starviolet wrote:elmox wrote:starviolet wrote:To me there's no glimmer of doubt that she has an eating disorder. As someone who's had one too, it struck me immediately with her. An eating disorder is not just about how thin (or not) you look. It's her perception of food, and there's definitely a lot wrong with how she thinks about food. I'm sure it's all she thinks about. There are no foods that are 'bad' for you, as we all know it's all about moderation and frequency. No food should be demonised or completely stricken from your diet (unless you have a true diagnosed illness). I don't mean that about the vegan diet as such, that's something else (I don't want to start a vegan debate), but I have noticed another vegan youtuber with an eating disorder as well who demonises non-vegan food. It's definitely a phenomenon.
Oh and her posing in thumbnails is painfully awkward, she should quit.
Who are you to say that no food should be completely stricken from someone else's diet? It's completely her choice and not unhealthy. As long as she's getting enough vitamins/nutrients there's no problem. I've met Niomi and she looks great. She doesn't get preachy about eating vegan/plant-based and she recently ran a marathon and wrote a cookbook so health is going to be a huge part of her life right now. Also, I think so many people are overweight now that it's seen as normal and that's not right.
Lol my post is just that, an opinion, what I believe is true, just like yours is an opinion too and I can take it or leave it. That speaks for itself..
I agree that she doesn't preach and that's great, but it's worrying to see someone with an ED, imo, with a big audience like that, possibly influencing young girls into a fear of certain foods. She spreads a lot of good info about how to be healthy, but perhaps not just that.
I completely, 100% agree. I have also had an ED and then subsequently worked a lot with young women with eating disorders. While I acknowledge it is difficult to diagnose someone just through 'watching' them in this way, it's so clear to anyone with knowledge of the disorder that Niomi so clearly suffers from an ED and I find it so, so uncomfortable that she has been given the platform to hawk eating 'tips' to young women. Toxic habits with food and eating is much harder to detect in today's society because we have become obsessed with diets that are peddled as lifestyles and the treating of certain foods as poison or 'off limits'. This is mainstream now, lauded as the ideal way to live and eat. I'm so thankful that I started to recover from my ED *just* before the gluten free/paleo/etc fads hit the mainstream, or else I have little doubt that I would NOT have recovered and would've gone further down that hole of self-destruction. I see SO many common habits, tricks, and behaviours mirrored in Niomi, that I feel a lot of sympathy but also disgust that she is being encouraged and given this platform, and that people are so hypnotized by the idea of "health" and "good food" that they say they'd say they'd rather their own daughters be trapped into this toxic pseudo health lifestyle rather than be "fat" or "obese". It is correct that if not for the reason of an allergy or complete intolerance (which can include a genuine distaste for the taste or texture of course) to a food, to refuse completely to ever under any circumstances let that food cross your lips because you think it is "unhealthy" is a clear signal of a disordered mind.
Didn't Marcus also recently allude to really messed up eating behaviour that he engaged in, how it robbed him of joy, made him unhealthy, and his family was concerned about him? This was clearly in reference to his time /w/ Niomi and it's evident in watching earlier vlogs of Marcus. I remember one in particular where they were on a boys trip skiing-- the guys were making constant references to Marcus' health obsession, how he clearly wouldn't eat this or that. One morning there was an issue with the breakfast and they all had to stop at a bakery. Marcus was forced to get some sort of pizza bun thing and he was saying "This is my worst nightmare". To a casual observer he might've just looked dejected in the way one would when eating a breakfast they didn't prefer. But I recognized that genuine terror in his face-- he literally looked like he might cry. If it were Niomi, I would bet that she either wouldn't eat breakfast at all or would've pre-packed all her meals before going on vacation. Anyone can eat healthy and should-- that is what I myself do now, for most of the time. But I can also enjoy a spontaneous stop at a cafe for a scone without the fear and anxiety and planning, I can grab an "undesirable" meal at an airport if my flight is delayed and there is nothing else to eat, and I can join my friends at a restaurant without checking the menu a million times online and then spending days restricting and compensating for the amount of sodium in my salad. I have no doubt that Niomi cannot do any of those things.
I feel bad for Niomi in that her choices are so clearly being validated and if there is a recovery for her, it is years and years away. I'm sure people will react poorly to this but I think as many people that can speak out should do so, because I know what being young and impressionable and seeking advice from people from Niomi is like, and if these words can get out there then maybe it can help someone.