Pro-Ana

Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it.

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

Someday is not a day of the week.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Putting off an easy thing makes it hard. Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Procrastination is like masturbation. At first it feels good, but in the end you're only screwing yourself.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Life's problems wouldn't be called "hurdles" if there wasn't a way to get over them.

God gives us dreams a size too big so that we can grow in them.

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

Life is full of obstacle illusions.

It is never too late to be who you might have been.

The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.

Know your limits... but never stop trying to exceed them.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.
You can always go farther than you think you can.

Eating the wrong foods is what helped me to gain weight. Eating the right foods will help me to lose it.

Eat less, weigh less.

First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they'll eventually conquer you.

Extra pounds are the penalty I pay for overdrawing my calories checkbook.

It's not like beauty will make you especially interesting but it does help people to get interested in your soul.

If I eat anything, I'll eat everything, so I eat nothing.

Every calorie you eat equals another step toward destruction.

A woman can never be too blonde, too rich, or too thin!

Food is the drug we all must quit.

Those bones don't mean I'm skinny, they mean there's more to lose.

Ask me to show you perfect and I will show you a thin person.

Starving is not pain, it's the cure.

Blessed are the starving, for they shall teach us not to want.

Within me lies a treasure hunt, when I lose- I win.

I'm not yet a winner. I could be thinner. So I must go throw up dinner.

You have such a pretty face, why don't you try dieting?

You want food? Look at those THIGHS!

The only freedom left is the freedom to starve.

Time spent wasting is not wasted time.

Bones define who we really are, let them show.

Do you really want to be that weight for the rest of your life!?!?

Giving in to food shows weakness, be strong and you will be better than everyone else.

Fridge pickers wear big knickers.

A flat stomach is nice, but a concave one is perfect.

You aren't defeated when you lose, your only defeated when you quit!

Do not give up on what you want most, for what you want at the moment.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

My advice if you insist on slimming: Eat as much as you like just don’t swallow it.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt on butter, And never touch bread till it’s toasted - or stale.

This is my personal challenge for me. I'm going to try so hard! Laugh at me if you want; I wont let that effect me. I can do this, Only I can let myself fail.

I dream of things, you laugh at. You laugh at me for making goals that are too high. You make fun behind my back, because I reach them.

I strive for perfection, I drive myself on that. My dream may be far off, but each kilo that falls off, I am one step closer than before. Knowing I am getting closer, gives me energy to keep going. So I do not give up.

An imperfect body reflects an imperfect person

Nothing tastes as good as thin feels

Food is a hinderance to your progress

Don't eat anything today that you'll regret tomorrow

I'm not starving myself. I'm perfecting my emptiness

Hunger hurts but starving works

Thinner is winner

Let your bones define the beauty of your body

I can get thinner. I can cut it all off. I can wear low slung Levi's and crop tops and long straight dresses like willowy models, and I will grasp with the breathlessness of being airborn. I can fly and be free.

I never realized how easyit was.

I, the hunger artist, rarely disappoint my audience

It's not deprivation, it's liberation.

Craving is only a feeling

Thin is a skill

What's in your fingers today is on your hips tomorrow

Happy or sad, rich or poor, it's better being thin.

You've come too far in life to take orders from a cookie.

Calories can't make you happy.

Do you like it enough to wear it?

You can never be too rich or too thin.

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 20 minutes or so that you will be consuming excess calories, or whether you will cordially despise yourself for 2 or 3 days, for your lack of willpower.

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

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!

Love not what you are, but what you may become.

Don't let todays moment forsake tomorrows dream.

If you aren't thin, you aren't attractive.

Being thin is more important that being healthy.

Thou shall not eat without feeling guilty.

What the scale says is the most important thing.

Losing weight is good/gaining weight is bad

Being thin and not eating are signs of true willpower and success.

Like a plant, surely the body can be trained to exist on nothing - to take it's nourishment from the air.

The difference between want and need is self control

Stop poisoning your body with food.

A full belly is the mother of all evil.

If you have weight to lose, lose it. It wouldn't be there if you weren't supposed to lose it.

Every time I have the opportunity to eat, I have the strenght to refuse.

An ordinary girl, an ordinary waist - but ordinary's just not good enough today.

If it tastes good, it's trying to kill you.

I want a perfect body, I want a perfect soul.

Know that the pain will pass... when it passes... you will be stronger, happier, and more aware.

Love everything and what is real will still remain.

Not eating light makes your clothes tight.

Everything I want o be, I am, only buried under a layer of fat.

Strict is my diet, I must not want.

Ana, my friend, my companion.

My scale is never happy, neither am I.

Eat to live, don't live to eat.

Giving in to food shows weakness, be strong and you will be better than everyone else.

Find perfection in bones
Bones define who we really are, let them show
Time spent wasting is not wasting time
This isn't so bad, I can go another day.

If you don't run your own life, someone else will.

Good girls don't swallow

Failure is taking the path that everyone else does, sucess is making your own path.

Sucess is determined by how determined you are to succeed

Food is Satan, don't be a victim.

Empty is pure. Starving is pure.

Just say no and keep your mouth closed.

Thou shall not eat fattening foods without punishing oneself afterwards.

Everyone is just jealous

Once I set my heart on something, I just wont stop till I get it.

Can't they realize my strength? How much it's taken me to make so little of myself.

You've made a decision: you wont stop. The pain is necessary, especially the pain of hunger. It reassures you that you are STRONG, can withstand anything, that you are NOT a slave to your body, that you don't have to give in to it's whining.

I've freed myself from this compulsion of eating. When I wake, I am empty, light, light-headed; I love to stay ts way, free and pure, light on my feet, travelling as a feather.

For me, foods only interest lies in how little I need, how strong I am, how well I can resist each bite. Acheiving another small victory of the will. Each gain makes me stronger, purer, larger in my excersizes of power, until eventually I see no reason to eat at all.

Strip it away.

Lose everything and what is real will still remain

Perfection is easy - it equals not being fat.

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

There will be long, lean days ahead... Desire can be quelled by a single act of will.

Greed begins where need ends - and we need nothing. Eating is against the rules. Crying is against the rules. You are strong, don't let them break you. They are trying to destroy you.

Remeasure, reweigh, try harder

Keep yourself awake. If you sleep, you aren't burning calories.

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

Inside us is a thin person struggling to get out, but she is too sedated with a few peices of chocolate cake.

Brain cells come and go, but fat cells live forever.

One of life's mysteries is how a 2-pound box of candy can make a woman gain 5 pounds.

Strarve my pain away, make me beautiful, make everything ok, turn my problems into bone, crush them up, gather the remains, blow away the dust.

Thin is beautiful but even thinner is perfection.

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

Starvation is fulfilling. I will do whatever it takes. Colors become brighter, sounds sharper, odors so much more savory and penetrating that inhalation fills every fibre and pore of the body. The greatest of food is actually found when never a morsel passes the lips/

I do eat: only what is needed for survival. I can't help it that we live in a piggish society where gluttony is the norn, and everyone else is constantly stuffing themselves.

If you can imagine it, you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

If you are not thin you are not attractive.
Being thin is more important than being healthy.
You must buy clothes, cut your hair, take laxatives, starve yourself, do anything to make yourself look thinner.
Thou shall not eat without feeling guilty.
Thou shall not eat fattening foods without punishing oneself afterwards.
Thou shall count calories and restrict intake accordingly.
What the scale says is the most important thing.
Losing weight is good/ Gaining weight is bad.
You can never be too thin.
Being thin and not eating are true signs of will power and success

Thin is beauty; therefore I must be thin, and remain thin, If I wish to be loved. Food is my ultimate enemy. I may look, and I may smell, but I may not touch!

I must think about food every second of every minute of every hour of every day... and ways to avoid eating it.

I must weigh myself, first thing, every morning, and keep that number in mind throughout the remainder of that day. Should that number be greater than it was the day before, I must fast that entire day.

I shall not be tempted by the enemy (food), and I shall not give into temptation should it arise. Should I be in such a weakened state and I should cave, I will feel guilty and punish myself accordingly, for I have failed her.

I will be thin, at all costs. It is the most important thing; nothing else matters.

I will devote myself to Ana. She will be with me where ever I go, keeping me in line. No one else matters; she is the only one who cares about me and who understands me. I will honor Her and make Her proud.

Allow me to introduce myself. My name, or as I am called by so called "doctors", is Anorexia. Anorexia Nervosa is my full name, but you may call me Ana. Hopefully we can become great partners. In the coming time, I will invest a lot of time in you, and I expect the same from you.

In the past you have heard all of your teachers and parents talk about you. You are "so mature", "intelligent", "14 going on 45", and you possess "so much potential". Where has that gotten you, may I ask? Absolutely no where! You are not perfect, you do not try hard enough, further more you waste your time on thinking and talking with friends and drawing! Such acts of indulgence shall not be allowed in the future.

Your friends do not understand you. They are not truthful. In the past, when the insecurity has quietly gnawed away at your mind, and you asked them, "Do I look....fat?" and they answered "Oh no, of course not" you knew they were lying! Only I tell the truth. Your parents, let's not even go there! You know that they love you, and care for you, but part of that is just that they are your parents and are obligated to do so. I shall tell you a secret now: deep down inside themselves, they are disappointed with you. Their daughter, the one with so much potential, has turned into a fat, lazy, and undeserving girl.

But I am about to change all that.

I expect a lot from you. You are not allowed to eat much. It will start slowly: decreasing of fat intake, reading the nutrition labels, cutting out junk food, fried food, etc. For a while, the exercise will be simple: some running, perhaps some crunches and some situps. Nothing too serious. Perhaps drop a few pounds, take a little off of that fat tub of a stomach. But it won't be long before I tell you that it isn't good enough.

I will expect you to drop your calorie intake and up your exercise. I will push you to the limit. You must take it because you cannot defy me! I am beginning to imbed myself into you. Pretty soon, I am with you always. I am there when you wake up in the morning and run to the scale. The numbers become both friend and enemy, and the frenzied thoughts pray for them to be lower than yesterday, last night, etc. You look into the mirror with dismay. You prod and poke at the fat that is there, and smile when you come across bone. I am there when you figure out the plan for the day: 400 calories, 2 hours exercise. I am the one figuring this out, because by now my thoughts and your thoughts are blurred together as one.

I follow you throughout the day. In school, when your mind wanders I give you something to think about. Recount the calories for the day. It's too much. I fill your mind with thoughts of food, weight, calories, and things that are safe to think about. Because now, I am already inside of you. I am in your head, your heart, and your soul. The hunger pains you pretend not to feel is me, inside of you.

Pretty soon I am telling you not only what to do with food, but what to do ALL of the time. Smile and nod. Present yourself well. Suck in that fat stomach, dammit! God, you are such a fat cow!!!! When mealtimes come around I tell you what to do. I make a plate of lettuce seem like a feast fit for a king. Push the food around. Make it look like you've eaten something. No piece of anything...if you eat, all the control will be broken...do you WANT that?? To revert back to the fat COW you once were?? I force you to stare at magazine models. Those perfect skinned, white teethed, waifish models of perfection staring out at you from those glossy pages. I make you realize that you could never be them. You will always be fat and never will you be as beautiful as they are. When you look in the mirror, I will distort the image. I will show you obesity and hideousness. I will show you a sumo wrestler where in reality there is a starving child. But you must not know this, because if you knew the truth, you might start to eat again and our relationship would come crashing down.

Sometimes you will rebel. Hopefully not often though. You will recognize the small rebellious fiber left in your body and will venture down to the dark kitchen. The cupboard door will slowly open, creaking softly. Your eyes will move over the food that I have kept at a safe distance from you. You will find your hands reaching out, lethargically, like a nightmare, through the darkness to the box of crackers. You shove them in, mechanically, not really tasting but simply relishing in the fact that you are going against me. You reach for another box, then another, then another. Your stomach will become bloated and grotesque, but you will not stop yet. And all the time I am screaming at you to stop, you fat cow, you really have no self control, you are going to get fat.

When it is over you will cling to me again, ask me for advice because you really do not want to get fat. You broke a cardinal rule and ate, and now you want me back. I'll force you into the bathroom, onto your knees, staring into the void of the toilet bowl. Your fingers will be inserted into your throat, and, not without a great deal of pain, your food binge will come up. Over and over this is to be repeated, until you spit up blood and water and you know it is all gone. When you stand up, you will feel dizzy. Don't pass out. Stand up right now. You fat cow you deserve to be in pain!

Maybe the choice of getting rid of the guilt is different. Maybe I chose to make you take laxatives, where you sit on the toilet until the wee hours of the morning, feeling your insides cringe. Or perhaps I just make you hurt yourself, bang your head into the wall until you receive a throbbing headache. Cutting is also effective. I want you to see your blood, to see it fall down your arm, and in that split second you will realize you deserve whatever pain I give you. You are depressed, obsessed, in pain, hurting, reaching out but no one will listen? Who cares?!?!! You are deserving; you brought this upon yourself.

Oh, is this harsh? Do you not want this to happen to you? Am I unfair? I do do things that will help you. I make it possible for you to stop thinking of emotions that cause you stress. Thoughts of anger, sadness, desperation, and lonliness can cease because I take them away and fill your head with the methodic calorie counting. I take away your struggle to fit in with kids your age, the struggle of trying to please everyone as well. Because now, I am your only friend, and I am the only one you need to please.

I have a weak spot. But we must not tell anyone. If you decide to fight back, to reach out to someone and tell them about how I make you live, all hell will break lose. No one must find out, no one can crack this shell that I have covered you with. I have createdyou, this thin, perfect, achieving child. You are mine and mine alone. Without me, you are nothing. So do not fight back. When others comment, ignore them. Take it into stride, forget about them, forget about everyone that tries to take me away. I am your greatest asset, and I intend to keep it that way.

Sincerely, Ana

- Look in the mirror tell yourself you are fat.
- Don't believe what others say about you.
- Look at pictures of skinny girls daily and become like them.
- Don't think or eat food at all. Food makes you fat. Any food makes you fat.
- Drink as much water as you can. If you feel like you are going to exploid, drink more.
- Go to the mall and try on clothes two sizes two small for you so you will be modivated to not eat and to fit into them.
- Don't cry. All crying does is show you dont have self-control.