My Struggle with Ana and Search for Ultimate Perfection: Hitting Rock Bottom

1) Drink a glass of water every hour. It boosts your metabolism and makes you feel full;

2) Drink ice-cold water, your body burns more calories raising the temperature of the water and it's great for your complexion;

3) Drink green tea, it boosts your metabolism and the anti-oxidants are also great for your skin;

4) Alternate every mouthful of food with a mouthful of water, it makes you feel fuller quicker and you will eat less;

5) Drink boullion/stock cubes. They only have 7 cals, taste great and fill you up;

6) Take vitamins every day but not on an empty stomach as they need food to be assimilated i.e. fat soluble vitamins need at least a little fat for absorption;

7) Spicy foods raise your metabolism;

8) Use smaller plates/utensils, you will feel like you've eaten more;

9) Only eat from dark coloured plates/bowls;

10) If you feel tempted to eat when you shouldn't, count to 100 first, you should lose the urge;

11) Keep active, you are less likely to be pre-occupied with thoughts of food/eating;

12) Try to get at least 6 hours of sleep a night, otherwise your metabolism can be lowered by up to 15%;

13) Spend time doing things you love to do; you are more likely to feel fulfilled and will spend less time obsessing about food and weight;

14) Pamper yourself, take a bath, give yourself a facial, give yourself a manicure/pedicure, anything to make you feel good about yourself;

15) Spend at least 20 minutes a day meditating and visualising;

16) Take up yoga (even just buy a yoga book and do the exercises in your bedroom);

17) Keep good posture, sitting up straight can burn up to 10% more calories;

18) Instead of buying food, buy something nice like candles, some new clothes or make-up. There's no point in buying food and then beating yourself up so much after you've eaten it that you end up feeling even worse.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Hitting Rock Bottom

Well after my most difficult year of all the Gods decided to smile on me and give me another fantastically wonderful turn of events! Sorry, I'm in a terribly sarcastic mood at the moment -the last few days just been a total nightmare but I guess I should just get on with it and appreciate what I do have.
There's no point in me even bothering to rant about all that went wrong, suffice to say that, as if my life isn't crappy enough, the fates have decided to just to compound it all by putting me into as tight a financial squeeze as possible! I don't know how I'm going to work it all out but I guess I'm just destined to be perpetually broke!
Anyway, as a result of everything that's been happening, my morale is pretty rock-bottom at the moment and now I'm terrified that I'll go and binge and make myself feel even worse again....I need to stop this!

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