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When I say this, I’m talking about the misinformation around ‘health’ that is often preached online. This is different to my usual posts, but as someone who’s struggled with this in the past, I think it’s really important to talk about. I used to be obsessed with eating ‘clean’. If I determined it to be a ‘bad’ food, I wouldn’t eat it. For example, I wouldn’t eat white potatoes, because they were on my ‘bad’ list and I thought they’d make me gain weight. I was obsessed with exercise and the idea of being as lean as possible. I thought about food all the time and would never allow myself to eat enough. I weighed myself everyday and if I hadn’t lost weight I would eat even less. I restricted myself of all highly-palatable foods, then occasionally I would have some and I couldn’t control myself, because in my head, I knew I wouldn’t allow myself to ‘slip up’ like this again… so I ate like it was the last time I would ever eat these foods. On paper, my diet was ‘healthy’. I was only consuming nutrient-dense ‘whole’ foods. I was eating lots of fruits & vegetables, plenty of fibre, protein, legumes etc etc. But I was far from healthy. I was tired, underweight, weak, irritable, I was anxious around food, I had a negative body image, body dysmorphia, and a long list of disordered eating behaviours (that I didn’t even realise were disordered at the time) I argued with my mum constantly about food and my health. I remember telling her that I was being ‘healthy’ because I wasn’t eating all these ‘bad’ foods and that she was unhealthy because she was. That was my disordered eating brain talking. Do you know what my biggest influence for all of this was… Social media. My ‘inspiration’ was fitness influencers and ‘health’ influencers online, who were spreading and preaching misinformation. I was completely sucked in and engulfed by diet culture and I was convinced it was healthy, until I managed to slowly pull myself out. I feel quite vulnerable talking about my personal experiences online, but I’m posting this in hope that it will help someone, because I needed more posts like this when I was struggling. Eloise x #diet #MentalHealth #health
When I say this, I’m talking about the misinformation around ‘health’ that is often preached online. This is different to my usual posts, but as someone who’s struggled with this in the past, I think it’s really important to talk about. I used to be obsessed with eating ‘clean’. If I determined it to be a ‘bad’ food, I wouldn’t eat it. For example, I wouldn’t eat white potatoes, because they were on my ‘bad’ list and I thought they’d make me gain weight. I was obsessed with exercise and the idea of being as lean as possible. I thought about food all the time and would never allow myself to eat enough. I weighed myself everyday and if I hadn’t lost weight I would eat even less. I restricted myself of all highly-palatable foods, then occasionally I would have some and I couldn’t control myself, because in my head, I knew I wouldn’t allow myself to ‘slip up’ like this again… so I ate like it was the last time I would ever eat these foods. On paper, my diet was ‘healthy’. I was only consuming nutrient-dense ‘whole’ foods. I was eating lots of fruits & vegetables, plenty of fibre, protein, legumes etc etc. But I was far from healthy. I was tired, underweight, weak, irritable, I was anxious around food, I had a negative body image, body dysmorphia, and a long list of disordered eating behaviours (that I didn’t even realise were disordered at the time) I argued with my mum constantly about food and my health. I remember telling her that I was being ‘healthy’ because I wasn’t eating all these ‘bad’ foods and that she was unhealthy because she was. That was my disordered eating brain talking. Do you know what my biggest influence for all of this was… Social media. My ‘inspiration’ was fitness influencers and ‘health’ influencers online, who were spreading and preaching misinformation. I was completely sucked in and engulfed by diet culture and I was convinced it was healthy, until I managed to slowly pull myself out. I feel quite vulnerable talking about my personal experiences online, but I’m posting this in hope that it will help someone, because I needed more posts like this when I was struggling. Eloise x #diet #MentalHealth #health

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