Active Thinspo

If you are new to Ana or Mia, desperately trying to find a way to lose weight fast, read this.

Turn around and leave. Right now. Close your Tumblr tab. Delete your Tumblr app from your phone. Leave. Leave and don’t come back. Ever. This is not a good or happy or healthy way of life. You may think that you’ll start doing all this stuff to lose weight and once you get to your goal weight you’ll be happy and think you’re beautiful and you’ll stop but you won’t. You will believe that it is not enough and you will make a new goal weight. It never stops. We are not happy. We do not think we are beautiful. We hate ourselves. We bathe in our self-hate every day and we are miserable. If you think you are overweight, go to a doctor. See what he or she has to say. If you really need or want to lose weight, do it in a healthy way. Eat better. Workout. Go for walks. Stop pigging out on junk food and pick up a fruit or vegetable. Stop eating when you aren’t hungry. You can lose weight in a healthy way. This is not healthy. You do not want this. You will start and you won’t be able to stop. You will become obsessed. You will be controlled by numbers. The numbers on the scale, the calories, all the numbers. You will constantly be worrying about gaining more weight or binging. You will constantly be looking in the mirror and picking out every single piece of you that you find disgusting. If you want to lose weight, get off your ass and do some cardio. Eat some healthy food. It is possible to lose weight without starving. Don’t mistake our “pride” for endorsement of this behavior. We all know that it’s unhealthy and none of us would want anyone else to be as miserable as we are.

Please.

If you are looking up Ana or Mia or thinspo for the first time, please.

August is beginning, and the first day of school is creeping up. Remember all those promises you made, about being a completely new person, about being dainty and boney and ethereal and beautiful? About making everyones jaws drop the second they saw you, showering you with compliments but also slipping in a couple of concerned “Have you eaten?” or “You look so thin, do you even eat?” which you wave off with a flick of your tiny wrist and a dazzling smile that’s accented by your sharp cheekbones? Well, this is the final home stretch! Do that extra workout, fast that extra hour, drink that extra cup of green tea. I believe in you love! You are a stunning work of art, inside and out, and its time to add the finishing touches.

Me:

Picture six months from now, picture waking up in the morning smelling the hot summer air, the sunlight pouring through the open windows. You get out of bed and stretch, you can feel as your spin expand, your rib cage opens and your collarbones sticking out. Your skinny now, you’re perfect now, all the hungry nights, all the stomach pains, all the tears from bingeing, the dizziness from fasting, the smiling from weight loss and screams from weight gain is worth it. It was all worth it. All the hell you had to face is now over, you won, your finally your goal weight.