Food Freedom Coaches & Influencers are SCAMMING You! (I’m Calling Out the LIES!)
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Hey everyone I’m Abbey Sharp welcome to Abbey’s Kitchen. In todays video, we will be talking about influencers trying to sneakily sell diet culture rebranded as "wellness", "food freedom" or "intuitive eating", and specifically target folks with £Ds.
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There is a huge contradiction preaching mental freedom around food and then eating a fruit-based diet. The pipeline from ED to fruitarian/raw vegan seems to be very high.
Yes for sure
Almost as high as the pipeline from ED to dietitian 🤔
@@kittster2785One is a career that requires extensive education and a license, the other is not
@@kittster2785not quite
@@wannabetrucker7475Very quite
Its good to have some of these things brought in the light.
It wasn’t until I talked to a registered dietitian that I was able to look at food in a whole new way.
Forcing yourself to just eat fruit isn’t gonna fix your relationship with food lol.
Talking to an RD can be super helpful
Thank you!!! Intuitive eating is also not a hunger fullness diet. I would love a video on that btw:)
Yes!! I have a whole series breaking intuitive eating down https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVstyvOTT8A9jm9YNYJftJSi-EgHlkcK0
All those protruding bones are so upsetting, esp going from a body that is not at all overweight to one that eventually reaches obvious underweight with the first example (which these wellness =orthorexic people never tell you is worse for your health than being a bit overweight)
To me they didn’t look bad before at all 🙁 they looked “normal” , not super shredded or thin. Like looking “normal” is a bad thing…
At some point these people are going to be held accountable- thinking Brittany Dawn as an example. I think RD’s who work with patients have malpractice insurance and what not because this is really serious stuff. Selling diets and getting paid to guide people is actually regulated in the health industry. Maybe Abbey can address this further, but it’s just so dangerous to be out here selling this stuff to people when you have no training or accountability mechanisms in place.
I agree there are many “influencers” who shill Optivia or Bodi , or Prove It. But in the end they have no credentials and only care if you buy their products.
I went from severe calorie restriction to intermittent fasting, believing that I was finally “healing” my relationship with food. I did OMAD for a while and even Alternate Day Fasting a bit. Instead of healing, I developed a stubborn little binge habit. It got to the point where I couldn’t even go 2 days without a binge. Finally, I got rid of ALL the IF people from my life, deleted My Fitness Pal and just took the plunge to heal myself. I’ve been making very small but fantastic improvements with my relationship with food and best of all, it’s now been almost 3 weeks since my last binge! This is huge for me! I have only just begun and have a long road ahead but I NEVER wish a life of restriction for me anymore.
love this!!
👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
omg same i went through all that too, and i 1 week in without binge feel at peace.
Regardless of what the creator looks like, no one should be claiming to sell you a program to heal an ED without qualifications – period! Ideally you’d be able to get one-on-one, personalized guidance from a qualified professional or team that you meet with individually, but I know that’s definitely not always possible. While I think people are always going to share their personal experiences online and there may be people who choose to take that as advice, I wish there was a way to stop people from selling programs when they have no knowledge on the psychology and treatment of EDs beyond their own experience.
When someone says that this food is “poison for your body” I can’t stop rolling my eyes I feel compelled to tell them, that they are so wrong. Or when they call diet as a lifestyle and say that your body is in the process of withdrawal because that stuff is crack, I am so repulsed. And then there is that one dude in a grocery store telling me that there is 33% added sugar in my Oatmilk and how I should eat “real” food… It shouldn’t take this much energy from humans to JUST drink a damn oatmilk latte with actual caffeine sugar. Nonono. Instead, I need to go home and forge some dandelion root, milk a cow and use some forest wood that is ethically procured to rub stones and create some fire to brew some health potion that would solve all my life’s problems.
Abbey literally compared soda to lead the other day. She’s just as bad.
@nitya for real 😂😂
@@kittster2785there is no nutritional value to soda lol
@@Amyjwashere I never claimed there was but as an IE advocate, Abbey shouldn’t be demonising any foods. Also, there is a big difference between no nutritional value and literal poison which is what lead is. OP was complaining about people who label certain foods as poison and I’m saying look a bit closer to home, Abbey is one of those people.
When in that video she says that soda is poision? Or that you should not consume it at all? Please link exact minutes.@@kittster2785
As a former Anorexic and current competitive Bodybuilder and Fitness Coach who actually specializes in ED recovery, I am HORRIFIED. Horrified, I am the one who has to help people out of the black hole when they’ve done ALL of this bullshit and don’t know which way is up.
You don’t think bodybuilding also has a super high rate of eating disorders and disordered thinking centered around bodies leading to disordered eating? To be good at bodybuilding, you have to inherently restrict food, even to the point of discomfort, correct?
@@osazecole9325 No, not correct.
Competition could be, yes. However if you are not training for those, you should be fine.@@osazecole9325
@@osazecole9325 First of all, I never said that I didn’t think bodybuilding has a super high rate of ED. It does. For ME, personally, bodybuilding is HOW I healed from my ED, how I actually reversed my Osteoporosis (via DEXA), and how I learned to be OK with the fluctuations of a body as it moves through massing and cutting phases. I’m 40 lbs heavier than I was but still super small; I only restrict food when I am in contest prep. That’s a temporary state, and then you reverse diet your way back up to maintenance or above. My relationship with food is strong now because food isn’t restricted, I have so much muscle that the muscle demands calories for everything it needs to do. So, no need to get defensive – I know my experience is atypical but it’s one of the things that makes me a great bodybuilder and coach.
The real problem is the driving force behind a lot of disordered eating is the desire to fit the societal ideal of beauty (to receive better treatment, get better opportunities, be associated with good qualities, etc) – and as the decades have gone that has increasingly focused on the body, which often requires either being genetically “gifted”, extreme dedication/years of training, and/or often the privilege and resources to make it a major priority. Most influencers don’t blow up purely for their talent, they blow up for their looks and that is why they rise to the top of the algorithms.
Well said!
True!
@Abbey Sharp thank you for calling out the obvious and subtle issues because that messaging (from not only influencers—but also the health and whole diet industry) does inspire disordered eating even in people who don’t have a full-blown ED.
I’ve got news for Page- I actually do deserve a personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut. That sounds delicious and brings me back to elementary school and Book-It.
But seriously, can we normalize body fat (and no I don’t mean excess body fat or obesity)? I’m a thin girl and I always have been but even at my best I’ve got a little body fat. The majority of people do. Let’s stop demonizing it and acknowledge humans have body fat and that’s normal.
So well said!
I feel better when I eat “clean” foods so I focus on consuming them over other foods
ED recovery influencers who are clearly not recovered, food freedom coaches who are drastically underweight, but claim to eat everything under the sun. It’s harmful. At least let ppl know that they are most likely going to recover into a larger body, which is fine! It makes people feel bad to see these influencers preaching food freedom, eating everything, and still being drastically underweight.
When someone asks you, how are you so slim if you are eating this? First, one meal can not make you obese, that is magic thinking. Second: Tell them the truth. This is one meal, I’m not eating this everyday every meal. I am sharing now with you this meal and enjoying it but it is not my everyday. I like exercising too so that is a factor to be mindful about.
Some cases might be about their metabolism and eat whatever without gaining any weight. These types are the ones who struggle with gaining weight and muscle most of the time.
But in my case “my secret” is NOT a secret. It is what it is. Balance. One meal can not make you skinny or obese. And food is for what it is: fuel (that is my mindset and I could be TOTALLY wrong but I’m not going to tell anyone a lie).
call them out abbey, youre one of the very few real qualified voices out here
Have to say I got burned by fasting last year, after years of ED recovery and being in a good place I thought I could get away with fasting without it triggering me.. I think I was genuinely captured by the benefits of increased energy, clearer skin and others, instead of weight loss but inevitably at some point something changed, and I ended up in a uncomfortable binge, restrict and shame cycle again. Luckily having gone through the process of recovery a few times before now it hasn’t taken long to get to a healthy place, viewing food as nourishment physically and mentally again. It does get easier each time and channels like this are always a great reminder of how entrenched diet culture is!
Thank you for this video. ❤ I get so frustrated seeing all these health lies on social media.
Thank you! I’ve felt like there is a super sneaky anorexia/bulimia to orthorexia “pipeline”, masquerading as finding “food freedom”, that’s been ignored for a long time, and it’s relieving to see it finally recognized. I used to constantly be on a path to find the “perfect well-balanced” diet and I truly believed that one day I would finally figure it out if I kept trying hard enough. I think we should learn to prioritize freedom from thinking about food excessively as much as ”food freedom”. I try to remind myself that I’m not going to receive an award on my deathbed for following a particular diet or set of rules, and I won’t care then anyways.
I am so so so happy you talked about this! I am recovering from an ED and I was just discussing with my therapist about how frustrated I feel when looking at social media. I so often bump into pages with unrealistic bodies (sometimes with pictures full on edited) and promises of extreme thinness BUT all promoting intuitive eating. I would like them to understand how hard ED recovery is. Personally, I approached intuitive eating with the secret wish that it will make me lose weight, and when it didn’t happen my ED came back strong. I’m already struggling a lot to make sense of food freedom as NOT a diet and I know a lot of people are experiencing the same. We really DO NOT need these catfishing accounts.
Thank you so much, Abbey 💚💚💚