New to her so read through the whole thread here - not living at home so only realised she was a thing when a friend posted her oat and raspberry breakfast bake.
SUCH mixed feelings!
I mean, she lost an absolute ton of weight, which is incredible. Found a video of her from when she was head chef at Jacob's on the Mall (a very very nice restaurant when I was there a million years ago) and she was much bigger for sure.That's such an achievement, particularly if even your profession has involved being surrounded by and obsessed by food.
BUT I find her annoyingly "up" on the videos and I find them difficult to watch. I'm sure some people find that motivating and love her, but maybe I'm just too flat and crabby!
I feel sorry for her in a way having regained. I've yo-yoed a million times and always felt shamed when I put weight on again, like I could feel eyes on me. It's very hard to sustain a weight loss. I've always exercised, but it's the food at the end of the day. And intense exercise might even make things worse for her - it can make you hungry! Plus a bit of you thinks you deserve it, even though the actual calorie burn isn't that much when you look at it in the context of the whole day. If she does a workout and is then flat out on the couch? No net benefit.
Can't really imagine devoting all your attention to being this influencer type is a good thing either. Too little structure to the day, which would be a disaster for me and eating too, eventually. When motivation starts to slip you're relying on willpower and that's very very easy to lose, particularly sitting at home near the food. Even her cooking would be dangerous to me - I know I'd probably eat that whole tray of the oat bake if it was all nice and warm. I wouldn't even realise it.
She has definitely regained and it's a crappy situation to be in so can't imagine myself then promoting a book about how to succeed! Maybe better to actually succeed longterm before releasing book 2. Know the majority of the Biggest Loser contestants regained in the end.
The other thing she might struggle with is loose skin etc. She's a real apple (I'm under 5ft and around 50kg at the moment, but my legs are chunkier) and going to be hard to dress all that excess on the abdomen. It's fat now, but even with a loss she'd be probably looking at surgery.