When Does Pro Ana Actually Work? |
Posted: September 28, 2016 |
Pro ana is a potentially dangerous lifestyle and way of eating that may promote dieting in such a way that a person loses weight and looks so thin that the person could be called anorexic. This is popular for people who are of normal weight, people who are overweight, people who are obese, and even those people who are underweight and want to lose more weight. Typically, a person who intends to participate in the pro ana lifestyle will want to be thin for any number of reasons, including being called “fat” (even if the person isn’t fat), desiring to look like models/actresses who are thinner than the average person, and to be “desired” moreso by others, as those who are thin appear to be given additional benefits than those who are not thin, on average. Thus, a person may seek “tips and tricks” that not only are often unhealthy, but also don’t typically lead to weight loss for most people who follow them. Some seek tips and tricks at pro ana chat rooms, such as http://chatzy.com/proana among others. For example, one tip might be to reduce caloric intake to an average of 500 calories per day, which is the average in the Ana Boot Camp (ABC) Diet. However, this is likely to lead to feelings of starvation and usually soon leads to overwhelming hunger that leads the person to “binge” on food and drink, which more than compensates for the reduced intake of calories earlier. If a person fasts during breakfast and lunch, that person will probably feel like he or she is starving at dinnertime and is likely to overeat at dinner, thus negating any possible weight loss from not eating during the morning and afternoon. Ironically, this tends to result in weight gain from the excess of calories consumed at or after dinnertime, which is commonly known as “night bingeing”. So when does the pro ana lifestyle actually work? This may occur in three types of situations, oftentimes, which may occur simultaneously or separately in a given individual. First, when the person who is “pro ana” has deep-rooted emotional pain, which causes depression that is more painful than the feeling of starvation. Thus, this individual is able to ignore the extreme feeling of hunger, as this person is focused instead on their emotional issues. Second, when the person who is “pro ana” has engaged in the practice of purging (that is, self-induced vomiting of food), and sometimes purging becomes automatic and even uncontrollable, wherein this person can find themselves unable to stop purging and purges even small amounts of food and liquid, when they don’t wish to. In both of these situations, there is commonly weight loss. Third, when the person consumes a lower-than-average amount of calories for a long period of time, such as 1,400 calories per day, which results in a slower rate of weight loss, but this pro ana lifestyle is differentiated from normal dieting as a person who is pro ana may wish to be underweight, per the Body Mass Index (BMI) charts. In this situation, depending on other criteria as well, a person who is involved with the pro ana lifestyle could also be diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. For more information, you can purchase the book for additional information: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LGZ5KJ8 (which has the entire series on this topic) or visit
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