It really is. She was moderately likable and quite entertaining when she was doing just mukbangs. This recent "rebranding" of her content with "vlogs" (how exciting is a vlog where you sit 98% of the time?) and "weighloss journey" has gotten pretty much unwatchable. Nobody wants to sit through a 30 minute video where she is just sitting talking to the camera about the dumbest, most ironic fucking "health info".
Where the hell did she get this notion of "getting enough calories?" It's her trainer of course, as chantal is an ATM for anybody in the "health field" -- you tell her what she wants to hear and she'll hand out money.
Oh, and I mentioned it upthread but (and wow) she isn't going to weigh herself until may. Because reasons. Fatlogic really. She doesn't want to "see flucuations and get discouraged."
well gee what happens in mid may when she looks and sees 367? I guess we'll find out.
There is a pernicious stream of misinformation that comes from trainers and nutritionists that has led extraordinarily obese people to think that if they eat too little they will stop losing weight and will actually gain weight because so many para-health care professionals do not understand the concepts of starvation effect or the thermogenic effects of digestion.
You will see 300 pound women skip a meal and then become convinced that a lack of calories has caused them to go into starvation mode. Starvation mode is real, but it only happens when you have lost all body fat, almost all muscle and your metabolic processes shut down temporarily because all that is left to turn in to fuel is heart muscle and organs. That temporary lull where the genuinely starving enter a metabolic shutdown is a Hail Mary attempt to stay alive before the body begins to break down heart muscle and organs. It is temporary, and when it happens without immediate medical intervention death is the likely outcome. Auschwitz victims and participants in the Minnesota starvation study experienced starvation mode. Virtually no one outside of severe anorexics needs to worry about starvation mode in North America.
This concept somehow got muddled and rolled over into the concept of thermogenic effects of eating. This is the idea that eating causes your metabolism to ramp up. And it does. When you are eating properly - meaning a well balanced diet of nutritious foods at an appropriate calorie intake - eating causes your energy levels to go up, causing you to feel and to be more active, and the metabolic process of digestion burns calories. This is one selling point for people who feel better when they eat five or six very small meals a day versus the traditional three meals and a snack. It's a tiny bump in calorie burn, not enough to form a weight loss regimen around, but among healthy, active people, it can be a tipping point that permits them to stay at a normal weight if they overindulge periodically. The thermogenic effect of eating is why breakfast is considered the most important meal of the day - you are literally consuming fuel to interrupt the decreased metabolic effects of sleep and some people remain sleepy or logey if they skip breakfast. In HAES and lesser educated people like nutritionists and trainers, this has come to mean a weird combo with starvation effect wherein any attempts to lower calories or engaging in intermittent fasting causes an immediate shut down in calorie burn as the body thinks you're in a famine because you didn't eat that hamburger before your grandma took you to lunch so the more you eat, the more you "listen" to your body, the more you "nourish" it with a constant influx of high calorie foods, the better off you are.
This is why human landslides are so worried they are under eating. They don't track calories - all they remember is skipping lunch and the feeling of being hungry. They don't remember the bag of pretzels from the vending machine, the handful of M&Ms from the bowl on the secretary's desk, the sandwich half left over from the catered lunch in accounting and the milkshake that passes for coffee that they bought on the way home. They eat a normal dinner, wake up the next morning and have gained weight, remember skipping lunch and not the 1000 calories consumed in grazing - far more than had they packed a proper lunch - and are convinced they are entering starvation mode and need to eat more.
This is also a reason why so many fat people think they are fat because they are sedentary. If their trainer has told them about starvation mode, if they need to eat constantly just to stay out of starvation mode, then how the hell else can they lose weight. Fat people have no idea what calorie burns exercise produces. Look at Amberlynn - gorging on a family bag of potato chips and a pint of ice cream every night but she walks 20 minutes and thinks that offsets her terrible eating habits. The process of losing weight is presented to many obese people in such a manner that I think that people like Chantal genuinely believe this nonsense on some level. They think exercise is the key to weight loss and that reducing calories is almost dangerous.