Delicate Flower

• constantly drink water. 2l minimum per day

• don’t go over 800 calories per day

• walk instead of taking the bus to school

• don’t eat lunch at school

• if lunch at school is necessary, only have fruit or veg and have diet coke FIRST.

• 20-30 minute workout after school each day

• try to fast 1 or 2 days a week (it’s hard for me as my family eat most meals together)

• take part in PE at school

• if i have time during lunch break at school, walk round the campus for 20 minutes to burn off extra calories

• no late night snacks. brush teeth immediately after dinner and get into bed so i’m not tempted to snacks

• stay vegetarian! no meat. makes it easier to eat more healthy

• get really into a hobby to distract myself from eating

• snacks that are allowed :

~ rice cakes

~ fruit

~ low calorie snack bars

~ peanut butter

~ low cal popcorn (no flavourings)

~ diet coke

i really hope i can stick to this. it’s my birthday on the first week of november so unfortunately i will have to eat a bit more than 600cals that day because i have family coming over and they always bring so much food and i can’t get away with eating little amounts.

Today I went to a flea market with my grandma and I found an old French women's magazine which was published in 1948 (I made the translation but I'm not English native so be kind if there's mistakes). It said:

"To gain weight is to die a little. It's giving up elegance, pleasure, grace, slimness and up to your true physiognomy. It's losing health. The fat excessive development paralyze the proper functioning of essential organs (heart, liver, kidney...), just like it bothers movements, deforms the body, weigh the walk down, prohibits any activity.

To gain weight, is to say goodbye to joy. It's to contribute to it's own ugliness and to get old before your time.