I'm definitely late to this thread but I'm so glad I read. It's nice to have a different perspective and I guess I'm reading more on IG than watching the YouTube videos. I didn't notice anything eating disordered but I'm interested in hearing more about it from an alternate view. I don't know who Kayla Rose is but I'll check her out, too.
I'm really late to this. I follow more monkeys and raccoons on YouTube than fitness influencers. Scrolling through her channel, it looks like the kind of thing I generally avoid. However, YouTube recommended the "I'm Up 30 Pounds" video to me. I watched that and then went back a few videos to the start of this "all in" thing. I don't have any opinion about her motives but I find the message refreshing. You don't see many fitness people talking openly about the rampant orthorexia, amenorrhea, and extreme hunger in the fitness community. And you definitely don't see them saying, "I'm done. I want to gain weight and feel better." I'm sure her hardcore fitspo followers are horrified by this turn of events, but it's a powerful message for anyone suffering the fallout of restriction. I subscribed.
I've been enjoying Kayla Rose lately too. I see they've teamed up.
Hey sunshine those have been my thoughts exactly in terms of her intentions for doing it and the relevancy thing was totally why I was cynical. her latest video has over a million views in like 3 days. It is certainly getting her lots of attention if that was what she was looking for!
I like the point you make about external validation Vs internal.
I've seen a few of her videos and honestly I'm not a fan. In my opinion she has alot of ED tendencies that she's been disguising as health and fitness. Like her "planned binges". And her unnecessary weight loss efforts.
I have my suspicions about her going "all in".. like is she being genuine or just trying to be relevant? Hard to tell.
@Jess , I went "all in" when I was single and while it was hard, I'm so glad I didn't do it while in a relationship. Sure it's nice to have someone or the internet tell you your beautiful and look great, but it 100% better when that message comes from yourself. Then it's you that the confidence is coming from, not others. So if those others go away you still have the belief that you are beautiful because its an internal brlief, not external.
I have a few thoughts. I have followed her in the past but kind of stopped because I found her behaviours to be quite disordered. I won't go into details here but if you are familiar with her stuff you'll know what I mean. However, I really like her and think she is sweet so would dip in and out of her channel etc.
Because I have HA and am part of a couple of support groups, she came up because she'd done an interview with a lady who is a HA expert. 'All in' in a concept created by Nicola Rinaldi as a means of recovering your period. Stephanie doesn't have HA so when she first put out her "I'm going all in" announcement I was a bit cynical - thought it might be a way of staying relevant in the growing movement of anti-diet and body positive messaging - a bit of a draw card/way of building audience etc. But as the time has gone on, I believe she has genuine and valid reasons for it and I am enjoying the way she is portraying her journey....
Mind you, she has a boyfriend supporting her every step of the way and telling her she is beautiful, she is being cheered on by half a million subscribers. And she is absolutely stunning and has only been 'recovering' for 6 weeks. It is a lot harder under different circumstances as many of us here know. When you have been suffering for 10 years and have hundreds of false starts under your belt and completely alone in it all and too scared to tell anyone if your world - it's not as easy. So in that way, I feel like she has 'privilege' in going through the process. If that makes sense. Hard to explain what I mean.
I'm definitely late to this thread but I'm so glad I read. It's nice to have a different perspective and I guess I'm reading more on IG than watching the YouTube videos. I didn't notice anything eating disordered but I'm interested in hearing more about it from an alternate view. I don't know who Kayla Rose is but I'll check her out, too.
I'm really late to this. I follow more monkeys and raccoons on YouTube than fitness influencers. Scrolling through her channel, it looks like the kind of thing I generally avoid. However, YouTube recommended the "I'm Up 30 Pounds" video to me. I watched that and then went back a few videos to the start of this "all in" thing. I don't have any opinion about her motives but I find the message refreshing. You don't see many fitness people talking openly about the rampant orthorexia, amenorrhea, and extreme hunger in the fitness community. And you definitely don't see them saying, "I'm done. I want to gain weight and feel better." I'm sure her hardcore fitspo followers are horrified by this turn of events, but it's a powerful message for anyone suffering the fallout of restriction. I subscribed.
I've been enjoying Kayla Rose lately too. I see they've teamed up.
Hey sunshine those have been my thoughts exactly in terms of her intentions for doing it and the relevancy thing was totally why I was cynical. her latest video has over a million views in like 3 days. It is certainly getting her lots of attention if that was what she was looking for!
I like the point you make about external validation Vs internal.
I've seen a few of her videos and honestly I'm not a fan. In my opinion she has alot of ED tendencies that she's been disguising as health and fitness. Like her "planned binges". And her unnecessary weight loss efforts.
I have my suspicions about her going "all in".. like is she being genuine or just trying to be relevant? Hard to tell.
@Jess , I went "all in" when I was single and while it was hard, I'm so glad I didn't do it while in a relationship. Sure it's nice to have someone or the internet tell you your beautiful and look great, but it 100% better when that message comes from yourself. Then it's you that the confidence is coming from, not others. So if those others go away you still have the belief that you are beautiful because its an internal brlief, not external.
I have a few thoughts. I have followed her in the past but kind of stopped because I found her behaviours to be quite disordered. I won't go into details here but if you are familiar with her stuff you'll know what I mean. However, I really like her and think she is sweet so would dip in and out of her channel etc.
Because I have HA and am part of a couple of support groups, she came up because she'd done an interview with a lady who is a HA expert. 'All in' in a concept created by Nicola Rinaldi as a means of recovering your period. Stephanie doesn't have HA so when she first put out her "I'm going all in" announcement I was a bit cynical - thought it might be a way of staying relevant in the growing movement of anti-diet and body positive messaging - a bit of a draw card/way of building audience etc. But as the time has gone on, I believe she has genuine and valid reasons for it and I am enjoying the way she is portraying her journey....
Mind you, she has a boyfriend supporting her every step of the way and telling her she is beautiful, she is being cheered on by half a million subscribers. And she is absolutely stunning and has only been 'recovering' for 6 weeks. It is a lot harder under different circumstances as many of us here know. When you have been suffering for 10 years and have hundreds of false starts under your belt and completely alone in it all and too scared to tell anyone if your world - it's not as easy. So in that way, I feel like she has 'privilege' in going through the process. If that makes sense. Hard to explain what I mean.