Eating disorders, gurus and fitness bloggers
While public opinion is often divided between those who think that curvy and oversized models are a bad example for girls, because it encourages them to consider obesity as normal , and those who think that showing pictures of chubby beautiful girls against thousands of underweight models can be a useful lesson to many women, I want to talk to you about the umpteenth fashion that has been populating in recent years .
Le fitness and wellness blogger . You will say: and who are they ???
Fitness or wellness bloggers are common girls, but also photo models or sports, who through their blogs and their advice on social media, promote a healthy and active lifestyle through their example: in short, they are beautiful girls, often very thin, sometimes lean and muscular, who have thousands or even millions of fans around the world, take photos all the time of everything they eat and their daily sporting activity. They train, every day, for hours, or often participate in marathons and other sports competitions: alongside the marathon runners there are girls who lift weights, and even bodybuilders.
The problem is not training, but the fact that their example is emulated by thousands of people , who are convinced that hours and hours of intense physical activity every day associated with healthy low-calorie diets, without fat and without carbohydrates, can bring them closer to the body of their dreams, as well as to perfect health.
But the classic downside is not taken into account: some of these girls hide eating disorders, their success in reaching an enviable physical shape brings with them an incredible series of physical and behavioral ailments.
I’ll give you some examples: 21-year-old Celia Learmonth is 21 years old and has twenty thousand followers only on instagram. She recently admitted she had an eating disorder and asked for help . Very lean and obviously fit, Celia trains hard every day, for hours, with a diet that reaches a maximum of 1600 calories and which consists of avocado, a few eggs, protein shakes and vegetable and fruit shakes, some toast and at most a slice of meat every now and then. The problem is hunger: unbelievable hunger and a tendency to overeat, and to cut calories the next day drastically. Absence of periods and sleep completes the pictureÂ
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