@@wendyastin1578 dubious bias, but if your doctor says so she must know. i know doctors are better informed than most of us , but when it comes to psychopharmacology i would nt trust them as far as i could throw them. ask anyone on antidepressants or opioid pain killers.
I like plain yogurt with fruit..but because I don't live at a university dorm with healthy cafeteria options, I don't buy that stuff anymore because of convenience issues/low fridge space.
I thought the same thing, but then I undersood the idea is to shock them by making them watch another person eat what they'd normally eat, and then realize that it's not a healthy amount for anyone. Then they can go to the normal amounts and really stick to them
@@broatehra6552 exactly, the show did it the correct way! They get folders at the end of the 3 day stay..with the amount of calories they should eat and guides to help them! I wish people stop talking about that because they don't know what are talking about they're just talking!
@@angelicastea9053 I guess they too get shocked with the amounts of food xD We all do, but really it's the most effective way to eat normal amounts, otherwise it's so easy to just slip to the old pattern. I think people in this show, with this method, have a much better chance to stick to the plan and get healthier than the people who are simply presented with an ideal plan but no shock treatment
i think the point is when they switch meals the other person complaining at you is what your body is telling you when you eat your regular bad meals. also it stretches out the skinny stomach and teaches the fat stomach that being hungry isn't going to kill you
people without disordered eating have no clue what goes through the minds of those who do, and it's disgusting that someone who clearly has an issue is being ripped apart in the comments in a negative manner. "she's picky, that's annoying," no, she's sick & she needs help :(
Thank you! People who have ARFID aren’t just picky, they’re genuinely afraid to try those foods that might make them sick or stuff like that. It’s an eating disorder not based on weight obsession, but instead the obsessive fear of the food itself and what it will do to their health
Literally this show makes me so upset I'm armchair psychologisting every episode and I'm so angry when they're clearly showing textbook symptoms of [whichever eating disorder it seems obvious that they have) and the narratord are making it seem like they're just being whiny or lack self control or are lazy or have bad habits etc. Like jfc
Phil’s diet wasn’t actually that bad, it’s good that most of her food was homemade. If she gets used to having smaller portions and snacking less then I could definitely see her making amazing progress :)
Most of the supersizers who don't show obvious signs of BED just genuinely love food, and a lot of them cook their own and it looks really good, just calorically high. If I could cook my own amazing food and had nobody holding me accountable I'd probably have bad portion sizes as well lol
so many of the super skinnies even talk like children. they mumble really quietly and the way they pick at the food and pull faces. just something i noticed over several episodes
yall there are more eating disorders than anorexia. i would say that girl probably has arfid... eating obviously disturbs her but it doesn't seem to be due to body image. unfortunately i think they only diagnose that after failed medical interventions like feeding tubes.
Well-said. She doesn’t fit the diagnosis for Anorexia but you can’t blame these people for making that assumption. Similar to Bulimia, BED, OSFED, PICA, Dysphagia and ED-DMT1, ARFID hasn’t had enough exposure.
Sophie Marshall yes but this is likely a problem brought on only recently. She’s been able to have two healthy toddlers, which is something people as underweight as her can struggle with. ARFID is a term that has only recently reached the DSM-5 so she probably was unable to seek a correct assessment or perhaps she has and it was decided that exposure therapy would benefit her. That’s essentially what this show is for the SuperSkinny folk. It’s actually quite brilliant. Sorry to blather on, I just find this diagnosis so interesting.
She definitely has AFRID. I hate how they’re all just like “just eat it.” That’s the same as telling a binge eater to fast for three days, and just to do it, and you won’t die from it, etc.
350 calories??? That’s the lowest I’ve seen for this show. Usually they overly estimate how many calories the superskinny takes in a day. Guess that theory about fudging the numbers to stop people with potential EDs from copying their calorie counts is shot.
@@haley3235They do. Especially diet coke and diet energy drinks are very popular among anorexia sufferers. Because it makes you feel like you‘ve got energy because you aren’t getting any from food.
She has a mental disorder,that is anorexia nervosa. Those people dont have a disorder,rather just poor eating habits. They only take mentally healthy people to the show .
This episode is a total mess! Very difficult to follow. They should have featured each item in full one by one, rather than chopping them all up and making clip salad.
Well 12 litres a week is about 1.7 litres a day and you should be drinking 2l of water a day so I'd expect her to go to the loo same number as anyone else. That amount of liquids isn't that strange tbf.
They call a group of people trying to lose weight “flab fighters”, refer to the supersizers as derogatory names but yet they wonder why anorexia and other eating disorders exist?
Honesty hurts its part of life. What are they doing fighting flab so they can be healthy. The anorexics/ and bulimics are fighting there own mental battles ive been 350lbs and ive had bulimia. Sugar coating words isnt going to wake these people up to the facts they are killing themselves and passing those toxic habits to their kids . Its time for sensitivity to hit the wall and blunt honesty to be center of attention
For those who think "getting fat people to lose weight" and "not calling fat people derogatory names" are somehow mutually exclusive(!), I'm on actual medically ordered weight loss and I go to a certified dietitian for it (when my country isn't on lockdown, obviously). Not only did my doctors and dietitian manage to discuss my weight in a non-derogatory manner before the pandemic, my doctor managed to reschedule my upcoming appointment due to coronavirus without saying anything bitter about people who end up in the healthcare system due to weight gain. It's time for juvenile name-calling to hit the wall and the advice of dietitians who know their ass from their elbow to be centre of attention.
It's just a funny name. If we can't handle a simple word like that anymore then society is gonna be in trouble. It's probably also the reason why you are being called a racist for just sneezing in the wrong direction. People need to grow some thicker (fatter) skin.
@@joshemminger9022 i can't stand the sound of other people chewing. Stuggle to sit in the same room as some people when they're eating. Although i don't notice it on myself quite the same
Kaja Magdalena OP said she "may" have anorexia It's unlikely that someone without a mental disorder would only eat 350 calories even if they're lazy and don't like cooking
elizabeth BB She’s not even given it a fair shot. My youngest has sensory processing and struggles with new foods but she always tries at least one bite of a new food and gives it a chance before pulling faces. She’s discovering that some things that look/feel weird actually taste good.
You know something is so wrong with this society when you think "The skinny people look super healthy though. They're not too skinny. I want to be like them." It's worrying me that I think like that because they're underweight
British people have a neurosis surrounding cutlery, I've seen them eat pizza (like at home frozen pizza, not crazy deep-dish) with a knife and fork. Like, those tiny sausage rolls were obviously finger food, she still used a knife and fork. It's insane.
Scribonius Thursday it’s not rly a british thing, most people eat pizza and stuff with their hands, i think it is more to cut their food into smaller pieces so they get full quicker & they won’t eat so much etc :)
the thing about it being easier to eat food in packets is the same for me,, because if it's in a packet i'll know exactly how many calories are in it and the nutritional information is on the packaging. with things i have to portion by my own volition or meals, i find i get very anxious because i dont really know what's been put in it/how many calories worth i'm getting for context with the meal thing, i'm a child and my mother cooks :^))
yeah she had the bone density of a 60 year old but looked good so who cares right..... The fuck is wrong with you. this is not about looks its about health.
This episode really fucked me up. I expected 350 a day to make someone even thinner than that. She's just under my goal weight. I eat around 4-6,000 calories most weeks (only eating when I need to eat for social reasons like family, so 3 or so meals a week but I eat a lot during them) and I'm fifty pounds heavier than her. I'm less active too. I'm grossly undereating still, but I'm a point away from an overweight BMI. I'm so stressed out right now. Holy shit.
phillip smith because this isn’t how you properly treat people with eating disorders that cause them to starve themselves. Treating them in this way would actually have opposite effects and turn them off food even more.
Anorrexia isn't defined by the amount of calories you're eating. Such a low amount is clearly wrong and she has some kind of disordered eating - but that doesn't mean she has to have an eating disorder. There's a difference. Anorexia is in the head and shows in your actions and (after a while) in your Body.
she Haß Real food issues I mean 350 calories what. and also bring scared/turned off by your own chewing maybe shes anorexic? how is she feeding her children if she has such a twisted view on foods
Okay the weight loss and weight gain in this episode were I think the best I’ve seen from this series. Especially the weight gain! A lot of times they don’t gain a ton. Very nice to see the both so happy with the results
I don't care about the calories. I look at the nutrients. I also look at how processed the food is - if it's full of manufactured substances, I don't buy it. Yes, I look at prices too, but if a cheap item isn't nutritious I'll buy more expensive versions.
My mind is all about Food and Calories it's terrible. Everytime I go to the store I always look at all the Calories and struggle sm with this. Almost every minute I think "What should I eat next ? Should I eat ? How many calories does this and that have ?" I don't want this anymore
Im 6mins in and not a psycologist but i can tell this "superskinny" girl has annorexia. They had better get her some counselling before the end of the show... also cheese and grape sandwhiches?
Crazy to think that Madison (Heather’s daughter) must now be between 14,5 and 15 years old. But definitely a teen-ager. I wonder how they are doing nowadays.
Did they really need to show all that food in the cylinder container things? I mean, surely all that food had to go straight in the bin afterwards because there was no way of salvaging any of it. I don't know why they couldn't of just used like stock images of the food that they both eat in a day or even if not this, show the food out on a table and then donate it to local food banks or soup kitchens? seems like such a huge waste for a silly demonstration on a tv show
Simple. Showing the food in the tube is a graphic demonstration of what these people put into their bodies. This is what it looks like going into your stomach. The amount of food even in an overeater's tube would go nowhere in a homeless shelter, even for one meal. Besides, why would you give the homeless that kind of rubbish?
No, with anorexia, you will end up noticing because it is a mental disorder. She would not have cried at the sight of her bones if she had ana, she would not long for weight gain if she had anorexia. With anorexia, weight gain is terrifying and you would rather die than gain anything. She doesnt have anorexia due to low caloric intake.
What is Arfid? I think it's interesting that everyone in the comments are diagnosing these people. I think they have Doctors doing that already. I had anorexia, yet I would not attempt to say or know what Gillian is going through.
@brooke h the single best predictor of how tall you will be is your protein intake. there is no nutrient in vegetables (which historically were eaten as filler food only) that cannot be gleaned in a greater quantity from other sources.
Ellenor Malik unfortunately you are wrong the body needs antioxidants which predominantly come from fruit and vegetables it is the parent’s responsibility to make sure there children have the correct nutritional intake on a daily basis.
@@matthewwilliams4168 the master antioxidants in the body are glutathione, made of amino acids found in meat, and uric acid, made from our species' fucked up purine metabolism. vitamin C is secondary (we don't need very much per diem) and is used to regenerate glutathione. all 3 can be found in sufficient quantities for almost everyone in raw or undercooked (I would prefer undercooked over raw because at least there's some predigestion) meat. fruit, meanwhile, mainly contains overdoses of vitamin C (not harmful), and an overdose of sugar (harmful), meanwhile vegetables are, at best, crunchy water with a bit of ascorbate & folate (and these I'd recommend consuming, but don't make a child eat them if the child rejects them - our prey image is red shit, like carcass and fruit, not green shit like kale and, frankly, mucus), and at worst, little shops of endogenous pesticide that you are eating thinking that it's anti-oxidative. Don't get me started on grains. That shit is nasty.
@@matthewwilliams4168 since it's the parent's responsibility to ensure a child has a correct nutritional intake, and fruit and vegetables just aren't part of our natural diet, I would never even let a vegetable near any children I were to have. a bit of fruit during summer, yes, because I don't want them to starve while I go bankrupt in the winter, and fruit is naturally designed to be fattening for us. but not vegetables. they're unnecessary and, for many, toxic.
They can't help being picky, stop complaining about the fact that you think they are being annoying. It's really hard to change a routine you've decided to dedicate your life to and for some of these people their food choices are a source of comfort and destraction. So please stop acting as if these people are below you when what they are experiencing is probably very painful for them.
@@DicyaninGlass I feel that, so I eat alone because I dont chew food since I eat liquids or pure not because of the misophonia but bc of a disease that I have that makes it hard for me to chew and swallow solids
I hope you are joking, having your ribs coming out like that aint a dream body, nothing protects them, same with other bones showing, I have that and it doesnt look right or feel right, you just look like a pile of bones and can easily get hurt since there is no fat or muscle, I get bruises on my legs and get hurt easily because I have no fat and Im weak, the thing is that idk how to change that and get my muscular body back bc while I dont have an ED people could say I have one because I dont eat like I should and Im underweight but is because of an autoimmune disease that I have
When treating the overweight ladies:" When you do the CRIME you need to do the time". When treating the underweight ladies: All games and encouragement. Double standards here?
OMG YES!!! It really, REALLY grinds my gears when people think the way to help fat people is to guilt trip them. It is SO SO SO common for fat people to try to lose weight but use diets that activate their starvation mechanism, which causes them to put the weight back on as soon as they snap and start eating until they're full again. My dietitian (who is one of the top dietitians in my city and has worked with Olympic athletes) has a huge soapbox about it and has lost clients because those clients are used to seeing the short-term effect of starvation diets and get discouraged by the slower progress that you see with more sustainable weight loss.
Eat 2000 calories if your female and 2500 if your male and exercise, the weight will fall off you and you’ll be looking much better in 6 months, it is so simple
@@Jasper-me7xt I got a migraine reading this comment because it ignores literally everything about endocrinology, an essential factor in understanding why we get fat and why obesity is the cause of eating too much, not the other way round.
I'm actually shocked. I am overweight and I eat a lot of sugar but adding sugar to Coco pops doesn't make sense. I would add it in something like cornflakes or Weetabix because they don't have that sweet taste but cocopops is already sweet! Geex
how can they say they’re against eating disorders but show the “flab fighting”? exercising to burn off extra calories is a form of purging aka bulimia.
I disagree. The "flab fighters" are only concerned with foods like chocolate, crisps, and biscuits/cookies. These are indulgences that will pack on pounds if not balanced by exercise. The group is not compulsively exercising to work off actual real meals. I think it's clear when Anna says that 23 minutes of vacuuming will burn off the calories in a Snickers bar. Snickers are not food!
