almond momming isn't just about pushing healthy food onto your kids. it's about pushing a literal obsession with weight and appearance onto your kids. it's about scaring kids into thinking if they gain any weight the consequences will be dire. it's about toxic stress ultimately

Hey, I'm the creator of these videos. An almond mom is a mother with an overbearing sense of control over what their child eats/weighs/looks like. Due to the sensitive material and my own personal connection to the topic, I try to keep my skits tame. I wouldn't feel comfortable acting full almond mom as it would be triggering to myself and others. I'm a huge proponent of health & wellness, have survived an eating disorder myself, & am just trying to bring awareness to an issue that I think is important.

I know parents who feed their kids only foods like sugar-free, fat-free whole meal porridge and berries, and chicken and salads, until a nutritionist told them that growing children do need fat in their diet. So even when snacks-and-cereal families and childhood obesity is a more dire problem, there are some families who over-do it the other way.

I grew up with mum who body-shamed and food-shamed me and herself non-stop (and still does, I'm 28) and those first tiktoks really hurt. fuck that shit man

There is a disconnect with this video because Swayze's understanding seems based off just one TikToker trying to be funny and maybe exaggerating and not using the term accurately. The term, when used in a non-parody way, isn't about not having pizza rolls and gushers in your house.

I think picking apart one or two things that "aren't so bad" from the entire character totally erases the point. The character paints a picture, one or two brush strokes may seem ok. That's what can make the character insidious.

Swayze, I love your content and generally agree with you on most things, but you're way off on this one. The almond mom trope is about criticizing moms who push disordered eating on their kids (usually their daughters), particularly anorexia and orthorexia. You don't get it because you weren't raised in that environment, and that's awesome, I'm glad you weren't. Unfortunately many people did grow up never being allowed any "unhealthy" food (scare quotes because many times almond moms would label all carbs as unhealthy, all fat as unhealthy, etc), having calories restricted to the extreme, and being constantly shamed about their weight and body size, even if they were a healthy weight or underweight. Experiencing constant scrutiny and shame over food and weight from a young age is extremely damaging and can cause long-term body dysmorphia and eating disorders. If videos in this style were going viral right now highlighting the harmful messages of purity culture, it would be tone-deaf for someone raised in a sex-positive environment to make a video titled "in defense of purity culture" and then say "it's not a bad thing to have standards for who you'll sleep with," because that's not the point, and it minimizes the harm of being raised under purity culture. By the same token, you are minimizing the harm of being raised by a mother who forces her disordered eating onto her children.

This video is really weird... it kinda just felt like Swayze saw people making fun of almond moms, invented a definition of almond mom that no one uses, and then defended that definition against the people who make fun of actual almond moms?

I think you underestimate the consequences of having an "almond mom" or growing up with people like that around you. Sure, you can end up with an eating disorder, but I know so many women with eating disordery or unhealthy relationships woth food who have never been diagnosed or treated. When I was a teenager, all of my friends constantly hated on their bodies, tried every extreme diet and would faint from hypoglycemia, shamed other girls for their bodies and so on. I'm in my mid twenties now and most of my female friends are trying to overcome their body issues or even body dismorphia. We're trying to learn how to accept our bodies, how to treat them in a healthy way, how not starve ourselves, how not to hate our hunger. Yes, obesity is a global issue, but shaming people isn't gonna make them skinnier.

As to the end of the video, I don’t think there’s much reframing and contextualizing that can be done about Yolanda abusive parenting tactics. It’s clear she pushed both of her daughters in the industry to relive her glory days through her kids, her treatment of Bella, who was (and still is) absolutely gorgeous was even more horrific. She shares that her mother suggested and supported her having a rhinoplasty at 14 - that is insane, even if my kid came to me expressing that they want something like that, there’s no way I’m validating the idea that there’s something wrong with their nose (again Bella’s nose looked completely normal before) and paying for a plastic surgeon. Bella is currently struggling with her health, Yolanda has a track record for claiming the very rooted in science (🙄) diagnosis of chronic lime disease, which in Bella’s case conveniently manifests itself with the classic symptoms of malnutrition (she’s had very rapid weight loss in the last few months and is no longer working, she’s shared bogus naturopath testing she got done on her insta).

I doesn’t seem like you spent a lot of time trying to understand what almond moms are.. it’s not about surrounding your child with actually healthy options and teaching them that they shouldn’t eat too much candy. It’s about fear mongering, teaching your kids that restricting beyond what is healthy to be skinny is ideal, that all carbs or sugar or whatever is terrible, shaming them for taking seconds or another slice of bread, teaching your kid that others are constantly watching what you eat and judging you for every bite you take. I think you missed the point in this video.

kinda want to offer some pushback on the part where the number of people who have died from obesity and number of people who have died from an ED are compared. i know plenty of eating disordered women who, sure, aren't dead, but their quality of life has been reduced to almost nothing, and they have permanently damaged their bodies. their hormones are a mess, they can't do a single thing without neurotically obsessing over food, they have heart problems, can't sleep, they're constantly hangry and irritable and have zero control over their own emotions, they can't do anything physically strenuous. but hey, they're not dead, right? it takes a lot to die from anorexia and bulimia, but it's easy to become "dead while alive" from these disorders even if you look healthy.

Almond moms make their children obese later in life with that years and years of extreme food control. The "mom" in the term suggest that the food control is very long term, like your whole childhood and almond mom methods are borderline disordered eating and not a healthy diet. Imagine if all of the meal prepping was always not enough food for the growing child and no more was allowed ever. That's what almod mom means to me.

There’s a difference between being a crunchy or scrunchy mom with diet and an almond moms. Some moms push healthy eating for health(scrunchy and crunchy mons).Almond moms push certain types of eating to force their children to be a certain weight and often foster a negative relationship with their kids body and their child eating. Children from those moms often grow to have a negative body image and a negate relationship with eating.

I think Swayze is being ridiculously (& intentionally?) obtuse here. Either that, or she did absolutely no prep or research for this video. The problem is NOT in saying "Sweetie, I think you'd be more comfortable if we grab the next size up in that shirt"...The problem is when Moms use that, weaponize it, to constantly passive-aggressively shame, control, & embarrass their kids. Narcissistically having your child compete with your past markers of thiness, e.g. "when I was your age, I only weighed 85 lbs". Conveniently disregarding that their child is 5 inches taller, w/a more muscular frame. You CAN'T get the next size up. If that shirt is too small, it's your fault. Go grab the frumpy shirt over there, it'll suit you MUCH better. This has nothing to do w/wanting your kids to be active & make better nutritional choices, & teaching them how to do so. Or staving off obesity in a child on the cusp. It's restriction & berating as a way of life, as the norm. It's Gwyneth saying it's not bad to underfeed your kids & have them go to bed hungry. It's a cluster-eff of diet culture, narcissism, control, & intentionally making your kid feel like they're fatter, uglier, dumber, less gifted/talented, etc. etc., than they were & ARE. It's pitting the children in COMPETITION with the parent's past, or even with what they WISHED their past had been. This is just the newest iteration of "stage moms". There IS NO POSSIBILITY of the child winning this competition. Not only do they not know the rules, the markers of success/goalposts are constantly moving. The game ITSELF is constantly changing & forever punitive.

I was surprised to hear all the references to "processed" foods in this video-generally, "processed" and "ultra-processed" seem to be labels applied to food that mean very little and are used to scaremonger. Like, what does that even mean? Presumably, vegan spreads are "processed"? What about bread, or roasted/salted nuts? Strange to hear you use such a vague and unhelpful term.

The Van life Sphere is as bad as you would imagine. Highly problematic considering they respect their kids privat space even less than other family youtubers

I think you're just confused about what an almond mom is? Some of the comments that parody creator you showed are not really almond mom either. At the core, almond moms are toxic. They aren't just focused on healthy eating, theyre obsessed with dieting and often force it on their kids (usually the daughters) and fat shaming. It's about creating an unhealthy relationship with food. According to BMI, I've always been overweight and I guess since you only judge health on weight, I must be unhealthy. But I'm in the best shape of my life? So maybe you can explain to me how I'm unhealthy. I simply cannot lose weight. Anywho, my almond mom gave me an eating disorder and even DURING that time, I was still "overweight" according to BMI. It was a never ending toxic cycle

With the last reel, where the mum comments on how clothes fit, I think the point was that the mum always somehow brings things back to body size - 'they're too tight, make sure to do a couple squats so they fit', instead of just sizing up

Why would you eat a frozen pizza?! You're supposed to cook it first

As a Swedish person Lördagarna (Saturdays) was the best day. Sitting in the couch being cozy in front of the TV with my famely eating candy! Such good memories ❤

Honestly, I feel like this account was just a bad introduction to the world of almond moms. I agree, that a lot of the clips you showed barely show anything problematic at all. But what I can painfully remember is going to the house of another kid who had more food freedom and just losing any and all control, trying to make up for all the food I missed. My mother was not even a Yolanda level almond mom but her obsession with food and weight (which was focussed on me, only, because she was stick thin without much effort, still is to this day) set the foundation for the eating disorder to follow. 'you won't get fat from what i'm cooking for you' - when commenting my weight gain (maybe more like growth spurt?), blaming me for changes I was absolutely not in control of. To this day I have this fun fact about me for my friends that I haven't ever had x/y candy or food bc I went vegan before I had a chance to try it. And I never had a chance to try it because I was never allowed to eat it as a kid. Almond moms suck. HAES sucks just as much and being obese is definitely more dangerous on larger scales than EDs but we could prevent so many EDs and also so much ED related obesity if we developed some more healthy attitudes towards food and eating.

The comparison between the obesity and eating disorder mortality statistics was very misleading and irresponsible to be honest. Most ED-related deaths are from s*icide that wouldn't be counted as "directly caused". Also, how is having only greek yogurt and calorie free shit as "snacks" is "having healthier snacks"? It's honestly seems like UV's anti -"woke" bias leads to quite irrational conclusions. I think that bit works absolutely fine as a joke, nobody implies that "having healthy snacks" or having those specific foods at home is disordered somehow. The short character didn't suggest having some fruit, nuts, or a healthy "candy" bar as a snack, the girl who created it deliberately went for the caricature diet foods, and if anyone thinks of those as only foods you should have as snacks despite having the means to get whatever foods they want, I feel bad for them.

Did you research what an almond mom actually is or are you purely going off context clues from tiktok? Almond moms care about their childrens health in so far as it affects their weight. They care more about the appearance of 'health' (see thiness) over the actual presence of it.

Omg! “Candy day” in Finland! Usually a Friday or Saturday and yup that was the candy for the week. We usually got to pick it out and it was very special. My mom always put the focus on tooth health, so candy once a week in our minds was for our teeth, not for weight or anything. Will probably do the same with my kids even though they will be half American and live in the us too

An almond mom is where she’ll say “mom what’s for dinner” and she’ll say “you just ate do you really wanna eat more? I just had an almond and I’m stuffed” “mom that was lunch 5 hours ago”

I feel like "Ingredients Only House" discourse has been similarly diluted to mean "there are no processed snack foods available".

1. Is it not likely that many obese people have some kind of eating disorder? She frustrates me every time she talks about weight because she doesn't understand what it's like to have an ED that causes you to eat yourself into obesity. It's not so simple to just "eat less, eat healthy". It's so nuanced for every person. Idk, it probably stems from the societal assumption that fat people are inherently lazy, which is demonstrably untrue. 2. There's a balance that's needs to be struck. I don't like relegating sweets to only one day. That makes the food more exciting and almost guilty. I think it's okay to have the processed foods along with the more nutrient-dense foods. Making a food forbidden or rare elevates the desire for it, especially for those susceptible to ED behaviors. I know it's an IE talking point, but I really think it's true. Take the excitement and morality out of the food by having it around and it takes away the disordered thoughts like craving it, sneaking it when mom isn't looking, counting down the hours until "Sunday Sweets", buying and hiding it from your parents when you have your first car and money, etc.

That article about crunchy silky scrunchie almond moms got very convoluted near the end. I guess it's hard to draw any concrete conclusion using labels based off of pure vibes.

I mean, come on, a few squats isn't going to make you fit into a pair of jeans. She is making a negative comment to the child that, instead of finding a size that fits their body, the child needs to change their body to fit into the jeans. Just tell the kid to try on a size up to see if it fits better. I like your food videos, but this one is a whole weird take.

I honestly kinda feel like you didn’t really understand where this trend comes from & why. It mainly comes from people who were negatively affected by having an almond mom & ended up with disordered eating or with a straight up ed, not from the body positivity or fat acceptance movement. It has become a huge trend because sadly so many people can relate to having a mom who comments about every single bite of food you take and if it’s healthy or not & makes totally unnecessary comments about a growing child’s/teens body

Can we stop thinking of eating disorders as the opposite of obesity though? I’m so fucking exhausted of battling a chronic mental illness rooted in trauma, neurodivergence, and *shockingly* other mental illnesses being chalked up to food. Minimizing ED deaths and framing it as somehow the other end of a spectrum is not the way to go. Numbers alone, it’s hard to track because the cause of ED deaths can be anything from suicide to a physical health crisis and can happen all across the bmi spectrum. Disordered eating and eating disorders have overlap but are SO different. I’m so tired of this rhetoric that people with EDs are selecting poor eating habits due to the media or whatever bullshit. I would’ve gotten sicker a lot later in life and would be better now if so

At my job we teach preschoolers about healthy eating, and I'll call foods "healthy" and "unhealthy" for clarity, but I'll also try to work in language about "nutritious foods" and "just for fun foods". "Unhealthy" foods are not forbidden, but they should be recognized as treats that don't serve the functions of the human body. I think the "Sunday Sweets" tradition that you described gets this point across to kids pretty well-- there is a designated "fun time" reserved for "recreational foods." There's a time and place for unhealthy foods, and they're not villainized, but dietary priorities are more focused on fueling and nourishing growing bodies. I feel like that sounded hippy-dippy... Point is, I appreciate your nuanced take!

For the pants comment, around eleven:50 minutes in, the mom didn't say "That would be uncomfortable, let's get your size instead." She suggested her daughter do squats to, presumably, lose weight to fit into a size that was too small.

Why do people act like you can’t have balance. Having your parents force you to diet and make comments about your appearance is horrible, but those parents that let their kids eat nothing but junk, have their teeth rot, and become obese are also bad. Whatever happened to just eating normal food and having a snack here and there throughout the week. Not aspiring for heroin chic, but also not being obese. Idk man

Somehow, the attitude has become that any food restriction whatsoever is somehow disordered. And that unhealthy foods are the only ones that taste good. Not vegan, but mostly plants here. I'm not weeping over my oatmeal here, pining for a pop tart. I enjoy what I eat. Honestly, once you start eating better, the processed stuff tastes awful. You're not abusing your kids by not filling the freezer with pizza rolls. You're showing them what normal eating should look like. Was the original almond mom incident awful? Yeah, it was. But it doesn't equate healthy with disordered

I swear the almond mom trend was co-oped by the snack food industry to make it seem totally normal to have pizza rolls, fruit roll ups, soda, and candy every day after school..the majority of the world lives in “ingredient households” where a home cooked meal is normal. Snacks are expensive and an North American thing. The US is NOT the norm.

_Lord of the Rings_ amount of endings hereXD

Usually I really like to see your input in themes like this, but this time I really think you missed the point. I grew up with an almond mom myself, and had issues with my body and obsessed over food for all my life. For me, in the minute I left her control, I started eating whatever I felt like, whenever I wanted, which lead me to a binge eating disorder. Having *some* amount of “unhealthy” foods growing up might teach children a healthier relationship with foods in the long term, I feel. And bonus, a healthier relationship with their moms, hopefully.

I was raised in an ingredient only household and was still fat lmao

Growing up cereal was a luxury. My mom would buy a box and tell me. If you eat it all in one sitting then there won’t be anymore till maybe next month. Yes I ate that cereal in one sitting. It was wonderful. If I wanted a snack. There were dates filled with peanut butter and rolled in sugar. I’m allergic to peanuts now. But still love dates as a healthy alternative snack

Almond moms are moms with eating disorders and disorderly habits that’s they push onto you, either disregarding health or seeing “health” as thin-ness. To my mom, the pinnacle of beauty was being 5’7 and 100 lbs. I was always encouraged to lose weight despite never being “overweight” (by bmi, but even then I have muscular legs) in my life. The affect of the almond mom is that I thought it was a good thing to have lost weight after having the flu when I was in elementary school. It has nothing to do with encouraging actual healthy food habits in your children, it’s the opposite. Even if one symptom of the situation is eating more home cooked meals.

My mom always said that nobody needed more than one hot meal a day. No need to be greedy.

I usually love your videos but what a way of dropping the ball man

Another problem with "intuitive eating" is a lot of people just eat way too much too quickly and don't even give their body a CHANCE to tell them that they've already been satisfied 20 minutes ago.

People love to feel holier-than-thou about their bad habits.

I used to babysit and I hated when they expected me to cook. I'd have loved just nuking a prepped meal

I didn't get candy except on holidays/special occasions. I didn't eat snacks all the time. If I did, it was probably a peanut butter sandwich. Consequently I have never been obese and have good teeth. So yeah.

Great video, really informative. Watching in the UK.❤

I love ur lil shorts at the end of ur vids 🥰

Genuine question… how does the sweet Sunday thing not encourage a binge/restrict cycle with sweets? It’s just a scheduled binge.

Wow, your parents could afford so much food in your childhood! An extra fridge just for ice cream, everything available all the time plus the nice cooking... I don't know, sounds weird to me.

Obesity is a symptom of poor mental health, or general health. Overeating is always a symptom of something else, whether it be depression or hormones or whatever. So I don't think almond moms are particularly helpful or healthy because they just create this obsession with food when the food itself is not the problem. You can eat cake sometimes. You can even eat a dessert every day and remain healthy and thin.

Yes there is. Usually there are quite a few big families that all cram and live in a 40ft school bus.

ok just a reminder that a lotttt of people live their entire lives with undiagnosed mental illnesses, including eating disorders, and especially in older generations, since diagnostic acceptance/criteria have been shifting so much. Statistics aren't always the end all be all, and one thing that trends like this can do is shed light on experiences that might not be represented yet through formal study. At points, it seems like there's a view in this video that people talking about 'almond moms' are referring to their adult peers, but I think the root of the conversation is in people testifying as to their experiences of themselves having been raised with severe restrictive eating, under the guise of health. Anyways, a little bit weird to make a video criticizing people talking about their childhood trauma surrounding extreme food restriction, wherein you laugh while recounting your own experiences with not growing up hungry. Also, for the love of god please learn the different between adipose and subcutaneous fat-- fatty tissue itself can be related (though not necessarily causally) to dangerous health conditions, but APPEARING fat is not the same thing... doubly if your "dietitian" (parent) is projecting their own body image onto you and probably has a skewed idea of body size to begin with.

Swayze - Your editing makes it sound like you’re saying working moms are bad for kids. I’m sure you don’t think that, but wanted to alert you.

😃 I didn't know Americans had a use for the word "bonbon". In Germany we use it for hard candy drops. I grew up in the 80s and my parents never put any snacks on display as if they didn't exist in our household. I would have to go to a news paper agent by myself... one who allowed children in (not all did because they sell alcohol too and there were no candy shops around at all at that time). My Prussian grandmother though... anytime we visited her, we kids knew there was this MAGICAL glass jar in the living room filled with sweets ("bonbons") and we had to ask for permission to go in there and get one or two pieces 😂 we were all very slim figured. The 90s came and I learned that other families had complete compartments of their cupboards dedicated to marshmallows, potato chips and chocolate bars! I thought that was madness but heaven at the same time.

I think this girl just can't think up anything to say and probably typed into chat gpt "what would a healthy mom offer her kids to eat?"

I know someone who’s mom literally padlocked the refrigerator so she couldn’t eat unless told to. I think where this meme went wrong was in trying to create a catchy meme for child abuse. Now people hear “almond mom” and think it means anybody instilling healthy eating habits and lifestyles in in their kids when the original sense seems to mean child abuse.

It’s ridiculous to me that it’s problematic to say, “I maintain a healthy weight through good habits and I want this for my children as well.” I also don’t drink or smoke because I want to live a long and healthy life and set an example for my children. How is it problematic to want good things for your kids?

My friends mom was definitely an almond mom, but 100% the good kind. I remember being at their house and the lunches she packed were whole wheat sandwiches with spinach in it and she’d have the mini packs of goldfish. They did Pilates, the kids did every sport available at our small school. Silk chocolate almond milk and fiber one brownies were a treat . But I remember loving it. Only downside is when I slept over one time, the friend had it ingrained in her to eat a full breakfast with peanut butter on whole grain frozen waffles, applesauce, and a glass of milk. The friend insisted I drink the whole glass of milk and my stomach did not agree with that one 😂

Unfortunately people living with many children in an RV is very much a real thing. I think the last thing with squats is that she's suggesting/pushing 'work out' activities - but idk. My mum had a whole thing about dieting and it wasn't always comfortable to grow up around, but it didn't ruin my life or anything.

Oh wow this missed the mark completely...

There should be a term for vegan parents forcing their kids to be vegan from birth aka soy formula aka no animal products allowed in my home

People need privacy and having 10 kids in an RV is ABUSE

A little late to the party, but I wanted to give you a positive comment for this video to contrast with all the criticism. I thought you made many good points. Overall, I observe far more kids growing up in a junk-food environment than in the so-called “almond mom” (or even crunchy- or silky-mom) environment. I am also genuinely perplexed by statements of people who seem to be surrounded by people whom they know to have serious, life-threatening eating disorders.

All the extra endings are 👌🏼

Almond moms push eating disorders on their children. It’s not about health. It’s about control and the obsession to be thin. You missed the mark with this video. Maybe one day you can revisit it.

I'm at my best when I'm running thru models.

These kind of parents grew up in the "heroin chic" 2000s and push that now onto their own kids. Times have change. We need to as well

I really wasn’t aware of what an almond mom was. I could see the title in random thumbnails but couldn’t not understand what the hell this was. So thank you lol

I usually agree with you, but the good food vs bad food mind set has been proven to be toxic and unhelpful

I am the same mom as your mom. We have EVERYTHING. Lol. I also pack extra snacks in my son’s backpack in case someone doesn’t have a snack.

I don’t think you actually understood what an almond mom is. They aren’t trying to make their kids eat better. All they actually care about is weight and appearances.

Swayze, If you really want to up your baked pasta. Make a tofu ricotta and mix that in. I use everything else you do but the tofu ricotta really adds a nice creaminess to it.

0:38 yes. Yes there are.

Interesting video. Loved the pasta bake joy. ❤

You're right about that particular person. Doesn't mean it isnt an issue.

I typically agree with you a lot in the health and food sphere. I agreed with you some in general balance. But I see no redeeming qualities of the almond mom. In my mind the almond mom always takes healthy eating too far. It becomes an obsession. It because looks focused and not overall health focused. I would be very interested in you looking into family van life.

The way I understood almond moms is they’re that mom who barely eats anything, eats one little thing and is “soooo full”. Those are the tik toks I’ve seen on the topic and it’s 100% my mom😅

The Rodriguez family travels around in a RV with a bunch of kids.

If anything, the average American needs to pay more attention to their diet. At church recently some of the elderly folks asked us "don't you eat desert?" (because we never touch the cookies at coffee hour), and we said "no, we eat fruit". Once you get to over 40 years old , you start realizing you pay the consequences for every donut you ever ate (as weight loss gets that much harder as you get older), and it's better to never have to go on a weight-loss diet in the first place.

Can you provide research that supports dieting? Dieting often results in cycles of weight loss and regain, and some research has suggested that this can be harmful. One study found that more than half of lost weight was regained within two years, and by five years more than 80% of lost weight was regained. Most people do not argue that obesity is healthy, but dieting is not the solution so pointing out that obesity is bad without providing actual solutions is so fucking annoying to me

It's not top-tier, and obviously not vegan, but even a store-bought supreme frozen pizza has a modestly good micronutrient profile because it has green vegetables, wheat, cheese, tomato sauce, and meat. As for macros, one brand has 1,550 kcal, 75 g fat, 155 g net carbohydrate, 10 g fiber, 60 g protein for the whole pizza. Even a whole supreme pizza once or twice a month, in the context of a healthy diet, is fine for anyone without food sensitivities. The biggest risk is from judgment and criticism from people with made-up ideas from gurus that gluten, casein, or carbohydrate are bad for all people and one picogram of any single one will cause diabetes and instant death, and, to be fair, that's a serious risk (having to deal w/ the criticism), but I think it's worth fighting against the notion that there's magical immediate-metastatic-cancer causing food or what have you, and it's anything a particular guru says it is. I understand people want to defend their turf when they've made sacrifices, like "I don't eat frozen pizzas, so those who do are certain to become immediately deceased at any such point as they do," but that doesn't mean they aren't just as harmful (in the form of exacerbating compulsions and disordered eating) as people who would suggest body composition and blood lipids have absolutely no impact on any health outcome (or that the correlation is reversed vis-à-vis the orthodoxy).

In a way this Video mostly shows that Swayze simply can't relate. You know, it makes me happy for her. 😅 But that ties well into why she is against intuitive eating so much. She sees the health benefits of restrictive eating. It's been studied well, there is plenty of proof it's better for the body. But the emotional healing FROM restrictive eating, growing up with an almond mum, etc. Can't be studied in the same way. And maybe she just cannot comprehend because she was not made to feel like this. If that is the case, it's great for her!

Swayze, I take it you dislike the book published in 2023 and at many public libraries titled "The Evolved Nest" by vegan animal activist and leader of the Kerulos animal sanctuary in Oregon G.A. Bradshaw PhD, PhD (psychology, ecology), since you implied you are a Silky Mom?

Hmmm, don't mean to sound negative, but this video kinda looks like you watched one or two videos on almond moms and researched no further. How do you make a video without knowing what you're really talking about? It's like if you said that people with orthorexia just want to eat healthy and you see no issue with it. Maybe do more research next time?

There are these delicious candies called Bonbons that my foreign language teacher in middle school sold us. They are delicious. Delicious. The blue and pink ones were what she sold. But apparently there are sour apple flavor too!? 🤤

I am English what are gushers

i think i have an eating disorder. i feel like because I still have body fat on me, and my blood sugar is normal, that that means I don't have to eat. And that I only eat if my blood sugar actually goes low. It's normally in the 90's, so I assume "I don't need to eat." So I hold off, even though I feel like crap, I think the crap feeling is wrong, because I have body fat and my blood sugar is normal. So I "Shouldn't" be feeling like crap. And I deny myself food because "I have fat storage on me, and my blood has plenty of sugar in it. I don't need to eat" ...

There are real life people who live with families in caravans! The ethno-cultural group called Irish Travellers. Cool channel btw.

When you were talking about your mom going to a further store for cereal, it reminded me: My family used to have fast food night on Fridays and my dad would pick up McDonald’s, A&W, pizza because my family all wanted different things, and this was totally normal. 😂 I would never do that much running around for dinner! (Plus, I’m vegan now). I had a ton of sweets and junk as a child, but my siblings and I were rail thin and ate like crazy. If we were almond kids, we would have perished.

so my difference between my and your opinion is that “0 calorie” food isn’t good. On one hand, don’t buy a ton of junk food, but don’t replace it with agar and sugar free seltzer. Replace it with juices, snacks. Also, wheat and rice do not matter, especially with kids, even though sweet potatoes have useful nutrients so it’s okay. You said that trulia is healthy, and imo it is not, it’s useless torture, just as empty as a bag of chips but they don’t taste good so you don’t eat as much of it. Imo you shouldn’t watch your kid’s calorie intake until they’re like 7, and let them eat what they want, but limit them to three meals and two snacks, but even then I know a lot if kids who did some sort of accordion thing with their height and growth so your kid needs to be like 50 pounds overweight.

Not loving how it feels like you’re saying “my house my rules” and “if you live in my roof you live in my rules” when it comes to including food. If we feel like kids should be allowed mistakes, we should allow food with that. Yes we want to rear or mold them to make good decisions, but telling them no to a food they love, in less moderation than you think is good but still in moderation, isn’t that helpful.

This ain’t it, honestly. There’s decent evidence that what everyone is calling an “obesity epidemic” is actually a binge eating disorder epidemic. Address people’s relationship with food, you also address the weight issue. The moment I stopped focusing so much on trying to lose weight and started letting myself eat what I wanted without guilt was the moment I started craving fresh produce and realized I didn’t really want the pizza rolls and gushers all the time. Also, I did lose a little weight, my weight has stopped fluctuating, and all these health problems I had while bingeing/dieting/restricting (high blood pressure, insulin resistance, etc) are gone. If you want me to show reliable sources to support, I can show them. I often watch your videos and enjoy your emphasis on research, but it feels like you didn’t dig into enough research with this one, sorry.

Her Ziti recipe all the ingredients $22.24 not to mention you would have to go to at least 2 stores. Normal Ziti w beef & protine pasta at Aldi $14.57, which still isn't that cheap. My point is unless you eat mostly whole foods being vegan is a privilege.

Almond mom is horrible and weight centric and very very toxic and unhealthy for childrens self image and mental sake. This creator is fantastic but doesnt go over the top with her parodies for her own mental sake. I feel like you didnt fully look at what being an "almond mom" really is.

Almond moms are an issue but granola moms get too much hate

cool take almond mom

Oh my god 💀