Is Chloe Ting’s Calorie Counting Obsessive or Healthy? (Dietitian Responds to High Protein WIEAD)
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Calories, weight goals and clean eating…is diet culture taking over Chloe Ting’s relationship with food? 🤔🍽️
Hey everyone, I’m Abbey Sharp and welcome back to Abbey’s Kitchen. Today, we’re taking a close look at the diet of @ChloeTing and analyzing one of her 'What I Eat in a Day' videos from 2024. We all know Chloe as our lockdown fitness buddy. But today, we’re shifting gears from workouts to nutrition, and asking: does her approach to food promote healthy habits or problematic restriction? I’ll be breaking down her calorie and macro choices and discussing whether calorie counting is really a helpful tool or just a slippery slope for some folks.
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Love your hair like this!
Thank you! ❤
Me too. So pretty
I was thinking this too, it looks elegant
My partner is trying to gain weight and bulk up as he’s a sting bean naturally. But he’s had stomach issues and is a bit lazy about eating proper meals or cooking. So it’s good if he tries to calculate calories in meals so that he can slowly but surely gain weight without stomach issues. I got a multi way egg cooker recently so I’m going to convince him to have eggs and toast for breakfast at the weekends when he visits – he doesn’t eat breakfast usually but I think good eggs/avocado/toast combination will be a good start!
If he’s the type who doesn’t eat breakfast bc he’s not hungry and or it makes him nauseous, I recommend starting breakfast with some fruit. Its gets the digestive system going, it wont cause nausea and he’ll get hungry like 30 minutes after for the actual breakfast
@@chesiresays ooh thank you. He loves fruit and actually got him some apples he likes in my grocery shop
Flexibility definitely helps not make you miserable when you’re changing up your diet and have goals. Who hasn’t gone to a coffee shop with their mum or friend and be like ‘that’s a really good looking chocolate cake’ and been like ‘f**k it, share a slice or a slice each?’
Yes exactly!!
Wow I’m here early! Loved this and love your content ❤️
Thank yoU!
Serious question not a jab — generally I though you don’t like categorizing foods as healthy or unhealthy. What do you mean by the term healthy fats? Does it just mean not trans fat?
Healthy being “higher nutrient density” compared to other choices. Foods aren’t “good or bad” but some offer higher heath indicators than others do
Good question!! When we talk about healthy fats, we’re referring to monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats (like omega 3s) that are essential for hormone production, cell membranes, heart health and even brain health. You can check out this post for more info: https://www.instagram.com/p/C19w5YQLdb_/?igsh=MW9zdzFnNWZ3eTQ3NQ==
I started calorie counting in the Fitbit app when I started my fitness journey because i quickly realized i had no idea how many calories i was really eating.
It also helped because i thought i was easily walking 10k steps a day… i think it was coming out more like 4k 😂 definitely helped me understand how little i was actually moving and how much i was actually eating!
It’s good to get any movement, 4k steps is great!!
Why do all those fitness infuencers 🙄 talk the same way?
Please review Nikola’s Pilates next.
she did
I really like the way you reviewed Cloë with respect and without shaming her for not having pizza or any other junk food as you did in the past with many other influencers.
Cheap Lazy Vegan recently did a fat loss video and I’m wondering your thoughts on it for a reaction. She is a fellow Canadian 😉
I would LOOOOOVE a video on low FODMAP recipes, specifically low fructans/oligosaccharides, and ways to bulk up meals (since fructans are in virtually every stinkin plant food, this is really hard to do!)
Whenever I’ve watched Chloe’s food videos, her food always looks really satisfying. I also seem to remember that she shares my love of chicken liver, which I almost never see other influencers mention despite how nutritious it can be in moderation.
Sooo satisfying!
I find myself relying on smoothies for calories most during the warmest parts of the year. When it gets hot, it often kills my normal hunger cues, leading me to skip meals and under-eat. A nice cold smoothie with frozen fruit with added protein powder just makes sense for me when it gets crazy hot, and I don’t feel at all like preparing a warm meal with meat. I bought your Neue Theory powder in both flavours when you had it on sale recently. It’s pretty good! I like that unlike some other brands of vegan shakes, it doesn’t have a whole lot of added fiber in it, since I really don’t need any extra most days. I hope you are able to make a mixed berry version in the future if you are looking to expand the line(and run another sale of course😀).
Thank you so much!! I’m so glad you’re enjoying the protein powder. We have lots of great summer smoothie recipes on our instagram if you need any inspiration: https://www.instagram.com/neuetheory/reel/C-fkvSex1hu/
For me it’s become crucial to count calories, I am aiming for body composition and as an autistic person my hunger cues are ,well, off. I only feel hungry when I am VERY hungry, considering to eat a shoe hungry, so I tend to undereat, a lot, I’m talking 700 calories a day if I am not intentional. So with specific protein goals and what not, yes, it’s very useful and necessary.
Would like to see Abbey Approved Air fryer recipe demonstrations. I miss you’re cooking videos that mix information and recipes.
I just watched a video by Clara Dao that seems potentially problematic and I would love to know your take on it. It’s called the surprising habits that make me skinny.
i’ve noticed she edits her body in her thumbnails, which is quite a disappointing message coming from a fitness influencer
Can you talk about the trend of 75 hard? I see it everywhere
I’ve never heard someone say they eat in a way so that they don’t have to eat so much food. I imagine most of us have the opposite experience. Regardless, calorie counting is something I did for two years to lose 79 pounds and it worked and I was never hungry. I’ve since gained back 20 of those pounds which is fine but what that tells me is that the calorie founding didn’t really make me super mindful because as soon as I stopped I gained. Point being, calorie counting can become a crutch and you never really learn how much to eat for your body unless you really use it intentionally. I now will not count calories, it’s just too much. But I try to be mindful of my hunger cues and fullness cues and I try to eat slower which is hard for me.