Useful Tips

• Sleep at least 8 hours a night because lack of sleep will lead to hunger.


• Write your goal weight on your hand & look at it whenever you want to eat.


• Exercise to burn calories & occupy your time.


• Buy a pair of jeans that are one size too small & work hard to fit into them.


• Only eat in front of a mirror or other people.


• Compete with somebody else to see who will lose the most & who will lose the fastest.


• Pick a thinspirational quote that you like & say it or write it when you feel hungry.


• Keep a diary or agenda of everything you eat & its nutritional value everyday.


• Take diet pills to help speed up your metabolism & control what you eat.


• If you have to eat something & you don't plan to purge then eat something spicy to boost your metabolism.


• Don't think about what you miss out on by not eating, but think of all the new things you can try when you're thin.


• Keep a thinspiration journal to read when you're not working on it & work on when you're not reading it.


• Decorate the inside of your door with thinspirational pictures.


• Keep a stack of magazines weighing the same amount that you want to lose & as you lose more you can remove magazines from the stack.


• Count to 100 when you're going into binge mode to give yourself time to regain control.


• Go to the library instead of the cafeteria to avoid lunch.


• Wear a rubber band around your wrist & snap it when ever you feel hungry.


• Get cozy & warm in your bed so that you won't want to get up to eat.


• Make it a rule that you always have to burn twice the calories you consume & the thought of all the exercising you will have to do will convince you not to binge.


• Take a nap to waste the time that you could be binging.


• Always fidget & never stop moving even if you're just tapping your foot or twiddling your thumbs.


• Take a cold shower to force your body to burn more calories trying to maintain your body temperature.


• Take a hot shower to suppress your appetite.
  Burn calories & avoid binging by chewing sugar free gum.


• Chew on ice cubes if you're really hungry to trick your body into thinking that it's eating.


• Make a scrapbook of people you want to be as thin as.
  Curl up in a ball to tame hunger pains.


• Clean whether you need to or not to burn more calories & occupy your time.


• Never eat after 7pm so that you're food is digested before you go to bed.


• Create a playlist of all your favorite songs & exercise until all the songs have played completely through.


• Request all sauces & dressings on the side when you're at a restaurant.


• Take a sips of water between each bite.


• Set down fork after each bite.


• Say that you've already eaten when asked to join a meal.


• Use smaller plates to give the impression that you have more food.


• Chew your food & spit it out. It will trick your body into thinking you ate.


• You burn 10% more calories by simply sitting up straight.


• Use your monthly cycle as an excuse for not being able to eat due to bloating & cramps.


• Eat spicy foods with low calories to boost your metabolism.


• Use calorie free sweeteners instead of sugar.


• Designate one day out of the week to weigh yourself & avoid the scale on all other days to avoid discouragement & binging.