Hiding Anorexia

   Here are some beginner tips for keeping your secret a secret! This works especially well with people with protective parents or people who are usually with people.

1. Tell them you already ate! Don't believe you? Leave food-smeared dishes in the sink, leave wrappers laying around, and throw away food your parents thought you ate. Food can be disposed down a garbage disposal or flushed down the toilet. Also, when your parents are home, open and close the fridge, cabnets, and the pantry to stimulate snacking.
2. If you're usually alone in the morning when you're getting ready for school, never eat any breakfast. If breakfast is made for you, throw most of it away, and leave a small amount on the plate.
3. Use diet pills? Put them in a vitiman bottle. You can also store them in a place you know your parents would never look in. For example, your underwear drawer.
4. Use your lunch money to buy yourself rewards for loosing weight! You could buy a new scale, a water bottle, diet pills, smaller clothes, and gym clothes. Just don't buy food rewards!
5. Tell your parents you have an afterschool meeting, or you're going to a friend's house. Walk (or run) to the nearest drug store, then you can buy diet pills, laxatives, and other items! If you're pretty young, you can also buy a Happy Birthday card so the cashier won't suspect anything.
6. Never talk about how fat you think you are around others. Especially don't boast about how beautiful skinny people are. Also, never talk about calories, fat content, grams of sugar, or fasting. Don't tell anyone you lost weight. Pretend that you didn't notice you lost weight if someone points it out.
7. Tell friends you're vegan, lactose intolerant, glutan-intolerant, allergic to nuts, allergic to fruit, or anything they offer to you. You can use all of them!
8. If someone ever talks about anorexia, pretend to be disgusted and say, "I can't believe someone could starve themselves!". Also, if anyone suspects you're an anorexic, deny it!
9. Use excuses like your stomach is upset, you already ate, you aren't hungry, or you don't like that specific food.
10. Be sure to hide food that you throw out. Put it under something when you throw it away so no one can see it sticking out and wonder why someone threw out an uneaten portion.

Hope that helped! I will have more coming soon! Be sure to comment on this post if you thought I left out something or if you want to ask me something. You can also contact me on my email.