Episode 107: The Unintentional Harm behind "What I Eat in a Day" Videos


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In this episode of The Up-Beet Dietitians podcast, Emily and Hannah dive into the popular “what I eat in a day” videos. The girls break down if these are helpful, how they might be harmful, and if they think these types of videos can be shared on social media without producing harm. Tune in on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube to listen.


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    welcome back to another episode of the

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    upbeat dietitians podcast hello guys

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    welcome back to a brand new episode

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    today we are talking about what I eat

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    today videos also known sometimes as

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    like full days of eating

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    we to be transparent don't have an

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    outline today we are just going on Vibes

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    so we'll see where this conversation

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    takes us we have lots of thoughts and

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    then I always discuss it so I'm sure

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    we'll be able to come up with plenty to

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    say about wedding day videos yes but

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    before we get into all of it

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    we wanted you to so you don't get sick

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    of us at the end when we just like get

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    sick

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    we're new to this so yeah we are going

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    to start doing this housekeeping in the

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    beginning of the episode just to kind of

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    remind you guys of what's all going on

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    I'm sure we'll have different stuff as

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    thing that I want to add is if you are

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    not already and you do want to watch us

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    instead of just listen you can always go

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    to YouTube we are over there so you can

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    see us chat see our reactions to each

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    other's words

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    um that's always an option as well yeah

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    the audio only is just not cutting it

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    for you and we will have some episodes

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    coming up where we highly recommend

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    watching the video version because you

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    might be watching something with us

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    a spoiler alert but you'll have to see

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    in the future what that is so with no

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    further ado

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    without further ado

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    this is how my brain works at this time

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    they're used to it without any further

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    Ado let's talk about what I eat in a day

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    videos full day of eatings specifically

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    what are these so

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    they're kind of

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    self-explanatory they are a video of

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    someone posting everything they eat

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    during the day typically it's like meals

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    and snacks they don't always include

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    like drinks I notice those aren't I

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    don't tend to see that much unless they

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    just they're smooth

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    yeah that's true smoothies are almost

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    released

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    protein shakes or supplements so that

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    will be included but it's kind of just a

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    full

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    video picture of what someone eats for

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    the entire day

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    and Hannah already kind of talked about

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    who posts these videos it's a lot of

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    like wellness

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    girly or wish Wellness culture in

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    general

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    types of social media we'll post about

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    this yeah we're gonna get into a little

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    bit more but that's kind of just the

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    bottom line of what yeah it is yeah

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    sometimes dietitians too will post like

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    I've posted what eight in a day videos

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    and yeah we'll get to our thoughts on

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    like if they should or shouldn't be a

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    thing in our opinion so I won't put to

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    mention to that now but pretty much

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    anyone will post them even like just

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    like General influencers I've had people

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    like love to watch

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    or just know what everyone enjoys eating

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    I enjoy knowing what others are eating

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    yeah

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    good segue here I guess into potential

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    problems

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    I like watching them just because I like

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    getting like recipe ideas and things

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    like that seeing what someone creates

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    like what their go-to breakfast is just

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    for like new ideas but a potential

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    problem here

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    could be that

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    you feel like you like have to eat those

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    Foods or you compare your foods to their

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    Foods if theirs are quote unquote like

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    healthier looking like that's first and

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    foremost one of the biggest issues I'd

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    say is just like the food comparison and

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    that applies to like not only the

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    choices but portions as well it's like

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    oh they only had

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    that many pieces of toast I usually have

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    this many pieces of toast it just makes

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    you feel like you are either overeating

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    or under eating or doing something wrong

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    which is not necessarily the case yes

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    the portions are a big part

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    something else is like they don't they

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    don't show how much they eat they don't

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    normally do like a before and after I

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    start

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    eating this meal but that would also be

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    a very long video If It showed the

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    entire time they were eating

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    because I remember back in um

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    High School probably there was like this

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    one specific model I would watch a lot

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    of her what I eat in a day videos and

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    she would make huge portions for like

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    breakfast and I was like stunned I was

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    like how is she eating that much but I'm

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    pretty sure now I look back at it she's

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    like meal prepping breakfast for the

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    week it was like like toppings and stuff

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    like that but it just looked like oh my

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    gosh you're making a whole sheet pan of

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    nuts and like trail mix how are you

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    eating all that yeah

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    so videos do show better picture than

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    Pro than pictures like we talked about

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    what's the progress pictures but it

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    doesn't show the whole story especially

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    the portion sizes exactly as well

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    I feel like another issue maybe yours is

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    the same as mine I'm sure we have

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    different ones too but the next one I

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    want to point out is

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    uh it's not always happening but there

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    tends to be a trend of body checks

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    before should we get into that side of

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    things that's going to be like I feel

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    like the main

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    the main

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    perpetrator of issues yeah

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    yeah if you don't know what that is it's

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    when before someone shows their video

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    whether it's like the workout routine or

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    what I eat in a day usually in some way

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    like health and fitness related they do

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    like a body check just like showing

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    their body usually like their abs are

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    out or their other they're usually

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    exposing more skin than someone who

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    wouldn't be doing a body check

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    showing off that yes they have created a

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    body with these food choices and or

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    workout routines and the big issue here

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    is it perpetuates the idea that if you

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    follow this workout routine that I

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    follow or if you eat this what I eat

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    today like I did with these portions and

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    these amounts and all of that then you

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    will get the same body which we've

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    discussed a million times on here before

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    but that's not how it works

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    we always say this I know it's so cliche

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    but you could eat the exact same as that

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    person and work out the exact same as

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    that person and you would still look

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    different because bodies are more than

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    just food and exercise they're an

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    outcome of so many different things and

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    I know that I always see the argument

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    about

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    what their body checking is a bad thing

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    but like whether your mind wants to

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    associate the two or not like you the

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    first thing you see in a video is like

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    oh someone's like what I eat in a day

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    and it's some like fluxing or like

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    definitely showing more skin I'm like

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    thinking about I've never seen anyone

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    like in what we wear like in PJs like no

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    one's starting the video from PJ this is

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    what I eat in a day where it like

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    doesn't show their body at all it's

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    always

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    not always that's an extreme I have not

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    seen everyone at United video so I can

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    be wrong

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    but it's very like the majority of the

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    time

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    there's a lot of Skin showing and

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    they're flexing

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    and then what the brain does and it like

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    associates oh this is what this person

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    looks like this is what they eat and

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    like whether that's intentional or not

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    it's

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    I feel like sometimes I can see like two

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    ways around it like one is intentional a

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    lot of times I think it is intentional

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    or someone's like this is like what

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    other people do or this is how they show

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    it off that's a little bit unintentional

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    but it's still having that effect where

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    it's like

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    this is what I eat to look like this

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    each day and it's like one day of eating

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    like that's a problem I hope that's

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    another thing but we won't get to that

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    yet but the body checking is the main

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    thing where you can show what you eat in

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    a day I've seen like what I eat in a day

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    videos there's actually a tick tocker I

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    follow

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    um so I don't know what she used to be a

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    cooking account but now she just does

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    what I eat in it like that's it but she

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    never shows herself and it's just like

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    cute little like

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    okay it's it's still more cooking I

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    would say but it's just like a day of

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    cooking almost yeah yeah

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    so there is a way to do it I feel like

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    that's a spoiler but

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    it's the like showing your body

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    and then showing what you eat especially

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    if your business

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    operates off of your body type which

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    talked about last week is a big thing or

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    two weeks ago probably whenever the

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    progress picture episode was all about

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    how that's a big issue with Fitness the

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    fitness industry is if you don't have a

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    certain body type you have a hard time

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    getting clients basically and I feel

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    like if you do these what I eat in a

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    days starting with the body check

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    knowing that by showing off your abs or

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    your biceps or whatever

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    that you have a better chance of getting

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    more clients or people buying your

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    product whatever it is

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    that's when it becomes a problem

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    um but not everyone's doing that not

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    everyone has a business where they're

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    trying to get clients or whatever and

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    some people do just do what any day

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    videos for other reasons

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    like that cooking lady that you talk

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    talked about

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    um but yeah I think that's my biggest

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    issue with it

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    in terms of the body check thing is like

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    is it leading to you getting more sales

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    just because

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    you can what's the word I want to say

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    manipulate your clients into thinking

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    that they will look like you if they eat

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    like you basically

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    does that make any sense at all I feel

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    like I'm a lot it was all about that no

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    it does I think it definitely does make

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    sense and there's even some of that in

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    the dietitian world so it's not just the

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    wellness

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    influencers yeah or Fitness there's some

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    of our own

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    unfortunately like just body checking

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    isn't great it's not like you're not

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    allowed to post your body on the

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    internet exactly

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    to wear like a crop top my belly's

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    hanging out like that's not the issue

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    here it's the intention behind it that's

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    like a big

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    that's the big thing with what I eat in

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    a day videos like it's like what is the

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    intention behind this like anime the

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    really good note like are they going to

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    make a sale based off of how their body

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    looks and how their like what

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    they're showing what they're eating

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    is it's like a comparison video is this

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    like to get a little bit more views like

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    stuff like that which I feel like

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    honestly anytime you're posting on

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    social media you're trying to get views

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    so I don't know

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    how much that round that holds there I

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    don't know who's posting hoping that no

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    one watches it

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    yeah that's uh yes but I see what you're

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    saying it's definitely agree yeah and I

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    think

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    what was it oh the other problem that we

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    thought of was it's one day so like I

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    like the one lady I watch because I

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    don't say ladies she's like our age the

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    girl I would not

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    describe us as ladies either it feels a

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    little bit older

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    um

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    God there's not there's anything wrong

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    with being older

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    or to stop there but I can't wait to be

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    honestly I want to be wise and old and

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    know what my life I saw some video that

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    was like I get why like old people sit

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    outside and do nothing I saw that and

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    I'm like yeah that's what I want I want

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    that yeah

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    doing nothing just being present that

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    sounds great it sounds really great

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    um but the other problem was it's like

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    one call me back sorry I really deterred

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    I did the person the girl that I follow

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    she posts them every day so she's

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    showing

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    like different things she's eating but

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    she never body checked so like

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    it's more of us like let's look at what

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    I'm cooking every day type videos

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    whereas if like someone posted every

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    once in a while or only one

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    and it's like

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    a lot about the intention behind it like

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    it's not a good picture of what they're

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    eating every single day they could be

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    leaving out food they could be including

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    more food than you see

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    um you don't always know what is going

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    on there and you don't know how accurate

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    of a day that actually is for them

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    exactly like I think basically here like

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    what I eat in a day videos

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    can be which I guess a good

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    sub-antronics piece unless we have more

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    problems we want to talk about like they

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    can be just fun content to watch but

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    they should not be guiding your eating

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    in any way like they should not ever be

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    used to determine for you personally

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    what food choices you're gonna make

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    maybe for ideas in terms of like meals

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    to make and stuff like that but never in

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    terms of like portions or like

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    the exact ingredients you have to use in

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    a recipe or anything like that they

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    should never be

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    a deciding factor in your food choices

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    retweet retweet I agree well do we have

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    any other problems to mention before we

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    go to our opinions on if we think

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    these are appropriate or not

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    I think those are the big ones I don't

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    think there's like

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    a Time and Time the big thing is like

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    the intention behind it and the body

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    checking I feel like those are the two

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    really

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    big ones yeah I agree and what you just

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    said too all the portions and

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    like not the portions the that only

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    depicts one day yeah which people often

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    don't eat unless you're Emily eat the

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    exact same thing every single day unless

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    you're me

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    so that's true my what I hate in a day

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    maybe an accurate

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    Emily has confessed on a podcast

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    Emily has confessed on the podcast that

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    she is accidentally in intermittent

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    faster and she accidentally has no

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    variety and it's the same thing almost

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    every day yes

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    yes neither intentional again the

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    intentions

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    yeah

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    yeah

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    let's talk about if we can incorporate

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    this or like if there's a way to

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    incorporate these videos so

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    I think the Foodie in me I don't even

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    want to say dietitian the Foodie in me

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    wants to say I want more of these

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    because I just love seeing what people

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    are eating like

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    they said Hannah like I just love to see

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    like breakfast ideas and lunch ideas and

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    dinner ideas and like it's so cool

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    because like everyone has to eat

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    so everyone's eating something at some

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    point or another during the day so it's

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    like always so fun and like especially

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    like cultural wise to see like what

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    types of foods are people eating how are

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    they cooking it like stuff like that

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    and I think there is an appropriate way

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    to share these videos and I think this

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    number one way

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    that would help this would be to stop

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    body checking I think that would play a

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    huge part like

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    I'm sure if they clicked on the video

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    and then they went to someone's page

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    like there'd be maybe a video of some

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    her in their body somewhere unless they

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    were like

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    I always like really kind of Envy the

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    people who don't ever show themselves on

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    camera I'm like wow that's you don't

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    have to like look semi-clean you can

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    just voice it over sometimes it's not

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    even a voice like

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    some people like have like one of my

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    favorite like reactors is like Ava

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    reacts she's like that white fluffy dog

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    like it's just her dog barking and like

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    that sounds really great to me

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    um but I think the body checking is one

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    of the most problematic things that we

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    would need to kind of

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    get rid of and

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    it really doesn't serve a purpose

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    like it's not

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    really helping anyone

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    also I don't know if you're muted or if

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    I lost you I was muted sorry okay okay

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    um what I was saying was except for like

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    to make sales like that's how it helps

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    but it only helps them

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    yes it's not

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    really helping anyone else

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    unfortunately yeah and I think like

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    it's it's just the body checking it's

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    like a really big

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    it just doesn't have the best effect

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    like in this day and age especially

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    where like

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    there's constant body comparison die

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    culture is running or prevalent

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    everywhere just like everyone wants to

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    like be as small as possible and then

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    you see this video of this like small

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    typically it's a girl I haven't ever

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    seen a guy do a what I in a day video I

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    don't know if the algorithm just knows I

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    don't really

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    I don't know if I'd want to see that

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    um

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    but it's I typically see like

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    girls do these videos

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    um and then like you see like how

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    tone their abs are or what their legs

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    look like and then you're like oh I want

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    to eat like that or I want to do that

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    Fitness routine I'm actually really glad

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    you brought up

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    the fitness component of it because I

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    didn't realize how much I there is of

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    that online until like I started looking

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    back through my saved like workout

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    videos

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    and there's a lot of body checking and

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    fitness workout videos yeah that's like

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    if you saw a plus size male or female

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    trying to like promote what I eat in a

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    day to get you to be their like personal

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    training client

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    I feel like they're way less likely to

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    get the clients compared to someone with

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    a six-pack doing the same exact thing

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    like they could we could have the exact

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    same content exact same video exact same

    20:24

    information being presented but the

    20:27

    person with the

    20:30

    quote-unquote fit body is going to be

    20:33

    the one that makes more sales yeah yeah

    20:34

    so you just need to get rid of that I

    20:36

    think that would be

    20:38

    very helpful yeah I don't have a whole

    20:41

    lot to add I also think sorry I think

    20:43

    yeah I think we're lagging because I

    20:45

    keep no you keep talking during your

    20:48

    your expenses and then like it cuts you

    20:51

    off when you're talking

    20:52

    yeah I think I'm

    20:55

    a little behind I think so too

    20:58

    um I didn't have a lot to add to that I

    21:00

    think I agree with everything that you

    21:02

    say

    21:02

    I know as dietitians it's very

    21:06

    controversial for us to say that

    21:08

    especially as non-diet dietitians that

    21:10

    we aren't completely against what eight

    21:13

    in a day videos I think a lot of like

    21:15

    intuitive eating anti-diet non-diet

    21:17

    whatever you call yourself dietitians

    21:20

    tend to be like very strict like never

    21:23

    share what I eat in the day video but

    21:25

    like we've explained I think there's a

    21:27

    place for them

    21:29

    um it's all again all about the

    21:31

    intention behind them really that's what

    21:33

    it all comes down to yeah I think at one

    21:36

    point well I know I don't want to speak

    21:37

    for you I know at one point I was very

    21:39

    anti-like okay I remember I saw like

    21:43

    one of our dietitian friends post a what

    21:47

    I eat in a video and I was like

    21:49

    horrified race blackout I was like oh my

    21:54

    gosh like

    21:56

    they're showing what they're eating and

    21:58

    people are going to compare but like

    22:02

    it's a lot it's the intention and

    22:05

    it's if we didn't have that component

    22:08

    where like we were constantly comparing

    22:10

    our bodies to each other like imagine a

    22:12

    world like that like um not even just

    22:15

    that part

    22:17

    um

    22:18

    it wouldn't be something we'd have to

    22:20

    tiptoe around so much but like

    22:23

    there could be a way to do these

    22:26

    that could be really beneficial like

    22:29

    also if someone was like this is what a

    22:32

    really

    22:34

    speaking of which okay speaking of which

    22:36

    we just a video we just watched together

    22:38

    where someone like

    22:39

    shows everything they ate but they also

    22:42

    showed like how they did it like working

    22:44

    or like this is how I managed to fit it

    22:47

    all in that could be really beneficial

    22:48

    like yeah

    22:50

    how did you manage to cook all your

    22:52

    meals or like make sure you're eating

    22:55

    enough

    22:55

    while you're working or you're also

    22:58

    going exercise classes or like whatever

    23:00

    it is like that

    23:03

    I feel like for my time management

    23:04

    standpoint a big time management band

    23:07

    that could be really beneficial as well

    23:09

    yeah I've on YouTube a long time ago

    23:13

    it's probably not a very good video but

    23:14

    my intentions were I think positive I

    23:17

    tried to post a wedding in the day of

    23:19

    like when the day basically goes to

    23:21

    like how I still was able to feed myself

    23:23

    and like just get stuff in

    23:26

    um again put out the best production but

    23:28

    that was my intention there was to kind

    23:30

    of show that like

    23:32

    eating it doesn't have to be as

    23:34

    complicated crazy thing like it can just

    23:35

    be just beating yourself and sometimes

    23:38

    the bare minimum

    23:40

    um I had another thought shoot oh I also

    23:43

    see sometimes like people in like

    23:46

    anorexia recovery posting like what I

    23:49

    eat in the days and

    23:51

    again

    23:52

    how it ends up being produced I think

    23:55

    plays a role in if it's a productive

    23:58

    video or not but

    24:00

    um I think it can be helpful to show

    24:02

    like that experience and they're eating

    24:05

    more than they're used to but once again

    24:07

    especially if you're coming from an

    24:08

    eating disorder

    24:11

    comparing your food choices or your body

    24:13

    or anything like that to someone who is

    24:14

    maybe at a different point in recovery

    24:17

    is not going to be helpful

    24:18

    but I think it can be cool just to see

    24:20

    the experience that it is possible to

    24:22

    recover and all of that so once again

    24:25

    kind of wishy-washy here but that's

    24:27

    another example of ones I'd see that

    24:30

    could be helpful yeah

    24:32

    see intention behind it because like

    24:34

    right off the bat you're saying this is

    24:35

    like an eating disorder recovery video

    24:38

    and there are some times I I see this

    24:41

    all over the Internet because

    24:46

    there's just

    24:47

    lemon

    24:49

    is like there's a lot of mentalities

    24:51

    online but like one of the main ones is

    24:54

    like well they don't owe you anything

    24:56

    and you should just swipe away like that

    24:59

    could be a video where like you know

    25:01

    where you're at in recovery and this is

    25:04

    not going to benefit you but maybe this

    25:06

    will benefit someone else who also has

    25:08

    an eating disorder

    25:11

    um or is in recovery so like that'd be a

    25:13

    good instance to like swipe away

    25:17

    um

    25:17

    but then there are some times where it's

    25:19

    just like very intentional or they're

    25:21

    like trying to get you to sell buy

    25:23

    something of theirs whether it's a

    25:25

    supplement whether it's a fitness

    25:27

    package where it's

    25:32

    they

    25:34

    are kind of owing us something because

    25:36

    they're promising

    25:38

    results but they're potentially their

    25:40

    marketing strategy isn't the most

    25:44

    honest

    25:45

    yeah

    25:47

    yeah I really see a lot of that too that

    25:49

    applies a lot to our content a lot of

    25:50

    times too like the comments will say

    25:53

    I don't know it's also something like

    25:56

    you don't need to count calories and of

    25:57

    course all the calorie counters come in

    25:59

    and say oh why would you say this

    26:01

    it's like

    26:03

    you could just like swipe it doesn't

    26:05

    apply to you but I do get the argument

    26:07

    of

    26:09

    I am putting that on out on the internet

    26:11

    where anybody could see it so I can

    26:13

    totally see both sides

    26:15

    it's about knowing yourself I think

    26:19

    and like knowing what is going to

    26:21

    benefit you and blocking accounts that

    26:23

    you know we're not going to help you and

    26:25

    hitting the not interested button

    26:28

    it's tough It's like I agree with both

    26:31

    sides I think

    26:33

    people should be able to post whatever

    26:35

    they want people can just scroll past or

    26:37

    whatever

    26:38

    but also we have to have like a little

    26:40

    bit of

    26:42

    understanding of

    26:43

    what our Outreach can be with our videos

    26:46

    that we're posting the tricky space to

    26:49

    be in and someone's always going to be

    26:51

    unhappy

    26:54

    it's about the intent and knowing who

    26:56

    you're trying to reach and what you're

    26:58

    trying to like give them

    27:02

    yeah precisely

    27:05

    so I think that's everything I have

    27:08

    to say about what in Day videos can't

    27:11

    really think of much else

    27:14

    overall

    27:15

    I think

    27:17

    we would probably at some point in our

    27:19

    dietetics career we'd probably be

    27:21

    surprised to hear ourselves say what I

    27:23

    eat in today videos are not

    27:26

    horrendous or terrible like they can be

    27:30

    okay it's just unfortunately the way

    27:33

    that they're presented right now

    27:36

    might not be the most beneficial

    27:40

    to people and could be potentially doing

    27:43

    more harm than good right now

    27:47

    if we all just started making these

    27:50

    shifts in our videos it'd be crazy

    27:52

    imagine

    27:54

    how much different the world would be

    27:57

    yeah

    27:59

    yeah we've definitely changed our

    28:01

    thoughts and I'm sure ask us another

    28:03

    year from now I'm sure we'll have

    28:04

    different thoughts once again that's why

    28:06

    you get to think whatever you think

    28:07

    about these if you are very anti-winning

    28:09

    today that's totally fine if you are a

    28:12

    sucker for what I eat in the day and you

    28:14

    love them that's okay too

    28:18

    it's the internet there's something

    28:20

    there for everybody yeah

    28:22

    yeah

    28:24

    so

    28:26

    that wraps up everything we're talking

    28:27

    about today we do not have to plug

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    28:45

    think it's going to get really obscure

    28:47

    but

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    it is what it is and that is us the

    28:52

    unhinged dietitians yes so thanks so

    28:55

    much for listening today guys we

    28:57

    appreciate you being here and we'll see

    28:59

    you next week thanks guys see you next

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