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Not sure why you think she gives the impression she’s warm and accepting. Her channel title includes the word “sass”. (And she really has trouble sounding positive at all, let alone warm, even when she’s pronouncing approval for someone. After watching several videos, they’re all the same. The same nutrition info in every one, and the same snide tone throughout.
I know this video is over a year old now, but wow! The fact Abbey actually went after Ellen for feeding her kids vegetables but recently praised Alexandra Sabol for feeding her kids donuts for breakfast... just wow
@@GizelleQuantsame, I muted her channel years ago after feeling like her content was toxic clickbait and not driven by science at all, but suddenly she showed up in my feed this week… she makes really wild health claims and often says that established science that we have 30, 50, or 100 years of solid data and well designed studies about is somehow “unproven”. I would bet money that woman isn’t subscribed to any serious nutritional journals (they are $$$$) and just does a quick google search until she finds a badly designed study (often paid for by the meat/dairy industry) that she can use to validate her opinions so she can make a quick buck off of protein bars that get recalled for E. coli.
Abbey recently came out with her own protein powder. It’s everything she’s gone after other influencers’ brands for - anti bloating, “clean” and $65 for 20 servings. Her fans are finally turning on her in the comments and unsurprisingly she is brushing off all criticisms. Finally showing her true colors with this decision
It's kind of odd that she claims to stand for a healthy relationship to food - while running a channel dedicated to critiquing other peoples eating habits, and being pathologically obsessed with being non-restrictive, even if the restrictions are justified and healthy. There ARE healthy restrictions. In fact, restriction based on rational decision is pretty much the prerequisite to health itself.
Ironically I think she very much still restricts herself. I mean all of her meals are based on meeting “perfect” macros. And she has said before that doesn’t doesn’t eat fast food, yet makes a ton of reels of ordering fast food and then eats one bite on camera at the end. I highly doubt she was eating all of that fast food, especially at the frequency she was filming those clips. Abbey’s advice at this point has basically devolved into “indulge yourself in whatever you want”, yet she obviously doesn’t do that herself.
Yep, theres a certain food group I dont eat purely because over the years ive realised they dont satisfy me from a taste, emotional, hunger or energy level perspective. But to her shed probably say im being to reatrictive and i should eat them. But theyre a waste of money for me to buy and consume.
Exactly. This is what has always irked me about her content. Someone choosing to limit or restrict unhealthy foods she will accuse of being disordered. Some foods are unhealthy. It does not mean you have a bad relationship with food to acknowledge that.
one of my biggest problems with her is how she portrays herself as this almighty advocate for intuitive eating yet constantly nitpicks people's diets (especially more 'healthy' people ironically) in order to fit her own very definition of perfect eating. how is that intuitive at all? how intuitive is to constantly be worrying about protein fiber and fats in every single meal? how is that beneficial to someone trying to listen to their own body signals? why does she contradict herself so damn much??
Especially some nitpicky vitamins that are missing in one meal or one day. Eating intuitive while having to think about micronutrients at every meal isn’t really intuitive is it? Also she acts like they asked to be analysed.
The part about the ballerina and tracking, Abbey always fails to understand some people, especially professional athletes, need to track to make sure they eat enough. While she is a ballerina and has to maintain a certain weight for her job, we clearly saw times where her appetite was blunted by her constant activity and uses her tracked calories to make sure she doesn’t under eat (which abbey does mention but only in the context of her not feeling hungry and disregarding her calculating a nutrient and calorie dense dinner anyway).
It's also useful for some autistics. One sign of autism is poor interoception, or the sense of what your body needs. This includes things like hunger cues. Some autistics find that they need to track so they don't forget to eat or under eat.
@@katfoster845 Yep am autistic - absolutely this. I've had a restrictive ED and its twisted to say, but I was 'so good at it' because I just didn't recognise hunger signals or could just ignore them really easily. Its also really easy now for me to over eat or just forget to eat. I plan my food and have very repetitive meals because it keeps my food intake regular.
She gives anyone who is overweight a free pass on what they eat, and refuses to acknowledge that food can be addictive or that BED is a real disorder. She once compared overeating ice cream to having too much wine, and was just like "I know that having too much wine will make me feel bad, just like eating too much ice cream will make my stomach upset, so I stop after I have just one glass/a little bit." Sooo many people do not have the ability to just drink one glass of wine or just have one scoop of ice cream and stop. Some people genuinely need to cut out junk food or track their food intake so that they don't binge.
Yes I’ve always felt this way with Abbey, she always seems harder on slim people and their diet. It also seems like a double standard when she’s so slim herself and yet almost encouraging everyone to eat more.
Yes I struggle with binge eating and I'm finally losing weight. She does come off as very passive, doesn't seem to understand that eating disorders isn't just anorexia
I think in modern socio-political culture, you have to be careful about dissing fat people because of the history of diet culture and fat-shaming, etc. I agree there's thin privilege vs fat oppression but I still think people should make a goal to be healthy and acknowledge being fat isn't healthy.
But, she also mentons A LOT in her videos, that one needs to speak to their own dietician about their needs. Since binge eating is also a psychological thing, it's worth them talking to therapist that specializes in ED, and finding a method that works for them.
I liked her several years ago...but over the years I've started to think she pushes her own ED issues on everyone else. The idea that any person who tries to eat well during the week and let's lose on the weekends has disordered eating...it's bizarre. That's her experience.
I have to say I kind of agree, though I do think to some extent sure disordered eating is maybe more prevalent than we realize. That being said, as someone who’s been in recovery from an actual eating disorder for so long, the idea that everybody else also has one is discouraging and also just encourages my own disordered mindset. It makes it super easy to justify. I don’t know that I blame her because it’s hard to get out of that if that’s just how she sees the world, but yeah maybe it’s her own issues coming out unbeknownst to her.
Greg Doucette does that, too, and I don't understand why. It's easier to do meal prep on Sunday, have my meal ready for the working week, go out, order in, or even make easy comfort food on the weekends. I don't think that's binge eating. Besides, because I eat healthy and reasonable portions during the week, I'm not that desperate to eat a considerable amount of junk food on the weekend. Of course, there are times when there are exceptions, and I eat junk food with friends during the week, but I compensate for it another day. Later, I don't punish myself at the gym; I continue my routine and haven't gained any weight so far. When I don't do this... Yes, I start losing focus, and my stomach is enlarged, not being able to restrict my portions. Being conscious of what you put in your mouth is not an eating disorder, IMO.
my biggest problem with her right now is how hateful and judgmental her speech is towards anyone who doesn’t live like her. like, if she reviews a diet where the person don’t eat breakfast she will instantly bash them saying that they are restricting themselves and diet culture this and that blablabla, but there’s people that just don’t like to eat breakfast, that don’t feel hungry in the morning, and there’s nothing wrong with that. also, she’s always talking about being realistic and it rarely feels realistic. for example, the 50$ challenge, she mentioned that getting canned beans or whatever is more realistic because you wouldn’t need to spend so much time cooking it, but most of us don’t have the means to buy something more expensive just to save time. like, i would love to order some coffee and donuts for breakfast to save me some time but i don’t have the money for it. being realistic is acknowledging that sometimes (or a lot of times) you have to sacrifice time for money. my dad used to travel for work and my mom would be alone at home working full time and having to cook for 3 kids. we were so poor back then that my mom didn’t have a choice besides giving up her time to rest just to make food for us. saving money is more important than saving time for most people, because you only have the option to save time when you already have money.
She’s a Karen and all her actions are unhinged and that’s so unhealthy no wonder she’s feeling so bad mentally and physically as that greatly effects the bodies capacity to absorb the nutrients it needs from the food we eat.
i think what abbey does is irresponsible and unethical as a health professional. her speculating online about people's possible eating disorders, shaming them and nitpicking them for views, how she religiously supports intuitive eating and never acknowledges that its just not a good option for everyone. she is so willing to manipulate other people's videos and twist their words in order for her to make a point and come off as the educated one to her audience. i remember this video with scout forsythe, another ballerina, who said she doesn't trust microwaves because she didn't grow up with them. abbey proceeded to CUT that part out where she said she didn't grow up with them and went on this thing about how distrust around microwaves is a myth and how they're actually safe as if scout was promoting some sort of pseudoscience around microwaves like GIRL she just doesnt like microwaves
Yeah, the deceptive editing is horrendously manipulative, particularly when it's in service of Abbey making some weird dunk on whichever person she's talking about. It's even worse because you can tell she's already watched the video prior (in order to gather the sources she then misrepresents) but she then formats her reviews as an initial reaction, almost to cover up how blatantly she lies. It's very telling as to her intent.
Especially bcs if you actually look into how microwave works you'll find out it really makes certain nutrients unavailaible to the body so it is not healthy to use it because your food really looses nutrients.
@@junomcgaff3479Right, it literally says on baby bottles packaging not to microwave breastmilk or formula because it will destroy nutrients your baby needs
@@SuperSarahbop agreed! The way she was laughing and bullying that girl with all fruit diet, with the ppl behind the camera. But completely supported and was very nice for lil durk when he said he only eats hot cheetos and Oreos in his day 💀 like girl bye. She’s just the product of fake woke “eat whatever you want” movement. And don’t have the guts to point out the unhealthy eating habits of ppl. Also the fact that she’s a dietitian but instead of doing her fkn job and judges other ppls diets? Where the professionalism? She’s an embarrassment to all dietitions. Also the fact that she has zero experience in the feild except the mandatory work needed to graduate her college in Toronto. She’s a bad person overall
@@OurLadyofPerpetualVictimhood I genuinely think TikTok is a psyops operation. Regardless of what anyone’s personal opinion is on deadnaming or any other hot button issue, it’s obvious when you look at what is promoted or censored on China’s TikTok vs US TikTok that there is some larger agenda at play. Anything dangerous, factually incorrect, politically charged, degenerate, or just downright stupid is promoted on western TikTok. Absolutely nothing of the sort get promoted in China. I highly doubt this is *all* just based on engagement and algorithms. You can even try blocking some of these key hashtags, such as something political or identity related, and will still get posts with that hashtag on your page.
thank you for this video. I think she looks at people’s diet through her own ED lens and fails to remember people have different goals, lifestyles, and not everyone has a bad relationship with food. It’s so frustrating especially with her wieiad reviews on tiktok from random people. One video that I hated this girl who said she had ice cream with her bf after dinner and she was like “maybe you wouldn’t have eaten that if you had more fiber in your lunch” like idk abby maybe she just wanted ice cream with her boyfriend
She made a similar comment towards another girl who had eaten a kinda stereotypical clean/healthy eating type video, and then had some home made ice cream at the end. Abbey greatly insinuated this girl was lying about having a sensitive stomach and it was an excuse for an ED, and then said something snarky about how you shouldn't have to "be good" all day to deserve some ice cream. Well I went and found the original vid, and this girl never said ANYTHING about having the ice cream because she'd "been good". Abbey literally slandered this person for no reason.
And you just know she would turn around and criticize her for being "too restrictive" if she hadn't eaten any junk food. You can never win with Abbey because she thinks she's better than everyone and if you think differently than her, you're just wrong in her eyes
I always think it is so weird how Abbey demonizes bodychecks ANYWHERE (even if it is not) but to get clicks and views she puts a more concentrated photo of the celebrity/influencer’s body she is reviewing
It's funny how ONLY thin/athletic people get accused of bodychecking. If you watch literally any food/lifestyle type youtuber/tiktoker, almost every single one starts with posing in a mirror while showing off an outfit or doing a little dance or something. I've never seen someone accuse the plus sized creators of bodychecking when they do this. I think it's a major projection, and also it insinuates that people who are thin or athletic aren't allowed to be happy with or proud of their body which is toxic af.
SO TRUE!!!! She constantly gets mad at influencers showing their bodies, simply showing their fkn bodies that they worked for. But then use the same pics in her thumbnail. I don’t understand how that creep still has fans
Not to mention that she started using her own body as a selling point now, she’s made a video titled “how I stayed the same weight since my 20s”. If that’s not tone deaf compared to what she claims to preach then idk what is
@@Kiran37369I agree about her using their bodies being bad but the “that they worked for” comment is💀💀💀 I worked for my ed body too (not calling all the ppl reviewed disordered, just saying that it takes a lot of work to hurt urself too, so maybe-especially on a vid about eds-don’t highlight bodies as ‘achievements’, or ur falling into the same hypocrisy as Abby.
This video is incredible and needs way more views. I used to be a hardcore Abbey Sharp fan. I followed her before her "what i eat in a day" reviews and I really enjoyed her content. And she really honestly did help me with a lot of my issues with food. But in the last year or so I've stopped watching her - her videos got more and more dramatic, cutting in random gifs and clips as "reactions" (which I absolutely LOATHE when UA-camrs do that - it's poor cheap editing that distracts from the video), her comments got more spiteful, and it seemed like every single one was doom and gloom. When I first found this video I was skeptical at first but wow, you've done an incredible job and done more than twice the work she did for any of her videos. She also claims to have a "team" doing the research for her. Obviously whoever the team is isn't doing their job properly. This video really needs more views. Very well done and now I really understand why I've trailed off watching her videos, and after I'm done writing this comment I'm unsubscribing from her channel.
I have adhd and hyperthyroidism and never feel hungry, forget to eat, dont want to. her intuitive eating doesnt work for me, ive commented about it on her videos before and she responded with a non-response. others have commented similar things to her and she ignores them. its like she refuses to see how it just cant work for everyone, i count calories to make sure i eat enough.
Absolutely relate! I have reminders on for meals and I want make sure I'm alright in terms of health, but this intuitive cult labels any control is orthorexia. Honestly people in the bodybuilding/ fitness community are much kinder in my experience
Exactly! I have no problem with intuitive eating, especially if it helps people recover from an ED. My issue lies with Abbey brute forcing it as the only way to eat healthily, which only ends up undermining an approach to food that someone with issues like yours could really benefit from. Her biased criticisms could end up doing more harm than good in those cases.
Despite Abbey being an "expert" on intuitive eating, she actually provides very little useful information on the subject. Most people who have issues with food can't just leap into into intuitive eating. There is a lot of work that needs to be done before one becomes an intuitive eater and part of that work is "mechanical eating" which is the first step in restoring hunger cues. Even then, intuitive eating isn't right for everyone.
@@datamale the irony is, especially for people in recovery of ED, intuitive eating is contra-indicated. Because to recover, people need to eat more calories than they need for maintance, so they have to eat despite not being hungry.
As someone who is in STEM academia, something that really throws me off about Abbey is how poorly cited her videos are. Yes she throws citations in the description, but they are in no particular order and it’s unclear what she is referencing from each paper or where in the video. I’m sure most of her audience is not looking at the links at all, but from what I can directly connect from the papers to her videos, some of her assertions are very loose. Other times I don’t think she truly has any idea how to interpret some of these studies and is relying on the authors conclusions to be accurate; so she will cite a pretty poorly structured study just because it agrees with her. I have a friend who is a dietician and it is a lot of work; so I don’t mean to discredit dietitians at all here, but Abbey holds up her credentials as if she is a doctor or something. She has a bachelors degree (4 years) and completed an internship. For her to act as if she is above everyone labeled a nutritionist is quite goofy. If they were someone with a PhD in nutrition, per one of her examples, they would be far more qualified to speak about nutrition than Abbey (if going strictly off credentials / length of program completed as seems to be her metric).
Finally, someone said it all! This woman is a walking contradiction. I would love for her to react to this video, although I doubt she will since you absolutely destroyed her. Great job as always👏
Another thing that really REALLY got my goat with her was her SIBO ‘journey’. The amount of times that she scoffed at another influencer’s decision to take certain supplements and tore any evidence of efficacy to shreds, even if lots of people find the thing helpful anecdotally (and may have been eager or desperate to find something to help them with a particular problem), then when she went in her treatment ‘journey’, she went on a MASSIVE cocktail of daily meds and supplements, most of which weren’t fully evidence-backed but that she was willing to try to help her feel better!!! What a colossal HYPOCRITE.
This video hits the nail on the head. The issue I have with Abbey Sharp is how incredibly misleading and cherry picked her videos are. In my eyes she’s just as over the top and sensationalized as freelee.
Thank you for making this! I can't believe Abbey hasn't been sanctioned by the Ontario College of Dieticians, as her content is so detrimental to the profession. Seeing a registered dietician mocking people (especially Kelly Ripa, as you noted, and also her Julianne Hough video was appalling) could deter someone from seeking necessary medical support out of fear that their dietician will publicly mock them too. I think she's aware that she often crosses the line, but it seems like she either can't control herself (which is concerning from a mental health perspective) or is willing to cross that ethical boundary for financial gain.
*A group of my current (& former) colleagues & I have are considerin+g filing multiple formal complaints about Abbey Sharp. Thus far we've compiled research, all relevant source materials & various examples from Abbey's social media platforms in order to file our complaints. She's perpetuated harmful messages & disastrous misinformation for YEARS.* *When one considers her massive platform + the fact that a majority of her followers consider her viewpoints as "facts," it's easy to see why her channel is extremely destructive to her average viewer. Many of her subscribers are not educated enough in nutrition to discern fact versus misinformation and she's created a horrific precedent around nutrition since the birth of her channel. Keep in mind, Abbey also maliciously edits clips from the people she criticizes in order to persuade her viewers to agree with Abbey, even when she intentionally cuts video clips to paint those she criticizes in a bad light.* *Frankly, we've had enough of the lies and fraudulent claims she's spread for years and we're finally going to take action. I would also encourage anyone else who understands why many of the falsehoods Abbey shares are critically dangerous to consider filing a formal complaint about Abbey as well. Abbey's had a multitude of chances to better educate herself and to stop posting edited content that seeks to demonize people she critiques, yet instead, Abbey continues to manipulate her subscribers, viewers, and the individuals she consistently bashes. It's even more grotesque when one recognizes that anorexia, binge-eating disorders, bulimia, etc, are some of the most DEADLY mental illnesses that exist and Abbey is pushing flat-out lies and fear-mongering instead of focusing on these issues in an honest way.* *Ultimately, we are exasperated with Abbey Sharp's vile deception. Abbey exploits nutrition and other real-world issues under the guise of "nutrition and health" for her own self-interest & financial gain while berating other creators who are typically not doing anything malicious whatsoever. Once our complaint is filed, I hope that Abbey will finally face genuine accountability. Furthermore, this accountability won't be so easy for her to ignore or dismiss with another video of her being "sassy" that her followers will metaphorically eat up.**
@meeeeeeeeeeeep not sure what came of this, but she just launched an expensive protein supplement with questionable claims, and her videos are sponsored by non evidence based supplements like colostrum
This video helped me realize that discovering "intuitive eating" and Abbeys videos coincided with me self diagnosing with an eating disorder and completely stepping away from any kind of monitoring and resricting out of fear. I've gained 80lbs since that time. Eating intuitively has reintroduced UPFs into my diet and I look back in how I used to eat like "wow I used to eat so healthy/balanced, how did I do that?" Thank you.
Honest to god she just gives me the impression that she wants everyone around her to be fat while she stays skinny. She NEVER wants ANYONE to restrict in ANY way no matter what, but she obviously restricts in some kind of way for her to stay so slim. She just seems really dishonest to me
Abby recently made a video defending her Canadian dietician colleagues for taking money from the Canadian sugar lobby to promote sugar as "healthy." These dietician influencers made tiktok videos claiming that restricting sugar was (you guessed it) disordered eating. They did this after being paid to do so from the sugar lobby. I never understood her motivation to promote unhealthy habits as "normal" and originally thought the same as you: that she is purposely sabotaging weight loss of her viewers. In light of this news about the Canadian Sugar lobby, I now believe she is being paid to promote these unhealthy foods.
She wants people to restrict in moderation, it's just that she usually reacts to people who she deems overly restrictive. She often talks about binge eating and how that should always be avoided. She also want every meal to contain al macronutrients and fiber. She wants portion sizes to not be too small or too large. Unhealthy treats can be enjoyed, but only in moderation. All restrictions.
@@Anonymous-sb9rr the every meal to be completely balanced thing really gets to me bc like. even the really healthy people i know don't really eat like that. a lot of them have salads at one point int he day and then have a meal that is all meat and rice or something. and it all sort of balances out over the course of a day or even over the course of several days. at my healthiest i was eating about 5-6 different "meals" in a day, and 1 of them would be a salad, and 1-2 of them would basically be fruit bowls. and the rest would be just rice and lentils or rice and chicken. but when i described my diet to my doctors they were just like yep sounds good
I don't agree with the idea that you have to be restricting in order to stay small, especially when she is not nearly as slim as she was before. She is clearly at a healthy weight, my criticism of her is the fact that she is way harder on slim people. People can be naturally skinny, slim, average, or plus sized. Obviously it becomes unnatural when people are extremely skinny or morbidly obese, or are eating in ways that are unhealthy for them, regardless of what they look like on the outside.
This popped up for me randomly so I thought "why not" as I typically have YT on in the background during the day. The segment with the dancer is astonishing! A have many friends who dance at that level (I worked for a major US company) and a dancer at that level is a professional athlete with a full and complete understanding of her body and what serves her best. The conceit of thinking that someone can see a 20 minute video and give a full and useful analysis is mind-boggling. It is kind of amazing.
Calling chopping your own vegetables unaccessible and a high-level skill is such a red flag for a person who wants to talk about food. I saw her what I eat a day video and holy shift. The only real meal she eats is oatmeal. Everything else is fast food and premade crap. If your intuition leads you to eat cereal with chips at night after dinner, then you shouldn't eat intuitively. Even if it's called mental health. As far as I'm concerned, she failed to manage to have a healthy and sustainable lifestyle twice. She should realize that she needs help from another professional. Instead of treating herself and applying the same rules to everybody else. Witch is highly unprofessional.
This video is pure gold. i have watched Abbey on and off for a couple of years and what she was saying never sat quite right with me. I have a BSc in Psychology an MSc in Human Nutrition and am registered with the Association for Nutrition. It really rubs me the wrong way every time Abbey says 'when in doubt, consult a 'Registered Dietician', yes they are vey knowledgeable, but so are many people with nutrition degrees. In many cases a nutrition degree covers a much wider range of subject matters which include agriculture, sustainability, commercial nutrition and much more.
I was a nanny for a dietician and she let me watch youtube while I did chores when her kid was asleep. She noticed I was watching a lot of Abbey Sharp and she asked me to look for other dieticians to get info from lol
The more I watch this the more and more I've realised that she'd be entirely against the way those of us with BED have to restrict ourselves from certain trigger foods in order to deal with our disorders. Like I'm glad this works for her but it's aggravating how she seems to lack empathy and assumes she's the norm and if she doesn't like it then it can't be good.
Yeah I have a whole list of foods I don’t have control over like ice cream cheese pizza chips crackers and pasta that if I want to eat I have to make sure I buy as an individual portion on its own or else I’ll eat the whole thing. Even if it’s packaged in portions if it’s there its down the gullet
@@SuperSarahbopI’m like this too! If I buy a pizza, I will eat THE WHOLE THING. So i have to buy a personal sized one or none at all. Sometimes we have to set boundaries for ourselves.
I have this problem with rice, raw till 4 has helped me a lot for this exact reason. Since I'm only having cooked food at night, I focus on bananas and fruit during the day (I only eat when I'm hungry) I lost 7kg in like a month
Daily takeout may be 'the norm' for some people, but eating at home isn't necessarily unrealistic, even if you're a busy working mom like abbey. My mom worked full time as a single parent. she made breakfast, lunch and dinner for us every day and We always ate meals together as a family. She prepared quick, simple semi-homemade meals, making enough for a couple days of leftovers. On the weekend we might bake some breakfast muffins for the week, or a loaf of bread to have alongside dinners. As an adult i am the laziest, most impatient cook, yet I never get takeout. After a busy day, it feels like less time and energy to go home and throw together something quick and easy than to go to a restaurant where I may have to wait in line to order, then wait for them to make my food. Plus it is cheaper to eat at home.
Yeah, I think daily takeout is in fact a very North American thing. Absolutely no-one does that where I live, regardless of their living or working conditions and how much money they make. Recently, it made the news that people here have started eating more takeout or go out to eat - some people even doing that once a week. Lmao.
Great video. Abbey's channel has become a bait-and-switch. She brands herself as a dietician, but the content of her channel consists of unqualified and unsolicited psych evaluations, and bitching about food that she personally doesn't like. If you eat food she isn't "intuitively" craving at that particular moment, you have an eating disorder, congratulations!
I gained weight while listening to her advice. I gained 50lbs while pregnant and after the first 15lbs fell off my weight loss stalled. I looked to UA-cam for diet advice and stumbled on her channel. I started the making meals she recommended and "listened" to my body when I was hungry. Well I gained 10lbs back. I went keto (which she is against) and the weight fell off. Turns out the amount of carbs I was eating was triggering me to be hungry when I wasn't and by eating when I felt hungry like she said to do, I was just overloading my body with more calories and sugars. If she helped people recover form an eating disorder that's great but if you're really overweight and need to lose weight for your health, her advice won't do it.
Eat when youre hunrgy is really good advice, for some people. Usuallt the type of people who force themselves not to eat or have a super fast metabolism. I am neither of those and infact, i am constanly hunrgy. That would be shockingly bad advice for me from her 😂
@@kaycollarfeild I'm the opposite, I don't feel my hunger cues, I usually don't even realise I'm hungry until my stomach cramps sometimes. If I didn't track my food, I simply wouldn't eat and be way too skinny. Intuitive eating isn't for everyone!
@@pollyfletcher-ee4lr I used to be like that. I never realised I was hungry and wouldn't eat for days before I realised. I don't think either way is good. It's real shit bodies can betray you so much
Only 5k views??? This needs waaaay more because you hit the NAIL!!! 🥇 Thank you!!! I suffer from binge eating and use her videos to excuse my binge eating and say “I’m just honoring my cravings” haha it’s toxic for me personally. I do think her content is only for those who deal with EDs that are restrictive and food scared not the ones that don’t know how/can’t restrict.
Even for people in ED recovery, eating intuitive is contra-indicated, meaning they should NOT eat intuitively. In a world full of highly processed, caloriedense, higly pallatable 'foods' all people with normal body weight or with overweight HAVE TO RESTRICT THOSE 'FOODS'! Maybe watch nice channels, such as Simnett Nutrition (nutritionist), Gaz Oakley (chef) and 'Pick up Limes' (dietician).
She has some tricks that I tried and it worked about highly palatable food For me she really helped me actually... Dunno why all this hate... After all we forget that she also needs to feed her kids so she will use some of the commercial tricks, but it's not her fault, it's the capitalist system
I literally gained 60 lbs in “recovery” doing this method and my cravings never weaned off. Not keeping those foods in my house and only buying them occasionally is what actually helped the cravings die off. Realizing I have control over my behavior and can tell myself no and don’t have to give in to the desire to binge.
I absolutely agree and I think this is a common issue with alot of these intuitive eating people. It's only really helpful for those yoyo dieters or those that deeply restrict via orthorexia or Ana.
This was beautifully done! I’ve been very skeptical of abbey and realized her main objective is to appeal to the HAES crowd over all else. I don’t need someone to encourage me to eat junk food because it feels good. That’s my problem! I wish she would address disorders such as binge eating and food addictions.
I don’t really trust HAES as a whole. They say it’s about behavior and not about size, but size is in the acronym. I had a HAES dietitian in a residential treatment center and asked her how she can insist I’m too skinny if size doesn’t matter. She didn’t really have an answer. Extremes aren’t healthy.
As an obese person, her content was not good for me at all. I had to cut her from my media diet, so to speak, when she kept going on and on about how impossible weight-loss is and how anyone who tries will fail. It wrecked me to see a clearly thin woman with education in nutrition and a rather clean diet who insisted I couldn't change my own life, and that actively trying would only result in failure. So far, from my heaviest recorded weight, I've lost nearly 100lbs. It's taken a few years, but I feel better at nearly 40 and under 200lbs than I did in my late 20s and 300lbs. Ironically, Abby would probably approve of most of my diet now, even if she wouldn't have been willing to criticize my awful prior habits.
May I ask what helped you get healthier? I am also at the stage when I realised Abby’s content is not suitable for me for the same reasons you mentioned. Thank you.
@@eldritchmonsterofnorfolk7253 Oh man, I could babble about this forever. I started just by honestly tracking my food, and then I set minimum and maximum nutrition goals. I used a calculator to figure out my minimum calories at an ideal weight, and set that as my minimum. I also set a minimum protein goal. My maximum was just my maintenance calories about 10lbs less than my current weight. That way, I never risked pushing myself too far into restriction while maintaining some level of calorie deficit. My normal goal is to end the day about 500 calories under maximum, but I don't get too fussy about it as long as I'm in my broad range. Then, I did some budgeting and figured out I could afford one of the more inexpensive meal kit boxes. I challenged myself to try new things and new cooking methods. It was incredibly useful for me to really get an eye for portion sizes. Now, I have dozens of recipes, including several that I've memorized and can make in my sleep. The habit of cooking fresh food with portions in mind is probably the goal I'd aim people toward above almost anything else. I have an active job, so I never had to worry about that, but I still have a fitbit I use to keep an eye on my energy out. From there, I made it a point to refine my approach instead of giving up. If something felt wrong or unmanageable, I made smaller and more deliberate adjustments that fit with my life, rather than forcing myself to be like someone else, or just giving up and going back to my starting point. I accepted that slow progress is better than fast failure. It's taken nearly 4 years to take off 100lbs, and that included many times of falling and getting back up. I've got about 60lbs left to go, and it's still very slow, but now I feel more like I'm on a train taking me to my destination, rather than wandering the wilderness like when I started. And even though the slow progress feels like nothing most of the time, one day you'll have to show ID for something, and the person checking it will double-take and say, "Oh, wow!" and you'll realize for the first time that you hardly recognize yourself in the photo. I'm sure you know where in your personal life you have room to make simple adjustments that will serve you best. Just let those adjustments really take hold, and slowly build on them. Good luck--you got this!
@@eldritchmonsterofnorfolk7253 Oh, and if you want my #1 channel recommendation instead of someone like Abby, I'd pick Jordan Syatt. His advice on stuff like tracking and "plateaus" is the best I've ever seen.
Wow. I've never actually considered that, but you're right! She TOTALLY just throws away these mentions of long-term weight loss being totally unattainable. How damaging.
abbey is obsessed with protein UP AND UNTIL you decide to make ANYTHING SWEET WITH PROTEIN IN IT LOL!!! then she assumes you are restricting and have an eating disorder if you dont feel like eating full on brownies and opt for a protein cookie instead
As someone with autism, the food combos she suggested are texturally really distressing to me. I'm going to eat my safe fruits and chocolate by themselves. Also, I remember one time she made a "bedtime snack" so you dont wake up in the night (ngl cant relate to that sitch) but it was like protein bar, yoghurt, peanut bitter, fruit etc, everyone in the comments was like "this is bigger than an evening meal" 😅😂
The fact that she tries to diagnose eating disorders when she's not even a psychologist speaks volumes. I honestly don't understand why the people who follow her say that her main objective is to help people with eating disorders when all the time she confuses disordered eating with EDs. What she is actually doing is perpetuating the stereotype that diet culture and restriction is THE cause of eating disorders and that the solution is simply eating "intuitively", ignoring that it is a complex and deadly mental illness where the purpose is usually not to lose weight but to have a cope mechanism.
Thank you for this video! I’ve had problems w abbey for a while. I’ve never had an eating disorder, so I don’t know what that experience is like and don’t wish to insult her if she’s helping people who are struggling. I love food, cooking, and thinking about the nutrition I feed myself. Remember, I’ve never had an ED, but after watching abbey’s videos I started having lots of food anxiety. When abbey reviews anyone’s food choices, there’s always something wrong with it. Something to add, something to do differently. And it made me feel like the food I was feeding myself was wrong. I get her cool girl attitude that food is fine. But that attitude is thin veil covering intense judgements, measurements, and morality.
I'm sorry you had that experience. I think that's a definite possibility that needs to be considered when you make content that hyperanalyzes people's diets in search of "optimization" or "perfection", especially when you cater to people in recovery for eating disorders who may be predisposed to anxiety around food. It's a very conflicting message that manifests in a pretty messy way for such delicate subject matter.
That’s what I noticed as well. For someone who claims to hate food rules and diet culture and who has healed from orthorexia, she really overanalyses every meal. She’s telling people to not be overwhelmed by food and eat what they like and then says something like „there could be more fibre and more“ even when the person made no comment of not being satiated.
@@TangoMasterclass I gave BED and I’m just going to share my take on Abbey from my own experiences. Her idea of all food is good and there should be nothing restricted or restrictive is really dangerous for somebody with binge eating disorder. I have trigger foods where I’m like an alcoholic and can’t stop once I start eating trigger foods even if it’s packaged in individual portions if it’s around I’ll still open another portion until it’s gone. I have to abstain from the trigger completely or I can only buy an individual portion sized package. Currently due to abstaining for the most part from my trigger foods I’ve been able to stabilize my weight I can’t even keep cheese in my fridge as that’s one of my trigger foods however I do still allow myself to get cheese sometimes but I have to remember it’s a trigger so I can’t buy a lot
As a woman whose teen years were during possibly THE unhealthiest era, I understand why so many people push intuitive eating. But, as someone who is neurodivergent, my body & brain are not capable of it. I NEED to externally pay attention to what I eat in order to not over or under consume. I have several gripes with Abbey but her refusal to acknowledge that other methods of tracking food intact can be healthy & valid is a big one.
I actually cant stand her take that everyone should eat intuitively.. but eat everything in moderation.. this completely ignores the fact that modern societies Franken-foods has fucked people up and thus make bad choices. Some people need restrictions.. that doesnt mean they have disordered eating.. so holier-than-thou..
What I've come to dislike about Abbey without going in dept like this video did is, her insisting on her hunger crushing combos. Now the basic idea is great, but the need to add fruit and yoghurt to a piece of cake or ice cream annoys me. Why not eat the piece of cake and after you've given yourself the time to enjoy it top off with a bowl of fruit. Or better yet stop treating a piece of cake like a meal. It doesn't have to be filling or a HCC because you should already have that in a regular meal. Also, adding even more food increases a person's calorie intake. Yes, I said it. Another time she went to Starbucks and Chipotle to order a healthy breakfast. She did her best insisting on all the protein, fiber and healthy fats she has in her meals but didn't acknowledge all of the added sugar, meal size and calories. Some people pointed this out in the comments, I agreed and of course that comment thread was deleted. She also didn't acknowledge the ridiculous prices of these meals and how much food you would be able to buy for that amount of money. But, we can't expect that from a person who drives a Tesla, has her groceries delivered from the most expensive grocery store, orders in one meal a day (as she said herself, usually lunch which is the most challenging meal in my opinion) and shows off her at-home gym where she half-asses her workouts to stay on brand with this chill tired mom persona she has created for herself. Some people have time to workout and they want to do it well, perhaps even with a schedule or programme AND to look nice as a consequence. That is ok and her "light stretching" she insists on is not superior in any way. I was also slightly annoyed at her pointing out how her kids drew on her DESIGNER wallpaper. I know I'm being nitpicky, but why say that. Growing up with a working mom that made all our meals from scratch (even beans) and never complained about it I don't understand this whining of hers. EVERYTHING is sooo difficult and time consuming and "ain't anybody got time for that". She cuts corners at every step, uses her (very expensive) kitchen like a slob (making me think that she doesn't clean it herself) and insists that this is the norm and relatable. It's not the norm. It's her life, her choices and priorities but stop insisting that everyone lives like this. She seems very detached from reality and thinks that everyone lives her privileged upper middle class life. Some people have to soak beans and cut their own vegetables and cook their own lunch. And most of those people are also a "busy mom of two" or EVEN MORE kids with full time jobs. That's it (I'll be back if I think of anything else).
For sure it's a strange collision of "constructed realism" as Abbey advocates for it vs the actual real situations people deal with which Abbey is divorced from. It's a very privileged approach to tackling privilege, which is highlighted extremely well in the 50 dollar challenge video.
I thought of another thing. In her most recent video she made some Kardashian cocktail and wondered who gave her this "cheap bottle of champagne" that has been sitting in her kitchen cabinet. Like wtf. Maybe the person in question could not afford a nicer bottle, it's the thought that matters. Also, if they were at your home then you're probably friendly and that's no way to comment on a gift from a friend who, by the way, might just be watching your videos.
@@miljanav Yeah it's this habit I've noticed across Abbey's content where, if she doesn't have substantial criticism to offer towards someone's food she'll instead resort to a more shallow or petty insult. In her Victoria Beckham video she called Victoria's smoothie "farty" without offering any meaningful nutritional analysis, which just highlights to me Abbey's need to attack or "sass" people first, and help them second.
what's actually kind of crazy to me is how OFTEN her critiques are centered around optimizing every SINGLE meal to be as nutritionally dense as possible. like if someone has a meal that is actually just chicken and vegetables or something she's like why aren't there any carbs. well abby i'm not sure if you know this but generally people have more than 1 meal in a day. when i was in recovery from severely undereating most of my individual meals or snacks were extremely unbalanced but at the end of the day i was still getting in all my foodgroups. i literally had some meals that were just my protein meal so i would eat a lot of protein all at once - like have a 3 egg omelette - and then i would have a vegetables + bread meal later in the day and i would follow that up with a protein shake or something. splitting stuff up weirdly/non optimally works for some of us. every meal doesn't have to be a prime example of the most balanced meal ever. but she never seems to critique anyone's diets from that perspective. it's never "oh, this is okay, because they had more protein earlier in the day" or "that's fine, you don't have to eat all your vegetables with your lunch". she always wants everything all at once. edit: also, re: soaking lentils. you're right that it's absolutely not necessary to soak lentils, but it does significantly cut down on cooking time. also tbh soaking lentils is not very time consuming. you will need probably about 5 minutes to wash + soak and i understand that some people don't have that but for a lot of people, that extra 5 minutes soaking lentils is worth the amount of money they're gonna save by buying them dry.
*A group of my current (& former) colleagues & I are considering filing multiple formal complaints about Abbey Sharp. Thus far we've compiled; necessary research, all relevant source materials, and various examples from Abbey's social media platforms in order to file our complaints. She's perpetuated harmful messages & disastrous misinformation for YEARS. We are NOT considering filing this complaint to; berate her, "be hateful" towards her, or trying to make her life harder. We simply want to see accountability and unfortunately, even when people try to talk to Abbey and hold her accountable, she often makes weak "justifications" for her behavior, doubles-down on her original stance, dismisses valid feedback, refuses to reflect on why people are upset in the first place or change/adapt her behavior to be more appropriate. Those actions have my colleagues and I agreeing that Abbey doesn't intend on changing her problematic and downright toxic behavior whatsoever - which is a massive issue for the reasons I've listed below.* *When one considers Abbey Sharp's massive platform + the fact that a majority of her followers consider her viewpoints as "facts," it's easy to see why her channel is extremely destructive to her average viewer. Many of her subscribers are not educated enough in nutrition to discern fact versus fiction and she's created a horrific precedent around nutrition since the birth of her channel. Keep in mind, Abbey also maliciously edits clips from the people she criticizes in order to persuade her viewers to agree with her, even when she intentionally cuts video clips to paint those she criticizes in a bad light. As a result, these creators are harassed online, mocked, sent death threats, etc. This is not okay and at least a few of these creators have told Abbey this and yet Abbey continues to do the same thing over and over again. It's that much more appalling when one recognizes that Abbey usually has a much larger subscriber count than the people she misrepresents. Consequently, it's typical for those creators to be inundated with hundreds of negative comments & messages as a direct result from Abbey's edited clips & harmful rhetoric about these specific creators. This is deeply irresponsible and seriously inappropriate especially since many of the clips Abbey shares are intentionally edited to look a certain way, regardless.* *Frankly, we've had enough of the lies and fraudulent claims she's spread for years and we're finally going to take action. I would also encourage anyone else who understands why many of the falsehoods Abbey shares are critically dangerous to consider filing a formal complaint about her as well. Abbey's had a multitude of chances to better educate herself and to stop posting edited content that seeks to demonize people she critiques, yet instead, Abbey continues to manipulate her subscribers, viewers, and the individuals she consistently bashes. It's even more grotesque when one recognizes that anorexia, binge-eating disorders, bulimia, etc, are some of the most DEADLY mental illnesses that exist and Abbey is pushing flat-out lies and fear-mongering instead of focusing on these issues in an honest way.* *Ultimately, we are exasperated with Abbey Sharp's vile deception. Abbey exploits nutrition and other real-world issues under the guise of "nutrition and health" for her own self-interest & financial gain while berating other creators who are typically not doing anything malicious whatsoever. Once our complaint is filed, I hope that Abbey will finally face genuine accountability. Furthermore, this accountability won't be so easy for her to ignore or dismiss with another video of her being "sassy" that her followers will metaphorically eat up.* *Thank-you so much for posting this video and for the plethora of research you conducted to create and upload this video. You've done incredible work here and I'll be subscribing to you immediately.* By the way, I understand that you ended your video saying you don't feel that Abbey is malicious and that's where I slightly disagree with you simply because of the repeated patterns of Abbey being held accountable for the same "mistakes" over and over again.
Ahh it's good to hear people are making formal complaints about her. I'm Australian and while I am in healthcare it's not nutrition related so I wouldn't know what to report or even who to report it to since she's Canadian. Her lack of professionalism, care for the public and basic research skills is astounding and I've thought for a long time that it's honestly confusing that no regulatory body has intervened with her channel yet.
Dude, the fact you put all the research, investigation and TIME into this video is AWESOME. This was such a great video, and REALLY clears up a lot of bad feelings i had about her content, but wasn’t sure what to base it on!
Overall it sounds like she still struggles with her ED that she has said to have in the past. She pushes her past ED struggles on to other people. As someone who is naturally thin, and has still lost weight from eating piss poorly, and had gotten more thin/slim due to diet changes and proper amounts of exercise, if she saw what I ate in a day she’d claim I have an ED off the bat. She keeps spreading the whole, “ You’re thin and eat healthy? You have an ED.” Bs that is skinny people already get continuously when all we want to do is just treat our bodies better by eating better. Healthy foods do not indicate disordered eating. Being thin does not indicate disordered eating. I shouldn’t have to become over weight just to be seen as “ healthy.”
personally i think she still has obsession of being “as healthy as possible” mindset from ortherexia but now has changed her definition of what “is the most healthiest thing to do” and has the need to push it onto others because she still craves that justification to herself
She's just doing everything to suit her narrative: your eating too small or something or too much , you are too obsessive or well she doesn't really criticize over eating Anyway, she's just playing safe for fat acceptance
I used to like her but now just find videos distasteful and hate that she only cares about diet culture. So you can over eat yourself to death and she doesn’t bat an eye lid. In my mind she is pushing her own narrative.
This video deserve so much more views, it's so articulated, carefully researched and edited. I used to watch abbey a lot and I do believe she has a lot of accurate scientifical approach to her content, but she emphasizes intuitive eating so much that it becames demotivating for people who count calories, for instance, to take something useful from her videos. Not only on her chanel, but around youtube overall, there is a growing tendency on judging people on flexible diets and saying it doesnt work or 'its disordered' when we actually see it working for a lot of people for a lot of time, and improving their relationships with food and exercise. Although she states that is not to demotivate people, abbey's video on calorie counting make it seem that no matter what you try you can never improve the shape of your body on the long term, which is absolutely not true. And again in this video when she cites sources arguing that intuitive eating predicts leaness long-term, the sources are mixed and lacking. I dont think she is ill-intentioned with her content, but I do believe that her insistence on IE is a huge bias on her scientific approach and it leads to a solipsist and dogmatic understading of people dietary's choices.
Wow this was a really well produced, thought out, entertaining, and informative video. I was shocked to see the sub count, hope to see your channel grow even more soon! I subbed, great content. Keep it up!
I like Abby, but she has stated that she suffers from OCPD (This is not the same as OCD): Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) is a mental health condition that causes an extensive preoccupation with perfectionism, organization and control. These behaviors and thought patterns interfere with completing tasks and maintaining relationships. This explains "why": she is the way she is.
Thank you so much for this video. I always saw Abbey as hypocritical and biased but this video made me realize she's so much more insidious than I thought. Her twisting scientific studies and being sponsored by products she would criticize others for tells me she's a total hack. Her nitpicks in her food reviews can be so unnecessary. I've seen comments from some viewers of hers saying her videos make them overthink their food choices and if they would be "good enough" in her eyes. That's so damaging.
YESSS U SAID IT SOOO WELL!! the way she critiques the personal aspects of their diet by making it seem "unrelatable" is sooo wild to me. do what works for YOU!
Abbey always advocates for obese people’s diets, and criticizes thin people’s diets! And about the ballerina trying to lose weight, I’m 5’7 184, I’ve been dieting for over a year and I have lost 100 pounds but I can’t lose weight unless I eat around 1500 calories. There is a huge difference between maintenance and losing weight! And I love how she is never worried about people gaining weight.
Thank you for this video! As someone who has dealt with EDNOS, and has restricted and binged, there where points in my life where I literally couldn’t tell if my food intake was normal or not, because I was so used to eating at extremes and where my hunger cues were seriously messed up, for me eating intuitively isn’t effective, and while I am still working on recovery and have made some progress, it is difficult to know if for instance, I eat ice cream, if I am eating it because I want to, or eating it because I had a bad day and am using it as a pick me up and would want it otherwise, and if me overthinking it is me being to restrictive or too free, it’s just a lot to think about, and I don’t trust myself to eat intuitively, furthermore, my family for majority of my life ate junk food or fast food because my schedule and my brothers were always crammed full, so pre Ed I was less inclined to go eat healthier food as I had not grown up with it, while I’m not in that position, intuitive eating will likely be not very smart for a person who grew up eating junk food all the time and having it normalized, or a person who grew up having food restricted, it’s just not safe in my opinion, furthermore EDs mess up hunger cues terribly, and for recovery people often need to eat less or more than normal to regain health, and it should be done under the guide of a professional
Furthermore, with the Blair walnuts video she did, she came at it with a restrictive ED lens, but Blair in the past dealt with binging according to what I read, so for her, drinking water before meals, etc wasn’t likely a sign of restricting, as someone who has used it to lessen my calories for good and bad, for a person who binges it could be helpful, granted, I watched a review of Blair’s video from another UA-camrs and saw it in Abby’s feed and saw comments when I was thinking of watching it, however I’m willing to bet she saw Blair as having an eating disorder, which isn’t necessarily wrong, but if Blair binges then she was trying to manage that, and you can’t diagnose random people online with EDs, just because, while she has made good points, her best moments do not compensate for her bad
I was in a course once where we learned a lot about intuitive eating and how to listen to your emotions and how to deal with them instead of eating them down (emotional eating was a huge problem I struggled with, especially at the time of the course), but the course also had it well integrated with learning to eat for health as well as enjoyment. Abby comes off to me as someone who never really interrogated her relationship to her disordered eating and just went full evangelist to the other side (by being full-intuitive instead of restricting).
I'm sure a big part of her extreme approach is due to the high number of people in her audience who are in recovery for various eating disorders, and Abbey not wanting to hurt or trigger them further, which I respect. My issue is how she attacks very real people to turn them into the "enemy", making them a face of the issues that they suffer from, even if they aren't advocating any diet at all, like Victoria Beckham.
i’m on the pill and there are absolutely side effects that people should know about before going on birth control. for me, the extra 5 pounds is definitely worth not wanting to yeet myself off a cliff for 7 straight days every month, but i do think about it a lot and almost constantly feel “fat”. if i hadn’t been told about that or had a doctor downplay the effects to me i would be horrified.
I feel like she is pushing her issues and triggers onto others without any nuance in it. She's like those people that say "no offense but..." , she'll make a disclaimer that she supports weight loss if that is a necessary or strong desire, but then she'll go on and be nasty about it right afterwards.
Birth control has TONS of problems and is not researched enough, especially in long-term studies. I think it's fine to be skeptical about something that messes with your hormones that we don't know enough about for it being 2023 honestly. She's not a doctor so it's terrible for her to talk about how she "believes" birth control pills are fine for people. They may be fine for some but not for all and our worries about them shouldn't be shrugged off as "stupid".
Thanks for this video. I found her when trying to recover from an ED that i now know is ARFID. Her advice helped me until it really REALLY didn’t… I am one of those people that needs to roughly plan/track my calories or I severely undereat.
Thanks for the great analysis! I noticed she just has no problems with someone eating french fries with hamburgers all day: "You do you", but she has so much problems with people who eat a amazing whole food plant based meals ("OMG, sooo much fiber!")
She seems to essentially think anyone who eats healthy has orthorexia 😐it doesn’t seem to cross her mind that some people eat for health because that makes them feel good, not because they have a disordered relationship with food.
Im a year late and someone might have said this before, but Abbey talking about not buying dry beans to save time is so funny. Just soak the beans the night before.. or put them to soak in the morning, before going to work.. its the bean equivalent of taking the meat out of the freezer.
49:00 I’m so glad you mentioned this! You can absolutely count calories in a healthy way. I struggled with physical anxiety symptoms for years which caused a range of symptoms like nausea, vomiting bile and absolute lack of appetite which caused my body to become accustomed to eating way less than I needed. By counting calories I was able to keep myself physically accountable and push thru the nausea when eating because I know I had a goal to meet by the end of the day. Food aversion is so real and incredibly difficult to overcome. I would eat a meal and sit trying to hold it down because I knew that it was what I needed to feel better eventually. And I had to count my calories otherwise I wouldn’t eat enough, if at all during the day. Not everyone with disordered eating is being intentionally restrictive and that’s what all these dieticians seem to believe. Until they throw up from eating a granola bar, they don’t know what some people go thru. It’s not a one size fits all.
This was a great video, thank you! I’ve been following Abbey for the past few months and her videos have taught me a lot about nutrition. But I clicked on your video because after a while I started feeling a little bit skeptical about how reactive she is in her videos, and seeing her critiquing every single persons diet as if none of them were good enough stressed me out too. I was second guessing every food decision a made, or making sure all my meals were crashing combos, which didn’t help at all to my weight loss journey 😅… Your video was helpful because now I can consume her content with perspective. You helped me realize that just because she is a RD doesn’t mean she is 100% right and objective. But it doesn’t mean she has no idea of what she is talking about either. I don’t usually interact with any content in UA-cam ( I’m one of those ghosts consumers), but I think your video was brilliant, and I have purposefully interacted in every way I could, hoping this video and your channel reaches more people. Keep up with the good work!
What a thorough analysis of some of the bigger issues with Abbey's content (while also acknowledging the lure of falling into some of these traps while trying to being a successful and consistent content creator). Abbey is still responsible for her research and her messaging, but I felt there was a lot of value in how you approached some of the challenges all content creators face to remain engaging (or at least the crossroads they may inevitably come to). Really enjoyed watching this and thinking through all of it!
You should do a video about nutty foddie fitness. She claims she doesnt train abs or follows a routine at the gym, yet she has super toned abs, while praising she eats a lot of junk food. She also said she runned a marathon without even training. She called it "accidentally runned a marathon". The numbers shown in the video are ridiculous, there is no way she runs like that without prior training. To me, she is a pick me girl trying really hard to seem as if she doesnt care about fitness and just eats all day
Also thank you for this, more people need to see it. I started to watch her a while ago but she rubbed me wrong on so many videos. She is very judgemental and not very welcoming and has weird random rules when she reviews people's videos.
Very impressive reasearch, I really appreciate that. Your reasoning is logical and everything is clearly shown for the viewers to see. Thank you for this video, I found it eye-opening and hopefully it will reach a wide audience so that more people can become informed.
Abbey makes me so uncomfortable and the fact that she presents herself as a registered dietician just adds a whole new level to it. I remember when she criticized Gabbie Hanna (she's problematic but her food choices aren't part of it) because Gabbie apparently was promoting EDs with her "what I eat in a day" video according to Abbey and Abbey was, in my opinion, shaming Gabbie for being on a calorie deficit (despite it being healthy and within the recommended calorie intake range). Like jesus, just because you're on a calorie deficit, doesn't mean you automatically have an ED. This pisses me off so much because Gabbie didn't even said that her diet works for everyone but it works specifically for her and the way Abbey came at her was basically policing Gabbie's personal food choices. Like there's absolutely nothing wrong with losing weight if it makes you feel better, even if you're slightly overweight so I have no idea why Abbey feels the need to nitpick these creators for nothing, other than being petty and unprofessional and potentially promote being overweight to people that don't really feel good being overweight and that if you don't, you automatically have an ED according to Abbey and you need to fix your head. Good job on the video exposing her problematic behaviour.
Watched all the way through. Thank you for this! I can’t imagine the time and effort needed to research and prepare for this brutal strip down. I appreciate your work! You’ve gained a new subscriber 💕
Her saying that "emotional satisfaction" is more important than a food sensitivity is dangerous and misinformed. Also, she has never practiced in a clinical setting.
Wow! Great video… I used to watch her but she’s just too condescending and snarky. She also seems to claim to eat all these things she’s not. She makes massive portions and takes one bite. I think is very disingenuous and misleading.
i really would love to know what Abby would think of me... i have a rare chronic illness called cyclical vomiting syndrome. to avoid triggering episodes since there is no cure, my doctors have asked me to cut out gluten, dairy, red meat, high sodium foods, high sugar foods, and most fried foods (along with probably other things i'm not remembering at the moment). would she suggest that me restricting foods to help prevents episodes that almost KILLED me early this year is BAD? i'm not allergic, this is technically an intolerance... from what we've seen from her i think she would to enforce her own ideas, and that's terribly sad, especially since her audience seems to trust her a lot.
I'm really sorry you're experiencing that. It's terrible that some professionals can only view problems through their own biases, and I hope you can get some form of relief.
I absolutely love this level of thorough dissection. Its quality at the very least on par with shaun so ig im gonna be watching everything on this channel. found this channel bc i watched an abby sharp video and was baffled by her. so a positive side to having seen that 😅
Wow that's a hell of a complement, thank you! I'm working on a very analytical video that I'm hoping to have done very soon, so make sure to keep an eye out for that!
Its also bizarre that for someone who demonizes other peoples language so often (particularly usage of terms like healthy, unhealthy, treat, etc.) she actually seems more focused on labels than the people using it probably are. Her inability to acknowledge that some foods are healthier than others seriously undermines her own credibility. She also seems to be much harsher on anyone who has a lower body weight rather than people with a large to obese body, she'll harp on and on about how smaller people need to eat more, but anyone who is large is apparently doing well. Lets not forget, obesity is apparently healthy in her eyes. I used to really like her videos but had my eyes opened when she referenced the chubby kid who was forced to overeat on cake in Maltida. She got all angry about how this was typical diet rhetoric and telling people the (in her eyes horrible) message that the large kid eating cake was disgusting, completely missing the point that the kid was being punished for his greed and gluttony after he stole the headmistresses cake! Coincidentally, gluttony and greed do tend to lead to becoming overweight and gluttony is pretty gross. Such an insignificant moment in her video but it was the first time I saw in black and white how her own biases and pseudo sciences are prevalent in her videos.
Man I could go on a long rant about Abbey: She also often says that processed foods are healthy because they have nutrients added in, then demonizes any actual supplements that people take. Are these not the same thing? Just that one you consciously make the decision yourself and the other you're dependant on the food industry. Also her comments about birth control not leading to weight gain, seems like she skipped over the fact that birth control can lead to depression (and often does) and that depression often leads to either under eating or over eating (i.e. gaining weight). So whilst maybe in a lot of women birth control doesn't directly cause the body to gain more weight, it is the origin for the weight gain through for example depression. It's very disingenuous of her to take such a narrow approach. Never mind all the other negative side effects women experience that are outside her area of "expertise". She also often says when people talk about a specific item of food that they don't eat that they should just eat the damn thing. e.g. Jaclyn Hill not buying Doritos because she knows she'll overeat on them. According to Abbey Jaclyn should just eat the Dorito so that she can gain emotional satisfaction. But as someone who has dealt with binge eating in the past, I don't purchase cookies anymore. I know they're triggering for me and by not buying them I free myself up emotionally not to regress into a binge/guilt/restrict cycle. That doesn't mean I won't occasionally have one at tea time when offered, I just don't buy it. Which leads me onto another point, she seems to be all about instant gratification (which I personally find quite a greedy and privileged approach). If someone has a craving they should immediately without question "honor" it. no. no. no. You're allowed to say no to yourself, especially if you have a disordered relationship with food. As smart as our bodies are, sometimes they need help and sometimes they send mixed signals. If I have a craving of chocolate its not crazy for me to substitute it with a glass of water first to see if maybe i'm just thirsty. Its not crazy of me to substitute it with an activity to see if maybe i'm just bored. Its not crazy of me to substitute it with a healthier choice like a piece of fruit because I recognise i'm just peckish, and its not crazy of me to just skip it altogether because I know i'm only eating as a result of stress/emotion. Finally (I hope! I'm typing this as I watch the video) you are allowed to treat yourself with food without immediately being considered to have a bad relationship with food. I'm a long distance runner, which means that often times the mental difficulty is worse than the physical side. I push myself through training by looking forward to a treat afterwards, a treat like for example a hot chocolate in the winter when its cold and all I can think about is how frozen my hands are. Or perhaps an ice cream, because i'm boiling hot in the summer. Giving yourself a treat (and using the language that its a treat) because its not part of your everyday diet is not the end of the world. Personally (no I don't have a qualification) I think its healthy to acknowledge that certain foods are not healthy and still occasionally give yourself the freedom to eat it, its called balance.
Nope I wasn't done, you've made another excellent point. She's always critiquing other peoples diets from a viewpoint of how accessible they are and how easy they are to replicate. If someone has the fortune of having access to a lot of "health" products and organic vegetables then Abbey criticizes them for their fortune. Not only does this make no sense as people's diets are for themselves (which she only ever seem to realize when she's showing what she herself eats in a day) but also you could say the same about her tips. Having access to lots of varied meals is not accesible to everyone, but she always tells people to do that anyway. On the topic of her veganism stance. I'm vegan, I went vegan (about a decade ago) for a couple of reasons whilst I still had a very negative relationship with food. One of the side benefits was that by excluding the foods that I thought of as calorie dense (like dairy and meat) I was able to enjoy the freedom of eating more and discovering foods I liked without feeling like I was overeating, therefore stopping the whole guilt/restrict cycle and allowing me to regain joy from the act of eating whilst slowly getting over my fear of calories. I know that for some it can be a bad idea to go vegan whilst struggling with food, but again, rather shortsighted to only look at the potential negative outcomes from any diet that is different to her own. She acknowledges in one of her other videos as well that veganism is not a restrictive diet because vegans don't see meat and dairy as an option to begin with. Showing how inconsistent she is with her content, also, can't this same approach of food not being an option but still not be restrictive be taken with other foods such as for example in my case cookies? I'm sure she's a lovely person in real life, and i'm also sure she's helped a lot of people from their own anecdotes in her comments. I also know that if I'd had her around when I was 11 and started to struggle with my relationship with food that my journey would have turned out differently, but I can also now acknowledge that whilst her "anti-diet culture" approach is a prettier (and generally better) package, it still shares a lot of similarities in form of content with that which she is against. She's the other side of the coin, not the balanced middle approach.
@@SpeedyNichaha I love your rant and totally agree with everything you said. Same goes for the OP. Her hatred for those labels struck me as very odd the first time I watched her. Glad to see someone else say it!
sorry for all my comments and there might be even more but seriously... round of applause. you explained the issues with her content BEAUTIFULLY, especially from a logic perspective.
This is a very interesting video. I admit that I was sceptical in the beginning as I used to watch some of Abbey’s content and I didn’t think it was bad but the fact that she’s doing this challenge and went to Loblaws 😮 I live in Canada, and I definitely don’t have to budget meals like many and I still wouldn’t have gone to shop at Loblaws! It’s terribly overpriced. The only reason to go there is decor or something. Loblaws has a cheaper store with the same stuff only less nicer decor called Superstore. And there are even cheaper stores! This is crazy to me. I don’t think people should be able to go to a place like this and say “I acknowledge my privilege” like a get out of jails free card or something. That’s a definition of cringe.
Do you guys know about the Dr.Greg video she posted? He's a credible healthcare expert too and she was bashing on him for his content being harmful and misinforming for ultimately money...but she turns around and does the same things she was concerned over Dr.Greg to have been doing...
It’s so strange to me that she doesn’t critique anyone who’s overweight or even morbidly obese , she finds nothing wrong with what they eat but if it’s an athletes or a dancers diet she always recommends adding stuff to what they eat. There are a few overweight /obese celebrities she reviewed and there was no critique in the same level , I feel like since she also used to suffer from an ED it feels like she’s nearly coming from a place of anger and supports anyone who does not have ANY restrictions, there were few celebrities saying certain foods make them bloat and swell but abbey usually disregards that with a quick side comment like “idk what she would say that since studies showed peanut butter causes no such a thing “ , as soon as she hears someone not eating something becuase they may not make them feel the best , abbey sees it as a dangerous restriction, it’s like pushing a button , and really ironic
Amazingly researched with intelligent, concise commentary. Would love to see you do a similar video about Kurzgesagt or What I Learned Videos! (Though that can basically be summed as: two channels that are proof that how you say things matters more than what you say, so long as you appeal to people's biases)
Good video. Restaurants are not cheaper for all families- vs prep of meals at home. You get more control over what you are consuming. And a healthful meal CAN be made in a half-hour.
Good video. Restaurants are not cheaper for all families- vs prep of meals at home. My own family of origin, when growing up) could not afford eating out at restaurants, and we eschewed them mainly for THAT reason not bc mom and dad were “too busy” too cook. My mom spent enormous care shopping for healthful food, but we had to go without some things she’d say were healthy bc we did not have money for them (eg berries). In truth also, she was correct that cooking gave her/us “control” and more knowledge about how healthful our meals were than we could get by ordering at restaurants. (Same for “take-out” food obviously.) Further, cooking one’s own meals does NOT have to take much time at all! My mom only would take hours when producing gourmet meals with 6-9 courses, which she actually dud as well as any chef or any restaurant I’ve eaten in later in life when I had more money or business-related restaurant-meals at 5 star, totally top-end restaurants. Still, her talent as a chef did NOT men that’s why a typical simple meal she cooked took maybe 30 minutes TOTAL -not including shopping just prep time and her actual cooking (w/ occasional help from my dad, who added the gardening idea… I admit we did not depend on the garden for much of our caloric intake, but my parents did say it was satisfying to raise vegetables but they also cited that if saved money, if not much). Restaurants are not cheaper for all families- vs prep of meals at home.
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At 1:09:00 I show footage from a Kurzgesagt video when talking about scientific content being made easy to sit through. While I don't agree with everything they say, particularly in regards to veganism, I chose their content because they were the most famous example of "pop - science" at the middle of the spectrum that I could think to refer to. It isn't an endorsement of their views but rather the way they make scientific concepts accessible for their audience that I was highlighting.
Also at 1:14:19 I say that Abbey doesn't treat Kelly's low intake as a result of the pressures of being a female TV personality. This may seem as though Abbey doesn't acknowledge it at all, but she does at 16:20 of her video.
My issue is that this doesn't serve to unpack WHY female TV personalities face such pressures, but rather to hint at sympathy before immediately going to mock Kelly's snack on one almond. Abbey's whole angle is that it's bad to be pressured to look a certain way, but when provided with an opportunity to really dissect it further, Abbey falls short.
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The amount of research and effort that went into the making of this video. #Respect 👏👏
Not sure why you think she gives the impression she’s warm and accepting. Her channel title includes the word “sass”. (And she really has trouble sounding positive at all, let alone warm, even when she’s pronouncing approval for someone.
After watching several videos, they’re all the same. The same nutrition info in every one, and the same snide tone throughout.
I know this video is over a year old now, but wow! The fact Abbey actually went after Ellen for feeding her kids vegetables but recently praised Alexandra Sabol for feeding her kids donuts for breakfast... just wow
Agreed. She's deliberately dishonest.
pov: u searched for this video because you question abbey's integrity
Yup! The first third of this video covers everything I found off putting about her direction that could never put a name to.
I did, because I find her views problematic and wanted to see if it's my personal bias/all in my head or if someone else noticed it too.
Yup
I searched because autoplay suggested one of her videos and caused me to remember how disingenuous and inaccurate I think she is. 😅
So, yeah.
@@GizelleQuantsame, I muted her channel years ago after feeling like her content was toxic clickbait and not driven by science at all, but suddenly she showed up in my feed this week… she makes really wild health claims and often says that established science that we have 30, 50, or 100 years of solid data and well designed studies about is somehow “unproven”. I would bet money that woman isn’t subscribed to any serious nutritional journals (they are $$$$) and just does a quick google search until she finds a badly designed study (often paid for by the meat/dairy industry) that she can use to validate her opinions so she can make a quick buck off of protein bars that get recalled for E. coli.
Abbey recently came out with her own protein powder. It’s everything she’s gone after other influencers’ brands for - anti bloating, “clean” and $65 for 20 servings. Her fans are finally turning on her in the comments and unsurprisingly she is brushing off all criticisms. Finally showing her true colors with this decision
It's kind of odd that she claims to stand for a healthy relationship to food - while running a channel dedicated to critiquing other peoples eating habits, and being pathologically obsessed with being non-restrictive, even if the restrictions are justified and healthy.
There ARE healthy restrictions. In fact, restriction based on rational decision is pretty much the prerequisite to health itself.
Well said
Ironically I think she very much still restricts herself. I mean all of her meals are based on meeting “perfect” macros. And she has said before that doesn’t doesn’t eat fast food, yet makes a ton of reels of ordering fast food and then eats one bite on camera at the end. I highly doubt she was eating all of that fast food, especially at the frequency she was filming those clips. Abbey’s advice at this point has basically devolved into “indulge yourself in whatever you want”, yet she obviously doesn’t do that herself.
EXACYLY THISSSS
Yep, theres a certain food group I dont eat purely because over the years ive realised they dont satisfy me from a taste, emotional, hunger or energy level perspective. But to her shed probably say im being to reatrictive and i should eat them. But theyre a waste of money for me to buy and consume.
Exactly. This is what has always irked me about her content. Someone choosing to limit or restrict unhealthy foods she will accuse of being disordered. Some foods are unhealthy. It does not mean you have a bad relationship with food to acknowledge that.
one of my biggest problems with her is how she portrays herself as this almighty advocate for intuitive eating yet constantly nitpicks people's diets (especially more 'healthy' people ironically) in order to fit her own very definition of perfect eating. how is that intuitive at all? how intuitive is to constantly be worrying about protein fiber and fats in every single meal? how is that beneficial to someone trying to listen to their own body signals? why does she contradict herself so damn much??
Especially some nitpicky vitamins that are missing in one meal or one day. Eating intuitive while having to think about micronutrients at every meal isn’t really intuitive is it? Also she acts like they asked to be analysed.
@@july3817 I don't get that at all. Thats very ED tbh. I just take my supplements to ensure I'm ok. I'm glad she isn't anti-supplement at least!
The part about the ballerina and tracking, Abbey always fails to understand some people, especially professional athletes, need to track to make sure they eat enough. While she is a ballerina and has to maintain a certain weight for her job, we clearly saw times where her appetite was blunted by her constant activity and uses her tracked calories to make sure she doesn’t under eat (which abbey does mention but only in the context of her not feeling hungry and disregarding her calculating a nutrient and calorie dense dinner anyway).
It's also useful for some autistics. One sign of autism is poor interoception, or the sense of what your body needs. This includes things like hunger cues. Some autistics find that they need to track so they don't forget to eat or under eat.
@@katfoster845 yes!
@@katfoster845 Yep am autistic - absolutely this. I've had a restrictive ED and its twisted to say, but I was 'so good at it' because I just didn't recognise hunger signals or could just ignore them really easily. Its also really easy now for me to over eat or just forget to eat. I plan my food and have very repetitive meals because it keeps my food intake regular.
She gives anyone who is overweight a free pass on what they eat, and refuses to acknowledge that food can be addictive or that BED is a real disorder. She once compared overeating ice cream to having too much wine, and was just like "I know that having too much wine will make me feel bad, just like eating too much ice cream will make my stomach upset, so I stop after I have just one glass/a little bit." Sooo many people do not have the ability to just drink one glass of wine or just have one scoop of ice cream and stop. Some people genuinely need to cut out junk food or track their food intake so that they don't binge.
Yes I’ve always felt this way with Abbey, she always seems harder on slim people and their diet. It also seems like a double standard when she’s so slim herself and yet almost encouraging everyone to eat more.
Yes I struggle with binge eating and I'm finally losing weight. She does come off as very passive, doesn't seem to understand that eating disorders isn't just anorexia
I think in modern socio-political culture, you have to be careful about dissing fat people because of the history of diet culture and fat-shaming, etc. I agree there's thin privilege vs fat oppression but I still think people should make a goal to be healthy and acknowledge being fat isn't healthy.
But, she also mentons A LOT in her videos, that one needs to speak to their own dietician about their needs. Since binge eating is also a psychological thing, it's worth them talking to therapist that specializes in ED, and finding a method that works for them.
To be fair BED is an addictive behavior much like alcoholism
I liked her several years ago...but over the years I've started to think she pushes her own ED issues on everyone else. The idea that any person who tries to eat well during the week and let's lose on the weekends has disordered eating...it's bizarre. That's her experience.
I have to say I kind of agree, though I do think to some extent sure disordered eating is maybe more prevalent than we realize. That being said, as someone who’s been in recovery from an actual eating disorder for so long, the idea that everybody else also has one is discouraging and also just encourages my own disordered mindset. It makes it super easy to justify. I don’t know that I blame her because it’s hard to get out of that if that’s just how she sees the world, but yeah maybe it’s her own issues coming out unbeknownst to her.
Whats ED??
@@slickrick5596eating Desorder. Has many variations, but most commonly used is when people eat very little cuz they think they’ll get f-t
I stopped watching her
Greg Doucette does that, too, and I don't understand why. It's easier to do meal prep on Sunday, have my meal ready for the working week, go out, order in, or even make easy comfort food on the weekends. I don't think that's binge eating. Besides, because I eat healthy and reasonable portions during the week, I'm not that desperate to eat a considerable amount of junk food on the weekend. Of course, there are times when there are exceptions, and I eat junk food with friends during the week, but I compensate for it another day. Later, I don't punish myself at the gym; I continue my routine and haven't gained any weight so far. When I don't do this... Yes, I start losing focus, and my stomach is enlarged, not being able to restrict my portions. Being conscious of what you put in your mouth is not an eating disorder, IMO.
my biggest problem with her right now is how hateful and judgmental her speech is towards anyone who doesn’t live like her. like, if she reviews a diet where the person don’t eat breakfast she will instantly bash them saying that they are restricting themselves and diet culture this and that blablabla, but there’s people that just don’t like to eat breakfast, that don’t feel hungry in the morning, and there’s nothing wrong with that.
also, she’s always talking about being realistic and it rarely feels realistic. for example, the 50$ challenge, she mentioned that getting canned beans or whatever is more realistic because you wouldn’t need to spend so much time cooking it, but most of us don’t have the means to buy something more expensive just to save time. like, i would love to order some coffee and donuts for breakfast to save me some time but i don’t have the money for it. being realistic is acknowledging that sometimes (or a lot of times) you have to sacrifice time for money.
my dad used to travel for work and my mom would be alone at home working full time and having to cook for 3 kids. we were so poor back then that my mom didn’t have a choice besides giving up her time to rest just to make food for us. saving money is more important than saving time for most people, because you only have the option to save time when you already have money.
She’s a Karen and all her actions are unhinged and that’s so unhealthy no wonder she’s feeling so bad mentally and physically as that greatly effects the bodies capacity to absorb the nutrients it needs from the food we eat.
i think what abbey does is irresponsible and unethical as a health professional. her speculating online about people's possible eating disorders, shaming them and nitpicking them for views, how she religiously supports intuitive eating and never acknowledges that its just not a good option for everyone. she is so willing to manipulate other people's videos and twist their words in order for her to make a point and come off as the educated one to her audience.
i remember this video with scout forsythe, another ballerina, who said she doesn't trust microwaves because she didn't grow up with them. abbey proceeded to CUT that part out where she said she didn't grow up with them and went on this thing about how distrust around microwaves is a myth and how they're actually safe as if scout was promoting some sort of pseudoscience around microwaves like GIRL she just doesnt like microwaves
Yeah, the deceptive editing is horrendously manipulative, particularly when it's in service of Abbey making some weird dunk on whichever person she's talking about.
It's even worse because you can tell she's already watched the video prior (in order to gather the sources she then misrepresents) but she then formats her reviews as an initial reaction, almost to cover up how blatantly she lies.
It's very telling as to her intent.
Especially bcs if you actually look into how microwave works you'll find out it really makes certain nutrients unavailaible to the body so it is not healthy to use it because your food really looses nutrients.
@@junomcgaff3479Right, it literally says on baby bottles packaging not to microwave breastmilk or formula because it will destroy nutrients your baby needs
For someone recovered from orthorexia she sure is obsessed with making everyone's meals perfect and as good as they can POSSIBLY be nutritionally...
Exactly. I don’t trust dietitians who have had EDs they are still fixating on food lol They don’t get it.
Every meal comes on the video: Abby: add more protein! Add more protein! More protein! Protein! Protein! Protein!
Abbey also advocates for people to eat processed foods.
@@SuperSarahbop agreed! The way she was laughing and bullying that girl with all fruit diet, with the ppl behind the camera. But completely supported and was very nice for lil durk when he said he only eats hot cheetos and Oreos in his day 💀 like girl bye. She’s just the product of fake woke “eat whatever you want” movement. And don’t have the guts to point out the unhealthy eating habits of ppl. Also the fact that she’s a dietitian but instead of doing her fkn job and judges other ppls diets? Where the professionalism? She’s an embarrassment to all dietitions. Also the fact that she has zero experience in the feild except the mandatory work needed to graduate her college in Toronto. She’s a bad person overall
@@OurLadyofPerpetualVictimhood
I genuinely think TikTok is a psyops operation. Regardless of what anyone’s personal opinion is on deadnaming or any other hot button issue, it’s obvious when you look at what is promoted or censored on China’s TikTok vs US TikTok that there is some larger agenda at play. Anything dangerous, factually incorrect, politically charged, degenerate, or just downright stupid is promoted on western TikTok. Absolutely nothing of the sort get promoted in China. I highly doubt this is *all* just based on engagement and algorithms. You can even try blocking some of these key hashtags, such as something political or identity related, and will still get posts with that hashtag on your page.
thank you for this video. I think she looks at people’s diet through her own ED lens and fails to remember people have different goals, lifestyles, and not everyone has a bad relationship with food. It’s so frustrating especially with her wieiad reviews on tiktok from random people. One video that I hated this girl who said she had ice cream with her bf after dinner and she was like “maybe you wouldn’t have eaten that if you had more fiber in your lunch” like idk abby maybe she just wanted ice cream with her boyfriend
She made a similar comment towards another girl who had eaten a kinda stereotypical clean/healthy eating type video, and then had some home made ice cream at the end. Abbey greatly insinuated this girl was lying about having a sensitive stomach and it was an excuse for an ED, and then said something snarky about how you shouldn't have to "be good" all day to deserve some ice cream. Well I went and found the original vid, and this girl never said ANYTHING about having the ice cream because she'd "been good". Abbey literally slandered this person for no reason.
@@violetblythe6912 Right? You can only have ice cream if all of your meals contain a specific yet unspecified balance of fiber, fats, and protein.
And you just know she would turn around and criticize her for being "too restrictive" if she hadn't eaten any junk food. You can never win with Abbey because she thinks she's better than everyone and if you think differently than her, you're just wrong in her eyes
@@marissachapman4078or you are overweight and intuitively eating it after your chips and hamburguer
I always think it is so weird how Abbey demonizes bodychecks ANYWHERE (even if it is not) but to get clicks and views she puts a more concentrated photo of the celebrity/influencer’s body she is reviewing
It's funny how ONLY thin/athletic people get accused of bodychecking. If you watch literally any food/lifestyle type youtuber/tiktoker, almost every single one starts with posing in a mirror while showing off an outfit or doing a little dance or something. I've never seen someone accuse the plus sized creators of bodychecking when they do this. I think it's a major projection, and also it insinuates that people who are thin or athletic aren't allowed to be happy with or proud of their body which is toxic af.
SO TRUE!!!! She constantly gets mad at influencers showing their bodies, simply showing their fkn bodies that they worked for. But then use the same pics in her thumbnail. I don’t understand how that creep still has fans
Not to mention that she started using her own body as a selling point now, she’s made a video titled “how I stayed the same weight since my 20s”. If that’s not tone deaf compared to what she claims to preach then idk what is
@@Kiran37369I agree about her using their bodies being bad but the “that they worked for” comment is💀💀💀 I worked for my ed body too (not calling all the ppl reviewed disordered, just saying that it takes a lot of work to hurt urself too, so maybe-especially on a vid about eds-don’t highlight bodies as ‘achievements’, or ur falling into the same hypocrisy as Abby.
@@Anna-xh6fk ya! Let’s compare your Ed to people’s gym bodies!!!!! Great comparison 🤦♀️
This video is incredible and needs way more views.
I used to be a hardcore Abbey Sharp fan. I followed her before her "what i eat in a day" reviews and I really enjoyed her content. And she really honestly did help me with a lot of my issues with food. But in the last year or so I've stopped watching her - her videos got more and more dramatic, cutting in random gifs and clips as "reactions" (which I absolutely LOATHE when UA-camrs do that - it's poor cheap editing that distracts from the video), her comments got more spiteful, and it seemed like every single one was doom and gloom.
When I first found this video I was skeptical at first but wow, you've done an incredible job and done more than twice the work she did for any of her videos. She also claims to have a "team" doing the research for her. Obviously whoever the team is isn't doing their job properly. This video really needs more views. Very well done and now I really understand why I've trailed off watching her videos, and after I'm done writing this comment I'm unsubscribing from her channel.
I have adhd and hyperthyroidism and never feel hungry, forget to eat, dont want to. her intuitive eating doesnt work for me, ive commented about it on her videos before and she responded with a non-response. others have commented similar things to her and she ignores them. its like she refuses to see how it just cant work for everyone, i count calories to make sure i eat enough.
Absolutely relate! I have reminders on for meals and I want make sure I'm alright in terms of health, but this intuitive cult labels any control is orthorexia. Honestly people in the bodybuilding/ fitness community are much kinder in my experience
Exactly! I have no problem with intuitive eating, especially if it helps people recover from an ED.
My issue lies with Abbey brute forcing it as the only way to eat healthily, which only ends up undermining an approach to food that someone with issues like yours could really benefit from.
Her biased criticisms could end up doing more harm than good in those cases.
it has comforted me to see someone the same, thanks for saying this
Despite Abbey being an "expert" on intuitive eating, she actually provides very little useful information on the subject. Most people who have issues with food can't just leap into into intuitive eating. There is a lot of work that needs to be done before one becomes an intuitive eater and part of that work is "mechanical eating" which is the first step in restoring hunger cues. Even then, intuitive eating isn't right for everyone.
@@datamale the irony is, especially for people in recovery of ED, intuitive eating is contra-indicated. Because to recover, people need to eat more calories than they need for maintance, so they have to eat despite not being hungry.
As someone who is in STEM academia, something that really throws me off about Abbey is how poorly cited her videos are. Yes she throws citations in the description, but they are in no particular order and it’s unclear what she is referencing from each paper or where in the video. I’m sure most of her audience is not looking at the links at all, but from what I can directly connect from the papers to her videos, some of her assertions are very loose. Other times I don’t think she truly has any idea how to interpret some of these studies and is relying on the authors conclusions to be accurate; so she will cite a pretty poorly structured study just because it agrees with her.
I have a friend who is a dietician and it is a lot of work; so I don’t mean to discredit dietitians at all here, but Abbey holds up her credentials as if she is a doctor or something. She has a bachelors degree (4 years) and completed an internship. For her to act as if she is above everyone labeled a nutritionist is quite goofy. If they were someone with a PhD in nutrition, per one of her examples, they would be far more qualified to speak about nutrition than Abbey (if going strictly off credentials / length of program completed as seems to be her metric).
Finally, someone said it all! This woman is a walking contradiction. I would love for her to react to this video, although I doubt she will since you absolutely destroyed her. Great job as always👏
Another thing that really REALLY got my goat with her was her SIBO ‘journey’. The amount of times that she scoffed at another influencer’s decision to take certain supplements and tore any evidence of efficacy to shreds, even if lots of people find the thing helpful anecdotally (and may have been eager or desperate to find something to help them with a particular problem), then when she went in her treatment ‘journey’, she went on a MASSIVE cocktail of daily meds and supplements, most of which weren’t fully evidence-backed but that she was willing to try to help her feel better!!! What a colossal HYPOCRITE.
Hypocrite every step of the way. And obnoxious. And dishonest. But she's peppy, pretty, with good editing & production quality, hence, popular.
My biggest problem with her and SIBO is she refused to do the type of restrictive diet GAPS diet to be exact to heal her gut
This video should have 500K views
Ah yes, her SIBO “journey”, now it’s her ADHD “journey”. It never ends with her
Everything is a "journey" now lol
This video hits the nail on the head. The issue I have with Abbey Sharp is how incredibly misleading and cherry picked her videos are. In my eyes she’s just as over the top and sensationalized as freelee.
She takes sketchy sponsorships too
Oh yeah, those **extremely** expensive protein bars or whatever? I forget what they are called but literally who is buying those?
Thank you for making this! I can't believe Abbey hasn't been sanctioned by the Ontario College of Dieticians, as her content is so detrimental to the profession. Seeing a registered dietician mocking people (especially Kelly Ripa, as you noted, and also her Julianne Hough video was appalling) could deter someone from seeking necessary medical support out of fear that their dietician will publicly mock them too. I think she's aware that she often crosses the line, but it seems like she either can't control herself (which is concerning from a mental health perspective) or is willing to cross that ethical boundary for financial gain.
*A group of my current (& former) colleagues & I have are considerin+g filing multiple formal complaints about Abbey Sharp. Thus far we've compiled research, all relevant source materials & various examples from Abbey's social media platforms in order to file our complaints. She's perpetuated harmful messages & disastrous misinformation for YEARS.*
*When one considers her massive platform + the fact that a majority of her followers consider her viewpoints as "facts," it's easy to see why her channel is extremely destructive to her average viewer. Many of her subscribers are not educated enough in nutrition to discern fact versus misinformation and she's created a horrific precedent around nutrition since the birth of her channel. Keep in mind, Abbey also maliciously edits clips from the people she criticizes in order to persuade her viewers to agree with Abbey, even when she intentionally cuts video clips to paint those she criticizes in a bad light.*
*Frankly, we've had enough of the lies and fraudulent claims she's spread for years and we're finally going to take action. I would also encourage anyone else who understands why many of the falsehoods Abbey shares are critically dangerous to consider filing a formal complaint about Abbey as well. Abbey's had a multitude of chances to better educate herself and to stop posting edited content that seeks to demonize people she critiques, yet instead, Abbey continues to manipulate her subscribers, viewers, and the individuals she consistently bashes. It's even more grotesque when one recognizes that anorexia, binge-eating disorders, bulimia, etc, are some of the most DEADLY mental illnesses that exist and Abbey is pushing flat-out lies and fear-mongering instead of focusing on these issues in an honest way.*
*Ultimately, we are exasperated with Abbey Sharp's vile deception. Abbey exploits nutrition and other real-world issues under the guise of "nutrition and health" for her own self-interest & financial gain while berating other creators who are typically not doing anything malicious whatsoever. Once our complaint is filed, I hope that Abbey will finally face genuine accountability. Furthermore, this accountability won't be so easy for her to ignore or dismiss with another video of her being "sassy" that her followers will metaphorically eat up.**
@meeeeeeeeeeeep not sure what came of this, but she just launched an expensive protein supplement with questionable claims, and her videos are sponsored by non evidence based supplements like colostrum
@@meeeeeeeeeeeep
Did you end up filing a complaint? If so how did it go?
This video helped me realize that discovering "intuitive eating" and Abbeys videos coincided with me self diagnosing with an eating disorder and completely stepping away from any kind of monitoring and resricting out of fear. I've gained 80lbs since that time. Eating intuitively has reintroduced UPFs into my diet and I look back in how I used to eat like "wow I used to eat so healthy/balanced, how did I do that?" Thank you.
Honest to god she just gives me the impression that she wants everyone around her to be fat while she stays skinny. She NEVER wants ANYONE to restrict in ANY way no matter what, but she obviously restricts in some kind of way for her to stay so slim. She just seems really dishonest to me
Just sounds like she still suffers with her ED, just on a more “mild” level. Then projects her issues with it onto the rest of the world.
Abby recently made a video defending her Canadian dietician colleagues for taking money from the Canadian sugar lobby to promote sugar as "healthy." These dietician influencers made tiktok videos claiming that restricting sugar was (you guessed it) disordered eating. They did this after being paid to do so from the sugar lobby.
I never understood her motivation to promote unhealthy habits as "normal" and originally thought the same as you: that she is purposely sabotaging weight loss of her viewers. In light of this news about the Canadian Sugar lobby, I now believe she is being paid to promote these unhealthy foods.
She wants people to restrict in moderation, it's just that she usually reacts to people who she deems overly restrictive. She often talks about binge eating and how that should always be avoided. She also want every meal to contain al macronutrients and fiber. She wants portion sizes to not be too small or too large. Unhealthy treats can be enjoyed, but only in moderation. All restrictions.
@@Anonymous-sb9rr the every meal to be completely balanced thing really gets to me bc like. even the really healthy people i know don't really eat like that. a lot of them have salads at one point int he day and then have a meal that is all meat and rice or something. and it all sort of balances out over the course of a day or even over the course of several days. at my healthiest i was eating about 5-6 different "meals" in a day, and 1 of them would be a salad, and 1-2 of them would basically be fruit bowls. and the rest would be just rice and lentils or rice and chicken. but when i described my diet to my doctors they were just like yep sounds good
I don't agree with the idea that you have to be restricting in order to stay small, especially when she is not nearly as slim as she was before. She is clearly at a healthy weight, my criticism of her is the fact that she is way harder on slim people. People can be naturally skinny, slim, average, or plus sized. Obviously it becomes unnatural when people are extremely skinny or morbidly obese, or are eating in ways that are unhealthy for them, regardless of what they look like on the outside.
This popped up for me randomly so I thought "why not" as I typically have YT on in the background during the day. The segment with the dancer is astonishing! A have many friends who dance at that level (I worked for a major US company) and a dancer at that level is a professional athlete with a full and complete understanding of her body and what serves her best. The conceit of thinking that someone can see a 20 minute video and give a full and useful analysis is mind-boggling. It is kind of amazing.
The calorie width outlined was just absolutely nuts, too. 5000?? Did she even hear herself??
Her being too lazy to cook has nothing to do with nutrition; she just wants to criticize healthy eating.
Calling chopping your own vegetables unaccessible and a high-level skill is such a red flag for a person who wants to talk about food.
I saw her what I eat a day video and holy shift. The only real meal she eats is oatmeal. Everything else is fast food and premade crap.
If your intuition leads you to eat cereal with chips at night after dinner, then you shouldn't eat intuitively. Even if it's called mental health.
As far as I'm concerned, she failed to manage to have a healthy and sustainable lifestyle twice.
She should realize that she needs help from another professional. Instead of treating herself and applying the same rules to everybody else. Witch is highly unprofessional.
This video is pure gold. i have watched Abbey on and off for a couple of years and what she was saying never sat quite right with me. I have a BSc in Psychology an MSc in Human Nutrition and am registered with the Association for Nutrition. It really rubs me the wrong way every time Abbey says 'when in doubt, consult a 'Registered Dietician', yes they are vey knowledgeable, but so are many people with nutrition degrees. In many cases a nutrition degree covers a much wider range of subject matters which include agriculture, sustainability, commercial nutrition and much more.
I was a nanny for a dietician and she let me watch youtube while I did chores when her kid was asleep. She noticed I was watching a lot of Abbey Sharp and she asked me to look for other dieticians to get info from lol
The more I watch this the more and more I've realised that she'd be entirely against the way those of us with BED have to restrict ourselves from certain trigger foods in order to deal with our disorders. Like I'm glad this works for her but it's aggravating how she seems to lack empathy and assumes she's the norm and if she doesn't like it then it can't be good.
Yeah I have a whole list of foods I don’t have control over like ice cream cheese pizza chips crackers and pasta that if I want to eat I have to make sure I buy as an individual portion on its own or else I’ll eat the whole thing. Even if it’s packaged in portions if it’s there its down the gullet
@@SuperSarahbopI’m like this too! If I buy a pizza, I will eat THE WHOLE THING. So i have to buy a personal sized one or none at all. Sometimes we have to set boundaries for ourselves.
My mom keeps my binge foods in a safe lol otherwise I would go ham
I have this problem with rice, raw till 4 has helped me a lot for this exact reason. Since I'm only having cooked food at night, I focus on bananas and fruit during the day (I only eat when I'm hungry)
I lost 7kg in like a month
Daily takeout may be 'the norm' for some people, but eating at home isn't necessarily unrealistic, even if you're a busy working mom like abbey. My mom worked full time as a single parent. she made breakfast, lunch and dinner for us every day and We always ate meals together as a family. She prepared quick, simple semi-homemade meals, making enough for a couple days of leftovers. On the weekend we might bake some breakfast muffins for the week, or a loaf of bread to have alongside dinners.
As an adult i am the laziest, most impatient cook, yet I never get takeout. After a busy day, it feels like less time and energy to go home and throw together something quick and easy than to go to a restaurant where I may have to wait in line to order, then wait for them to make my food. Plus it is cheaper to eat at home.
I need meal ideas from you! At home cooking never feels quick or easy to me lol
Yeah, I think daily takeout is in fact a very North American thing. Absolutely no-one does that where I live, regardless of their living or working conditions and how much money they make. Recently, it made the news that people here have started eating more takeout or go out to eat - some people even doing that once a week. Lmao.
Wait daily takeaways are the norm for some people???
Thank you for making this. Her videos def contributed to my BED. Seems like she still is lacking control and feels the need to correct other people.
Great video. Abbey's channel has become a bait-and-switch. She brands herself as a dietician, but the content of her channel consists of unqualified and unsolicited psych evaluations, and bitching about food that she personally doesn't like. If you eat food she isn't "intuitively" craving at that particular moment, you have an eating disorder, congratulations!
I was right there when the "drama" between Abby and Miles happened. It was glorious.
I gained weight while listening to her advice. I gained 50lbs while pregnant and after the first 15lbs fell off my weight loss stalled. I looked to UA-cam for diet advice and stumbled on her channel. I started the making meals she recommended and "listened" to my body when I was hungry. Well I gained 10lbs back. I went keto (which she is against) and the weight fell off. Turns out the amount of carbs I was eating was triggering me to be hungry when I wasn't and by eating when I felt hungry like she said to do, I was just overloading my body with more calories and sugars. If she helped people recover form an eating disorder that's great but if you're really overweight and need to lose weight for your health, her advice won't do it.
Eat when youre hunrgy is really good advice, for some people. Usuallt the type of people who force themselves not to eat or have a super fast metabolism. I am neither of those and infact, i am constanly hunrgy. That would be shockingly bad advice for me from her 😂
That’s because you don’t go online for advice, you go to a doctor… take personal responsibility
@@kaycollarfeild I'm the opposite, I don't feel my hunger cues, I usually don't even realise I'm hungry until my stomach cramps sometimes. If I didn't track my food, I simply wouldn't eat and be way too skinny. Intuitive eating isn't for everyone!
@@pollyfletcher-ee4lr I used to be like that. I never realised I was hungry and wouldn't eat for days before I realised. I don't think either way is good. It's real shit bodies can betray you so much
Only 5k views??? This needs waaaay more because you hit the NAIL!!! 🥇 Thank you!!! I suffer from binge eating and use her videos to excuse my binge eating and say “I’m just honoring my cravings” haha it’s toxic for me personally. I do think her content is only for those who deal with EDs that are restrictive and food scared not the ones that don’t know how/can’t restrict.
Even for people in ED recovery, eating intuitive is contra-indicated, meaning they should NOT eat intuitively. In a world full of highly processed, caloriedense, higly pallatable 'foods' all people with normal body weight or with overweight HAVE TO RESTRICT THOSE 'FOODS'! Maybe watch nice channels, such as Simnett Nutrition (nutritionist), Gaz Oakley (chef) and 'Pick up Limes' (dietician).
She has some tricks that I tried and it worked about highly palatable food
For me she really helped me actually... Dunno why all this hate... After all we forget that she also needs to feed her kids so she will use some of the commercial tricks, but it's not her fault, it's the capitalist system
I literally gained 60 lbs in “recovery” doing this method and my cravings never weaned off. Not keeping those foods in my house and only buying them occasionally is what actually helped the cravings die off. Realizing I have control over my behavior and can tell myself no and don’t have to give in to the desire to binge.
I absolutely agree and I think this is a common issue with alot of these intuitive eating people. It's only really helpful for those yoyo dieters or those that deeply restrict via orthorexia or Ana.
@livics610 the problem is that she portrays herself as a middle ground dietitian that eats intuitively, even though none of that is true
This was beautifully done! I’ve been very skeptical of abbey and realized her main objective is to appeal to the HAES crowd over all else. I don’t need someone to encourage me to eat junk food because it feels good. That’s my problem! I wish she would address disorders such as binge eating and food addictions.
I don’t really trust HAES as a whole. They say it’s about behavior and not about size, but size is in the acronym. I had a HAES dietitian in a residential treatment center and asked her how she can insist I’m too skinny if size doesn’t matter. She didn’t really have an answer. Extremes aren’t healthy.
Whats HAES?
@@slickrick5596health at every size
@@slickrick5596health at every size. Also see: fat acceptance and body positivity.
@@slickrick5596 healthy at every size
As an obese person, her content was not good for me at all. I had to cut her from my media diet, so to speak, when she kept going on and on about how impossible weight-loss is and how anyone who tries will fail. It wrecked me to see a clearly thin woman with education in nutrition and a rather clean diet who insisted I couldn't change my own life, and that actively trying would only result in failure.
So far, from my heaviest recorded weight, I've lost nearly 100lbs. It's taken a few years, but I feel better at nearly 40 and under 200lbs than I did in my late 20s and 300lbs. Ironically, Abby would probably approve of most of my diet now, even if she wouldn't have been willing to criticize my awful prior habits.
May I ask what helped you get healthier? I am also at the stage when I realised Abby’s content is not suitable for me for the same reasons you mentioned. Thank you.
@@eldritchmonsterofnorfolk7253 Oh man, I could babble about this forever.
I started just by honestly tracking my food, and then I set minimum and maximum nutrition goals. I used a calculator to figure out my minimum calories at an ideal weight, and set that as my minimum. I also set a minimum protein goal. My maximum was just my maintenance calories about 10lbs less than my current weight. That way, I never risked pushing myself too far into restriction while maintaining some level of calorie deficit. My normal goal is to end the day about 500 calories under maximum, but I don't get too fussy about it as long as I'm in my broad range.
Then, I did some budgeting and figured out I could afford one of the more inexpensive meal kit boxes. I challenged myself to try new things and new cooking methods. It was incredibly useful for me to really get an eye for portion sizes. Now, I have dozens of recipes, including several that I've memorized and can make in my sleep. The habit of cooking fresh food with portions in mind is probably the goal I'd aim people toward above almost anything else.
I have an active job, so I never had to worry about that, but I still have a fitbit I use to keep an eye on my energy out.
From there, I made it a point to refine my approach instead of giving up. If something felt wrong or unmanageable, I made smaller and more deliberate adjustments that fit with my life, rather than forcing myself to be like someone else, or just giving up and going back to my starting point. I accepted that slow progress is better than fast failure. It's taken nearly 4 years to take off 100lbs, and that included many times of falling and getting back up.
I've got about 60lbs left to go, and it's still very slow, but now I feel more like I'm on a train taking me to my destination, rather than wandering the wilderness like when I started. And even though the slow progress feels like nothing most of the time, one day you'll have to show ID for something, and the person checking it will double-take and say, "Oh, wow!" and you'll realize for the first time that you hardly recognize yourself in the photo.
I'm sure you know where in your personal life you have room to make simple adjustments that will serve you best. Just let those adjustments really take hold, and slowly build on them. Good luck--you got this!
@@eldritchmonsterofnorfolk7253 Oh, and if you want my #1 channel recommendation instead of someone like Abby, I'd pick Jordan Syatt. His advice on stuff like tracking and "plateaus" is the best I've ever seen.
Wow. I've never actually considered that, but you're right! She TOTALLY just throws away these mentions of long-term weight loss being totally unattainable. How damaging.
abbey is obsessed with protein UP AND UNTIL you decide to make ANYTHING SWEET WITH PROTEIN IN IT LOL!!! then she assumes you are restricting and have an eating disorder if you dont feel like eating full on brownies and opt for a protein cookie instead
As someone with autism, the food combos she suggested are texturally really distressing to me. I'm going to eat my safe fruits and chocolate by themselves.
Also, I remember one time she made a "bedtime snack" so you dont wake up in the night (ngl cant relate to that sitch) but it was like protein bar, yoghurt, peanut bitter, fruit etc, everyone in the comments was like "this is bigger than an evening meal" 😅😂
The fact that she tries to diagnose eating disorders when she's not even a psychologist speaks volumes. I honestly don't understand why the people who follow her say that her main objective is to help people with eating disorders when all the time she confuses disordered eating with EDs.
What she is actually doing is perpetuating the stereotype that diet culture and restriction is THE cause of eating disorders and that the solution is simply eating "intuitively", ignoring that it is a complex and deadly mental illness where the purpose is usually not to lose weight but to have a cope mechanism.
This.
Thank you for this video! I’ve had problems w abbey for a while. I’ve never had an eating disorder, so I don’t know what that experience is like and don’t wish to insult her if she’s helping people who are struggling.
I love food, cooking, and thinking about the nutrition I feed myself. Remember, I’ve never had an ED, but after watching abbey’s videos I started having lots of food anxiety. When abbey reviews anyone’s food choices, there’s always something wrong with it. Something to add, something to do differently. And it made me feel like the food I was feeding myself was wrong.
I get her cool girl attitude that food is fine. But that attitude is thin veil covering intense judgements, measurements, and morality.
I'm sorry you had that experience. I think that's a definite possibility that needs to be considered when you make content that hyperanalyzes people's diets in search of "optimization" or "perfection", especially when you cater to people in recovery for eating disorders who may be predisposed to anxiety around food.
It's a very conflicting message that manifests in a pretty messy way for such delicate subject matter.
That’s what I noticed as well. For someone who claims to hate food rules and diet culture and who has healed from orthorexia, she really overanalyses every meal. She’s telling people to not be overwhelmed by food and eat what they like and then says something like „there could be more fibre and more“ even when the person made no comment of not being satiated.
@@TangoMasterclass I gave BED and I’m just going to share my take on Abbey from my own experiences.
Her idea of all food is good and there should be nothing restricted or restrictive is really dangerous for somebody with binge eating disorder. I have trigger foods where I’m like an alcoholic and can’t stop once I start eating trigger foods even if it’s packaged in individual portions if it’s around I’ll still open another portion until it’s gone. I have to abstain from the trigger completely or I can only buy an individual portion sized package. Currently due to abstaining for the most part from my trigger foods I’ve been able to stabilize my weight I can’t even keep cheese in my fridge as that’s one of my trigger foods however I do still allow myself to get cheese sometimes but I have to remember it’s a trigger so I can’t buy a lot
@@SuperSarahbop good for you! maintaining boundaries that keep you sage and healthy is a beautiful thing. you should be proud of yourself
As a woman whose teen years were during possibly THE unhealthiest era, I understand why so many people push intuitive eating. But, as someone who is neurodivergent, my body & brain are not capable of it. I NEED to externally pay attention to what I eat in order to not over or under consume. I have several gripes with Abbey but her refusal to acknowledge that other methods of tracking food intact can be healthy & valid is a big one.
Coming back here after she released her new protein powder brand. Gotta love her "research analysis skills".
The impression I get from Abbey is that she has a tendency to project her own eating disorder on others. She looks at the world through that lens.
I actually cant stand her take that everyone should eat intuitively.. but eat everything in moderation.. this completely ignores the fact that modern societies Franken-foods has fucked people up and thus make bad choices. Some people need restrictions.. that doesnt mean they have disordered eating.. so holier-than-thou..
What I've come to dislike about Abbey without going in dept like this video did is, her insisting on her hunger crushing combos. Now the basic idea is great, but the need to add fruit and yoghurt to a piece of cake or ice cream annoys me. Why not eat the piece of cake and after you've given yourself the time to enjoy it top off with a bowl of fruit. Or better yet stop treating a piece of cake like a meal. It doesn't have to be filling or a HCC because you should already have that in a regular meal. Also, adding even more food increases a person's calorie intake. Yes, I said it. Another time she went to Starbucks and Chipotle to order a healthy breakfast. She did her best insisting on all the protein, fiber and healthy fats she has in her meals but didn't acknowledge all of the added sugar, meal size and calories. Some people pointed this out in the comments, I agreed and of course that comment thread was deleted. She also didn't acknowledge the ridiculous prices of these meals and how much food you would be able to buy for that amount of money. But, we can't expect that from a person who drives a Tesla, has her groceries delivered from the most expensive grocery store, orders in one meal a day (as she said herself, usually lunch which is the most challenging meal in my opinion) and shows off her at-home gym where she half-asses her workouts to stay on brand with this chill tired mom persona she has created for herself. Some people have time to workout and they want to do it well, perhaps even with a schedule or programme AND to look nice as a consequence. That is ok and her "light stretching" she insists on is not superior in any way. I was also slightly annoyed at her pointing out how her kids drew on her DESIGNER wallpaper. I know I'm being nitpicky, but why say that. Growing up with a working mom that made all our meals from scratch (even beans) and never complained about it I don't understand this whining of hers. EVERYTHING is sooo difficult and time consuming and "ain't anybody got time for that". She cuts corners at every step, uses her (very expensive) kitchen like a slob (making me think that she doesn't clean it herself) and insists that this is the norm and relatable. It's not the norm. It's her life, her choices and priorities but stop insisting that everyone lives like this. She seems very detached from reality and thinks that everyone lives her privileged upper middle class life. Some people have to soak beans and cut their own vegetables and cook their own lunch. And most of those people are also a "busy mom of two" or EVEN MORE kids with full time jobs. That's it (I'll be back if I think of anything else).
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
For sure it's a strange collision of "constructed realism" as Abbey advocates for it vs the actual real situations people deal with which Abbey is divorced from. It's a very privileged approach to tackling privilege, which is highlighted extremely well in the 50 dollar challenge video.
I thought of another thing. In her most recent video she made some Kardashian cocktail and wondered who gave her this "cheap bottle of champagne" that has been sitting in her kitchen cabinet. Like wtf. Maybe the person in question could not afford a nicer bottle, it's the thought that matters. Also, if they were at your home then you're probably friendly and that's no way to comment on a gift from a friend who, by the way, might just be watching your videos.
@@miljanav Yeah it's this habit I've noticed across Abbey's content where, if she doesn't have substantial criticism to offer towards someone's food she'll instead resort to a more shallow or petty insult.
In her Victoria Beckham video she called Victoria's smoothie "farty" without offering any meaningful nutritional analysis, which just highlights to me Abbey's need to attack or "sass" people first, and help them second.
Totally agree
what's actually kind of crazy to me is how OFTEN her critiques are centered around optimizing every SINGLE meal to be as nutritionally dense as possible. like if someone has a meal that is actually just chicken and vegetables or something she's like why aren't there any carbs. well abby i'm not sure if you know this but generally people have more than 1 meal in a day. when i was in recovery from severely undereating most of my individual meals or snacks were extremely unbalanced but at the end of the day i was still getting in all my foodgroups. i literally had some meals that were just my protein meal so i would eat a lot of protein all at once - like have a 3 egg omelette - and then i would have a vegetables + bread meal later in the day and i would follow that up with a protein shake or something. splitting stuff up weirdly/non optimally works for some of us. every meal doesn't have to be a prime example of the most balanced meal ever. but she never seems to critique anyone's diets from that perspective. it's never "oh, this is okay, because they had more protein earlier in the day" or "that's fine, you don't have to eat all your vegetables with your lunch". she always wants everything all at once.
edit: also, re: soaking lentils. you're right that it's absolutely not necessary to soak lentils, but it does significantly cut down on cooking time. also tbh soaking lentils is not very time consuming. you will need probably about 5 minutes to wash + soak and i understand that some people don't have that but for a lot of people, that extra 5 minutes soaking lentils is worth the amount of money they're gonna save by buying them dry.
Eating meals that are balanced does impact glucose spikes, thus metabolism. So she may be coming from that angle.
*A group of my current (& former) colleagues & I are considering filing multiple formal complaints about Abbey Sharp. Thus far we've compiled; necessary research, all relevant source materials, and various examples from Abbey's social media platforms in order to file our complaints. She's perpetuated harmful messages & disastrous misinformation for YEARS. We are NOT considering filing this complaint to; berate her, "be hateful" towards her, or trying to make her life harder. We simply want to see accountability and unfortunately, even when people try to talk to Abbey and hold her accountable, she often makes weak "justifications" for her behavior, doubles-down on her original stance, dismisses valid feedback, refuses to reflect on why people are upset in the first place or change/adapt her behavior to be more appropriate. Those actions have my colleagues and I agreeing that Abbey doesn't intend on changing her problematic and downright toxic behavior whatsoever - which is a massive issue for the reasons I've listed below.*
*When one considers Abbey Sharp's massive platform + the fact that a majority of her followers consider her viewpoints as "facts," it's easy to see why her channel is extremely destructive to her average viewer. Many of her subscribers are not educated enough in nutrition to discern fact versus fiction and she's created a horrific precedent around nutrition since the birth of her channel. Keep in mind, Abbey also maliciously edits clips from the people she criticizes in order to persuade her viewers to agree with her, even when she intentionally cuts video clips to paint those she criticizes in a bad light. As a result, these creators are harassed online, mocked, sent death threats, etc. This is not okay and at least a few of these creators have told Abbey this and yet Abbey continues to do the same thing over and over again. It's that much more appalling when one recognizes that Abbey usually has a much larger subscriber count than the people she misrepresents. Consequently, it's typical for those creators to be inundated with hundreds of negative comments & messages as a direct result from Abbey's edited clips & harmful rhetoric about these specific creators. This is deeply irresponsible and seriously inappropriate especially since many of the clips Abbey shares are intentionally edited to look a certain way, regardless.*
*Frankly, we've had enough of the lies and fraudulent claims she's spread for years and we're finally going to take action. I would also encourage anyone else who understands why many of the falsehoods Abbey shares are critically dangerous to consider filing a formal complaint about her as well. Abbey's had a multitude of chances to better educate herself and to stop posting edited content that seeks to demonize people she critiques, yet instead, Abbey continues to manipulate her subscribers, viewers, and the individuals she consistently bashes. It's even more grotesque when one recognizes that anorexia, binge-eating disorders, bulimia, etc, are some of the most DEADLY mental illnesses that exist and Abbey is pushing flat-out lies and fear-mongering instead of focusing on these issues in an honest way.*
*Ultimately, we are exasperated with Abbey Sharp's vile deception. Abbey exploits nutrition and other real-world issues under the guise of "nutrition and health" for her own self-interest & financial gain while berating other creators who are typically not doing anything malicious whatsoever. Once our complaint is filed, I hope that Abbey will finally face genuine accountability. Furthermore, this accountability won't be so easy for her to ignore or dismiss with another video of her being "sassy" that her followers will metaphorically eat up.*
*Thank-you so much for posting this video and for the plethora of research you conducted to create and upload this video. You've done incredible work here and I'll be subscribing to you immediately.*
By the way, I understand that you ended your video saying you don't feel that Abbey is malicious and that's where I slightly disagree with you simply because of the repeated patterns of Abbey being held accountable for the same "mistakes" over and over again.
Ahh it's good to hear people are making formal complaints about her. I'm Australian and while I am in healthcare it's not nutrition related so I wouldn't know what to report or even who to report it to since she's Canadian. Her lack of professionalism, care for the public and basic research skills is astounding and I've thought for a long time that it's honestly confusing that no regulatory body has intervened with her channel yet.
Any update on this?
What happened with this?
Whilst im not going to read the entire comment, props to you and your friends, I think you should go ahead.
Dude, the fact you put all the research, investigation and TIME into this video is AWESOME. This was such a great video, and REALLY clears up a lot of bad feelings i had about her content, but wasn’t sure what to base it on!
My god this was an incredibly well made and thorughly researched video, thank you for putting all that time into this!
Overall it sounds like she still struggles with her ED that she has said to have in the past. She pushes her past ED struggles on to other people.
As someone who is naturally thin, and has still lost weight from eating piss poorly, and had gotten more thin/slim due to diet changes and proper amounts of exercise, if she saw what I ate in a day she’d claim I have an ED off the bat. She keeps spreading the whole, “ You’re thin and eat healthy? You have an ED.” Bs that is skinny people already get continuously when all we want to do is just treat our bodies better by eating better. Healthy foods do not indicate disordered eating. Being thin does not indicate disordered eating.
I shouldn’t have to become over weight just to be seen as “ healthy.”
personally i think she still has obsession of being “as healthy as possible” mindset from ortherexia but now has changed her definition of what “is the most healthiest thing to do” and has the need to push it onto others because she still craves that justification to herself
She's just doing everything to suit her narrative: your eating too small or something or too much , you are too obsessive or well she doesn't really criticize over eating
Anyway, she's just playing safe for fat acceptance
I used to like her but now just find videos distasteful and hate that she only cares about diet culture. So you can over eat yourself to death and she doesn’t bat an eye lid. In my mind she is pushing her own narrative.
This channel always surprises me with how much you’re punching over your weight class in terms of editing and writing. Excellent video dude
Hey I really appreciate that! I really want to do these topics justice so I'm glad you enjoyed!
I was going to say the same thing.
This video deserve so much more views, it's so articulated, carefully researched and edited. I used to watch abbey a lot and I do believe she has a lot of accurate scientifical approach to her content, but she emphasizes intuitive eating so much that it becames demotivating for people who count calories, for instance, to take something useful from her videos. Not only on her chanel, but around youtube overall, there is a growing tendency on judging people on flexible diets and saying it doesnt work or 'its disordered' when we actually see it working for a lot of people for a lot of time, and improving their relationships with food and exercise. Although she states that is not to demotivate people, abbey's video on calorie counting make it seem that no matter what you try you can never improve the shape of your body on the long term, which is absolutely not true. And again in this video when she cites sources arguing that intuitive eating predicts leaness long-term, the sources are mixed and lacking. I dont think she is ill-intentioned with her content, but I do believe that her insistence on IE is a huge bias on her scientific approach and it leads to a solipsist and dogmatic understading of people dietary's choices.
Wow this was a really well produced, thought out, entertaining, and informative video. I was shocked to see the sub count, hope to see your channel grow even more soon! I subbed, great content. Keep it up!
God, this wonderful video should have hundreds of thousands of views!!! Abby always struck me as exactly what you describe.
Holy hell, well edited and researched video.
I like Abby, but she has stated that she suffers from OCPD (This is not the same as OCD): Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) is a mental health condition that causes an extensive preoccupation with perfectionism, organization and control. These behaviors and thought patterns interfere with completing tasks and maintaining relationships.
This explains "why": she is the way she is.
Thank you so much for this video. I always saw Abbey as hypocritical and biased but this video made me realize she's so much more insidious than I thought. Her twisting scientific studies and being sponsored by products she would criticize others for tells me she's a total hack. Her nitpicks in her food reviews can be so unnecessary. I've seen comments from some viewers of hers saying her videos make them overthink their food choices and if they would be "good enough" in her eyes. That's so damaging.
YESSS U SAID IT SOOO WELL!! the way she critiques the personal aspects of their diet by making it seem "unrelatable" is sooo wild to me. do what works for YOU!
I hope this video gets pushed in the algorithm to anyone following her. This is a must see video.
Abbey always advocates for obese people’s diets, and criticizes thin people’s diets! And about the ballerina trying to lose weight, I’m 5’7 184, I’ve been dieting for over a year and I have lost 100 pounds but I can’t lose weight unless I eat around 1500 calories. There is a huge difference between maintenance and losing weight! And I love how she is never worried about people gaining weight.
Thank you for this video! As someone who has dealt with EDNOS, and has restricted and binged, there where points in my life where I literally couldn’t tell if my food intake was normal or not, because I was so used to eating at extremes and where my hunger cues were seriously messed up, for me eating intuitively isn’t effective, and while I am still working on recovery and have made some progress, it is difficult to know if for instance, I eat ice cream, if I am eating it because I want to, or eating it because I had a bad day and am using it as a pick me up and would want it otherwise, and if me overthinking it is me being to restrictive or too free, it’s just a lot to think about, and I don’t trust myself to eat intuitively, furthermore, my family for majority of my life ate junk food or fast food because my schedule and my brothers were always crammed full, so pre Ed I was less inclined to go eat healthier food as I had not grown up with it, while I’m not in that position, intuitive eating will likely be not very smart for a person who grew up eating junk food all the time and having it normalized, or a person who grew up having food restricted, it’s just not safe in my opinion, furthermore EDs mess up hunger cues terribly, and for recovery people often need to eat less or more than normal to regain health, and it should be done under the guide of a professional
Furthermore, with the Blair walnuts video she did, she came at it with a restrictive ED lens, but Blair in the past dealt with binging according to what I read, so for her, drinking water before meals, etc wasn’t likely a sign of restricting, as someone who has used it to lessen my calories for good and bad, for a person who binges it could be helpful, granted, I watched a review of Blair’s video from another UA-camrs and saw it in Abby’s feed and saw comments when I was thinking of watching it, however I’m willing to bet she saw Blair as having an eating disorder, which isn’t necessarily wrong, but if Blair binges then she was trying to manage that, and you can’t diagnose random people online with EDs, just because, while she has made good points, her best moments do not compensate for her bad
@@miavagener265 I really like Michelle McDaniel's video about Blair Walnuts
I was in a course once where we learned a lot about intuitive eating and how to listen to your emotions and how to deal with them instead of eating them down (emotional eating was a huge problem I struggled with, especially at the time of the course), but the course also had it well integrated with learning to eat for health as well as enjoyment. Abby comes off to me as someone who never really interrogated her relationship to her disordered eating and just went full evangelist to the other side (by being full-intuitive instead of restricting).
I'm sure a big part of her extreme approach is due to the high number of people in her audience who are in recovery for various eating disorders, and Abbey not wanting to hurt or trigger them further, which I respect.
My issue is how she attacks very real people to turn them into the "enemy", making them a face of the issues that they suffer from, even if they aren't advocating any diet at all, like Victoria Beckham.
Minor correction: rewired soul wasn't a psychologist. He worked in a rehab before and was in recovery. He had no certification.
i’m on the pill and there are absolutely side effects that people should know about before going on birth control. for me, the extra 5 pounds is definitely worth not wanting to yeet myself off a cliff for 7 straight days every month, but i do think about it a lot and almost constantly feel “fat”. if i hadn’t been told about that or had a doctor downplay the effects to me i would be horrified.
I feel like she is pushing her issues and triggers onto others without any nuance in it. She's like those people that say "no offense but..." , she'll make a disclaimer that she supports weight loss if that is a necessary or strong desire, but then she'll go on and be nasty about it right afterwards.
she looks fit yet she encourages her audience to not care about their weight or what they should be eating.
This is the best video I've seen on UA-cam in YEARS. God damn. Subscribed.
Birth control has TONS of problems and is not researched enough, especially in long-term studies. I think it's fine to be skeptical about something that messes with your hormones that we don't know enough about for it being 2023 honestly.
She's not a doctor so it's terrible for her to talk about how she "believes" birth control pills are fine for people. They may be fine for some but not for all and our worries about them shouldn't be shrugged off as "stupid".
Thanks for this video. I found her when trying to recover from an ED that i now know is ARFID. Her advice helped me until it really REALLY didn’t… I am one of those people that needs to roughly plan/track my calories or I severely undereat.
Thanks for the great analysis! I noticed she just has no problems with someone eating french fries with hamburgers all day: "You do you", but she has so much problems with people who eat a amazing whole food plant based meals ("OMG, sooo much fiber!")
She seems to essentially think anyone who eats healthy has orthorexia 😐it doesn’t seem to cross her mind that some people eat for health because that makes them feel good, not because they have a disordered relationship with food.
@@rosalina2773 exactly!
Im a year late and someone might have said this before, but Abbey talking about not buying dry beans to save time is so funny. Just soak the beans the night before.. or put them to soak in the morning, before going to work.. its the bean equivalent of taking the meat out of the freezer.
this video is absolutely incredible and completely summed up the issue with abbey’s content. thank you so much for making this
This overview of Abbey is fantastic. It hits on all the issues I've had with Abbey and added a few more.
49:00 I’m so glad you mentioned this! You can absolutely count calories in a healthy way. I struggled with physical anxiety symptoms for years which caused a range of symptoms like nausea, vomiting bile and absolute lack of appetite which caused my body to become accustomed to eating way less than I needed. By counting calories I was able to keep myself physically accountable and push thru the nausea when eating because I know I had a goal to meet by the end of the day. Food aversion is so real and incredibly difficult to overcome. I would eat a meal and sit trying to hold it down because I knew that it was what I needed to feel better eventually. And I had to count my calories otherwise I wouldn’t eat enough, if at all during the day.
Not everyone with disordered eating is being intentionally restrictive and that’s what all these dieticians seem to believe.
Until they throw up from eating a granola bar, they don’t know what some people go thru. It’s not a one size fits all.
This was a great video, thank you! I’ve been following Abbey for the past few months and her videos have taught me a lot about nutrition.
But I clicked on your video because after a while I started feeling a little bit skeptical about how reactive she is in her videos, and seeing her critiquing every single persons diet as if none of them were good enough stressed me out too. I was second guessing every food decision a made, or making sure all my meals were crashing combos, which didn’t help at all to my weight loss journey 😅…
Your video was helpful because now I can consume her content with perspective. You helped me realize that just because she is a RD doesn’t mean she is 100% right and objective. But it doesn’t mean she has no idea of what she is talking about either.
I don’t usually interact with any content in UA-cam ( I’m one of those ghosts consumers), but I think your video was brilliant, and I have purposefully interacted in every way I could, hoping this video and your channel reaches more people. Keep up with the good work!
What a thorough analysis of some of the bigger issues with Abbey's content (while also acknowledging the lure of falling into some of these traps while trying to being a successful and consistent content creator). Abbey is still responsible for her research and her messaging, but I felt there was a lot of value in how you approached some of the challenges all content creators face to remain engaging (or at least the crossroads they may inevitably come to). Really enjoyed watching this and thinking through all of it!
Idk man, I really find cooking lentils way more realistic than getting takeout more often than 2-3 times a month 🤷♀️
You should do a video about nutty foddie fitness. She claims she doesnt train abs or follows a routine at the gym, yet she has super toned abs, while praising she eats a lot of junk food. She also said she runned a marathon without even training. She called it "accidentally runned a marathon". The numbers shown in the video are ridiculous, there is no way she runs like that without prior training. To me, she is a pick me girl trying really hard to seem as if she doesnt care about fitness and just eats all day
Also thank you for this, more people need to see it. I started to watch her a while ago but she rubbed me wrong on so many videos. She is very judgemental and not very welcoming and has weird random rules when she reviews people's videos.
i’ve always felt the exact same way about her!
Very impressive reasearch, I really appreciate that. Your reasoning is logical and everything is clearly shown for the viewers to see. Thank you for this video, I found it eye-opening and hopefully it will reach a wide audience so that more people can become informed.
Abbey makes me so uncomfortable and the fact that she presents herself as a registered dietician just adds a whole new level to it.
I remember when she criticized Gabbie Hanna (she's problematic but her food choices aren't part of it) because Gabbie apparently was promoting EDs with her "what I eat in a day" video according to Abbey and Abbey was, in my opinion, shaming Gabbie for being on a calorie deficit (despite it being healthy and within the recommended calorie intake range). Like jesus, just because you're on a calorie deficit, doesn't mean you automatically have an ED. This pisses me off so much because Gabbie didn't even said that her diet works for everyone but it works specifically for her and the way Abbey came at her was basically policing Gabbie's personal food choices.
Like there's absolutely nothing wrong with losing weight if it makes you feel better, even if you're slightly overweight so I have no idea why Abbey feels the need to nitpick these creators for nothing, other than being petty and unprofessional and potentially promote being overweight to people that don't really feel good being overweight and that if you don't, you automatically have an ED according to Abbey and you need to fix your head. Good job on the video exposing her problematic behaviour.
This video needs more views! Abby loves critiquing healthy people but encouraging and defending people who are extremely overweight.
Watched all the way through. Thank you for this! I can’t imagine the time and effort needed to research and prepare for this brutal strip down. I appreciate your work!
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Her saying that "emotional satisfaction" is more important than a food sensitivity is dangerous and misinformed. Also, she has never practiced in a clinical setting.
Wow! Great video… I used to watch her but she’s just too condescending and snarky. She also seems to claim to eat all these things she’s not. She makes massive portions and takes one bite. I think is very disingenuous and misleading.
i really would love to know what Abby would think of me... i have a rare chronic illness called cyclical vomiting syndrome. to avoid triggering episodes since there is no cure, my doctors have asked me to cut out gluten, dairy, red meat, high sodium foods, high sugar foods, and most fried foods (along with probably other things i'm not remembering at the moment). would she suggest that me restricting foods to help prevents episodes that almost KILLED me early this year is BAD? i'm not allergic, this is technically an intolerance... from what we've seen from her i think she would to enforce her own ideas, and that's terribly sad, especially since her audience seems to trust her a lot.
I'm really sorry you're experiencing that. It's terrible that some professionals can only view problems through their own biases, and I hope you can get some form of relief.
Has it helped you? My husband suffers from this too.
@@jacindablair8685 it has! it's definitely reduced their frequency, i still have them sometimes though :(
I absolutely love this level of thorough dissection. Its quality at the very least on par with shaun so ig im gonna be watching everything on this channel.
found this channel bc i watched an abby sharp video and was baffled by her. so a positive side to having seen that 😅
Wow that's a hell of a complement, thank you!
I'm working on a very analytical video that I'm hoping to have done very soon, so make sure to keep an eye out for that!
Its also bizarre that for someone who demonizes other peoples language so often (particularly usage of terms like healthy, unhealthy, treat, etc.) she actually seems more focused on labels than the people using it probably are. Her inability to acknowledge that some foods are healthier than others seriously undermines her own credibility. She also seems to be much harsher on anyone who has a lower body weight rather than people with a large to obese body, she'll harp on and on about how smaller people need to eat more, but anyone who is large is apparently doing well. Lets not forget, obesity is apparently healthy in her eyes.
I used to really like her videos but had my eyes opened when she referenced the chubby kid who was forced to overeat on cake in Maltida. She got all angry about how this was typical diet rhetoric and telling people the (in her eyes horrible) message that the large kid eating cake was disgusting, completely missing the point that the kid was being punished for his greed and gluttony after he stole the headmistresses cake! Coincidentally, gluttony and greed do tend to lead to becoming overweight and gluttony is pretty gross.
Such an insignificant moment in her video but it was the first time I saw in black and white how her own biases and pseudo sciences are prevalent in her videos.
Man I could go on a long rant about Abbey: She also often says that processed foods are healthy because they have nutrients added in, then demonizes any actual supplements that people take. Are these not the same thing? Just that one you consciously make the decision yourself and the other you're dependant on the food industry.
Also her comments about birth control not leading to weight gain, seems like she skipped over the fact that birth control can lead to depression (and often does) and that depression often leads to either under eating or over eating (i.e. gaining weight). So whilst maybe in a lot of women birth control doesn't directly cause the body to gain more weight, it is the origin for the weight gain through for example depression. It's very disingenuous of her to take such a narrow approach. Never mind all the other negative side effects women experience that are outside her area of "expertise".
She also often says when people talk about a specific item of food that they don't eat that they should just eat the damn thing. e.g. Jaclyn Hill not buying Doritos because she knows she'll overeat on them. According to Abbey Jaclyn should just eat the Dorito so that she can gain emotional satisfaction. But as someone who has dealt with binge eating in the past, I don't purchase cookies anymore. I know they're triggering for me and by not buying them I free myself up emotionally not to regress into a binge/guilt/restrict cycle. That doesn't mean I won't occasionally have one at tea time when offered, I just don't buy it.
Which leads me onto another point, she seems to be all about instant gratification (which I personally find quite a greedy and privileged approach). If someone has a craving they should immediately without question "honor" it. no. no. no. You're allowed to say no to yourself, especially if you have a disordered relationship with food. As smart as our bodies are, sometimes they need help and sometimes they send mixed signals. If I have a craving of chocolate its not crazy for me to substitute it with a glass of water first to see if maybe i'm just thirsty. Its not crazy of me to substitute it with an activity to see if maybe i'm just bored. Its not crazy of me to substitute it with a healthier choice like a piece of fruit because I recognise i'm just peckish, and its not crazy of me to just skip it altogether because I know i'm only eating as a result of stress/emotion.
Finally (I hope! I'm typing this as I watch the video) you are allowed to treat yourself with food without immediately being considered to have a bad relationship with food. I'm a long distance runner, which means that often times the mental difficulty is worse than the physical side. I push myself through training by looking forward to a treat afterwards, a treat like for example a hot chocolate in the winter when its cold and all I can think about is how frozen my hands are. Or perhaps an ice cream, because i'm boiling hot in the summer. Giving yourself a treat (and using the language that its a treat) because its not part of your everyday diet is not the end of the world. Personally (no I don't have a qualification) I think its healthy to acknowledge that certain foods are not healthy and still occasionally give yourself the freedom to eat it, its called balance.
Nope I wasn't done, you've made another excellent point.
She's always critiquing other peoples diets from a viewpoint of how accessible they are and how easy they are to replicate. If someone has the fortune of having access to a lot of "health" products and organic vegetables then Abbey criticizes them for their fortune. Not only does this make no sense as people's diets are for themselves (which she only ever seem to realize when she's showing what she herself eats in a day) but also you could say the same about her tips. Having access to lots of varied meals is not accesible to everyone, but she always tells people to do that anyway.
On the topic of her veganism stance. I'm vegan, I went vegan (about a decade ago) for a couple of reasons whilst I still had a very negative relationship with food. One of the side benefits was that by excluding the foods that I thought of as calorie dense (like dairy and meat) I was able to enjoy the freedom of eating more and discovering foods I liked without feeling like I was overeating, therefore stopping the whole guilt/restrict cycle and allowing me to regain joy from the act of eating whilst slowly getting over my fear of calories. I know that for some it can be a bad idea to go vegan whilst struggling with food, but again, rather shortsighted to only look at the potential negative outcomes from any diet that is different to her own. She acknowledges in one of her other videos as well that veganism is not a restrictive diet because vegans don't see meat and dairy as an option to begin with. Showing how inconsistent she is with her content, also, can't this same approach of food not being an option but still not be restrictive be taken with other foods such as for example in my case cookies?
I'm sure she's a lovely person in real life, and i'm also sure she's helped a lot of people from their own anecdotes in her comments. I also know that if I'd had her around when I was 11 and started to struggle with my relationship with food that my journey would have turned out differently, but I can also now acknowledge that whilst her "anti-diet culture" approach is a prettier (and generally better) package, it still shares a lot of similarities in form of content with that which she is against. She's the other side of the coin, not the balanced middle approach.
YES TO EVERYTHING YOU SAID! ABSOLUTELY YES!
@@SpeedyNichaha I love your rant and totally agree with everything you said. Same goes for the OP. Her hatred for those labels struck me as very odd the first time I watched her. Glad to see someone else say it!
So their lifestyle is unrealistic as she sits on a fake set with fake props 😂
sorry for all my comments and there might be even more but seriously... round of applause. you explained the issues with her content BEAUTIFULLY, especially from a logic perspective.
This is a very interesting video. I admit that I was sceptical in the beginning as I used to watch some of Abbey’s content and I didn’t think it was bad but the fact that she’s doing this challenge and went to Loblaws 😮 I live in Canada, and I definitely don’t have to budget meals like many and I still wouldn’t have gone to shop at Loblaws! It’s terribly overpriced. The only reason to go there is decor or something. Loblaws has a cheaper store with the same stuff only less nicer decor called Superstore. And there are even cheaper stores! This is crazy to me. I don’t think people should be able to go to a place like this and say “I acknowledge my privilege” like a get out of jails free card or something. That’s a definition of cringe.
Do you guys know about the Dr.Greg video she posted? He's a credible healthcare expert too and she was bashing on him for his content being harmful and misinforming for ultimately money...but she turns around and does the same things she was concerned over Dr.Greg to have been doing...
Dude. !!!! Thank you for your brightness. Seriously.
It’s so strange to me that she doesn’t critique anyone who’s overweight or even morbidly obese , she finds nothing wrong with what they eat but if it’s an athletes or a dancers diet she always recommends adding stuff to what they eat. There are a few overweight /obese celebrities she reviewed and there was no critique in the same level , I feel like since she also used to suffer from an ED it feels like she’s nearly coming from a place of anger and supports anyone who does not have ANY restrictions, there were few celebrities saying certain foods make them bloat and swell but abbey usually disregards that with a quick side comment like “idk what she would say that since studies showed peanut butter causes no such a thing “ , as soon as she hears someone not eating something becuase they may not make them feel the best , abbey sees it as a dangerous restriction, it’s like pushing a button , and really ironic
Amazingly researched with intelligent, concise commentary. Would love to see you do a similar video about Kurzgesagt or What I Learned Videos! (Though that can basically be summed as: two channels that are proof that how you say things matters more than what you say, so long as you appeal to people's biases)
Good video. Restaurants are not cheaper for all families- vs prep of meals at home. You get more control over what you are consuming. And a healthful meal CAN be made in a half-hour.
Thank you for saying what we are thinking and also doing a great job researching and presenting it.
Good video. Restaurants are not cheaper for all families- vs prep of meals at home. My own family of origin, when growing up) could not afford eating out at restaurants, and we eschewed them mainly for THAT reason not bc mom and dad were “too busy” too cook. My mom spent enormous care shopping for healthful food, but we had to go without some things she’d say were healthy bc we did not have money for them (eg berries). In truth also, she was correct that cooking gave her/us “control” and more knowledge about how healthful our meals were than we could get by ordering at restaurants. (Same for “take-out” food obviously.) Further, cooking one’s own meals does NOT have to take much time at all! My mom only would take hours when producing gourmet meals with 6-9 courses, which she actually dud as well as any chef or any restaurant I’ve eaten in later in life when I had more money or business-related restaurant-meals at 5 star, totally top-end restaurants. Still, her talent as a chef did NOT men that’s why a typical simple meal she cooked took maybe 30 minutes TOTAL -not including shopping just prep time and her actual cooking (w/ occasional help from my dad, who added the gardening idea… I admit we did not depend on the garden for much of our caloric intake, but my parents did say it was satisfying to raise vegetables but they also cited that if saved money, if not much). Restaurants are not cheaper for all families- vs prep of meals at home.