The Article Above Didn’t Exaggerate.
I did some googling and found this. How tragic. The scariest thing is that there was a time when I believed some of this stuff. I didn’t go online and talk about starving myself over it, but I believed some of it.
The Thin Commandments
1. If you aren’t thin you aren’t attractive.
2. Being thin is more important than being healthy.
3. You must buy clothes, cut your hair, take laxatives, starve yourself, do anything to make yourself look thinner.
4. Thou shall not eat without feeling guilty.
5. Thou shall not eat fattening food without punishing oneself afterwards.
6. Thou shall count calories and restrict intake accordingly.
7. What the scale says is the most important thing.
8. Losing weight is good / gaining weight is bad.
9. You can never be too thin.
10. Being thin and not eating are signs of true will power and success.
The Ana Creed
I believe in Control, the only force mighty enough to bring order to the chaos that is my world.
I believe that I am the most vile, worthless and useless person ever to have existed on this planet, and that I am totally unworthy of anyone’s time and attention.
I believe that other people who tell me differently must be idiots. If they could see how I really am, then they would hate me almost as much as I do.
I believe in oughts, musts and shoulds as unbreakable laws to determine my daily behaviour.
I believe in perfection and strive to attain it.
I believe in salvation through trying just a bit harder than I did yesterday.
I believe in calorie counters as the inspired word of god, and memorise them accordingly.
I believe in bathroom scales as an indicator of my daily successes and failures.
I believe in hell, because I sometimes think that I’m living in it.
I believe in a wholly black and white world, the losing of weight, recrimination for sins, the abnegation of the body and a life ever fasting.
June 1st, 2005 at 7:30 am
I’ve heard about these online community things. It’s really sad. And you know, looking at some of those “commandments” they even go through my head sometimes. I think most girls think about one of those or another.
June 1st, 2005 at 9:27 am
Yeah, I know. That’s the craziest thing about it, I think.
June 1st, 2005 at 2:44 pm
Ugh that makes me sick. Seriously, i think it is perverted. Melba Toast I love you and i am glad you posted this stuff. Thoughts like that aren’t allowed in my head but thank you for showing me that Satan works in some twisted ways. I wish there was something I could do to help out girls who think that way.