Healthy eating/weight loss requires planning. It’s the real secret to success. Waiting until you are hungry before deciding what to eat is a recipe for disaster, especially if you are in the habit of ordering delivery. It would be a huge step forward for her to physically write out her daily meals and snacks in one of her zillion planners (after confirming the points online) to alert both her brain & belly to what is going to happen for the day. Document water. Document sleep. Document your thoughts. But especially, document what you will be eating beforehand.
It shows such a juvenile, immature level in thinking that she has a nearly empty fridge, except for the chicken that Jade bought her. She is going to soon be on her own. AL can do Lego all day. She can do her makeup. She can record videos. But she depends on others to tell her when or how to eat, and then resorts to the only thing she really knows how to do when it comes to getting a fix. She orders take out. And despite what she may think, she isn’t intermittent eating. She‘s sleeping away most of the day, waking up hungry, and starting her afternoon binge. That is not controlled eating.
Given her lack of skills in the nutrition department, and with unlimited access to both money and delivery, is it any wonder that this is her modus operandi? It’s like being on vacation in a hotel or at a resort for the rest of us. Think about that gluttonous feeling you get after a few days of all you can eat buffets and take out. At least we can do activities that kind of offset the damage, but Amber is stagnating, and doesn’t have a filter or a turn off switch. Notice how excited she gets - watch her body signals - when she anticipates a delivery.
If it wasn’t so sad it would be funny. This is what happens when you don’t learn basic survival skills and control mechanisms as a child. Respect for your body and the miracle that it is. Good job, ya loser parents. And as they so often do, AL has put her mother on a pedestal despite the horrific job she did. She may have come out of this nightmare of a life as a successful YouTube blogger, but Amber needs serious guidance. Therapy is a start, but this girl needs to be taught how to eat, what to eat, how to budget both her funds and calories for weight loss, basic nutrition skills that don’t rely on processed foods, and how to overhaul her emotional dependence on what tastes good in the moment. Otherwise, she’s doomed.
It surprises me that someone who has such weird adversaries to so many foods would eat from restaurants in the first place. Each time she places an order she increases her chances that the food prep is tainted, poorly prepared, undercooked, handled by someone with contaminated hands, dirty ice, etc. Proves that she doesn’t really think the process thru or has decided to go with the best of two evils.
Professional help, girl. This is too big for you to handle on your own.
