The constantly slimming girls decided to join forces and convince the world that anorexia is not a disease, but a conscious lifestyle. Living under the slogan of being slim, shapely and beautiful. The PRO ANA movement includes teenagers who support each other on blogs, forums and websites devoted to extreme weight loss.
The main principle of philosophypro ana ? Limit calories to 200-500 a day, take regular fasts, use laxatives and slimming pills. In addition, there is tormenting yourself with physical exercises that are to help you achieve your dream figure.The generation of butterflieslies permanently - throws away food, claims to eat outside the home or simulates illness to avoid another meal. If she is forced to have a home dinner, she immediately provokes vomiting afterwards. Red bracelets are a symbol of belonging to the pro ana movement - thanks to them you can recognize yourself on the street.
Pro-ana or butterflies online
The characteristic side of the pro-an contains:
- 10 pro ana commandments (food is your enemy, better to be skinny than he althy, thin means beautiful, calories destroy your life)
- 40 reasons why you should be thin (you are attractive to those around you, the world admires you, other friends envy you, boys can't take their eyes off you, you are the star of every party)
- so-called thinspirations, i.e. photos of extremely skinny actresses and models, as well as poems and songs that motivate you to lose weight
- links to pages with tables containing information on calories, or pages on diets and exercise
- links to other pro ana sites
Pro ana is also an obsession with exercise
Three hours of aerobics, a series of lifting weights, spinning and jogging at the end - this is more or less the pro-ana philosophy's daily schedule. Each binge eating event ends with an extra series of exercises accompanied by obsessive thoughts about burning calories and losing weight.
Doctors warn - no restrictions in practicing sports, successively increasing the dose of exercise while minimizing food portions, avoiding contacts with friends and training evenduring illness are typical symptoms of addiction. Sports geeks most often ignore the symptoms of their own body, they do not react to pain in joints, tendons, colds or simple fatigue of the body. When they cannot pass the daily dose of exercise, they develop so-called withdrawal syndrome: loss of humor, depressive states, nervousness, aversion towards other people. Meanwhile, the effects of overtraining can lead to hormonal disorders, irreversible changes in the osteoarticular system, and even the disappearance of menstruation.
Pro ana: my new friend
Girls who adhere to the pro-ana principle are not scared by the warnings of doctors or specialists. They want to be anorexic. Anorexia becomes a living person for them, a kind of friend, goddess, life companion. They call her "Ana." They pray to her on blogs, write letters asking for support and perseverance in losing weight. Their only dream is to be thin and still… lose weight.
Not all pro ana girls are anorexic. A large group of "butterflies" are the so-calledwannarexic- someone who really wants to have anorexia. Someone who wants to be diagnosed as an anorexic. But they don't always dream of a slim figure only. Sometimes they just want to get attention and that is how they call out for help.