I Went Back to my Hometown to Eat Like I Did Pre-ED (This gets personal…)
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Hey everyone I’m Abbey Sharp welcome to Abbey’s Kitchen. In todays video, we will be talking about what a day of eating looked like for me when I was in high school.
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hi abby! as an individual in active recovery, i look up to you so much!! i think its super important to reclaim foods from the past in order to gain back freedom! thank you for this video!
Aw definitely!❤
It’s interesting how not only our mindset can change but our bodies. I frequently ate a microwaved hot dog and a cold poptart as an after school snack as a kid. Then i went through a period where i couldn’t imagine eating that due to “health.” Now i can’t imagine eating that just because it would make me so nauseous.
Yep so many changes as you get older
this was soooo relatable. and yes omg, when you talked about the world feeling bigger before diet culture 😫 ugh yes exactly!!!!!!
I really appreciate this video because I’ve had an ED for 20+ years. I don’t even remember what it like to have a normal relationship with food. Which makes recovering more difficult. I honestly don’t remember when my ED started. I was raised by an almond mom who adopted me at the age of 6 and my biological mother was abusive and would starve me and my siblings. I would love to just be able to enjoy food most kids get to enjoy. I’m so glad your parents were supportive.
I’m so sorry for your experience. Food freedom is still possible, wishing the best for you lovely
Loved this video and message! Would love to go back to these days.
good old days!!
I grew up England in the 1960s (born in 1956) and never ate out at all as a young kid. I didn’t eat out until my mid teens and that would be with my parents. We’d occasionally have a bacon roll at a small cafe. Fast food just wasn’t a thing then.
My mom (definitely not an almond mom) is Brazilian and Portuguese. Growing up in Rio, bread 🥖 cheese were part of our breakfast along with smoothies (carrot+orange, banana+oatmeal… any combo that was in season). My favorite was grilled cheese 🧀 (I always had too sandwiches) of cheese and jam (may sound weird but it’s delicious 😋). I was starting to go to gymnastics/ballet school so for those who think all ballerinas don’t eat, I ate like a linebacker 😂. Soon I went to Moscow to get properly trained and I did see a lot of EDs, body dysmorphia and body shaming but I was always encouraged to eat whatever I wanted while plates were taken away from the other young girls. It traumatized me but I put my head down and just focused on perfecting my work and never comparing myself with anyone else. 8:34
so glad that you were able to ignore that!! Yay for cheese
My parents never restricted any foods from us which I am grateful for. However, after some health problems that I wasn’t getting any relief from with traditional medicine, we went to some more natural doctors and boy did the dieting start after that 😅
Very nostalgic video, both because I grew up visiting family in Peterborough and also because my Toronto high school go-tos were also undercooked cookies and chocolate milk.
Have you considered doing a review of Betr health, like you did with Noom? I just tried signing up for it, because it is the program my US health insurance would cover. I got an extremely restrictive list of “Level 1” foods that included raw honey, but not pasteurized honey or sugar and only Himalayan or grey salt. I went to the dashboard and in addition to taking all of your meals daily, you track 13 other measures including water, bowel movements, and measuring tape body measurements. I’ve never had an ED, but this seems really dangerous to me based on what I’ve seen on your channel. I decided it wouldn’t be good for me and asked them to delete my account, but is this as scary as I think it is? So I went to your channel, because I know a lot of over-weight and obese people with a history of ED and if this is what their insurance would let them do and it is as dangerous as I think it is, people should know.
I was born and raised in Peterborough, so this was fun. I now live on the West Coast. My favourite memory was when my dad picked my up from school because he was retired and feed me McDonald’s french fries in the car on my way home for lunch. He couldn’t cook so this was the best he could do and there was absolutely no judgment either way. I still love that wonderful memory and still love all kinds of food today!!
I totally remember being a teen and thinking vegetarian = auto healthy. Meat = auto bad like you said with the chinese food!
Unfortunately diet culture was baked into a lot of my health education in school. (Graduated high school in 2012 in California) We would have the people with bags of sugar and lard come every so often for a school assembly on “LOOK HOW GROSS YOUR FRIED FOOD IS BAD BAD BAD” and my health teacher, who would gnaw on raw carrots stem-on during class, made us watch Supersize Me among other unhelpful things 🤢 Lots of moralized fatphobia placed next to an oversimplified food pyramid.
we need a vid of you trying to make different honeycomb cakes until you make one just like what you used to get, sounds so good!!!
This was such a wonderful and interesting video Abbey, it was really nice to see you being real with your viewers!!😊❤️❤️ I absolutely loveee your outfit and bag, you look really pretty!!
Ahahah i love this! Teenagers are super hungry 😂 reminds me that before my ED in high school i used to get a nutella panini BEFORE dance class and just before dinner and then my mom would be like “but why are you not hungry?!” 😅
This was such a fun watch! Feeling nostalgic for the good old days. That performance you did sounds amazing! And you look so pretty in that pink blouse. 💗
Thank you so much!!
Awesome video! Thank you for taking us with you on this journey. 💜Nostalgia kicking in here. 😀I grew up in Germany, Europe and my parents were older when I came into the world. There were never any food restrictions or comments on how I spent my pocket money for sweets and chips. I was very, very thin. Much skinnier than everyone around me and I am so, so grateful that I was never forced to eat up my plate or to eat more when I was just sated. It was always fine if I would leave whatever was left on my plate. Also when other grown-ups made comment about me being so thin and should be eating more, my mum always intervened and told them to mind their own business and that no one should be forced to over- or undereat. However, I started gaining weight and got into the jo-jo-dieting cycle when I left home. Pretty similar to your journey, although I never got diagnosed and think never really had an serious ED. I also ate a lot of “crap” and didn’t even think about nutrition or worried about gaining weight. It was all really intuitive. *sigh*
My favorite food memorie is my dad on hot summer sundays making salad with sausages, noodles and potatoes. Because I was raised ‘vegetarian’ except for some sundays. I think this taught me to stick to good habits instead of rigid rules. Later in life I became a vegan, but when recovering from an ED I never felt guilty for making exceptions and re-discovering ALL kinds of foods, yet going back to the label ‘veganism’ in everyday-life, because it is the simplest way to communicate what I will and will not eat. Now I feel free to use the label vegan on most days and never let any food-police-person tell me I can’t have the christmascookie.
Great video with lots of reflection on how different my own childhood was with so much diet culture messaging from the key females in my life. Yes, it certainly creates a small life. Thank you for this video and opportunity to reflect.❤