to increase
the challenge of this lower ab exercise, I suggest doing this exercise on an
incline bench—placing your hips lower than your chest increases gravity,
resistance, and range of motion.
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Breathe out as you curl your legs into your chest, in as you lower your legs.
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To make this exercise a bit harder and more intense, simply place your hands,
palms down, on the floor by your hips.
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Visualize yourself curling up into a ball.
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