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\"1st<\/a>So it’s Wednesday (though in my brain, it’s Thursday, for no apparent reason).\u00a0 And around the health and fitness blogosphere, that makes it What I Ate Wednesday.<\/p>\n

I kind of hate WIAW.<\/p>\n

Not because I mind pictures of food or because I don’t care about what a person ate.\u00a0 If a subject of a blog post doesn’t interest me, I don’t have to read it.\u00a0 Just because I don’t read every single post on the blogs I read doesn’t mean I don’t still like that writer in general.<\/p>\n

No, what I hate about WIAW is the snobbishness that comes with it.\u00a0 There was recently an article going around about how fitness blogging leads to disordered eating and I often feel like WIAW really promotes that.\u00a0 It’s as if people feel the need to show off their restricted eating.\u00a0 “See, look how little I ate.\u00a0 I deserve praise for being so healthy.”<\/p>\n

It’s pretty rare that WIAW features a giant piece of cake.<\/p>\n

Obviously, healthy eating is good for you.\u00a0 But there’s healthy eating and then there’s crazy restrictive eating with supplements and frankenfoods making up huge parts of your meals.<\/p>\n

I’m not saying my diet is perfect.\u00a0 Far from it.\u00a0 But I feel like all WIAW does is help promote disordered eating.\u00a0 I see a lot of meals on tiny plates.\u00a0 Meals that can’t have more than 200 calories in them (and not from people who are eating a bunch of tiny meals).\u00a0 Days of diets that appear to be nearly completely fat free.\u00a0 None of this can be healthy.<\/p>\n

And you start to see it in the bloggers.\u00a0 You all know the type I’m talking about.\u00a0 The bloggers who looked great two years ago.\u00a0 Who maybe had a little belly, but their hair was gorgeous and their skin glowed.\u00a0 Now, they’re smaller, showing off more muscle, but they don’t look healthy.\u00a0 Sunken eyes, thinning hair… those aren’t signs of a healthy body.\u00a0 But because they have a smaller waist, it’s considered good.\u00a0 So others read this and think “Okay, if they can do it, so can I.”<\/p>\n

Now I’m not saying WIAW necessarily leads to ill health – but if you post about it, maybe take a second glance at what you’re posting.\u00a0 And then take a second glance at what you’re eating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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