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Social media - Skinny Celebs cooking/eating!!

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Keepgoing88 · 05/10/2023 23:03

ok… bear with me… I have wondered this for a while… my social media feeds are often full of skinny celebs cooking and ‘eating’ (obv never show quite how much they eat!) food… often high calorie food. Does this bug anyone else or is it just me?!! I don’t know why but I can’t help thinking these videos about food etc are quite misleading in the sense of to a young impressionable person it looks like ‘they can eat that and still be skinny why can’t i’. Maybe I’m looking into it too much as often the celebs in question doesn’t talk about how much of it they ate etc but the images and videos still give the impression of indulgence if that makes sense. Does anyone else feel these images / videos are a bit ‘wrong’ eg damaging or am I just being silly!!?

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BoomBoom0 · 07/10/2023 20:19

I block them from my feed and avoid looking at them because they are misleading. Thin people don't eat like that all the time every day.

Every time a thin person said they ate loads an whatever they wanted it ends up being one huge meal over 48 hours or grazing. Their calories over a week or a month end up way less than 2000kcals/day. It's like fat people saying they hardly eat but can't lose weight. Those people who genuinely can't gain or lose are a tiny minority.

Grapewrath · 07/10/2023 20:40

These celebrities are not saying they eat like this at every meal.
It’s very possible they are slim and also enjoy high calorie foods. I dint see the issue really- calories pan out over the week

Kaill · 07/10/2023 20:46

Everyone knows they just pretend to eat. If they actually did eat they couldn’t be that thin! Sometimes the food is even fake. I saw one video about how the person was a vegan and wouldn’t eat eggs, so for the photo they made mango and yogurt look like a fried egg.

eandz13 · 07/10/2023 20:56

🤦🏻‍♀️ fuuuuck me.

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