Dietitian reacts to VIRAL weight loss advice
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- There are a million videos about weight loss out there, but rarely does one get THIS much attention -- particularly when its created by someone with no apparent background in health. In this video, I will be responding to the weight loss advice put out by the account "easy, actually" in the video "losing weight is easy, actually".
I'm Natalie Fox and I am a Registered Dietitian and it is my mission to empower people to heal their relationships with food, movement, and their bodies and to provide inspiration and tools to forge a kinder and more joyful path towards health and happiness.
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The information in this video is for education and entertainment purposes only. Always speak to a health care provider about your unique health needs. Please use this video as educational, not as unique recommendations.
Losing weight isn’t easy. It’s just not complicated.
Exactly
That "just drink water and you'll feel full" thing made me laugh because I remember seeing that "advice" in pretty much every eating disordered space back when I was struggling
Yeah it’s a wild one! I’m convinced this creator just got this script from AI generated diet advice.
Thank you a lot for this, ive actually watched this 'viral video' about loosing weight, and for some reason it annoyed me alot and i couldn't tell exactly why it bothered me so much
So thank you for putting it into words, and giving us all theses informations, i think everyone should watch this video
Thanks so much!
I started watching his video but stopped like 5 minutes in because some of the language he used was so full of covert (and sometimes not so covert) shaming. IMO working out and developing health focused habits should come from a place of growing self love. We do good things for ourselves because we love ourselves enough to or want to develop that love. And we stick to them because we have to show up for ourselves. I think that was the paradigm shift for me. When I started working out as a teen I had a number I wanted to see on the scale, the voice of my mom commenting on my body in my head, and would compare myself to others. Now I focus more on how my mind and body feel. Sometimes the loving thing to do is to not self harm with food, but sometimes eating a cookie or sweet is exactly what I need to show my self love because my body is telling me it’s what it needs. I think distinguishing that feeling has been big for me. I literally eat whatever my body tells me it wants, and I’ve gotten better at listening. And most of the time it tells me it wants nutrition dense foods, but not always. Anyway, sorry for the long comment. Your video is great and insightful and really got me thinking.
Edit: Same opinion for exercise, imo it should come from a loving place or else the habits just fall apart. If I go a week without exercising I really really feel it in my body and mind.
I totally agree! It sounds like a subtle difference on paper but is profoundly different in application!
Thank you sooooo much, I always see those types of videos and think there is something really wrong with me since I know, and tried all of it, but I'm still struggling with my weight.
Loosing weight is not easy, in fact it is the most difficult thing I have gone through.
Yeah content like this gaslights people so hard!
The implication that your food should taste bland so that you can be skinny is such a massive L. Most of the trainers I know eat nothing but rice, broccoli and bland chicken for dinner and it’s sad af.
I think most people just don’t know how to cook healthy food, so they eat processed stuff because otherwise their lives are totally miserable! Same reason people don’t succeed with veganism - they make awful food and think it sucks. It’s possible to have delicious food and be healthy and even lose weight, you just have to reject the standard American food pallet for the most part lol
as an anorexic i agree with your point about exercise 100%. i used to love exercising but now i can’t do it without thinking about calories. i ended up quitting exercise just so i wouldn’t end up hating it, but i really want to get back into weightlifting someday. thoughts on earning exercise with calories?
also that’s definitely been my experience with cutting out pleasurable foods. i can’t really tell a difference between “diet” foods and normal ones, but if i tell myself i can’t have something i just crave it all the time. if my food tastes boring i don’t even bother to finish it no matter how long it’s been since i’ve eaten, so then i’m just famished and mad about the calories i didn’t even enjoy
anyway i love your work. your advice always seems so down-to-earth and practical. two thumbs up!
Thanks so much!! I think with all things we need to center pleasure and experience. If you are trying to cultivate a lifestyle, it should be one you actually enjoy living or else what’s the point? With exercise, trying to uncouple that endeavor from calories as much as possible is helpful. Focus more on how you feel in your body during and afterwards? What non-weight related benefits to you get? Try not to make your relationship with exercise regimented to start. what I mean by that is: just because you do it once, doesn’t mean you have to do it every day or near every day forever. Just doing it when it truly sounds good to start and try to not make a rule about it. If you are still working through anorexia, then having a therapist and a dietitian to help support you as you ease back into working out is incredibly helpful!
Low fat wholefood vegan. Best weight loss and health diet on the planet. Rice and sweet potatos, fruits and veggies. Its impossible to be fat eating those things.
A lifestyle change is necessary.
Absolutely
I come from Europe, so this will be a bit of a different perspective. Hear me out ...
We don't eat THAT much processed food like people in the US. You guys eat a lot of precessed food and fast food in general. I can't relate to a lot of these videos because of the difference in culture (varies within european countries). You need some "structure". If you have terrible eating habits, they won't change just because you decided to change your diet. You need to change your mindset and then change your diet. Yes, you should absolutely take yourself accountable regarding your weight loss journey. If you don't, you will keep going up and down infinitely. Don't. Also - don't be too restrictive, eat normal amounts of food, keep track of calories TILL you are able to "eyeball" your optimal caloric need. People are being way too hard or soft on themselves. Just like with strength training, if you do it once a week it will have little to no effect on muscle gain. I heard you and saying to "not count calories" but losing weight is all calories in and out (not talking about HEALTH, just WEIGHT).
Totally - There are a lot of things that result in a drastic difference in the eating habits of Americans vs Europeans. It’s not just willpower and good environment.
You can absolutely lose weight without counting calories if you know which foods are very high in calories and you’re just more mindful about them. Only using one tbsp of oil instead of two or three, only eating half the amount of chocolate and a handful of berries instead, changes like this can help lose weight without actually counting calories.
Yes! Having an awareness of calorie density is very different than calorie counting to a specific calorie deficit prescription!
@@nataliefoxRD But you can't make sure at the start of your journey, you would need to calorie count to know which meals / ingridients are caloricly speaking going to make you really fat. Intuitive eating won't work for me beacuse I will eat the whole effing house. Once I started counting calories and getting to know what is caloricly dense and what isn't I was able to eat things more intuitively.
Im from Europe too and I got fat as child because my parent wanted me to sit and learn all day, I was bored and would make sandwiches to at least get out of chair, we didn't have chips, soda, or proceeds foods for lunch, I legit got fat on bread lol
You explain why a suggestion that is made in the video is not a good idea, but you don't offer another solution that in your opinion would work.
I didnt disagree with everything in that video
@@nataliefoxRD the solutions that you disagreed with: you did not provide an alternative solution.
@@TangoMasterclass yes because I do not recommend regimented weight loss protocols. Studies show that they are largely ineffective over the long term and they can lead to disordered relationships with food and body image. Its not as though some rigid food rules are good and others are bad. Just about all of them are unsustainable and can be harmful so I don't recommend any.
@@nataliefoxRD Well I mean, yes and not. People should cut back on sugar and simple carbohydrates - that can pretty much apply to everyone. Enjoying more whole foods, lean meat, vegetables and such can be a good start.
Totally! There’s a difference though between changing your dietary pattern and emphasizing certain foods and de-emphasizing others and making a hard and fast rule to completely cut out something like sugar for example and then strong arming yourself into perfect compliance. I’m not advocating for no dietary change at all. I’m just pointing out that restricted and regimented diet programs that require perfect compliance almost never work. Perfection shouldn’t be the goal.
Wait until you find out that some people like diabetics need to count carbs to stay alive. What's your advice for us? Should we just not bother because it's unsustainable? At some point you are just going to have to grow up and learn to be an adult.
I worked in diabetes care for most of my career actually. I sought additional training in eating disorders because of my experience working with the population. Maintaining rigid carb counts and avoiding all sweet/carby foods for many (but not all) people leads to bingeing on those foods - and for the folks who struggled with that, ultimately it led to sky high A1C values. Sometimes seeking perfection can lead people WAY farther away from it in reality. It can be more tangibly helpful to focus on finding a balance that leads to the best outcomes AND quality of life rather than being dogmatic about the “right” approach.