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Tips to Lose Weight

My favorites are in bold.

Tips To Avoid Eating

Make a list of all the foods that you crave. Each day, pick one to take out of your diet. No matter what, you absolutely cannot eat again. Take one off until there are no bad foods.

Eat in front of a mirror naked except for tight underwear. Do you want him to see that?

Competition is the best motivation for some people. Find a buddy to lose weight with. If you’re ahead of them, it’s a blissful feeling that dwarfs the sick pleasure of eating. If you’re behind, looking at them makes you realize that food is unnecessary. There is nothing stopping you except you.

Curl up in a ball if you have hunger pains. Look at those rolls! You aren’t near hungry enough to get rid of those!

The smell of coffee suppresses appetite.

Wear perfectly applied lip-gloss. You’ll eat slowly and cautiously to avoid messing it up, which will draw your attention to the fact that you’re stuffing your face.

Don’t carry extra money, you’ll be tempted to spend it on food.

Avoid alcohol, tons of calories. Luckily, alcohol is intolerable if you’re chewing peppermint gum.

Don’t give in to your cravings. You’re stronger than that; look at those around you, getting fatter by the second. Be glad that isn’t you.

Chew gum while you cook for others so you won’t sample.

Drink a glass of ice cold water as often as possible, every half-hour is ideal. The water fills and cleanses you; the cold burns calories. At least two quarts daily is good. Water is necessary to carry away the breakdown byproducts of fat.

Smoke a cigarette if you’re hungry. Starting the habit for this reason- bad idea. Symptoms of withdrawal from cigarettes include RAPID WEIGHT GAIN.

Caffeine speeds up metabolism, but you can become dependant in the same way as diet pills.

Wear your favorite tight bikini bottom and take a picture of your love handles. Look at it when you want to eat.

Before you eat, count to 100. Usually that’s all it takes to realize you don’t want it.

Spin in circles: burns calories, induces nausea.

Try new foods when you’re sick, it creates an irreversible association between the food and feeling sick. (This worked wonders for me! I can’t even step foot in a Chick-Fil-A restaurant now!)

If hungry, follow the 4D’s:
Distance yourself from the food;
Delay eating;
Distract yourself;
Decide what your goals really are.

Diet soda works like a miracle at filling you. No calories, obviously. Drink one on a walk, your stomach will hurt a bit and you won’t want to eat for a while.

Think of something disgusting and put the food you crave beside it mentally. Recall a mortifying event and tell yourself that it was caused by the food. Soon you will automatically associate the two.

Tips To Control Eating

Never eat more than a cup. Your stomach will expand and you’ll eat more later.

It takes twelve hours for the body to start feeding off its own fat.

Write down everything you eat. Sometimes you’ll disgust yourself by saying it.

If your stomach growls too loudly, hit it and take a Tums.

Look at what you’re about to eat. Imagine a bulge in your stomach shaped like that cheeseburger or muffin or whatever it is. Only eat it if you’d be willing to eat the same amount in pure fat.

Make a plan for the week. Buy only food on this plan. Have nothing laying around except for what you have pre-calculated into your allowed daily calorie budget.

If you’re not reading nutrition information on everything that you eat yet, you’re in for it when you see what foods get more than 30% of their calories from fat.

If you’ve eaten an acceptable amount of food but are still hungry, wait twenty minutes and you’ll probably feel full.

Fiber is a natural laxative and makes you feel full. Total cereal- disgusting! Not only is it the percent daily values for the pigs on the street, but all in one meal? Gross.

Eat with your non-dominant hand.

Cut your food into tiny bites and eat very slowly. After you swallow a bite, chew on nothing for a little while, and then take another bite.

Fat free hot cocoa and coffee or chai tea with skim milk fills you up amazingly fast.

Give yourself tiny portions. If you put more than you need or even want on your plate, you’ll feel obligated to eat it.

Imagine everything you’re eating is coated in butter- even the utensils.

Weigh yourself before and after eating.

Stay away from Slim-fast and other “diet” foods. Glance at the nutrition facts and you’ll see why. With all the carbs and excess calories you might as well go eat a freakin pie or something. They also cost a bundle.

Put your food money in a jar; buy something inedible at the end of the month as a reward for everything you didn’t eat.

Tips For Purging

Drink a big glass of water while eating, it’ll come up better.

Only eat it if you want it up your nose later. No spicy foods!

If you’re going to binge on sweets, make it ice cream. If you vomit right after, there’s absolutely no stomach acid taste (if you eat it on an empty stomach).

Don’t use syrup of Ipecap.

Use a toothbrush and wiggle it back and forth.

Carry around some natural smelling perfume in case you can smell it on you.

Chew gum afterwards and brush teeth often, but not right after. This will only disintegrate teeth faster.

Tips To Burn Calories

Every bit of movement burns calories. Think of people in third-world countries who eat nothing and walk miles and miles every day.

When deciding what to eat, choose something far away or schedule lunch at a friend’s, then take a jog to it.

Work out before you eat to burn fat instead of food.

Eating celery is better than drinking water! You’ve probably heard that it has negative calories, which means it takes more calories to digest than it contains.

Turn down the thermostat. Keeping warm burns tons of fat energy.

Quotes

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.

One moment on the lips ... forever on the hips.

The thinner the winner!

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Hunger hurts but starving works.

This is forever. I will do what it takes. I want to be thin more than anything, even food.

Starvation is fulfilling. Colors become brighter, sounds sharper, odors so much more savory and penetrating that inhalation fills every fiber and pore of the body. The greatest enjoyment of food is actually found when never a morsel passes the lips.

This is no diet, this is a lifestyle.

One day I will be thin enough. Just the bones, no disfiguring flesh. Just the pure, clear shape of me, bones. That is what we all are, what we’re made up of and everything else is just storage, deposit, waste. Strip it away, use it up.

You will be tempted quite frequently, and you will have to choose whether you shall enjoy the twenty minutes or so that you will be consuming excess calories, or whether you will cordially despise yourself for two or three days, for your lack of willpower.

Nothing. Nothing is wrong, and asking is against the rules. Crying is against the rules. You’re strong, don’t let them break you. They’re trying to destroy you.

The more they give me, the less I’ll eat.

Quod me nutrit, me destruit. (What nourishes me also destroys me.)

Why can’t they realize my strength? How much it’s taken to make so little of myself...

It’s simple: You decide once and for all that you aren’t going to eat and there is no further decision to make.

Most women live their lives in a state of starvation. Why should I be any different?

In the body, as in sculpture, perfection is attained not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

They always say they’re concerned about me, about me health, when all they want to do is control me. They want to pin me down and force-feed me with lies, with what they call love. Like prisoners everywhere, all I have left is the power to refuse.

I do eat normally, only what is needful for survival. I can’t help it that we live in a piggish society where gluttony is the norm and everyone is constantly stuffing themselves.

When I wake, I’m empty, light, light-headed. I like to stay this way, free and pure, light on my feet, traveling light.

For me, food’s only interest lies in how little I need, how strong I am, how well I can resist, each time achieving another small victory of the will.

Surely the body can be trained to exist on nothing, to take its nourishment from the air and sun.

When you coast without eating for a significant period of time and you are still alive, you begin to scoff at those fools who believe they must eat to live. It is blatantly obvious to you that this is not true.

Food hinders progress.

We turn skeletons into goddesses, and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.

How many pounds till I am happy, how many pounds till I get thin? Three more pounds till I am skinny, three more pounds and I win!

You’ve made a decision: you will not stop. The pain is necessary, especially the pain of hunger. It reassures that you are strong, can withstand anything.

You can learn to love anything, I think, if you need to badly enough. I trained myself to enjoy feeling hungry. If my stomach contracts, or I wake up feeling nauseated, or I’m light-headed or have a hunger headache, or better yet, all of the above, it means I’m getting thinner, so it feels good. I feel strong, on top of myself, in control.

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