FlatWhite wrote:Wed Jun 12, 2019 8:44 am
I am not a big fan of ED YouTubers as most of them are quasi or not recovering at all but I will NEVER. EVER. EVER. say anything bad about Jen. She is very genuine. She is the one who has actually recovered and embracing her bigger body now. She is fun. She is beautiful. She understands that IN ORDER TO RECOVER YOU NEED TO EAT! And she does exactly that. If I ever fully recover I want to be where she's now.
Meh, I personally can't stand her so I might not be the best person to say this, but you probably shouldn't be talking about food and body ALL THE FREAKING TIME if you were actually properly recovered. Some people with an ED seemingly fail to grasp the idea that being recovered doesn't mean "happily talking about food all the time" or posting videos of yourself eating 24/7. Being recovered means that food and body issues just stop being such a big deal and they mostly stay in the back of your mind. For normal people, food is boring - nice, tasty, but boring. Do you ever see non-ED people telling you every single f*cking detail about what they ate that day? (except youtubers who make money out of that, of course - I mean people in real life) I bet you don't. The normal, non-ED people I know usually maybe say something like "oh I ate this very nice thing today, love that stuff!" and then proceed on dealing with other things.
I was just like that before my ED. I loved eating and enjoyed food, but it was really a very minor component in my life. I didn't plan my meals in advance and hardly remembered them afterwards - I certainly wouldn't have thought of doing a whole youtube channel about me eating stuff. And yes I got body image thoughts sometimes but I mostly couldn't be bothered, life was more important.
An actually, properly recovered person is Tabitha Farrar. She doesn't really care about food and just eats whatever. She also said she's not going to post "what I eat in a day" videos because a) it would be weird to just eat in front of a camera b) why would people give two shits about it and c) ain't nobody got time for that, lol.