Here Are Some Tips to Get You Hunger Games Skinny

I think this is a timely post considering my last was a rant about thinspiration.

The world’s biggest scam, the weight loss industry, constantly looks for ways to reinvent itself and sell more product.

Just quickly, I say it’s a scam because any other product that failed 95% of the time would be recalled. The weight loss industry, however, not only continues to profit, but they profit from your failure. Most of the weight loss industry’s profit comes from repeat customers. They bank on their diet failing you, to ensure that you need to come back again and again.

If Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, Slim Fast, Lighterlife, et al, actually worked, they would be out of business very fast with no repeat customers.

Their diets are constantly repacked and redesigned to keep things fresh and exciting. So it’s no surprise with the new Hunger Games movie due out, there is a Hunger Games inspired exercise and eating plan by Daily Burn, read about it here

I prefer Jezebel’s version: Here Are Some Tips to Get You Hunger Games Skinny.

Here is their Unofficial Hunger Games Exercise and Weight Loss Plan:

• District 12 isn’t real. Instead, move to a deindustrialized coal town in the Ozarks where food and happiness are scarce. Learn to hunt, but don’t get too good at it! Remember, you want to get thin and a propensity for missing your target can only help.
• You may not be able to find tracker jackers, but you can find good old-fashioned bees. Let them sting you until your throat closes up. It’s as good as a jaw wiring, though you will likely die.
• Put on the most beautiful dress you can find, cover yourself in gasoline, then light yourself on fire. Not only will this make you like Katniss, the Girl on Fire, but it will also make you burn mega carbs as you run around screaming for help.
• With the help of a partner, set up a reward system for food. The only time you get a snack is when you A.) outrun a pack of dogs or B.) kiss a boy in a cave.
• Live in a constant state of fear. Not only will all your hair fall out (gah, hair weight), but you will always have worried diarrhea— a great way to cut down on bloating and shed fast pounds!
• Couple these suggestions with those of the Daily Burn and you should be fighting fit before you can say “Seneca Crane.” Maybe, if you get skinny enough, you can fit into your Hunger Games wedding dress at your Hunger Games wedding.

  See you at the bee hospital movies!

  Sounds just like your run of the mill diet/exercise plan to me! I vote to ditch the effort and read a good book instead. Specifically, read the Hunger Games books, they are AMAZING. 

  What is the most ridiculous diet and/or exercise plan you have ever come across?

  Are you looking forward to the Hunger Games movies? Have you read the books? 

"Thinspiration": Please Educate Me..

Reblogged from Extra Long Tail:

When I first went on the internet looking for help/support with recovery from anorexia nervosa (AN) six years ago I came across a plethora of this type of stuff:

WHY???? Why do people create this stuff????

I have written on the subject of 'pro-anorexia' before (http://wp.me/p1Zenc-6R).

I simply do not believe that people develop AN by 'trying to develop it', or by watching this rubbish.

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I strongly agree with this post. Thinspo disgusts me, and I find it stupid, pathetic, pointless, and, yes, a sign that the person who made it (and the people who seek it out) DO NOT ACTUALLY HAVE A LEGITIMATELY REAL EATING DISORDER. I don't find living with an eating disorder appealing. It's not about food or weight so much as it's about avoiding feelings and not coping. Nobody taught me to be sick. I did not even know that I had anorexia or even really know much about it when I was first diagnosed with it, and I refused to accept that I was anorexic for the first two hospital admissions for it. Nobody taught me how to starve myself to almost-death. Nobody taught me to sabotage my own health and wellbeing. All the tips and tricks that I know, and later found were widespread, came from somewhere in my own brain. I never rejoiced at the continued emaciation, I cried, Torn, between what my brain ordered me to do, it's screams and cruel taunts, and my own wish to just be okay, to not listen and to live like 'normal people'.. and to live, to not be closer to dying. I never took photographs of myself lying down to show the hollow tummy or sucking in to try and force a rib or collarbone to show. I didn't need to , and I was deeply ashamed. I never took photographs of myself before and after, because both girls were strangers to me. Lost, scared strangers. I never created a video montage to celebrate my amazing, inspiration recovery, because I'm not recovered and I know it's a journey that takes years, maybe forever. Recovery is hard work and I'm one of many making the journey. There is nothing 'recovery' orientated by a brag-film of skinny-ish photos and "I decided to get better and ate my way back to health just like that". I have an eating disorder. It's ruined my life, it might still take my life. It's a living hell that I never wanted to have any part of. I am not a silly immature person on a DIET calling my diet ana or mia. I am not seeking accolades for my miracle recovery or sympathy for my imagined illness. I have trouble seeing how underweight I am, when emaciated, and these girls seem to be the opposite, calling themselves emaciated when they are not even that much below normal. It's not possible to have anorexia and recover for it in the space of two months. You are not anorexic if you are overweight and 'ana' in your head. You are not anorexic because you are on a diet, you are not not bulimic because you once made yourself throw up, you are not dying because you dropped a little bit below a BMI of 20, or even, shock horror, 18. Would you find sites glorifying cancer acceptable? Then don't glorify my disease. Come on girls, get a life, find healthy role models, stop trying to emulate a disease, and stop basing your self worth on being the 'sickest' and having the most 'miraculous recovery'.