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My name is Christine, and I stopped eating for two weeks to get thinner.

Whilst online, I came across a dieting blog by a girl called Sophie,

who had been on a diet where you eat under 400 calories a day.

She posted some pictures, and she looked amazing.

I decided then that becoming thinner would fix my problems,

everyone would compliment me on my new body,

and I'd get my confidence back.

I wasn't the sort of person who did things by halves.

It was all or nothing.

I'd read online that if you feel hungry,

drinking a glass of water will make them go away.

Even better, a can of Diet Coke and chewing gum would fill you up even more.

I could do this.

It was much easier than I expected.

I purposely overslept, so I had to run to school without having breakfast.

At lunch, I ate my ration of two carrots and Diet Coke.

And I told my parents that I was studying for a test,

so wanted dinner in my room.

As soon as they'd left,

I'd flush it down the toilet.

Although for the first few days,

I did go hungry, I loved the feeling of control this gave me.

And the hunger pangs got less and less.

I didn't want to tell my friends what I was doing in case they copied me,

but I did tell Sophie,

the girl who had written the blog,

that I was inspired by her.

She told me I had so much willpower to not eat anything at all,

and that she wished she could be as strong.

We decided to encourage each other in our quest for perfection.

Although I loved being in control of my diet and my life,

after a few days, my friends had finally noticed that I wasn't eating,

and whenever they asked, I would snap and say that I wasn't feeling well.

I hated them for trying to sabotage my diet.

At the weekend, I walked across my city to avoid any temptation of food,

but I had to sit down a lot because I kept feeling dizzy.

Then, I started fainting.

The first time it was when I got up too fast from my bed.

I woke up, shaken on the floor,

and vowed to get up more slowly next time.

Then it happened at school,

in front of my whole class.

I was finding it easy to eat nothing now,

as I had very little appetite anyway.

I was feeling very, like,

sick and lethargic most of the time,

but Sophie told me she was feeling it too,

and it would probably get better.

We would message each other into the night with inspiration, quotes, and pictures.

I stopped really talking to anyone else.

I passed out in school again,

but this time they couldn't get me to wake up.

I finally woke up in hospital on an IV drip,

extremely confused and feeling worse than I'd ever done in my life.

My parents were there, and they told me

that my brain had shut my body down because it just didn't have enough fuel,

but that I was going to be all right.

I felt too weak to cry.

It took me a few weeks to fully recover,

and luckily, because I hadn't been starving myself for very long,

I hadn't done any lasting damage.

I somehow found Sophie's parents,

and it turns out that she has a very serious eating disorder that has been going on for years.

I am now seeing a counselor,

but I consider myself lucky that it didn't get too far.

I have learned that despite what magazines or blogs might tell you,

being thinner will not make you happy or sort out your problems.

It will make you feel isolated and alone.

Talking about how you are feeling with those who love you will help solve your problems.

If you have any crazy dieting stories,

please share in the comments below.

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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “I Stopped Eating For 2 Weeks To Get Thinner”. Las palabras que más se repiten: feeling, diet, thinner, Sophie, blog. Este vídeo tiene 73 frases y 687 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 4:06. El hablante habla a un ritmo natural de unas 168 palabras por minuto, cercano a una conversación cotidiana. Solo el 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
lethargic adjetivo	/ləˈθɑɹd͡ʒɪk/	tardo, letárgico
oversleep verbo	/oʊvəɹˈslip/	quedarse dormido
purposely adverbio	/ˈpɝpəsli/	intencionadamente, aposta
ration sustantivo	/ˈɹæʃən/	ración, víveres
willpower sustantivo	/ˈwɪlˌpaʊɚ/	fuerza de voluntad, fuerza volitiva
starve verbo	/stɑɹv/	morir de hambre
vow sustantivo	/vaʊ/	voto, manda
drip verbo	/ˈdɹɪp/	gotear, pintear
calorie sustantivo	/ˈkæləɹi/	caloría
isolate verbo	/ˈaɪ.sə.leɪt/	aislar
sabotage sustantivo	/ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/	sabotaje
carrot sustantivo	/ˈkæɹət/	zanahoria
chew verbo	/tʃuː/	masticar, mascar
temptation sustantivo	/ˌtɛmpˈteɪʃən/	tentación
faint adjetivo	/feɪnt/	débil

Phrasal verbs que vas a escuchar

Palabra	Pronunciación	Significado
get up verbo		levantarse
wake up verbo	/ˌweɪk ˈʌp/	despertarse, recordar
come across verbo		pasarse a
go away verbo		irse, marcharse
sit down verbo		sentarse
sort out verbo		discernir
turn out verbo		resultar

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 14 contracciones y formas reducidas, como I'd, didn't, wasn't. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: ration /ˈɹæʃən/, sabotage /ˈsæb.əˌtɑʒ/, temptation /ˌtɛmpˈteɪʃən/, flush /ˈflʌʃ/, perfection /pɚˈfɛk.ʃən/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

/v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: oversleep /oʊvəɹˈslip/, starve /stɑɹv/, vow /vaʊ/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
Empieza a velocidad 0,75×, haz shadowing frase por frase y vuelve a la velocidad normal cuando te resulte fácil.
Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como lethargic, oversleep, purposely.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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