This document discusses eating disorders and the language used by those suffering from them. It defines "Ana" as referring to anorexia and "Mia" as referring to bulimia. Those with eating disorders seek perfection and control through their disorder and have developed codes and rules around restricting food intake and purging behaviors. They may call each other terms like "angel" or "princess" and use phrases that promote thinness as the ultimate goal. Specific diets are outlined that involve severely limiting calories over a period of days or not eating at all. The disorders are portrayed as sitting in a kitchen alongside other mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and self-harm that the sufferer is struggling with.

1. Ana & MiaDaniela Sousa nº9 11ºE

2.  What does Ana & Mia mean ?
Ana is the short
word for Anorexia
and Mia is the short
word for Bulimia.
These nicknames are
a way to represent
eating disorders and
to make it easier for
people, most of
them teenagers, to
talk openly about
them.
« Nothing taste as good as skinny feels »

3.  Why they do that
There is just one word to
explain that :
P-E-R-F-E-C-T
They live with those eating
disorders as a lifestyle and
they don’t care if they
have them , they just want
to be perfect .
« eat to live, don't live to eat »

4. How to recognize them

5.  Who they want to be
« Bones define who we really are! Let them show! »

6.  The rules
1. Eat only what you
need
2. At all cost hide this
lifestyle
3. Keep going until
Ana/Mia is happy with
you!

7.  Language
ED – Eating Disorders
LF – Low Food
CLF – Colective Low Food
NF – No food
CNF – Colective No Food
Compulsion – Ate a “lot”
Control – What they want to be
Meow – Vomit
Angel , Child , Princess , Butterfly
– How they call each other
« Hunger is a feeling thin is a art »

8.  What they “eat”
« Thin is perfection, I'll die trying to achieve it! »

9. One of their DIETS
1: 500 calories(or less)
2: 500 calories(or less)
3: 300 calories
4: NF
5: 100 calories
6: 200 calories
7: 300 calories
8: NF
9: 500 calories
10:200 calories
11: 150 calories
12: NF
13: 400 calories
14: 350 calories
15: 250 calories
16:NF

10.  When , why , how they leave

11. In the corner, sitting on the kitchen counter is depression. Beside the
depression is anorexia bones. Sitting at the table with pills in hand
and crying is anxiety. In the refrigerator is bulimia, something like
choking on vomit food before, and self-injury-cuts-whispering, urging
her to cut, and the teenager falling in all of them, look at his face, it’s
like a mixture of all disorders. The eyes and the smiles of self-injury,
depression and anorexia are scary, are as creepy.

12. STOP ANA AND MIA, NOW !