Wasting Away

Great ways to distract yourself:

Clean! When I'm fasting and start to get hungry, I get out the vacuum cleaner and go all maid nazi on my room. One time, after I vacuumed the whole house and cleaned the bathroom and the kitchen, I went out and washed all the windows. Besides burning calories, the smell from the icky cleaners will take away your appetite right quick.

Go out for a walk or a run. Not only will you be mildly exercising, but you will be out of your house and away from the fridge.

Turn off the tele. All those food commercials will not help you if your in the middle of a craving. Go read a book, put on a particularly angsty cd, or call one of your best friends to chat. Whenever I'm tempted, I call my friend Delilah to catch up on the public school gossip. Whatever you do, call a particular chatty friend so that she'll keep you occupied for an hour or two....

Play DDR. IT IS THE  MOST FRIGGEN AWESOME GAME ON THE PLANET! It helps you burn calories, AND it keeps your mind occupied!

Start a site! You get to rant about how much your life sucks, how ugly and fat you are, and then you can link me! Seriously, link me!! Do it... you know you wanna...

Start smoking. Wow, that sounded really bad... but its true. Nicotine is an appetite suppressant, and smoking keeps your mouth occupied, so your not shoving food down your throat.

Have Sex. Call your boyfriend over, and fool around a little. I'm telling you, there isn't a better way to burn calories than fucking with the boy you love... or like... kinda... maybe?....Fine. There is no better way to burn calories than fucking with the boy you can stand to be with for short periods of time. Not only that, but feeling wanted does WONDERS for you self esteem.

Drink water. Lots of water. GALLONS OF WATER. I can drink a whole case of Dasani in a day and 1/2.

Things to Remember When on a Purge Cycle:

1. Drink lots of water. It makes things come up easier. Drink 2 gulps of water after every bite. It also helps fill you up faster, so you actually eat less.

2. Chew your food very very well. I chew each bite [which is usually very miniscule] 56 times before swallowing. Reduces it to liquid.

3. Purge in the shower. The sound covers up the throwing up noises, and also something about running water always makes it easier for me.

4. Use a toothbrush, it can withstand more bites than your fingers can. Besides, one of the tell tale signs of self induced vomiting is bites and cuts on hands and fingers. And if anyone asks why you have a toothbrush with you in the shower, just say that you brush your teeth in the shower because its like killing two birds with one stone.

5. Don't use syrup of ipecac. It's just bad. Don't do it.