Anna Archer “Fitness”

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Lol anyone know what a gut health retreat is? She’s getting so hippie dippie I reckon the next step is joining a commune
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ghooddayinmymind said:
Lol anyone know what a gut health retreat is? She’s getting so hippie dippie I reckon the next step is joining a commune
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pls someone take social media off this girl
i wish she would stop hopping from trend to trend and making it her whole personality
she’s just so damn damaging. you can tell she’s not recovered from the stupid buzz words she uses and the way she speaks around food
 
Her latest story about period cravings ... :rolleyes: Listing every single "bad" thing she ate, but no, of course she doesn't care about it at all! Feel like when I was my most disordered, I'd also sometimes make it such a point when I'd eaten unhealthy stuff to give off that "Haha yeah, I eat like crap and don't care!" when in reality it was the exact opposite, and I was just trying too hard to prove myself.

Also that gut health thing is so often used to mask disordered eating, so in her state I wouldn't really say that's the best retreat to go on. Sounds like that one time she ate to cure her arthritis but reconceptualized.
 
I have Celiac and mild gastroparesis and I literally can't stand that these influencers use "gut health" as an excuse to restrict or only eat certain foods. I can't have gluten and my stomach literally gets paralyzed sometimes so I need to supplement stomach enzymes, but I STILL eat a wide variety of foods!! In fact I eat a lot of foods they probably wouldn't, like GF bread/bagels/crackers because they're easy to digest, and often I eat full fat milk products to get more calories in when I can't eat a lot of volume.

People like Anna just make it harder for people will real gut issues to get a diagnosis because nobody takes it seriously :/
 
lisayan said:
Her latest story about period cravings ... :rolleyes: Listing every single "bad" thing she ate, but no, of course she doesn't care about it at all! Feel like when I was my most disordered, I'd also sometimes make it such a point when I'd eaten unhealthy stuff to give off that "Haha yeah, I eat like crap and don't care!" when in reality it was the exact opposite, and I was just trying too hard to prove myself.

Also that gut health thing is so often used to mask disordered eating, so in her state I wouldn't really say that's the best retreat to go on. Sounds like that one time she ate to cure her arthritis but reconceptualized.
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listed all the ‘bad foods’ she has eaten then said she body checked, sounds healthy
 
lisayan said:
Her latest story about period cravings ... :rolleyes: Listing every single "bad" thing she ate, but no, of course she doesn't care about it at all! Feel like when I was my most disordered, I'd also sometimes make it such a point when I'd eaten unhealthy stuff to give off that "Haha yeah, I eat like crap and don't care!" when in reality it was the exact opposite, and I was just trying too hard to prove myself.
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she literally used to do this all the time as well she would post all the unhealthy stuff she’d be eating on her stories and act okay with it and then call it a cheat day afterwards
 
i have only just found this thread but am so happy it exists.

for some context i’ve struggled with BED, AN b/p and now bulimia for the past 3 years and i’m stopping uni in september to start full time treatment.

i found anna last year when she really blew up and instantly my ed radar went off and i just remember thinking like, ffs i know she’s gonna get a huge following and promote all this disordered stuff and more and more ed things like volume eating are going to become mainstream. and sure its not just her, but the influence ppl like her have on wider diet culture can’t be understated. my friends would all talk ab her admiringly and i never felt able to express how damaging i thought it all was, i thought i was crazy. i would stalk her page sometimes but i knew it was bad for me so i never followed her. back in october is when i first started really opening up to people for the first time ab my ed and looking for help. so far its been a long, extremely difficult process and i’m still terrified of what full recovery will look like for me. but i’m making slow, sustainable progress and taking baby steps.

i was so relieved and acc kind of validated when i saw her yt vid opening up, and i truly empathise with her and wish her the best with her recovery. but i do also agree with all of you saying that she needs to take more accountability, or at least not be on social media so much. with eds, perfectionistic goals and outward appearances can dictate ur life. and i can’t help feeling as though anna’s online recovery is her way of channeling that into something different. yes its a whole lot better than an ed, but i’m worried/skeptical about anyone claiming to recover in a couple of months.

she seems to have gone through a b/p phase of a couple of months or so, and my heart truly goes out to her. anyone struggling with bulimia no matter how long for deserves all the support. but it did kind of sting a tiny bit, i found myself comparing my ed/ed recovery to hers. it’s been three years now, and the idea of just recovering in a month or two isn’t realistic for me. of course anyone can recover, but when you have an ed for a long time it becomes v v hard to break those habits.

i worry that she’s chanelled all her energy into trying to do recovery perfectly. i can imagine that if she ever relapsed, which is very normal, she likely wouldn’t feel comfortable sharing it as it wouldn’t fit the ‘fully recovered’ narrative she’s created.

anyways i do hope she is getting better and that the pressure of her online platform doesn’t negatively impact her recovery

christ sorry this is long😅

also agree with everyone saying that trauma isn’t the main reason for an ed developing in all cases. they are SO much more complex than that most of the time.
 
@charlobster I think you make a great point that Anna flaunting how quickly she recovered just makes it seem more unattainable to people who have struggled for a long time with an ED. Before she was like "it's so easy to get lean and stay lean, you can do it too!" and now she's just switched to "everyone can recover, and look, I did it so easily, in only 3 months!!"
 
I think all our gut instincts have been right from the beginning re Anna’s eating struggles. It really just makes me think if we are also right about her recovery? If we can identify behaviours we are familiar with so easily once I really think it can happen again.

It makes me sad because she deserves recovery but like all of you I really think she’s going about it in the wrong way, especially by coming back into her massive following and posting so much. It seems fishy.
 
babykalechip said:
@charlobster I think you make a great point that Anna flaunting how quickly she recovered just makes it seem more unattainable to people who have struggled for a long time with an ED. Before she was like "it's so easy to get lean and stay lean, you can do it too!" and now she's just switched to "everyone can recover, and look, I did it so easily, in only 3 months!!"
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Yeah it’s been 5 years for me pls let me know what I’m doing wrong Anna!!
 
Jeeen22 said:
Yeah it’s been 5 years for me pls let me know what I’m doing wrong Anna!!
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Duh, it's because you're not following Simon, obviously vortex healing must be what the psychiatric field has been missing all these years :geek: Don't know why professionals would base their treatment methods on scientific evidence when you can gain just as much medical knowledge from a degree in classical music.
 
Lmao Anna absolutely disregarding the real scientific definition of ego and using her vortex, pseudo, holistic, nature healing definition shows me that she has a giant ego smh

In one of her tiktoks she said she would never judge another girl in a bikini and now she's admitting that she picks a part, degrades and judges every girl she sees 🤔
 
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jeffegg82 said:
Lmao Anna absolutely disregarding the real scientific definition of ego and using her vortex, pseudo, holistic, nature healing definition shows me that she has a giant ego smh

In one of her tiktoks she said she would never judge another girl in a bikini and now she's admitting that she picks a part, degrades and judges every girl she sees 🤔
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oof really?? haven’t watched the vid yet but that’s made me not want to
 
Did someone see the poster she had about the gut health workshop or whatever it was? It’s not in the story anymore but it had some weird stuff in it, like juices and food for gut health etc. Such bs, I really hope she’d stop posting about that nonsense stuff, like practice whatever floats your boat, but pls don’t advertise it to others cause that’s getting dangerous
 
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