There's a new disordered eating trend in town.
that has exploded in popularity recently: the hashtag has almost 1.5 billion views. It started off as a place to show ‘picky’, low-effort dinners – think plates full of lots of different snacks, or styled charcuterie boards. At some point, it was co-opted by
and became a space dedicated to glorifying restriction, with users sharing meals such as two boiled eggs, one cut-up strawberry and a single string cheese.trend in town: #girlcalories, whereby women essentially try to write off calories they’ve consumed by insisting they ‘don’t count’ if consumed in a certain way. Confused? Yeah, me too.
One video by radio duo @jonesyandamanda further explains the premise of #girlcalories: “It’s the way we justify to ourselves what is calorific and what isn’t. If someone offers you something that you didn’t seek out, like a biscuit, it doesn’t count. If you don’t have dinner, the next day you can indulge with no guilt because you haven’t eaten anything the night before. The next day’s calories don’t count. It’s a free day.”size for me – it was incredibly liberating.
You might think that’s enough, but unfortunately the list goes on: “If you’re drunk and you eat something you don’t remember, it never happened. If you choose dark chocolate rather than other kinds of chocolate, it’s like eating air. Anything that doesn’t touch your plate: if you eat chips off your husband’s plate, it doesn’t count. If you eat something, doesn’t matter what it is, could be a sugary, fatty teriyaki chicken, it doesn’t matter if you have it with brown rice. This is girl calories.
Firstly, the whole concept of #girlcalories relies entirely on the belief that you need to monitor your calories and watch what you eat. It’s a narrative we’ve been fed our entire lives, and one that has led to not only a great deal of disordered eating, but also, in some cases, eating disorders.
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