so_u_thinkimskinnyyy
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good spot... wonder if she will ever show herself again
Anna Archer “Fitness”
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babykalechip
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Right before she left to take her break she mentioned that the pressure of people telling her to eat more and stop promoting such restrictive eating was causing her to binge on junk food. If you noticed on her TikTok a lot of the videos alternated between super healthy days and days where she'd eat massive portions, which is common in the binge/restrict cycle.
Personally I think Gymshark made a mistake signing someone who was so new to the fitness social media space. Anna even said she never did much exercise and didn't lift weights, she just walked a lot and lost a ton of weight quickly. It's confusing why Gymshark signed her, but I guess it's probably because she got popular very fast and she had the fitness "look."
Unfortunately now if Anna isn't promoting weight loss, she will need to come back and address why her entire platform on social media was built around losing weight and eating the lowest calorie meals.
I feel like she kind of cheated her audience by going away for so long and not addressing why. If it's an ED she needs to say that so nobody else follows her advice or her recipes. She should say plainly what happened and what direction she's going with fitness/health.
Personally I think Gymshark made a mistake signing someone who was so new to the fitness social media space. Anna even said she never did much exercise and didn't lift weights, she just walked a lot and lost a ton of weight quickly. It's confusing why Gymshark signed her, but I guess it's probably because she got popular very fast and she had the fitness "look."
Unfortunately now if Anna isn't promoting weight loss, she will need to come back and address why her entire platform on social media was built around losing weight and eating the lowest calorie meals.
I feel like she kind of cheated her audience by going away for so long and not addressing why. If it's an ED she needs to say that so nobody else follows her advice or her recipes. She should say plainly what happened and what direction she's going with fitness/health.
Quueen;)2401
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I completely agree, she’ll probably get some mean comments saying that she shouldn’t have promoted it but she didn’t knowingly put those tips out there with the intention to give people an eating disorder, she was in the midst of it all herself. But now that she DOES know, she should, in my opinion, say why what she was doing was wrong and what the right way of doing it is. No way can she not say anything and keep up methods of disordered eating to 1 million people as if it’s normal
calmyafarm
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An interesting look at her last four months on Instagram...
babykalechip
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Wow! Also her Tik Tok videos aren't doing as well lately, and people were commenting that she isn't on their FYP anymore on there. She's not showing her face in any videos and people were asking why :/
Exactly! I don't blame her for making her videos to begin with, but once she realized they were harmful to herself and her mindset she should have explained what went wrong and how her mindset changed.I completely agree, she’ll probably get some mean comments saying that she shouldn’t have promoted it but she didn’t knowingly put those tips out there with the intention to give people an eating disorder, she was in the midst of it all herself. But now that she DOES know, she should, in my opinion, say why what she was doing was wrong and what the right way of doing it is. No way can she not say anything and keep up methods of disordered eating to 1 million people as if it’s normal
Lots of fitness influencers start off doing things that are unsustainable and then they change their mindset and gain weight/eat intuitively/promote body positivity and are less strict overall. I just find it very strange that she doesn't address the situation and just posts like normal now :/
lesleybanks
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she owes it to her followers to explain everything! fair enough if you don’t want to promote weight loss, do fitness content or even show yourself anymore but at least give some sort of explanation. so so many (usually very young) girls took advice from her, probably when she had a ‘disordered’ outlook and it would be unfair not to put out some kind of information letting people know that this was perhaps wrong at the time
I couldn’t agree with this more. It’s like she’s come back and is ignoring the elephant in the room! She seems to be hoping it will go away without mention! X
yourmumyourmum
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to be honest i don’t understand how she thinks she can just ignore it and everyone will forget when her whole following is because of what she was posting before? i do feel bad for her but i think it would have been better to address it sooner rather than later
it does also irritate me that i feel like this is a pattern with SO many fitness influencers where they go through this phase of weight loss / being restrictive and posting about it and therefore influencing people and then they eventually say that they were really unhealthy, but they’ve already been posting about it and likely influencing others to do the same as them :/ i just feel like it’s a toxic cycle that keeps happening
it does also irritate me that i feel like this is a pattern with SO many fitness influencers where they go through this phase of weight loss / being restrictive and posting about it and therefore influencing people and then they eventually say that they were really unhealthy, but they’ve already been posting about it and likely influencing others to do the same as them :/ i just feel like it’s a toxic cycle that keeps happening
babykalechip
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Also, Anna didn't just go through a restrictive cycle. She promoted all the recipes she was eating that were like 100-300 calories each. I know she didn't promote actually starving, but if I was a kid and I saw her low-calorie recipes I would have tried to make them for myself, and it would have been so bad that 3 of her "meals" would add up to 900 calories a day, maximum.
Plus I feel she needs to address the fact that she wouldn't talk about whether she lost her period or not. It's not taboo to ask that, and I saw multiple people comment on her page that when they looked like her they didn't have their period. That's a fair question for any girl/woman to ask since it's essential to our health! If you don't have your period while working out you shouldn't promote your lifestyle as something that the average person should do. Elite athletes/long distance runners/bodybuilders lose their period sometimes but there's a reason they don't promote people to just jump into doing their routine.
so_u_thinkimskinnyyy
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i think it’s even scarier that people in ED recovery did “eating like Anna Archer” videos. That was a big no no for me
lesleybanks
Chatty Member
omg i remember seeing multiple girls asking anna if she still had her period and she commented back being so rude and defensive every time, like these girls clearly trust and admire you and just want to ask you a pretty general question? she was always refusing to answer anyone who asked if she had lost it. why does talking about your period hit such a nerve?! this was when she had about 50k followers as well
ghooddayinmymind
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it's so frustrating to see because girls on her tiktok are still commenting about how they're still using her recipes/following her old advice!!
so_u_thinkimskinnyyy
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i honestly feel like this girl started off as a gym girl and now she’s cutting about like she’s just walked out of a seminar with holland and barrett
Quueen;)2401
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remember when she used to get so annoyed that people would pick up on her not eating carbs and her excuse was that there’s carbs in vegetables and we didn’t know what carbs were! 
like ok queen if you want to be pedantic, why don’t you eat BREAD like don’t slide around the fact that you avoid carbs by saying there’s carbs in vegetables 
like ok queen if you want to be pedantic, why don’t you eat BREAD like don’t slide around the fact that you avoid carbs by saying there’s carbs in vegetables ghooddayinmymind
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Her dinners on her ig are literally still just vegetables and water
I was thinking that too!
babykalechip
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Her IG stories are all ads. Did you guys notice that she got sponsored by that manuka honey brand, and now she's always tagging them when she uses it? Also she's promoting several other brands like Misfits and their new launch. So she took 6 weeks off and came back to make that coin...okay girl!
Edit: I just counted 5 different companies she's tagging that she's getting sponsored by. I am getting more annoyed by the second. She's so fake!!
Edit: I just counted 5 different companies she's tagging that she's getting sponsored by. I am getting more annoyed by the second. She's so fake!!
lesleybanks
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220 thousand followers for posting veg swimming in water and ads
