Joe Wicks - The Body Coach

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The whole low carb thing is really bizarre. The kid probably just wants a jacket potato, cheese and beans. Or just some beans on toast for breakfast. Also the no snacks is fine if the child doesn't want them but the fact he actively withholds them and goes 6+ hours without feeding her is pretty controlling and neglectful. I couldn't imagine practically starving my child. What's his plan when she doesn't want to eat his food? And wants the average toddler beige diet? Wonder if he'll backtrack then? Guaranteed when she's a teenager she'll be overweight and binge eating junk.
 
I think the key thing which he doesn't seem to address is that a tiny toddler (she's barely even out of the baby phase!) has different requirements both emotionally and physically to a grown adult consciously wanting to make physical changes to their already fully developed body.

The no/ low carb thing, no snacks, adult eating times... It's not right and he's treating her as an experiment for the purpose of his book, his money and his reputation.

I do know parents who feed their small kids a lot of crap and let snacks ruin their diets but there is a spectrum with most people in the middle, I feel he is right at the other extreme and is just as damaging (but obviously in very different ways) for his little girl as those parents whose kids have happy meals and wotsits all day every day! His horrible smug attitude and personality certainly don't help either 😖
 
There’s an absolutely brilliant podcast called “Don’t Salt My Game” hosted by a lady called Laura Thomas and I’d give my eye teeth to know what she thinks about all this.

She’s a specialist in Intuitive Eating and there have been a few podcasts about toddlers and children’s eating and it’s fascinating: They know how to regulate naturally, mess with this in infancy and you really can damage someone’s relationship with food their whole life.

Shame on you Joe Wicks. I liked you too until this.
 
Persephonehasreturned said:
Hers did look the best though!! I do wonder if Rosie’s not exactly wholesome past (which I don’t judge, actually) has made her very inclined to just going along with whatever Joe says. I hope not really but the other night when she was refusing food, Rosie was feeding the baby and utterly silent about Indie being upset. Almost as though she’d been told to be quiet because he was filming.
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What is the unwholesome past?
I know she is/was a model?
 
ForeverMakingJibesWicked said:
There’s an absolutely brilliant podcast called “Don’t Salt My Game” hosted by a lady called Laura Thomas and I’d give my eye teeth to know what she thinks about all this.

She’s a specialist in Intuitive Eating and there have been a few podcasts about toddlers and children’s eating and it’s fascinating: They know how to regulate naturally, mess with this in infancy and you really can damage someone’s relationship with food their whole life.

Shame on you Joe Wicks. I liked you too until this.
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Would the intuitive eating be overridden somewhat here by the fact he still spoon feeds sometimes? That always surprises me- I’d have thought he’d be all over baby led weaning
 
I think Indie is the cutest little thing! I love her facial expressions, although when she makes her “funny face” when she eating it seems to me it’s because she doesn’t like the food, but eats it as she’s starving!

I think what he’s doing is really morally questionable. She’s a tiny child being made to starve. He has no medical qualification whatsoever & he’s plastering this all over the internet as the way to do things.

He also incorrectly referred to himself as the first man to be on the front of the weaning book. There’s a very successful actual chef in Ireland who has a very good weaning book which he appears on the front of! I appreciate Ireland is a small country, & Neven Maguire may not be well known in the UK but it was a bold statement by Joe!
 
Off the subject of weaning, I'm interested in why on earth a few hundred people want to go to a warehouse to work out with this clown.
You can hardly see him and it is packed with sweaty bods all around you.

It shows the cult of celebrity is strong in the UK, people paying to be in the same room...airplane hanger as him!
Bizzare.
 
OhhBacon said:
Off the subject of weaning, I'm interested in why on earth a few hundred people want to go to a warehouse to work out with this clown.
You can hardly see him and it is packed with sweaty bods all around you.

It shows the cult of celebrity is strong in the UK, people paying to be in the same room...airplane hanger as him!
Bizzare.
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Plus, the acoustics didn’t appear to be that great. Bet a lot of people couldn’t hear him properly (prob a blessing in disguise).
 
Can I join in? I used to follow Joe and then coincidentally had a baby around the same time as Indie was born. He pissed me off right from the very beginning when he smugly insisted that his less than two week old baby was chilled because of hypnobirthing and because of how calm they both were. Lots of people do hypnobirthing, some people still end up with an emergency c section regardless, and it makes no difference to the type of baby you get - loads of newborns are chilled at a few days old before they unleash hell a few weeks later! It's not your superior bleeping parenting you knobhead!

Then he went on to brag relentlessly about how well she slept, and how early she walked, and how him being so calm and chilled had shaped her personality. And he continued with the smugness until I decided enough was enough and I unfollowed him. I go back for a nosy every so often and saw that he recommended re-trying with food a bit later. I'd initially thought that wasn't a bad idea but I have just found this thread today and I am horrified! I didnt realise he was basically starving her for hours and sending her to bed with no dinner!

Just awful.
 
Gunt said:
The whole low carb thing is really bizarre. The kid probably just wants a jacket potato, cheese and beans. Or just some beans on toast for breakfast. Also the no snacks is fine if the child doesn't want them but the fact he actively withholds them and goes 6+ hours without feeding her is pretty controlling and neglectful. I couldn't imagine practically starving my child. What's his plan when she doesn't want to eat his food? And wants the average toddler beige diet? Wonder if he'll backtrack then? Guaranteed when she's a teenager she'll be overweight and binge eating junk.
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I think she will end up binge eating too as she was so deprived of normal food as a child. Happened to a friend of mine. Ended up binge eating and being bulimic.
 
I also forgot to add that when Indie was still only weeks old they went to his house in the US (obviously Indie was perfect on the flight and it was really easy and not stressful at all 🙄). And then he fucked off to Las Vegas on his own to get drunk for a week and watch boxing and left Rosie to look after the baby by herself. That also made me think he was a bellend.
 
Persephonehasreturned said:
She was a glamour model and apparently some did some soft porn. If I had a figure like hers I’d quite happily get my kit off too!
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😂
I was googling... he was with his childhood girlfriend when he first got famous and they “grew apart”. A thing came up about that (March 2016), and it was a few months later that he was linked to Rosie, when they were both instagramming the same holiday in the September.
I’m sure around the Christmas period he mentioned that it had been the anniversary of the two of them meeting on a night out? Does anyone remember him mentioning this or am I getting them mixed up?
Just wondering if there was any overlap?
 
mrtumble said:
Can I join in? I used to follow Joe and then coincidentally had a baby around the same time as Indie was born. He pissed me off right from the very beginning when he smugly insisted that his less than two week old baby was chilled because of hypnobirthing and because of how calm they both were. Lots of people do hypnobirthing, some people still end up with an emergency c section regardless, and it makes no difference to the type of baby you get - loads of newborns are chilled at a few days old before they unleash hell a few weeks later! It's not your superior bleeping parenting you knobhead!
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I did hypnobirthing and ended up in theatre for forceps, had a baby who lost 13% of his weight by day 5 and who fell off the bottom of the growth chart until he was 4 months old. He also still doesn’t sleep more than 1.5 hour blocks at over 7 months old. People, particularly ‘influencers’, who act like bloody baby whisperers when it’s all down to LUCK absolutely rile me up. Indie is the way she is because that’s just her little personality, and Marley will be the way he’s meant to be- at this stage it’s bugger all to do with him or Rosie and it’s frustrating (and potentially damaging) that they never seem to acknowledge that
 
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Sven said:
If you control their food like that they’re going to have a horrible relationship with food.
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i can totally vouch for this ..both my OH and me were not allowed chocolate sweets etc as kids by our parents..his also didnt allow fizzy drinks. my OH was practically addicted to coca-cola until he had a medical and he was told this was making his blood pressure so bad he would end up on tablets for rest of his life! both of us have no self control with anything bad for us that we were denied as a child.
when we had our children we have given them a healthy diet but they have always been allowed what ever chocolate sweets biscuits etc they want (within reason..ie not just before dinner or late at night). quite they will choose to have fruit or some tomatoes .
..i hope ive done ok i just didnt want them to have the forbidden food issues i have .
 
grumpy-nosy-cow said:
i can totally vouch for this ..both my OH and me were not allowed chocolate sweets etc as kids by our parents..his also didnt allow fizzy drinks. my OH was practically addicted to coca-cola until he had a medical and he was told this was making his blood pressure so bad he would end up on tablets for rest of his life! both of us have no self control with anything bad for us that we were denied as a child.
when we had our children we have given them a healthy diet but they have always been allowed what ever chocolate sweets biscuits etc they want (within reason..ie not just before dinner or late at night). quite they will choose to have fruit or some tomatoes .
..i hope ive done ok i just didnt want them to have the forbidden food issues i have .
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Could have written this myself! Sweets and chocolate were off limits and a bottle of fizzy drink was Christmas and birthdays.
my kid is allowed chocolate but she’ll also wolf down salmon fillet (with potato and veg). She gets healthy home made meals some nights and potato waffles with beans on others. And I’m trying not to put any weight on the different foods- the waffles and beans aren’t a treat. They’re just dinner, the same as chicken and veg is dinner.
Oh and she gets milk chocolate or white chocolate. Who gives a kid dark chocolate?
 
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