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For someone who "never has to worry about weight gain" she sure talks about weight gain A LOT.

So glad you're covering this woman! She keeps popping up and it's maddening hearing all the misinformation and not being able to do much as a viewer

For someone who grew up in the 'Freelee' era, its shocking that this diet has come back around, when there's so much documented evidence on the internet about why this doesn't work.

dealing with weight issues at 53, health became my focus. Aspect Health guided me. this video on the raw till 4 diet dangers is interesting. caution with extreme diets is crucial; my journey taught me that. the discussion on electrolytes and the Element product is informative. everyone's body is different; finding the right balance matters. cheers to informed choices for better health!

‘Eat whatever I want’ while at the same time completely eliminating multiple food groups😵‍💫

I'm a fruit lover and I've always been tempted by diets like this, especially the one where a girl ate an entire case of delicious-looking mangoes in one day. Part of me always knew it wasn't viable to live on only or even mostly fruit but seeing it broken down like this is actually really useful! Not only are you saying "this is dangerous" but you're giving people the tools to build a diet with foods they love instead of making it an "eat this, not this" fest

I’m a registered dietitian and love my fruit and veg. But damn, I could not eat that many bananas or watermelon despite it being my favorite fruit. Diarrhea train here I come

Oh God this is like flashing back 10 years. I was so vulnerable to freelee at 17 and I always forget how vulnerable I was, it's scary to watch something like this that I know I would never believe now and know that 17yr old me would have been hooked and CONVINCED. 801010, no oil this is all just such a whiplash of a reminiscence. Keep this up Abbey because I needed DESPERATELY to hear this as a teen.

In addition to the extremely questionable nutritional profile, can you imagine how expensive this is? I can't even get that kind of watermelon at my local grocery store this time of year, and the last time they had full-sized watermelons they were selling for about $15 each! And how long do we think it would take to actually eat all the soup and salad? I remember Unnatural Vegan sharing a video from when she was raw recording how long it took to chew through a similar sized salad (just the salad) and it was like 25 minutes. No talking, just chewing. I have to think the soup would be stone cold before she got to the end.

I’m so glad you reviewed this one. This girl was the reason I deleted TikTok, it’s just dangerous to have an unqualified person giving people ideas for weight loss and imo, justifying binge eating at the same time. It doesn’t matter if the videos are someone bingeing on McDonalds or Watermelon, it’s just so risky for vulnerable people to see x

my fructose-sensitive IBS gut COULD NEVER.

I definitely tried to do this in highschool. Only ate a small smoothie for breakfast that was under 100cal, and had a huge bag of raw veggies for lunch with nothing else. When dinner time came I would try to eat as many veggies as possible instead of other food, to the point of feeling extremely full because I had eaten so many vegetables. I craved that fullness like you mentioned, I felt like I had cracked the code. How surprising I was later diagnosed with an ED right??

Thank you so much for addressing this woman! I have seen her pop up and it is so concerning seeing her post this misinformation for others, and for herself. I recovered from an ED and now live a balanced, healthy life simply eating all the lovely foods and exercising for strength and function rather than trying to change my body.

Why do people keep making food such a hard topic to address? Like, eat balanced, whatever you like and consciously, in line with your beliefs and values and that's it! Im a proud vegan, which leaves animal products out of my diet, but I love food so much. I love cooking, eating healthy, going out to eat in restaurants and enjoying my snacks. There are so many stress sources in life, food shouldn't be one of them. Also, these trends only lead to misconceptions like thinking all vegans are lacking information and are forcing extreme diets. Thanks for sharing Abby.

Im vegan since around 9 years and also tried eating just raw / only fruits during the the “freelee hype” years ago. I think I was able to do it for 2 days and than gave up 😂 Since than I’m eating a balanced whole foods diet and feel great but personally could never do that again.

An additional problem arises when these people call their diet 'vegan.' Although it isn't untrue, they don't eat any animal products, it is problematic when these are the 'vegan' influencers that are popular and getting the views and not the balanced vegan who eats enough of a variety of foods. Then when one of them dies from malnutrition people attribute it to their 'vegan' diet and not an obvious eating disorder. When I first went vegan I looked for KZfaqrs to follow (in addition to doing nutritional research) to figure out how the heck to eat a vegan diet as it is not usually taught in schools or your family unless they are also vegan. The top videos were fully raw or raw till 4. These same influencers are not vegan 8 years later (because their diets were unsustainable) but then blamed all their health problems on a vegan diet. The same people are now follow a carnivore diet so one extreme diet to another.

your dog just watching you looking so proud and happy is sooo cute! Is that you petting them under the bench too! You know someone is good when they are sweet to their pets

I've been waiting for this video! Thank you for addressing this, hopefully helping someone to heal their relationship with food.

I’ve been obsessed with the protein leverage hypothesis, so cool you brought it up

I had orthorexia while overcoming my ED and she definitely was like me with big portions of nothing and over exercising It has left me with a sick and sensitive gut along with several other painful and draining health issues 🙃

That super happy Doggo in the background - love the furball ❤ now back to focusing on Abby teaching me something 💕

Your doggie checking in when you were talking in an animated way. So sweet with his attentive look and wagging tail.

Abby I just found your channel and I’m absolutely obsessed. You say everything I think when seeing these videos. I’m so glad you’re setting things straight 🫶🏻

Abbey, I just “discovered” you on KZfaq and I just really want to THANK YOU and tell you HOW MUCH I LOVE your videos!!!!! You have been so helpful, even in just the last few days when I started watching you, to me in my weight loss journey. I APPRECIATE ALL your hard work and ALL that you are doing to try to RESCUE young girls and women-as well as people like me (I am 66)-from “diet culture.” I am a member of Weight Watchers but I have chosen as my goal to lose merely 1/2 lb./week as I feel that is realistic and sustainable. I have had great success, meeting my last year’s goal to lose 26 lbs. in just 9 months. I am SO glad I decided to go with a more patient route. I know that it will help me to keep off the weight long term. Anyway, YOU GO GIRL!!!!!

i fell into the 80/10/10, raw til 4 diet in my early 20s. it became an obsession. can’t remember how long i did it, but it ended in me bingeing an entire jar of peanut butter because i was SO protein deprived! it worries me that people who already have a negative relationship with food will see these videos and fall into it as well.

In one of her videos she talks about her previous diet and her struggles to stay lean. 30% of her calories were from fats and 10% of her calories were from protein. Welp, there's your problem. Take 10% of those fat calories and turn them into high quality protein calories. Have some broccoli, maybe some legumes, maybe some PB2 peanut butter. She'll feel more full and likely trim some calories. All the macros were already counted so just tune it.

I’ve been unraveling a lot of toxic food thoughts and associations that apparently I’ve carried for years. Now I don’t track calories, I pick smarter, more satisfying food without having to put a lot of thought into it, and I don’t feel guilty! I had a big moment a few months ago, where I was thinking about how good I’d been and that I could have some chocolate. And I realized: I’m worthy anyway. I don’t have to earn things that make me happy and a square of chocolate is not going to kill me. Also I live in New Orleans and there’s King Cake everywhere now and I’m going to eat it whenever my body says so. Because it makes me happy.

Completely unrelated but the lil pup wagging their tail in the background lovingly staring at you is THE cutest thing I’ve ever seen

As someone whos currently trying to loose weight I really appreciate your videos. As someone whos pretty nervouse about leaning towards a unhealthy view of food it helps keep me at ease.

Thank you so much for addressing this, I genuinely feel bad for all the vulnerable people she is affecting with all the misinformation she is spreading. In one of her videos she talked about how it is fat that gives diabetes and not the sugar so it is fine to eat all these fruits as long as you do not eat any fat. I felt horrified that in this day an age anyone with internet and a camera can spread all sorts of nonsense on the internet. Given that some people do not know better they easily fall in this trap.

I’ve been recommending this glad your covered it! Time to watch before my nutrition appointment lol

Ok your dog in the beginning of the video wagging it’s tail and staring at you is sooo precious

Can’t wait to learn more about fruits in this video! From „They are full of sugar, too much = unhealthy for you!“ to „Fruits are super good for you, eat as much as you want!“ I hear everything. 🙈

I did this in college, not intentionally, but i had really no appetite (stress, heat, excessive exercise) and could only stomach fruit… it ate away the lining of my stomach and caused some major problems…

Ive tried everything from low fat vegan to high fat keto, and the most important discovery I've made is balance is key. You need fat, carbs and protein. When you cut out a macro it never works out.

SHE KEEPS COMING UP ON MY YT SHORTS - abbey I appreciate you so much for this, I rely on you for my reality checks🙏

THANK YOU for addressing this misinformation and debunking all the TikTok nutrition frenzy out there!!!!!

Here we go.... again. Just in time for the new year. We genuinely hope no one gets hurt as a result of following this diet!

Abbey that young lady is promoting healthy easting and she looks amazing and she seems very happy ,leave her alone and focus on your message ,

Thank you for the video. I'd like to hear more about that protein hypothesis mentioned!

Your doggo was very happy to be in background of the video

Poppy is so happy to see you. It is so cute!

Been waiting for this one!!

Love you girl and your channel! Can you review Cambria Joy?! She’s amazing. I think she’ll fit right in with you! Happy new year! Keep being amazing! You’re a huge motivator for me! I just restarted my wellness journey and taking you with me!

'so freeing' ah yes spending 4 hours a day eating would definitely free up my day???? Thank you for covering this one.

Love seeing glimpses of your adorable doggo.

Love all your videos. On a side note, your guest is the cutest🐶🐶🐶❤️

Abby. You are my safe space. I just wanted to let you know. Your videos have improved my relationship with food

I just want to say that this hair cut and style on Abby is fabulous!

Thank you for the content you produce, Abby. All the best in 2024!

I said something in the comments once and the amount of people who said "but you're fat" lmfao okay? So skinny with an ED is fine but my larger body is worse? MAKE IT MAKE SENSE

Hi Abbey I love your videos ❤ can you please talk about the how much would be too much protein, and the potential damage

I’ve been waiting for this one

I always have wondered, do you have any videos on the Mediterranean diet or plan to explore that subject, love your videos. ❤

FINALLY! I’ve been waiting for you to review her

Abbey I love your videos! Though I'm not trying to loose weight or suffer with an ED your videos still do help with reasuring me that it's ok to eat all of the foods that I love. Would also be amazing if you could do a collab with an ADHD or autistic influencer to discuss ways for us who do suffer with either of these conditions to be able to eat healthily

Anyone else just loves watching these videos for Poppy? Shes the cutest 😊

Thank you for making this video. Also very cute dog.

THANK YOU for making this video I wish I had this back when my 22 year old self fell head first in to this high carb 80/10/10 way of living breathing and eating. I ate this way for 2.5 years. No salt or oil in that entire time. I became extremely close with the Dr behind “80/10/10” which seems like this girl is following in a sense, and became friends with the blonde who must not be named, the fruit rider who tells the fat you eat is the fat you wear to the rooftops, and not only did this way of eating COMPLETELY lead to my dietary struggles for the next 5.5 years AFTER falling off of this way of eating, but the amount of trust I had in this way of eating and the people pioneering it, is so sad looking back now. This video was triggering in the sense that I related SO hard to things you were sharing as well. Not triggering bad, but it just takes me back and I can’t believe I believed in something so deeply for so long only for it to lead me to feeling like I was crazy for not feeling satiated the ENTIRE 2.5 years I ate this way. The amount of volume I would stuff myself with to only be left with my mind literally screaming at me it wasn’t full. My BRAIN was screaming at me and I kept thinking something was wrong with ME for not feeling good eating this way. I was a Vegan a total of 8 years and it wasn’t until I stopped that the long list of symptoms I had developed from every-single-possible-way-you-could-be vegan-and-eat-vegan went away. I think of the almost decade I lost to this really dangerous way of life and wish I had never found the KZfaq videos promoting it. I couldn’t believe the transformation of my health when I went back to eating all animal foods. I was so deep in this movement that I spent 7 summers at a festival where I made some of my deepest friendships and they only served raw vegan fruit based food. I of course had some of the most incredible moments and have gained a ton of other knowledge through that vegan journey, yet coming out of that saved my life and health, literally. I made an in depth 2 part video series on my KZfaq, sharing this entire vegan journey and why I stopped, so that it could help anyone else silently struggling, and to also share that I did every way you possibly could live and eat vegan until I felt like I was on deaths door to make the switch. THANK YOU from the depths of my heart that you made a video sharing about this. I really hope the girls watching this or young women or women or men or non gender conforming HUMANS listen hard to the knowledge and science that you are sharing so they don’t make the same mistake myself and a lot of other close friends made that are now on the other side. This way of living and eating led to me developing symptoms of disordered eating and I had never had any problems with food or mindset around food beforehand. Eat animal foods. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

So glad you are taking this on. The has really no clue what she is vlogging on. Well done Abby.

That color looks amazing on you! Totally your color!

A long time ago (18 years?) I bought a piece of fitness equipment which came with a personal training session. That trainer was a proponent of a fruit only diet. I remember thinking it was crazy then, and still do.

I’ve been binging on your videos for the last several days! I’m loving the content, but also still a little leary of just eating…. :) But my question for you, even though it has nothing to do with the subject of this video. Do you have any videos specifically talking about men? As to how much they need to eat or just let them eat whatever they want?

5:03 This is 💯 my thought! “I’m eating so much food!” but giving the caveat that that’s not a macro-nutritional variety of foods AND that it’s by _weight_ is a huge ED 🚩

The doggy in the backround is so cute!

I am so happy that you’re reviewing this. It’s madnessssss what she does and it pisses me off so much that influencers like this are not legally regulated or at least regulated by YT!

Oil is needed to process the fat soluble vitamins. We need it.

I love how your dog was adoringly staring at you with a wagging tail.

this girl popped up in my yt shorts feed for no reasons and i was just thinking "Abbey Sharp is gonna have a field day with banana girl 2.0" and here we are l😂 Thank you for your video. Such eating disorders masked as healthy eating "for volume" are nothing short of dangerous and need to be called out.

i feel like moderation and balance is the way. what worked for me was adding more vegetables and reducing portions. no like crazy low just not overeating like i used to.

Love this video. Besides struggling with food my whole life, the banana diet/raw till 4 had suuuuuuch a hold on my life for far too long. Your videos have helped me immensely. You should collab with Unnatural Vegan!!!

Yeah I tried this diet several years ago. It was definitely not sustainable and I was always hungry. I also got kidney pain from all the sugars. I also learned I don't feel like I'm eating a meal if it's not hot.

The food weight thing is super similar to my ED. Caloric density is one of the reasons I struggle with food, and it made my binges worse.

She ALWAYS comes back to my KZfaq and I really dont know what the algorithm tries to tell me with this💀😂

Thanks Abby x your work is good darling. Xoxo be blessed

I remember the early days of fruitarianism on youtube, followed the community for quite some time. Fruitarianism ad libitum (eat as much as you want, some people even pushed a minimum amount of kcal that was quite high) destroyed teeth and created bellies (visceral fat). A few people even landed in the hospital because of it.

That is absolutely correct that there is a right and wrong way to do raw til 4. The best way to do it is having a green smoothie in the morning (my favorite is blending organic baby spinach, frozen mango or peach, green banana (for prebiotics and resistant starch), organic green apple and homemade organic almond milk), fresh green salad with organic romaine and/or massaged kale with fruit like cherry tomatoes and/or organic cucumber, some sprouts and nuts and/or seeds, some fruit such as organic red grapes or banana with almond butter for a snack, and cauliflower rice stirfry with veggies or a nourish bowl with quinoa/sweet potatoes/etc. for dinner.

I was RAW TILL 4 back in the day when Freelee was on the internet😂😂 I had actually GAINED weight!😂I was always hungry, unsatisfied, I always felt like I was not full, it was really isolating I have healed my relationship with food after watching Abbey and implementing gentle nutrition tips

You look great lovely top! 12:36 I didn't know people were following this kinds of diets and getting sick from it, that's actually terrifying. I hope young girls can wake up and not fall into this malnutrition trends

I always think there's only so much fruit you can eat in a day. I love my fruit, particularly a slightly under ripe banana or some berries in my porridge, but one or two portions of fruit is my limit. Mainly because I don't have a big sweet tooth, so rather snack or bulk up a meal prep with lots of colourful veggies

Hi Abbey, I would love to see you review 'healthy Emmie'. She is a nutritionist here on KZfaq, selling coaching packages for her diet programme; 'slim on starch', which she seems to have worked with Dr. McDougall (author of 'the starch solution) to create. The programme is high carb (potato based), low fat, low protein, oil free, and vegan. I would really love to see you review one of her 'what I eat in a day' videos and to hear your take on it!

Whenever I see these people I can't help but think... how do they have that much time to spend eating? How long is their lunch break? How many hours of a day do they spend eating? It takes me like 10 minutes to eat a sandwich. I'd literally never stop eating if I ate like them!

Abbey, what do you think of the new Netflix series, You are what you eat? I found it very interesting but I’m also skeptical

I'm grateful for your videos. I feel pretty disillusioned recently. I'm seeing professionals say different things about how fruit and sugar is okay, but processed meat is not. Then another study saying sugars, even from fruits, should be restricted but things like processed meat and eggs are okay. I have insulin resistance due to PCOS. I exercise every single day. And I often feel overwhelmed by all this conflicting information. These videos help me feel less overwhelmed.

She said that on the high fat diet that she was never satisfied after meals, but now she has to eat high volumes of food basically all day to feel satisfied which is obviously a lot worse! I hope these fruitarian and raw food influencers stop getting an audience because they cause so many health problems for people, I was one of their victims when I was 15 and it was years of hell psychologically, neurologically, and physically.

Whole foods worked for me!

I tried did this in highschool for about 4 years and my metabolism has yet to recover years after.

To balance this out you should review Lissa’s Raw food Romance. Raw can be done in a healthy way.

3:15 Poppy just casually staring in the back 😂

oh yes i saw her the other day on instagram and thought to myself... abby should make a video about why this isn't good

Have you done a video about Brynley Joyner? Would be interesting.

right after we debunk the whole lemon water thing (cucumber water is my fav, but I digress) this comes back up. don't be afraid of protein, guys! I love how the influencer was trying so hard to sound sciency, like this was an evidence based diet. NOT. no one: poppy: Mama, walkies!!!

Watching her try to explain how the body converts fat and carbs into fat storage gave me an aneurysm

Meal portioning is my biggest problem. I had anorexia and currently struggle with bulimia and I’ve grown accustomed to “veggie loading” and it’s something I struggle with and it’s so uncomfortable and honestly horrible. I don’t know how to break this habit but it’s something in trying to work on. If anyone has any tips I’m all ears because I really want to break this and just eat normal portions and feel satisfied. I’m so used to feeling overstuffed. I’ve started to incorporate more balanced, higher protein foods but still overeat to feel that over fullness, yes I’m gaining weight and yes this is very distressful, no gaining weight is not bad but I feel uncomfortable in my body and I know what I’m doing is unhealthy. But I just can’t stop. I feel trapped💔

that sweet puppy face in the background

the doggo in the back😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

Hi Abbey, do you have any reccomandations for a diet suited to gastritis that provides at least some kind of taste? I'm so tired of white bread and plain white pasta. My stomach constantly gives me a feeling that is "I'm starving!" and "I really can not eat right now", both at the same time. I don't really feel full nor satisfied after eating. Not sure how to navigate this. Thanks in advance!

on a similar note, I would love to hear your thoughts on Jen Peach and what she is promoting

Wait 10:42 was a huge AH! moment for me. I have been sick lately and eating a low amount of protein and high amount of carbs (no shame in that). I was wondering why I was craving and eating carbs and fats so much, maybe that's why.