"101 Things To Do Instead Of Eating"

	We both you know you don't want to eat. So why is food still on your mind? I don't know, it must be a natural reflex or some crap. You haven't eaten in days and your body is starving. That must be it, right? Either way, don't give in. You really don't need to eat. Do anything BUT eat. You'll thank yourself for it later on. Try some of these... 1. Go swimming 2. Take a leisurely stroll down the walk, or go hiking in a park or nature center 3. Run up and down the stairs as many times as you can 4. Do stretches, like butterflies for legs or twists for tummy 5. Find some dumb tv exercise show and follow along 7. Dance wildly to a favorite song 8. Play a game of tag with your dog 9. Take a five minute icy cold shower to rev up metabolism 10. Time yourself doing 100 crunches or sit ups 11. Check out a new or different type of exercise with a video 12. Take up fencing, or kickboxing or something 13. Make your friends play beach volleyball 14. Cook cupcakes for a friend as a surprise 15. Make a casserole and fresh rolls for an elderly or single neighbor 16. Create fancy recipe cards from magazines, cutting out pictures of the item and decorating 17. Make a low calorie veggie stirfry, using water and soy sauce instead of oil 18. Treat yourself with a spritzer of diet fruit juice and diet Sprite 20. Practice French vocabulary with flash cards 21. Review your multiplication tables or some other math formula 22. Go online and read BBC news or CNN news 23. Read the local newspaper so you're up on current events 24. Vent your frustrations by arguing and debating on a chat board 25. Sign up for a fun elective class, like flower arranging or modern dance 26. Bike ride 27. Go to the library and check out books on ana or dieting and read them 28. Write out your personal plan for the next month, complete with days off, goals, menus, etc 29. Write in an online or paper diary. If you're bored, pick a topic like the war in Iraq or your happiest memory and just free write. 30. Make icons and avatars with PhotoShop 31. Get hemp and beads and make jewelry 32. Do a research paper. It'll come in handy someday 33. Call a 1-800 number for information or advice on something 34. Pray or meditate 35. Wash your hair 36. Give yourself awesome hair by using a good conditioner, then braiding hair into small braids when wet. When it dries it'll be full and wavy 37. Paint your toenails 38. Design a thinspiration scrapbook with pictures, menus, writings, stickers, drawings, etc. 39. Call your grandmother 40. Write a letter to someone, or get a pen pal online 41. Check your email 42. Take your camera and go for a walk, snapping pictures of the sky, flowers, people, etc 43. Clean out your closet. Try on everything and pitch what you can't fit or never wear. Donate unwanteds to Goodwill, Salvation Army or some local mission 44. Vacuum your floor 45. Surprise your parents and offer to wash the dishes or the car 46. Play like a kid in the park - works best with friends or little kids as company 47. Visit the local rest home and read the news to the elderly patients 48. Go to a movie or a local play 49. Sign up with a political group and do fundraising or volunteering 50. Make fancy jeans. Take an old pair and decorate with fabric paint, patches, etc 51. Call your best friend. He or she is probably bored too 52. Go to an ana community and chat or post your goals 53. Volunteer in the nursery at church 54. Have a big diet Coke with lots of crunchy ice :) 55. Plan a party for some upcoming event 56. Get in the car, crank up the stereo and drive 57. Take your measurements 58. Get a simple needlecraft project from a craft store, and work on it 59. Do a complicated jigsaw puzzle 60. Get the family or a group of friends involved in a board game night 61. Do the crossword in the newspaper 62. Offer to rake the leaves or mow the grass for a neighbor 63. Organize your life - go through old drawers and boxes and get rid of stuff you don��t use 64. Go shopping. There is probably some occasion coming up. 65. Shave your legs 66. Start a prayer journal, write down your needs, concerns and praises 67. Call a local agency and volunteer. Habitat for Humanity rocks 68. Offer to cook dinner, then you can make it something low fat 69. Chew on ice. It's crunchy like a snack but calorie free 70. Make a web page 71. Do local tourism. Visit a museum or something in your area 72. Plan out a budget 73. Take a nap 74. Have a leisurely bath with lots of bubbles to help you relax 75. Learn how to do herringbone braids or some other neat hairstyle 76. Walk to the store, buy sugarfree gum or diet soda, walk home 77. Get a jumprope and see how many you can do. Now try backwards 78. Go online and order travel guides 79. Buy yourself a little trinket out of the money you save not eating 80. Look up anorexia or bulimia on the internet 81. Write a to do list for next time you're bored and hungry 82. Take bread or crackers or chips to the lake, feed the ducks and swans 84. Rent a video you've wanted to see 85. Visit a website like PETA or something, which will inspire you not to eat 86. Repair your clothes. Sew up hems, fix zippers, add cool buttons 87. Go to a used clothing store and bargain hunt 88. Tutor someone in a class you're good at 89. Learn to read tarot cards 90. Read 91. Clean out the fridge or pantry, getting rid of everything you don't want or aren't allowing yourself. Give it to a can drive or homeless shelter. 92. Go to a local event, like a local film presentation, free concert or speaker 93. Wash your bedding. It could probably use it. 94. Watch television while doing arm exercises with free weights 95. Go to a store, try on lingerie or bathing outfits in the dressing room. A real deterrent! 96. Go collecting. Pick cool flowers, shells, rocks or something - the beach is a great place 97. Volunteer at a soup kitchen 98. Give someone a hug 99. Write a haiku 100. Go fangirl and start your obsessive collection of all things Elijah, or Orlando, or Rupert - whoever you decide to obsess over 101. Have a pillow fight. If no one will fight you, just punch the pillow.