The 9 Best Healthy Cookbooks, Based on a Dietitian

I am 10 months into my intuitive eating journey!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BThSGAp_loE&t=21s

Ive counted calories and macros for about 8 months now, no breaks. And it has helped me get an understanding of health, comming from a food addict because i used food for comfort. I still have weight to lose for health, not looks, but I AM SO TIRED OD WEIGHING AND COUNTING AND DOING MATHS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE CALORIES PER PORTIONS OF HOMECOOKED MEALS ARE.Sometimes i choose unhealthy foods simply because they are easier to calorie count??? THAT STOPS TODAY!

I’ve had this video in my watch later list for too long! Glad I finally watched it, and I am yet again grateful for your content!

Thank you for sharing this with us, Abbey!

At 18:46 Jessica talks about “the binge feeling” and I shivered as I listened, remembering regularly battling with that feeling (and ultimately losing countless times) for four decades as I desperately tried to lose weight on low fat high carb diets. It was horrific, actually, and lead to depression and mental health issues developing, not to mention crippling self-esteem because I had to wear my constant ‘failures’ on my body in the form of excess fat. It was so hard to live with the shame of being such a public failure…

Thankfully, I found LCHF/keto three years ago and banished the 100lb excess fat I’d developed, banished depression, and have NEVER felt the need to binge since! I am finally living the dream I so longed for. All it took was stopping eating the foods that made me fat and depressed; namely most carbs, starches, grains and all processed foods. Now, I keep it very simple; an animal protein portion cooked with (usually) a simple animal fat (like lard or butter or cream) with simply prepared above-ground veg on the side. I usually just eat 18/6 because I am never hungry nowadays either and never need to snack between my two meals. Tonight I am having salmon roasted plus asparagus spears, tarragon sauce made with double cream.

Three years of easy adherence so far. Why? Because it is easy once all the unnecessary ‘low fat’ and hyper-addictive carbs are eliminated and animal fat added. I specify animal fat to distinguish from the very popular and cheap but toxic industrial seed/veg oils that are used in processed foods and restaurant meals. Keep well away from this stuff!

i find mixing up what you eat is the easiet way to stay motivated! im going to post some healthy recipies soon on my channel. thanks for the cook book tips i will check these out!

I’ve recently discovered your channel. You’re such a kind person and I appreciate the way you describe things in your video. Thank you and please keep up the great work!

Eating intuitively is what gets people to morbid obesity. It’s nonsense. If you are eating too much you must restrict yourself.

I feel like years from now there’s gonna be a lawsuit agains Lysol or something bc of the effects, kind of like the lawsuit against roundup

on the 20 minutes watching this video, I tried unconsciously about 5 times to press the “Like” button, only to realize I had already done it. This is how much I liked this video

I like that you’re addressing that it’s not a new diet and not a quick fix. It is getting back to what is right for our bodies, so we decide what that is.

In Brazil is different, if you go to a registered dietitian, you certainly will leave with a crazy expensive meal plan that will basically make you suffer because some healthy foods taste like garbage and will make you hungry all the time. I’m a size 12, and I don’t want to loose weight but the first thing that they used to tell me was “you need to loose weight”, it was so painful, I ended up giving up diet and looked for other resources like a mental health professional and good sources on the internet, your channel is a breath of sanity, very needed in our sick society

As a kid I was overweight and when I became a teenager I lost weight and transferred school’s and one weird thing I’m noticing that bothers me a lot is that I used to be heavily ashamed of my past and didn’t want anyone to know that I was overweight, but like, now that nobody does, and everybody I know see’s me as medium/small, I still feel and think of myself as overweight since thats how I grew up and that is how I was when I developed most of my identity. So like, when we talk about prejudice against fat people, I automatically think of myself as a victim of it even still, and it takes me a minute to remember and accept that I do actually have thin privilege. I hate to admit it but it honestly makes me mad. It feels like I no longer have the right to be angry about the way I was treated since I no longer am treated that way, but I still treat myself with fat-phobia and the shit I’ve dealt with feels like it can never be acknowledged. ALso I hate it when I tell people I was fat growing up and they’re like, “don’t say that about yourself”. Like, that just fucking stings cause it reinforces the idea that fatness is something that undermines your worth as a human being. And it bothers me when people tell me I can’t speak for fat people because I’m not particularly fat, but like, bruh, I was though. For most of my life. And now I have a chronic eating disorder and body dysmorphia. Like, it just feels like all of my pain is so un-acknowledgeable, and no group, overweight or not, can accurately represent my experience.
Sorry for that tangent that isn’t related to anything this video just really brought some feelings up lol

Growing up I was skinny as heck because all I ate was chicken, cheese pasta, and hot dogs for like one meal and then drink caffeine free (but regular sugar) coca cola as a way to stave off hunger. I was crazy sick throughout my childhood, but because my parents knew nothing about nutrition, I suffered while nothing changed. Your videos help me learn about better nutrition while still enjoying the food I eat.

i have to question your use of the term “healthy weight” at a few points throughout this video.

Not that I’m for diet culture either, and I understand what you are saying re obesity and its associated repercussions and link to social determinants… But what about the established link between visceral fat and metabolic disturbances, increased cardiovascular disease risk, type 2 diabetes, breast cancer, etc.?

There is no enough evidence that on intuitive eating junky foods lose their allure and that people start to crave more healthy food. It’s just a theory. May be at some point yes, but we don’t know actually. What people say and think they do and what they actually do a big difference. A lot of people tend to choose high calorie foods on evolutionary basis.

PLEASE ANSWER…… what AGE do you become a registered dietitian if you study full time

Isn’t that just eating? Like I’m hungry I’ll eat, I’m full I stop…don’t get it

When I was in middle school/high school I wanted to lose weight because I felt like I needed to look a certain way. There were times where I was afraid to eat in front of other people and I let food have so much control of my happiness. I’m in college now, and I still want to lose weight, but now for completely different reasons. I don’t care so much about my size anymore, but more about my overall health. In the past three years of my life, my mom, dad, and other close relatives of mine have had major health complications because of their unhealthy eating habits. So while going down a few sizes may be a plus, it’s not a huge concern for me. I want to be the one in my family who won’t have to let these health complications get in the way of their lives, I want to be able to be active with my future kids, and I just want to feel good. I am very grateful for channels like Abbey’s because they remind me that I am perfectly normal and will have ups and downs but in the end, I am valued and loved and should never punish myself for who I am or what I eat.

This video was very informative. Thank you. Also, I love your shirt. It suits you perfectly!

Intuitive eating helped me kick me ED of ten years…idk if it works for others but for me it was a god send♡

This is a fantastic video. I completely relate to the scenario you noted about having issues with medical staff that simply infer that “everything” would be better if I just lost weight. I changed doctors over this issue. I mean I was there to get treatment for an injury I incurred while exercising in an attempt to get healthier. I am really enjoying your channel and only wish I would have discovered it sooner.

When I was in the hospital immediately after having my twins they gave me an iPad with apps to order food, review my charts, call the nurse and other things like that. But you wouldn’t believe what I saw there on my chart. Based on weight only, my chart said that I was there for obesity. Obviously nobody reviewed it and consider the fact that I had just carried to full term and pushed out two babies and was probably actually considered underweight for someone who had twins.

I’m so glad that I didn’t have postpartum depression and it even bothered me a little without that, but if their system is automatically adding that to every woman in the maternity ward then I can only imagine how that’s making women feel and how it’s making them distrust their doctors. I’m going to give birth again in November and will be at the same hospital so I think this time around if I see that on my chart I’m going to point it out to somebody and tell them that they need to find a way to change that in their system so it doesn’t damage somebody further while they’re already struggling with all their postpartum hormones

Very interesting. I am gonna show this video to my RD who is also HAES/Intuitive Eater supporter.:)

https://youtu.be/vC85R7umeq8?t=966 protein https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924224414002386

Hi Abbey. Cake doesn’t lose appeal if someone is still not eating frequently, consistently, and sufficiently enough. If someone is routinely going overly hungry, allowing oneself to eat all the cake or ice cream one wants ensures that the person will eat such foods almost all the time, because every time they give themselves permission to eat, by that time, they’re starving, and the body craves foods that are higher in simple sugar, fats, calories, and foods higher on the food chain (sat. fats and cholesterol risks if constantly overeaten) when in an overly hungry state. AND they’ll need to eat past the point of fullness to make up for calories uneaten. There is what I call physical or “mechanical” fullness, and then there’s nutritional fullness. If someone has been restricting, they might eat to the point of physical fullness, but still not be nutritionally full, and therefore are still craving more calories, fat, carbohydrate and/or pro. The huge problem with IE is that it encourages people to eliminate the controls they’ve been putting on themselves without ensuring that the person is eating at least 3 genuinely filling, nutritionally well balanced, sufficiently caloric meals per day, spread out throughout the day, before attempting IE. And not having recovered from restrictive eating thoughts and behaviors before attempting IE. IE demonizes eating before one is supposedly “hungry enough,” and demonizes eating beyond being supposedly “full enough,” which is really dangerous when coupled with zillions of restrictive eating thoughts learned from dieting advice, because “hungry enough” and “full enough” become a further form of restrictive eating for someone who has already been trained to fear eating and is routinely becoming overly hungry. For someone who has ever been on any type of restriction regime, of their own or someone else’s “weight loss diet,” all of the restricting advice s/he’s learned from every diet embarked upon, is still carried around in one’s head, consciously or subconsciously influencing the person’s awareness of hunger, and fear of eating and of potentially gaining, or just not losing, weight. I first read Tribole and Resch’s book 30 years ago, and I went from a so-called “normal” BMI, to my weight tripling! I was 3x as much as back then, and it has been very clear to me that this is from the harmful messages of IE, from those authors. Prior to reading their book, I had tried every imaginable diet for 4 years, and had continued to restrict for another decade or so, but could no longer stick to any diet for even 5 minutes, without the mere thought of a diet triggering a binge. But no diet I’d encountered had said, “Don’t eat until you feel ‘set,'” which was Tribole’s one word to describe what they listed as an acceptable “3” on the hunger scale, at which they granted permission to eat. To me, the word “set” has always connoted a physical sensation which is just short of “Oh geez, I’m waaay too hungry, I need to eat NOW.” And there in my kitchen and food bag would be lots of ice cream and chocolate chip cookies, among foods, and that’s what I’d reach for in a state of famine. It was IE that taught me the harmful guilt trip that I SHOULDN’T eat until “sufficiently” hungry. To this day, even after 15 years of ED outpatient treatment and further recovery work on my own, and I have a meal plan, and I have had instructions for 15 years to eat 6x/day, every 3 hours, mechanically, I still struggle all day with the subconscious thought, “You’re not hungry enough to eat,” that rings in my head thanks to the horrible dietitians Tribole and Resch. Result: I go for hours and hours not eating, because “You’re not hungry enough” rings in my head. “Hungry enough” quickly became another food fear: an ED thought that drove me to starve all day, for almost 3 decades, that I haven’t been able to banish, though I’m improving, thanks to the writings of Ellyn Satter (on her web site), Jean Antonello (terribly titled book, “How to Become Naturally Thin by Eating More,” that is obsessed with weight loss promotion but has brilliant insights i haven’t been able to find anywhere else; and ED treatment) Honestly, thought I’m not in favor of banning books, Tribole and Resch’s is the one book I would like to light every copy of on fire. It’s that harmful.

All this said, I really appreciate that you said in this video that maybe people who are still above “healthy weight” (problematic term) or eating restrictively should not embark on IE. That is light years ahead of what most IE coaches say, that I’ve heard.

But there are inherent contradictions in what you’re saying in the video: unless you know of strategies that result in everyone plus-size to be able to lose weight (which do not exist: most plus-size people will stay that way regardless of eating strategy), most plus-size clients will never be at “expected weight” (i.e. “normal” BMI), to then be able to embark on IE, as you state. That would leave them with using some other method of trying to lose weight (restricting), in order to then be able get down to “normal” BMI in order to start using IE! And of course, dieting a) doesn’t work for most people to cause sustained weight loss, and b) it teaches ED behaviors.

That leaves only slim people, with no restrictive eating behaviors, as candidates for learning IE. That means the majority of Americans are not candidates for studying IE, or acquiring the “peace with food” that IE practitioners dangle. The most people who aren’t at peace with food are plus-size, and/or restrictive eaters.

Here’s what I’m getting at. IE is not useful to most people, especially those who IE purports to help. And in fact, it can be harmful: it can cause, or exacerbate disordered eating, by telling people who already restrict, to only eat when “sufficiently” hungry, and not “too full.” That might even be a dangerous message for people who don’t already have other restrictive eating thoughts.

Jean Antonello, RN, RD, partially solved one problem with IE: she recognizes that dieters learn to fear food and their hunger, and thus delay eating. To counteract this extreme tendency, she advises eating at the first sign or thought of hunger (no more than 10 minutes within the first sign of hunger), and to eat until one notices one has put the fork or food down and doesn’t feel like picking it up again. In other words, to eat at the first sign of hunger, until truly full and uninterested in eating more.

Ellyn Satter recognized these problems and went further: she recognizes that pretty much everyone does better on 3+ scheduled meals, and scheduled, planned in-between snacks (and I would add an after-dinner snack before bedtime, to tide one’s hunger over until morning, for a total of 6 feedings/day.) On the advice of an ED RD 15 years ago, I have a mechanical eating schedule, eating 6x/day, every 3 hours, which I’ve set at 6 am, 9 am, noon, 3 pm, 6 pm, and 9 pm. Bed at 9-10 pm. But it’s a nightmare for me to try to follow it. In 15 years, I’ve only been able to start eating breakfast by 6:30 am (my only goal in my life, to focus my full attention on it, because multiple goals are harder to achieve) every day for one week. That was a few weeks ago. My breakfast times range from 3 am 6 pm. My weekly average works out to breakfast at 9 am.

Ellyn says that by eating on a consistent schedule, the body sorts out what and how much to eat in order to arrive at the next planned meal or snack comfortably hungry. This is brilliant. Instead of adjusting the feeding times to the body, as with IE, which can be totally unpredictable and stressful to figure out and then eat what one wants at that time and have it available and prepared, Ellyn is advising to eat on a consistent schedule, and let the body adjust the food choices and quantities according to the schedule (and choosing foods that bring one joy). Like people used to do up until dieting took over our lives in the 1960s present.

I urge you and all IE advisors to 1. Put a warning note at the beginning of all videos and in the descriptions that IE is not recommended for plus-size people or people with a history of dieting or disordered eating, and 2. switch over to teaching Ellyn Satter’s method, instead, a) for safety/first do no harm/harm prevention, and b) because it so much easier to learn and apply (except for someone like me with an extreme ED, and even for me, it is massively simpler and better than IE ever was. It gradually improves my eating, eating competence, nutrition, psychological well-being, and schedule stability, whereas IE worsened all of those.

Thank you for reading all of this. I can tell you really care about your clients and potential clients/the public, and appreciate that. I’m grateful you are an anti-diet dietitian, and are trying to improve dietetics. I’ve noticed that for many people who catch on to IE, it comes relatively easy to them, as compared to, say, my story for sure! What I’ve noticed isn’t apparent for IE fans is that for others, it can be a pure nightmare, and profoundly harmful: as harmful as dieting, or worse. I hope you will check out Ellyn’s web site (Ellyn Satter Institute) and if you do, skip to the “How To Eat” tab to get into the relevant parts.) Thanks again.

This video is SO good. As a nutrition student it really hit me. I can’t wait to see what else you have to say on the subject!

I have always loved your channel but the fact you genuinely support and recommend Tovar has now made me unsubscribe.

The explanation about the word obese is great Abby! It’s the reason I felt sick when cassey ho from blogilaties called a woman obese on camera during a “body positivity” video ������

Lea im 30 I do exercise and walk regularly to maintain my weight and also take limited diet but the problem with me that my face is getting very thin as losing my body weight face is looking not good due to having less fate on face kindly recommend me something so that I can get fat on face just not on body

Another take away: The people who think that I should lose weight and tell me that I should, most of the time have no credentials. They are basing their statements off of an idea that they have, and have little knowledge of nutrition and lifestyle being indicative of health.

Thanks a lot for what you’re doing, your videos are always very interesting and I love your channel! Recently, I’ve seen the videos of a youtuber: Alice Olivia and I was wondering if you could review her “What I eat in a day” videos, she talks a lot about how to increase the metabolism (with reverse dieting…) and I would really want to know your opinion on that! Thanks!!

Can’t listen. It’s that exaggerated rising inflection that Auzzie women do that just GRATES like fingernails on a blackboard!

Thanks so much for making this. I struggle a lot with eating sugar and shaming myself for it, so this is a great stepping stone for me.

Also, HAES is an outlier concept which remains junk “science.” The sources you cite are clearly biased. Especially Virgie Tovar of all people.

In short, stop the Insulin yoyo, stop the disordered eating.

So what do you do with kids who supposedly are “natural intuitive eaters” but easily can and do overeat? My 3 older kids are ages 1, 4, and 5. And they all would eat themselves sick if I let them — yes, even vegetables! I have to stop them because two of the three have actually made themselves sick because “well, they keep wanting more broccoli, that’s okay right?”

We have taken a stance of meals in courses because they do have preferences for high-carb foods. So we serve the veg as a first course, then the protein/carb as a second. We serve small-ish portions because we never want them to force themselves to finish a large plate of food. They always ask for more, so we give more of whatever they want as seconds. Then if they want more, they have to have more of the veg FIRST, then a third small portion of their favorite. At that point, we just say no more.

We can’t afford to let them eat until they stop because a meal that should feed 6-8 becomes a one hit wonder for us.

I don’t want to restrict them. We don’t have “bad foods” and good foods. They have sugar occasionally (as a family, we typically only have dessert for a holiday or birthday occasion, not on a regular basis); we don’t keep candy in the house just out of habit; they get a lot of exercise; snacks or no doesn’t change how much they want to eat at meal times… it’s kind of frustrating sometimes that they just will eat and eat and I hate having to say no more. I have no idea where it came from unless it’s genetic. DH has an amazing metabolism/appetite thing going. I’ve always had trouble and have been overweight to obese most of my life. But even as I’ve lost weight, I’ve not talked about food in a derogatory way. I don’t restrict myself — if I e have birthday cake, yes I have cake. I will have a half-size portion. And when the kids ask me about what I’m eating or why we can’t have dessert or something, I tell them that cake is a special occasion kind of food. It’s good to have occasionally but not healthy all the time. Just like eating only broccoli all the time wouldn’t be good. We need variety.

Anyway. Intuitive eating sounds great but I think there’s more genetically going on than anyone wants to admit.

I really loved this channel until I realized that you promote fat acceptance.

Y’all… abbey is not saying that someone who is 5’2 300 lbs is completely healthy and should just “eat intuitively” even if it doesn’t result in weight loss. She’s saying that it’s cruel and unproductive to shame someone for their weight. That’s it. Body positivity and intuitive eating is not to say that individual doesn’t need to lose weight. It’s saying that food and eating and body image should not be socialized by your problematic aunt at the dinner table, that health is based on many more factors than just weight, and that random people don’t have the right to label you or shame you. Discussions of weight and it’s impact on your health should be left to health professionals who can take into account all the varied factors involved in weight, including age, genetics, sex, mental health, food insecurity, access to resources, occupation, etc. Live and let live y’all. Take a more nuanced approach to personhood and stop being so rigid. Do what feels good for your body and allow others to do the same.

What a great openess of mind, empathy and kindness.
By the way she talks, you can tell she is a kind of person that’s on the right side of history on key subjects.

Thanks a ton for the list….very helpful for a newbie like me to check out cookbooks ��

I have a bunch of travel beauty hauls what other products would you recommend?

Great picks, love all of them, I am feeling left out, what about Finally… Food I Can Eat! one of Emma’s fav cookbooks:)

Hello! I just found this video and as I am starting we again and I think the same way about the “low fat” “fat free”, and at the same time I’m lactose intolerant now and I don’t do refined sugar or stevia. I try to keep as much process foods out of my diet as I can but I want we because it keeps me more on track! Can you do a ww video on like paleo and clean eating and recipe points? Sugar alternatives and the points like
Honey
Agave
Maple syrup
Coconut sugar
Coconut oil
Coconut milk
Etc.?

What equipment is required for Ready Or Not! (yellow one)? I have a stove, oven, microwave, toaster oven, and rice cooker.

I am so confused, it says this video has only 716 views but is three weeks old?

Thank you for sharing your favorite cookbooks! I’d be very interested in seeing some cooking videos, especially that pan sheet chicken recipe!!

My perseverance is unreal and therefore I have more and more energy. I take into account my sister Joan and she’s a total success story on top of that; she is still in just as fantastic shape and she also still uses yoga burn. There’s actually so much value here, I felt I had to provide my story and i am sure you will have as much if not better success, best of luck to you on your journey! Take a look at the link https://truehealthreport.com/yoga-burn-review-really-worth/

This was such an interesting topic! I’m already really careful with cleaning products as I’m allergic to most of them and I have pets who I don’t want to get hurt by them either. Love how much I’m learning from you during quarantine!
Could you maybe add to the “what I eat in a day” review list:
Abby Pollock: a fitness youtuber who has created her own workout programs and also uploads recipe videos.
Holly Gabrielle: a vegan UK study youtuber who studied biology and wants to do a masters in nutrition next school year.
I would love to hear what you think of their diets!

Loved the video! My question is, is it safe to produce your own fermented food instead or buying them from grocery store etc?

PLEASE ANSWER…… what AGE do you become a registered dietitian if you study full time

EATING WHEN WANTING TO SAYS DICSAPLIN YOURSELF IN WHEN NEEDING TO.

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Thank you doctors for who those caring for people with weight loss

I noticed a big difference in how doctors interacted with me when I gained weight. Especially younger doctors (UK), say those under 35.

For example I went to the doctor about unusual for me breathlessness, including breathlessness when sitting on my sofa! And also with a huge difference from day to day (some days getting breathless, other days not/less), and the doctor literally said to go away and loose weight and if I was still breathless to come back (and also if something drastic happened in the meantime to be fair). I was in the “overweight” section of her chart, not the “obese” section. Probably around 13-14 stone, a UK size 14/16 (US 10/12). Not shaming anyone else, just saying that although “overweight” and admittedly not as healthy as I’d like, me telling her something was unusual for me was dismissed as being weight related.

This is the most obvious example but the overall mood of being essentially “told off “ about my weight has been a pattern and TBH I choose the doctors that don’t do this. Ironically these are the doctors who have come through the newer training system that is supposed to be more patient centred. I’ve also seen poor trainee doctors who clearly don’t want to bring up weight etc with a patient twice their age but must have been told they have to, and so awkwardly bring it up. And bless them I really feel for them, they feel so uncomfortable doing it. Good instincts guys, you can feel that something is “off” in what is being asked of you. Don’t loose those instincts and become too hardened.

Totally could relate to this and am definitely going to try the cheese!

I don’t remember where I heard or read this but don’t incretins in dairy products certain proteins, I believe spike insulin levels?

Omg this is so me!!!! I love my block of cheese, that is exactly what I do. High fat is the key for me and stopped my issues with food and body hatred! Keto has changed my life, now I just need to learn how to trust myself. Thank you for sharing this! It really resonated with me!!

Thank you Jessica so much for this insightful information you described my eating behaviour of the last 4 decades to a ‘T’, the emotional battle I fight with food started with my first diet many years ago as a teenager, the terrible guilt and self flagellation I put myself through definitely wreaked havoc with my emotions and added to my stress/anxiety levels, and quite possibly, I’m starting to realise that they were the cause of my depressed state… As you said, many, many people are going through the same experiences with disordered eating and knowing instinctively that something is wrong but don’t know how to break the cycle or more importantly don’t know what exactly they are dealing with. I feel that in creating awareness of disordered eating and the consequent behaviours of it will switch a light on for many people out there. It did for me and was an eye opener in realising that I am not alone in my thoughts, emotions and reactions to eating, overeating and bingeing. Kudos to you…

Ref 4:37 The men were not only starved with a calorie-restricted, low-fat diet, they were also fed an extremely HIGH-CARB diet!!! My goodness, these men, at the end of the study, must had developed some crazy insulin issues!

This video was very helpful! I’m going to check out my local library and see if they have any of these so I can try them out. I’ve been really into Thai cuisine lately, so that Cravings cookbook sounds really interesting! Are there any specific recipes from the cookbooks you mentioned that you would recommend?

I wish I could subscribe to you a million times… THANK YOU for providing this knowledge to the public for free. I can’t even begin to explain how life changing your videos have been for me. Bless you ❤︎

To be very honest, it’s hard to intuitively eat processed foods. I suffer from PCOS and insulin resistance as well as overeating whenever stressed, and the insane hunger I experience after eating things like white rice, bread or pasta is something I cannot control. Not to mention the crashes. I’m perhaps a special case, but for people who already struggle with obesity and hormonal issues, we may have to resort to a whole foods diet with few, rare exceptions, in order to undo the damage. I found that a mostly vegan, whole foods diet has really helped me keep fuller for longer. It’s incredible to me, but I now eat 2 meals a day, not feeling hungry in between. The only dairy I consume daily is kefir salad dressing and my latte. And well. yeah, I do cook with butter instead of olive oil (not sure which is better, if you can help me there I’d really appreciate it!) 50% of the meals being green salads with nuts. The other 50%, mixed veggies with some type of protein. I reserve animal products for the weekend and I make my own weekend dark chocolate bars with nuts, dried fruit, oats and bananas. I find that eating a little bit of each, and playing with textures, colours and spices has deeply enriched my eating experience.

When she described the “binge” urges, it was like “that’s EXACTLY IT!!” and I’m hoping to try that cheese technique next time maybe I’ll get over the stall I’m on since November when holiday eating re-ignited the binge (and resulting stress-eating) cycle.

Ugh…. Anyone can be an expert on IE (regardless of size). And anyone can make a YouTube channel, so how are you more “privileged” for having made one yourself?

If you wanna give a shout out to others who are “experts”, that’s good. But I get the feeling you feel the “need” to because you are discounting your own expertise/experience based on your smaller size.

How is that right? That is the ONLY problem I have with the IE community. And with the world in general. People are so concerned about comparring eachothers “pain” and “privilage”. Comparring is devicive and not helpful in ANY way.

Homo Carnivorus What We Are Designed to Eat The Carnivore Diet/Ketogenic Diet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mZOusAnzh8

1) Heart disease is the #1 killer of Americans (and Australians).

2) Diets rich in saturated fats from animal sources are inextricably linked to increased incidence of heart disease.

When you center your argument around weight loss/management primarily, you ignore the onslaught of endothelial dysfunction being wrought by a diet rich in most of these saturated fats. When an Atkins/Keto/Flavor of the Month diet can be shown clinically to reduce and repair heart disease, I’ll meet you in Sydney for a steak.

I agree with all of this! Fat shaming, whether it’s teasing or serious “we’re saying this because we care…”. It’s always frustrating and does not help. My stubborn nature has kept me from the bulk of fad quick weight diets, and I believe it has helped my blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar are all well within normal ranges. It doesn’t matter to most because of the way I look.

Will lysol, bleach, hand sanitizer ruin your microbiome? Don’t drink it and it won’t. Sheesh.

Thanks for the very educational video!!! I honestly do not do any extra disinfecting outside of my normal cleaning and washing and it kills me that I cannot find my laundry Lysol sanitizer because that is something I have been using since it came out years ago. The only thing different I am doing is wearing a mask. I sanitize my hands when necessary. I’ve always washed my hands before and after I use the restroom and before I cook and eat. That is just how I was raised and always when out in public and work and Ive always santized my work station before the start of my shift. I understand the initial fear and the want to disinfect more now than ever but over doing it will cause more damage than good in my honest opinion in the near future.

Can you do a meal plan for working mothers? I love your videos. I have 3 kids that’s at home while i work…i need good lunch and dinner ideas

Okay so this is what I eat in a day,
Oatmeal 40g serving size with blueberries and strawberries with vegan yogurt,
Then for lunch I eat 1-2 pieces of toast with lettuce, cucumber, two eggs, a bit of Spinach with a sprinkle of oats
Then dinner is either a bowl of rice or even just another piece of toast.
Can someone give me tips and tell me if this is healthy?

Please do a review of LoveSweatFitness specifically her videos on what to eat with hypothyroidism. I’m going to the doctor to regulate my hypothyroidism and they say diet doesn’t have much of an effect just eat healthy. But her channel and other influencers from blogs and articles say to avoid many different foods. Even just a video on nutrition and hypothyroidism would be great since it’s a common issue. If you’ve done a video on it please let me know but I haven’t found one. Thanks!

I would love one on advanced glycation. Dr Dray does those a lot, but I feel like yours would be appropriate since it is about food and you are a dietician. I think you should do overview videos on general topics in your field, or a mini med series

Hi Abbey, can you please do a video on metabolic typing? What are the benefits and problems with this eating plan? Is there any evidence to back it? Specifically G-Plans by Dr. Goglia

can you do a video about some international youtubers like jihyunkkung? or maybe some of the more extreme diet ones like
아용VLOG?

I would love to see a video of you making the pan sheet recipe or any other recipes. I hope that you are enjoying your trip!

It’s always good to reiterate to people as well not to mix different sanitizers/chemicals together, as you can very easily accidentally create noxious chlorine gas (especially toilet cleaner).

Hi Abbey I was wondering if you could speak to the long-term damage that food restriction or food insecurity in particular can cause maybe expanding on the info you gave from Stephanie Buttermore’s video? There aren’t a lot of resources out there for people who never had enough to eat when they were growing up, and thus don’t know how to manage their hunger cues as adults.

(Off topic) PLEASE do a video on fasting. I fast for both spiritual reasons and in the past for health reasons. How/is this effecting my metabolism?

Can you do reviews on the Harper’s Bazaar what I eat in a day videos pleaaasee? Some of them seem so problematic to me and others seem pretty honest and balanced. I think Gwenyth Paltrow, Ian Somerhalder’s, Princess Nokia’s among others would be interesting!

I really like America’s Test Kitchen books. All of the recipes come out great. I have and love the Mediterranean one, but they also have a Paleo one, which I haven’t tried. I have my eye on Nutritious Delicious. I loved your video by the way! Great job with the weight loss! I actually just ordered the Skinny Taste cookbook, so it’s funny you mentioned it.

video recommendation: 1. is peanut butter carcinogenic and unhealthy (heard it contains natural toxins that contribute to cancer)? 2. is nutritional yeast unhealthy-it contains naturally occurring MSG? 3. does it matter if we eat non-GMO and USDA organic foods?

Love this video! I’m not able to use most chemical cleaners and usually stick to lemon and baking soda for cleaning, and soap for hand washing, because of smell hypersensitivity and autism. I’m still on the look out for a safe and comfortable alternative to even the mild odor chemicals

Plain soap is as effective against viruses as disinfectant, and much preferable to hand sanitizer.

This is awesome! Makes me feel great about my strategy of: sanitize everything coming into the home but clean everything else as normal. Luckily, my husband and I work from home now thus limiting our exposure.

We who take an avid interest in the science of nutrition preoccupy ourselves with macro-nutrients, micro-nutrients, endocrinology, inflammation, auto-immune issues, evolution, and a host of other topics. In our fixation with the empirical physiological realities of diet, we seldom focus on the less measurable psychology of diet. I am glad that people like Jessica Turton and Dr. Robert Cywes (his multi-part lecture series can be found on the Low Carb USA channel) fill that void in our understanding of diet. Thank you for this enriching presentation

18:41 Best advice ever to take care of the binge feeling by munching on a block of cheese!!