My advice? As a personal trainer I'd say: It's fucking stupid. Not just because it's dangerously unhealthy, but because it will have the opposite effect. Yeah, you'll get a little bit skinnier (not much before you pass out every time you try and stand, then have to go to the hospital due to malnutrition). Also, when you're done with your anorexia "phase", most of the food you eat turns straight to fat. Why? Because your body needs a little fat to survive and you just killed it all off. So, you'll end up looking (maybe) a little skinnier, you'll get super sick, then even fatter than you were before you started this.
Now... want to get skinny and in great shape in a healthy way that your body will thank you for? I promise you can loose at least 15-20lbs a month doing this. Read closely:
First: Count them calories. How many calories should you eat a day? That's simple. Lookup an online calorie calculator, my favorite one is this one: link
Fill that out, and it will tell you how many calories a day to eat to meet your goal.
Second: Cardio, cardio, cardio. There are tons of quick, 30 min cardio workouts all over YouTube that you can lookup. Do one everyday, preferably on an empty stomach first thing in the morning. (Coffee or morning tea is fine though). If you need help finding a good one, PM me.
That's it. You'll shed pounds quickly with those two steps. People LOVE to overcomplicate weight loss, but I'm a personal trainer and I've been doing this for years and have always seen amazing results. Best of luck and PM me if you need any advice about achieving your goals.
Anorexics tend to know a lot about how to pretend not to eat or avoid consuming food, but actually know very little about weight loss.
If you actually have fat to lose and want to learn from people who actually know how to drop fat fast, read what boxers/wrestlers etc do to cut weight during a training camp (and skip what they do at the end to shift water weight off and on again, though its good to understand how that works, since that's what a lot of dumb advice about cleanses and things actually does).
Yes I tried anorexia when I was 15 and it nearly killed me. Every one around me including my family saw what I was doing to myself and nobody intervened. It wasn't until I got very sick with double pneumonia and went into cardiac arrest at age 16 that someone did. I am truly grateful for the hard truth that doctor gave me it was a real shock to hear him say " you're going to die" without any of him trying to put it gently. It was the slap in the face and dose of reality I needed. I had to be fed through a tube for a month and severely damaged calcium discs in my body, my hair fell out in clumps and I stopped getting a period. The hardest part was trying eat solid foods again in tiny amounts because, my body was rejecting food and I vomited a lot the first six weeks. some people in severe cases of anorexia die if they try to eat a normal size meal, it sends the body into shock. Also, if a severe anorexic gains weight too quickly, they could have a heart attack and die. Please don't do this to yourself, it took me a close call to death and years of therapy to overcome this disease.
I do this sometimes... I'm pretty ashamed of it, and wish I didn't. I only obsessed over it when I had a serious accident and had to quit sports and sit around for about three months. I wasn't going to school or doing anything and I didn't see my friends so I felt like everything was out of my control, and because I was just sitting around, I naturally started to gain a little weight. It was weird because I'd always been busy so my weight just sort of took care of itself, but then it really set me off. Plus my muscles weren't as strong as they were, so I was feeling really low. I started looking up those kinds of websites and kept a food diary on and off for a few weeks just as a way to punish myself a bit. I also trawled pinterest for thinspo and fitspo. I don't know why I fixated on it, I guess I just wanted to be able to control something. I eventually started to get better, and I haven't looked on up for a while now. I can't imagine feeling that way for your whole life.
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This really horrifies me and breaks my heart that you ever considered starving yourself (I mean, the amount of self hatred you must have :/). I can't even begin to tell you how happy I am that you didn't go down that road. I mean, anorexia is definitely a special kind of hell that you would never come back from, so I hope you're happier with yourself now, and you won't ever consider that again (just because I would never want you to hurt yourself like that). And, I mean, I never looked up tips, or anything, but when my eating disorder was really bad I surrounded myself around people like that, just because (I mean, hey, misery loves company, yeah?).
I couldn't be anorexic even if I tried. And to be honest, I don't think you can either. Because like you said, it's an actual disorder. It's mental. It's not something you can wake up and give yourself. Just like I can't go read up on schizophrenic people and then try to become one. I can't rewire my brain. And why would you want a disorder anyway? Girl wake up! I would shake you if you were here in front of me.
If you want to lose weight I suggest you join support groups and get some motivation. Support is all over the place. You could even start with instagram or some of those apps on the phone. There are plenty there where you can share progress and stories.
Anorexia isn't 'an option', it is a disease that gets control over you. It is paradoxical because it starts to develop when you don't have control over something and you try to compensate and start controlling your food intake. Until the control over food intake starts to control you and when you read the tips about how to loose some more weight and how to hide it... it can get dangerous because when you know how to do it-> the anorexia in you knows how to do it and than you HAVE to do it.
When you are in a healthy mental state those tips probably sound disturbing and won't really get you, but when you have anorexia the anorexia will remember every single detail and it will make you follow them because when you don't the anorexia will punish you with extreme guilt and low self esteem but when you do follow them it will praise you with a second of some sort of self worth.
I went through this phase where I wanted to get skinnier and skinnier (I was ~ 100 lbs already) and found this pro-eating disorder type website. I spent like two hours on it and then realized what I was doing and how gross everything I was reading was. Ugh
Anorexia is very bad. If you wanna lose weight there are other ways to do it.
Only an ugly's skeletal idiot girl wants to be anorexic beautiful girls are, not anorexic
I don't think anorexia is really considered an "option" it's apparently a mental illness.
You can't "try" anorexia, it's a mental illness. you can't try to give yourself a mental illness nor should you want to.
I wouldn't recommend you doing it, it's bad for your health but basically it's just starving yourself. I guess.
Wait, you want anorexia? Stupid idea.
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