My Struggle with Ana and Search for Ultimate Perfection: The Sweet Taste of Success!

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, March 1, 2010

The Sweet Taste of Success!

Right well the good news is that I've managed a little bit of pro-activity. After moping around reading everyone else's blogs for most of the day, I finally dragged my fat and melancholic ass into the shower and then made myself get dressed (to be honest I think I was even afraid of washing because I didn't want to look at myself).
Anyway that was a minor success but what was even better was that I then took myself off for a walk down to the local store and stocked up on fruit, veg, and lo-cal dressings. Just back and had some carrots and celery with my new dressings, (v. yum). I've prob only eaten 40 cals worth and I'm completely stuffed -how cool is that?!!! I can almost feel the pounds dropping off already -no more Fatty McFats waddling around!

I'd taken today off work but I'm back in tomorrow so I'm not going to be too naiive and think that it's going to be this easy every day but I've stopped caring what other people think anymore so here's hoping I'll be able to stick to my plan. I'm bringing my veggies to work with me anyway -if people want to sit in judgement of me, then that's their prerogative. C x

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