Dietitian Reviews Kalel WHAT I ATE TODAY (NOT VEGAN) 

"Detox your colon" You mean taking a poo?

Back when I was in high school kalel made a video saying to never eat more than half your meal and that is what literally set off my eating disorder. She is the worst at giving diet advice

My heart breaks for her, body dysmorphia is no joke - she looked beautiful to me. I hope she is able to break that obsession and start enjoying her life - and FOOD!

"you don't wanna eat an entire porter house steak when you go omnivore" nikocado avocado has left the chat

She seems like she is struggling with some level of hypochondriasis/health anxiety.

Lol Abbey said *hard no*

This girl, her vegan/vegetarian diet was never the problem. She had major eating issues forever and a sugar/junk food addiction the whole time. She has a major body issue complex and if she doesn't change her mental health she is going to stay trapped in her bad habbits even on a regular American diet.

I had to unsubscribe from her... she’s one of those ex vegan you tubers with zero medical/nutrition experience yet spreading false info to their viewers.

What I learned from watch Kalel's channel is that she desn't need a diet as much as she needs a therapist. That girl is a bag of neurosis. And she makes eating seem like such a chore.

‘Weight gain might not be her new problem it may be her solution’ yeeees what a great video! She always states opinions as facts which is why it’s so frustrating seeing her flip flop around with her reasoning and content (she was just as resolute about why the whole world needs to go vegan)

I’ve been successfully vegan for 4 years now. I’ve actually managed to improve my health as a vegan compared to when I still ate meat and other animal products. However, these “influencers” like Kalel make the entire vegan movement look bad. They starve themselves and become deficient in basically everything, don’t feel well as a result and then resort to animal products again and announcing to their audience that the vegan diet isn’t practical or good for you. It’s simple. Eat when you’re hungry, eat variety, don’t restrict. Your body knows what it needs. If you’re hungry all the time, there’s a reason.

Love how you went super hard on the "detox" tea part. Finish them.

Abbey finding your videos has been a true blessing. I've never had someone talk about food the way you do. I didn't even realise my mind was so fogged with all this diet culture. You've really set me on the right path with my health and to seek some professional advice. I've never had to worry about what I ate because I was always so thin as a teenager, but the junk food really caught up with me, add to that some stress from work and my health has taken a nosedive in the last 2 years. I felt overwhelmed with how to get back to feeling healthy (do i go back to being vegan, do I do keto, should I stop eating so much?) but now I feel so calm and confident in eating a good quanitity of healthy whole foods! Thank you a million times over, I really can't wait to see where I am in a year!!

Please do a video on Raw Alignment/Alyse Parker. She used to be raw vegan and starved herself to the point where she was malnourished and deficient. She then went full on carnivore. She still has her old "What I eat in a Day Raw Vegan" videos up. It'd be nice to see a comparison of both from an actual RD, even though she starves and restricts herself on both. *Edit* you should also check out her colonic experience video. She makes completely false claims and talks about how it "detoxes" the body. She claims that food can stay in there for years and a colonic is a good thing. I just...I just can't. She is a mess.

I remember I started watching her video a week ago thinking it would be about balance and phasing out veganism, but as SOON as I saw the skinny teas I closed the video. Dealbreaker.

This girl's unhealthy relationship with food and her body is palpable. It's so sad.

I love Abbey. Finally someone just straight up with us.

Colon tea, OMG 🤦🏻‍♀️

she is obsessed with her weight, sad

I’ve never eaten so many different foods as when I went vegan because you’re kinda forced to get out of your comfort zone. In theory You’re more restricted but in reality you’ll gonna expand your food horizon.

Could you make a video about how nutritional deficiencies can affect how you feel, and if they can cause cravin? Can fatigue related to malnutrition or chronic illness cause cravings?

Watching her ramble on for like 7 minutes without eating the food gives me anxiety

This reminds me so much of Alyssa “I had salmon on night and the next day I was cured of everything, my sex drive was back!” ...

She looks beautiful and slender, her weight shaming is disgusting to me.

listening to kalel beat herself up about eating sugar while i'm sittin here eating cookies and milk.. makes me kinda sad ngl! the guilt she puts on herself is painful to watch. i mean, having a sugary snack is so nice sometimes! and i extra appreciate it now that i'm gluten free for medical reasons lol.

I just want to take a moment to point out that vegans still eat 'from all the food groups' . According to the US My Plate (I take it that's where she's from) the food groups are Fruits, Vegetables, Grains, Protein, Dairy (which includes soymilk). Canada doesn't even have Dairy as a food group anymore. It really bothers me when people say 'you shouldn't cut out any food group... Ummm thanks Karen, I haven't.

The “skinny tea” makes me roll my eyes too. If she’d replaced that with some almond butter on toast or something of substance she may have prevented that sugar craving/obsession. I’m also glad you pointed out the Botox thing. Body positivity should include the face too!

Thank you for saying that weight gain can be a sign of getting healthy. I don’t think anyone had ever said that to me before. It makes me feel less guilty about the change in my body after years of disordered eating

She looks healthy...why the hell is she trying to drop weight🤷‍♀️

Laxatives Caffeine Weigh lost talk ...

Abbey, did you say "bag-el"? I'm having flashbacks to the Community episode where everyone realises Britta can't say bagel correctly. :D

Abbey, I just want to start off by saying thank you. I'm usually not the type to comment on anything, but Thank you for such incredible advice in this chaotic world of BS "Detox diets" and "Skinny Teas" . I am recovering from a long battle of Binge Eating Disorder (Haven't had a binge session for almost 3 months WOOHOO) and you have helped me so much to learn about proper, gentle nutrition and Intuitive eating. I stop my whole life the second I see that you have uploaded a video. :D I love love love love loooooove your videos (even as a vegetarian transitioning into veganism hahaha) and I am a supporter forever. BIG LOVE FROM GEORGIA!!! (the country!) (^w^)

I don’t think she’s dumb enough to truly advocate for the teas... I think she’s broke and knows her followers wont buy them anyway lol

Can you please review Healthy Crazy Cool? It would be different to see a vegan guy's meals evaluated. Plus I really like his channel!

Like many of the people in the comments here, Kalel's videos also contributed to my eating disorder. I'm not saying it was her fault (at all ) but they didn't help. It's so sad to know that she is still promoting disordered eating behaviours but I'm so glad Abby is here to spread some good, real info. I hope Kalel watches this video and realizes how much her mindset and eating habits can affect her and those who follow her... I saw her videos three years ago and I'm still trying to recover from my ED so influencers should be careful with what they put out there...

OMG when you said Senna leaves, I had the most HORRENDOUS flashback. Last summer, I spent a week with a friend of mine’s mom and she convinced us to drink a senna leaf tea. I spent the entire night curled up on the bathroom floor. Then we had to drive almost 9 hours from Queens, NY to Toronto. Mistakes were made..

JUST 1000 CALORIES?!?!? I would be sooooooo hungry after that

Could you do a video on essential oils? I have seen you tubers as well as Instagram influencers consuming them...

Abbey yelling: "more cheese! More cheese!" is a mood

she doesn’t sound excited by her food...listening to her explain the salad was just sad

I know something that has an immediate, supressive effect on appetite... it's called food :)

You should review Ashley wicka's what I eat in a day she is a teen vegan and i think it would be good to see how health she is

It's 12:19 am here in the UK but Abbey has uploaded so sleep is suspended 😂

I've followed her for years, honestly really enjoyed her channel. I appreciated her struggles with mental health and being open about it but her posting the fit tea ads is just upsetting. But can tell she is struggling with her weight /body image, she did a video showing her body a few videos before this she looks great like she is still so slim. It's such a shame she obviously struggling with some type of body dyspmorphia, hope she can really get some help for her mental health, I don't think she is a bad person at all I just think is in a bad place. But don't think it's sending the best message for her to say a girl as slim as her needs to loose weight and promoting skinny tea to her followers.

I really don't blame you for not collaborating with one of those tea weight loss companies! I've had a few people try to recruit me on Instagram to push those coffee shot drinks that apparently boost your metabolism 😂 I asked the recruiter if they could provide me with any scientific studies/research based on the product and sadly she could not but she said they had plenty of positive customer reviews 😂 I informed her I cannot promote/sell something based on anecdotal evidence. I've completely shut out diet culture and a huge part of that is down to watching your videos, so thank you abbey!

Yay a sane response to that video 👏🏻 no shade but I personally don’t think people (ahm ahm 🍌🍌🍌) who are not dietitians should be reviewing what I eat videos, no matter how bad they are.

Kalel restricted herself, not the vegan diet

I guess she took down the videos she had that explained her journey away from veganism. She made a couple videos where she talked about health problems she had been having and how these doctors kept saying nothing was wrong with her so she kept going to different doctors and made them do a bunch of tests where they told her that her body had a million problems all related to her diet. She has struggled with disordered eating, and a ton of her fans were pretty shocked when she came out. Unnatural Vegan did a great response video that broke down the science she tried to cite and why it was incorrect or misguided.

She’s so obsessed with how she looks....

Why is she blaming veganism for her negative side effects? She said she didnt even eat a healthy vegan diet

Finally, a real constructive Kalel reaction video. I stopped watching her before she stopped being vegan. Seems too fake. Just saying

Dr. Dray would be an excellent influencer to review. She's just uploaded a "What I Eat in a Work Day" video, but her weekly vlogs always have grocery hauls. She has a *huge* following of young women. Would love to hear your thoughts!

Literally watching this while eating toast at 1.30am oops

Can you do a video debunking some of Freelee’s bizarre claims? Would that be problematic? 😂 her scare tactics in her reviews are insane. Like that women eating eggs is equal to smoking cigarettes.

Btw kalel’s “doctor” is some famous holistic alternative medicine bs dude not a real doctor

So she felt poor eating a vegan diet, added animal products in and still eats poor...this girls awful

I was unintentionally very underweight/nutrient lacking in college (the cafeteria had a REALLY tough time keeping me well fed with my food allergies) and as soon as I got home, I gained probably 10-15 pounds in maybe 3-6 months. I looked and felt SO MUCH healthier!! I made great gains in my workouts and my digestion, skin, and hair were so much better. Weight gain is NOT some terrible thing if your body really just needs more nourishment!!

Is...is she trying to look Korean...?!

I am so excited for this video!! Abbey, your videos have really helped me to be more intuitive with my eating! Thank you so much for your informative videos! I now want to be a nutritionist!! ❤️❤️

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Abbey please react to Monami Frost's "what my vegan daughter eats in a day" 🙏🙏🙏

I used to watch Kalel's videos when I was around 12-14 (like almost 8-10 years ago, she's been on youtube a while) and while I would never blame my eating disorder on someone she was one of my major "thinspirations". I'll never forget this vlog she made (before she was even vegan) where she said she eats a cucumber slowly for dinner (just a cucumber) with a fork and knife. I did it for week at least. Gosh. I truly hope she gets better but obviously influencers really can and do affect the lives of others (that's why their called influencers), especially young people.

Please do Dr. Berg diet review please!

Could you do a video on “Dr.” moan van she’s calls herself a doctor because she’s a pharmacist (not a health doctor) she has a variety of videos that mention food combining, vegan and other “health” voodoo

Informative and respectful video! I would like to be clear though that vegan is an ethics based lifestyle that works to minimize harm in all aspects of living as much as possible. Plant based is a diet. Veganism will always include a plant based diet, but someone eating a plant based diet is not necessarily vegan.

abbey, i just want to say on behalf of everyone, thank you for being such a breath of fresh air when it comes to food and diet culture etc! it’s so lovely to hear someone with a platform talk about how food isnt the enemy etc x

please do a video on Sweet Potato Soul’s bloating video. in the description she describes herself as an expert on bloating, even though she’s not a dietician.

She was not Vegan, she ate a plant based diet.

Hey Abby, fellow RD here. I have a hard time understanding why nutrition professionals harp on about how vegan diets need to be "well planned" and require "education" in order to be nutritionally adequate. This is true for ALL diets. We have an epidemic of nutrition-caused diseases that are overwhelming our healthcare systems because omnivorous diets are largely not well-planned and are nutritionally inadequate. Most people seeking the consult of a dietitian are not vegan/vegetarian. Most people coming in for care for their heart disease, diabetes, GI cancers are not vegan/vegetarian. I think that promoting the idea that omnivorous diets are safer by nature because they "cover all of the bases" is not only demonstrably false, but really does a disservice to the public. ALL diets can be dangerous and lead to health problems and I would argue that those issues seen in people on lazy omnivorous diets are more damaging and serious than those seen with people on lazy vegan diets.

If your version of veganism is based on supplements and juice sorry sis you’re doing it wrong. Most ex vegans never educated themselves on a proper vegan diet 🙃 eat enough actual food in all 3 food groups and you will be okay. I’m honestly so tired of vegans living off of juice it’s unhealthy and expensive

Yep, I'm stopping just prior to two minutes in. I appreciate the trigger warnings, Abbey. I'm having a stable day and my mood is on the light side. Weight, losing weight, fat-shaming, yeah, that's going to deter me from maintaining the lightness. Onto a different Abbey's Kitchen video. :)

Kalels comfort level with eating animal products after being vegan for that long is disturbing. She literally called it an inconvenience like does she remember the multiple years where her entire platform was based around ending animal exploitation??? So selfish

As a fellow dietitian, I love your channel. When I first saw Kalel’s video I was hoping it would make its way to you for review. Glad it did

Oolong’s my favorite tea lol. I drink at least 2 cups a day. And I’m still a chubby bunny. Anecdotal, but anyway.

when i had an active eating disorder, i consistently used laxatives and in my mind, these teas are no different. basically all they do is make you shit and im tired of seeing them geared towards younger viewers.

“We need to stop thinking of weight gain as an inherently negative thing. Sometimes it’s actually a sign of health.” Yes 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 This! More of this.

I had that “cleansing” mindset when I first started dieting. I felt like whenever I ate junk food, it made me “toxic” or “impure” so I’d use the teas and stuff to “get rid of it”. Now I’ve been bulimic for over 4 years, I have chronic gastritis, GERD, and my bowels no longer move normally due to constant use of laxatives. Beauty isn’t worth ruining your body. Stuff should be labeled as what it truly is. “Try this new diet tea! It dehydrates you to make it SEEM like you lost weight but in reality it’s just all the water you’re shitting out! Wow!”

I actually watched this Kalel video and thought "I wonder what Abbey thinks of this skinny tea situation" hahaha. This is perfect.

I’m vegan and unlike most vegans on RU-vid, I’m not offended by her choice to go back to animal products. I’m am however offended by those eyebrows 😂 GIRL LET ME FIX EMM

You should totally review Natacha Oceane! She eats intuitively and she brings a super refreshing message to the fitness space 🙂

Her older vegan videos were low in protein if I recall correctly. It's a common pattern with ex-vegans. I eat tofu, wheat protein and/or tofu based foods daily and I find it covers more of the hard to get nutrients on a vegan diet: calcium, zinc, protein.

Review Whitney Simmons!!

I am vegan and sometimes I will have a vegan kitchener bun for lunch :/ but the difference is maybe that I do not really snack. I eat what I like and nothing more at meal times. If you want to lose weight just eat normal portions of what you like. You wont crave anything because you know you can eat anything. I always start my day with a fruit smoothie and I put oats and seeds in it. I always have a large breakfast of 700 or so calories as I have a physical job. Then I will have what I like for lunch (a normal portion). If it is a donut then it is a donut and even if it were pizza I will stop when full. Mindful eat works!!!! But trust me when you don't restrict anything you like you wont crave it, you will opt for healthy options naturally. I love this tomato soup at plant 4. I get a chai with it and omg I am in heaven.

Glad her meals are more complete, but I want more snacks. I would love to stop making physical appearance = a healthy outlook on food/diet. Also when people say how "filling" a meal is because of how many hours they haven't eaten is a little weird.

I feel like she hasn't really changed anything in her diet apart from adding animal products. The reason veganism didn't work for her is that she was legit not eating properly and she's doing it now. Eating a big thing of lettuce with like two pieces of chicken isn't a full meal. And just like when she was vegan, she falls into the gimmicky teas and stuff instead of just focusing on nutritious whole foods that will give her what her body needs/

I'm loving the enunciated sharPP you've been doing lately 🤩

Correct me, but isn‘t she still thin or in other words has a perfectly normal body?

I’ve been following kalel for 6 years, and i went vegetarian because of her. i really just want to see her healthy and happy now. thanks for the video

The worse part of watching this channel is the understanding how many of the people you review consume laxatives and visualization of many conventionally attractive influencers pooping large amounts right when the cameras turn off.

Thanks for the “make peace with your body” phrasing. That resonated with me... 😌

I think the fact that she keeps mentioning her weight is problematic. I think she looks fine the way she is. Loving herself where she is at regardless of her weight I think would be a healthy thing at this point.

I don't know if you watched her past vegan videos, but she didn't address the diet aspect properly. She always she carbs as being bad and often said that she felt badly for days because of binging on junk food. She likely neglected proper supplementing and substituting which is why she always felt so bad.

Thank you for saying that weight gain is a sign of health and healing.

As a psychology major w a nutrition minor, this is hereby my new favorite channel.

You should do a video about Netflix documentary called “The Game Changer”. They make a whole bunch of huge dietary claims that needs to be debunked in that documentary

I gained about 10 pounds when I went vegan. Probably because I vwas deficient before. I started actually tracking my nutrition when I went vegan because of all the deficient vegan horror stories I was hearing

The American Egg Board is a promotional marketing board appointed by the U.S. government whose mission is to “increase demand for egg and egg products on behalf of U.S. egg producers.” If an individual egg company wants to run an ad campaign, they can say pretty much whatever they want. But if an egg corporation wants to dip into the 10 million dollars the American Egg Board sets aside for advertising every year, because the board is overseen by the federal government, corporations are not allowed to lie with those funds. This leads to quite revealing exchanges between egg corporations that want to use that money and the USDA on what egg companies can and cannot say about eggs. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act I was able to get my hands on some of those emails. Of course a lot of what I got were pages with nearly all of the text blacked out (you can see these in my video, Who Says Eggs Aren’t Healthy or Safe?). But I did find some illuminating correspondence. For example, one email shows an egg company trying to put out a brochure on healthy snacking for kids. But because of existing laws against false and misleading advertising, the head of the USDA’s poultry research and promotion programs reminds the company that eggs or egg products cannot be couched as being healthy or nutritious. “The words nutritious and healthy carry certain connotations, and because eggs have the amount of cholesterol they do, plus the fact that they’re not low in fat, [the words healthy and nutritious] are problematic.” This is the United States Department of Agriculture saying this! However, the USDA official helpfully suggests, “I believe you can say something that’s just as strong if not stronger, that is ‘naturally nutrient-dense.’” Why can we say eggs are nutrient-dense but not nutritious? Because there’s no legal definition of nutrient-dense. We can say Twinkies and Coca Cola are nutrient dense, but legally, we can’t say something is nutritious unless it’s actually… nutritious. For example, the egg industry wanted to run an ad calling eggs a nutritional powerhouse that aids in weight loss. The USDA had to remind the industry that they can’t portray eggs as a diet food because of the fat and cholesterol content. In fact, eggs have nearly twice the calories of anything that can be called “low-calorie.” “Nutritional powerhouse” can’t be used either. Fine, the industry said, they’ll move to plan B, and headline the ad “Egg-ceptional Nutrition.” They couldn’t say that either because, again, given the saturated fat and cholesterol you can’t legally call eggs nutritious. So the headline ended up as, “Find true satisfaction,” and instead of weight loss they had to go with “can reduce hunger.” The USDA congratulated them on their cleverness. Yes, a food that when eaten can reduce hunger-what a concept! They can’t even say eggs are “relatively” low in calories. Can’t say eggs are low in saturated fat-they’re not. Can’t say they’re relatively low in fat, they’re not. Can’t even call them a rich source of protein, because, according to the USDA, they’re not. It’s illegal to advertise that eggs pack a nutritional wallop, or that they have a high nutritional content. Eggs have so much cholesterol, we can’t even say they “contribute nutritionally.” Can’t say eggs are “healthful,” certainly can’t say they’re “healthy.” Can’t even say eggs contribute “healthful components.” Since we can’t say eggs are a healthy start to the day, the USDA suggests a “satisfying start.” Egg corporations can’t call eggs a healthy ingredient, but they can call eggs a “recognizable” ingredient. Can’t truthfully say eggs are good for us, either. By law, according to the USDA, the egg industry “needs to steer clear of words like ‘healthy’ or ‘nutritious.’” For a food to be labeled “healthy” under FDA rules, it has to be low in saturated fat (eggs fail that criteria) and have less than 90mg of cholesterol per serving (even half an egg fails that test). For the same reason we can’t tout ice cream for strong bones, we can’t say eggs are healthy because they exceed the threshold for cholesterol. Egg corporations aren’t even allowed to say things like “Eggs are an important part of a well balanced, healthy diet” on an egg carton because it would be considered misleading according to the USDA’s National Egg Supervisor, since eggs contain significant amounts of fat and cholesterol and therefore can contribute to the leading killer in the United States, heart disease. The industry can’t afford to tell the truth about the eggs, or even the hens that lay them. The industry crams five to ten birds in cages the size of a file cabinet their whole lives, but when providing footage to the media, the American Egg Board instructs, “do not show multiple birds in cages-they look too crowded and open us up to activist criticism.” Not only is the industry barred from saying eggs are healthy, they can’t even refer to eggs as safe because more than a hundred thousand Americans are food poisoned by Salmonella from eggs every year. The egg board’s response to this egg-borne epidemic is that Salmonella is a naturally occurring bacterium. An internal egg industry memo didn’t think that should necessarily be the key message, fearing that “it may be counterproductive by implying there is no avoiding Salmonella in eggs aside from avoiding eggs altogether.” The food poisoning risk is why the American Egg Board can’t even mention anything but eggs cooked hard and dry. No soft-boiled, no over-easy, no sunny-side up-because of the Salmonella risk. The American Egg Board’s own research showed that the sunny-side up cooking method should be considered “unsafe.” In light of bird flu viruses, both the white and yolk must be cooked firm. The VP of marketing for the Egg Board complained to the USDA saying they’d “really like to not have to dictate that the yolks are firm,” and cites a Washington Post article saying runny yolks may be safe for everyone except pregnant women, infants, elderly, or those with chronic disease. It turns out it was a misquote-eggs can’t be considered safe for anyone. Instead of safe, they can call eggs “fresh,” the USDA marketing service helpfully suggests. But they can’t call eggs safe, and they can’t say eggs are “safe to eat.” They can’t even mention safety at all. Wait a second, not only can eggs not be called healthy they can’t even be called safe? Says who? Says the United States Department of Agriculture. NUTRITIONFACTS.ORG

Love these reviews! They are sneakily teaching me more about my eating habits. I'm hoping I can just learn through osmosis from this and eventually not eat an entire box of Ritz crackers in one sitting

I feel bad for that cat, he has to listen to her rants everyday 🤦🏻‍♀️

Abbey, please review Natacha Oceane's What I Eat in a Day. LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, THANKS!!!!