Reddit threads exposing 'Skinny People Habits'… Helpful or DANGEROUS?!

Hey everyone I’m Abbey Sharp welcome to Abbey’s Kitchen. In todays video, we will be talking about what the folks of Reddit are saying "skinny people habits" are.

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[heyitsgabs]

doing chores/keeping your environment clean is actually one of the best things cause it works twice over, its that bit of movement and excerise for your physical self and creates a clean and calm environment for your mental self. such a simple little thing thats so beneficial.

[jackiehammerton]

I’ve lost all my excess weight moving to Spain. When I lived in the States I balanced around 140lbs (at 5’4”) but since moving to Spain I’m now around 125lbs. I contribute it to the lifestyle here. I’m walking (sometimes running) everywhere! To the bus, to the metro, to the train… constantly rushing up and down steps. Meals are also eaten together here, like a sacred social ritual. On top of that meals are slower as you’re talking with others and plates are often shared. I’m also spending a lot more time in the sun/outdoors which (call me crazy) I suspect affects my appetite because I don’t find myself craving food to appease an emotional response. Anyway, I was happy with my weight in the States, but I do feel a lot better here in Spain. Good thing I married a Spaniard and we’re here to stay ❤

[legobuilders]

the best habit for weight loss is not being pre-occupied by food (or weight, or calories, or health-by-food, or...).When I am involved in activities that are interesting, make me feel useful and are challenging, I usually eat less.

[iggs]

Well, I don’t know about “skinny people” habits but I’ve got the slightly chubby and menopausal habits down pat. I’m happy to share my tips. 😂

[brandywillis]

Here's a tip that really helped me. When your food comes, eat half of it. Then after 20 minutes, if you're still hungry or craving eat some more until you feel full. If you're already full, take it to go, and pack it up for lunch tomorrow. No guilt, no waste, no forcing yourself to finish. This really helped me get out of my parent's mindset of clean plate club every time you sit down. I used to eat it all, even to the point of feeling ill. I also started eating more slowly and savoring food.

[anaarh]

There are a lot of reasons why people are skinny, healty and unhealty ones. From genetics, intuitive eating and hunger cues, age, health, ed, lifestyle, habits, stress, enviroment and more. Being skinny is not a moral imperative but feeling good in your skin and mind should be.

[MuseSunflower]

It helps to have a hobby that doubles as a workout. That way you get to socialize, it’s fun, you get regular connection with people and you don’t really feel like it’s a workout until a day or so after when you get sore

For me, pole fitness classes and salsa dancing has been a wonderful activity to keep me moving regularly

[maryxlent]

As someone with ADHD who has always been slim - I forget to eat because of a lack of hunger cues, I usually get hit with sudden ravenous painful hunger out of nowhere and then overcompensate. I used to fidget loads and working in retail meant that my job was active. I work on a laptop 8 hours a day now and suddenly it actually matters what and how much I eat because of the lack of movement!

I saw a comment below asking if you would do a video for people with ADHD, I would love this so much! I've been watching your channel for more than a year and I've learned so much. The HCC especially has helped me understand what my body actually needs and what a complete meal means. However, some (maybe most) days I just have no energy to cook after work and end up eating crap food. Some go to snack and dinner options with minimal ingredients, certified by Abbey, would be so great 😍

[sarahdemarrero]

So glad you touched on NEAT! I’m a postpartum fitness specialist, and this is my biggest tip for moms. Like lean innnn to the things we naturally have to do as moms. Rock the baby, pace the floors, pick up toys for the 500th time today, yes yes and yes! It might be annoying, but at least it’s a natural weight management strategy that’s also productive 🤷‍♀️

[hannah-louisedunlop]

I loved this video. As a "clean plate clubber", I can see the correlation between family diet culture enforcement and weight fluctuation. Healing my relationship with food has helped me slowly start to leave this club, as I really don't have a big appetite. I would always finish my plate, yet I really am just not hungry. It's a behaviour. Would love a link to this video :)

[Dylvente]

Many skinny people do these things because they're less hungry, hungry less often, or get full with less food, all of these factors occurring naturally. It's dangerous for people who are overweight because they don't have these natural advantages to try to force the same behaviors, mixing up cause and effect, but it's healthy to add behaviors that help us feel full without leaving us feeling deprived. You really show why these things are true--very helpful video!

[CAEO]

All my skinny friends eat smaller portions. They eat until they are satisfied, not stuffed. They also don’t snack very often.

[piecebypiece]

Skinnier people tend to stay away from drinking their calories. This one I have noticed. They'll occasionally have alcohol and soda on the weekends, but they aren't having it with every single meal.

[yveje]

I find that skipping breakfast actually makes me eat less throughout the day. Idk why when I eat breakfast especially a hearty one I am ravenous for the rest of the day. It’s crazy I’m actually trying to put on some weight so this is something I noticed that is good for me at this time but interesting that she said the opposite is true for most people.

[No-swtd]

I am still a thin woman, just an average and i would say healthy thin woman. A few years ago, I was underweight, and my main habit that resulted in being that thin was that I replaced meals with coffee. I craved coffee (specifically iced coffee) every moment of every day. Coffee suppressed my appetite, so that made it so I was only hungry for one meal a day. So glad I have placed limits on my coffee addiction lol

[AJ-oyiv]

The last tip about drinking water ended up being backhanded helpful. I intentionally planned to drink instead of eat which is bad. I craved salty and saucy foods out of dehydration. I was effectively volume eating in the day and would "stress cook" full meals at night; which probably looked like binging. The weight loss didn't come until I realized I was eating to not be thirsty. I set alarms to drink water which gave me room to have filling foods and snacks early.

[adivanhal]

I think this was a missed opportunity to mention that there is such thing as too much water especially if it's being chugged all day and little to no food is consumed, I have suffered from different eating disorders for most of my life and have experienced water poisoning a couple of times if I ever mention to someone who is not a health provider/dietitian they have always told me that there is no such thing as too much water

[maddyG]

My goal and what I’ve noticed with my ‘skinny’ friends, is that they may enjoy food, but they aren’t consumed by it. They eat a meal and they feel satisfied. They’re not afraid to pack up a meal and have it later. For me I know my mum’s diet culture and the ‘clean your plate’ contradiction really made food novel and yet scarce. Since I’ve started changing how I see food, I don’t feel the same compulsion to eat all the time.

[thelitnerd]

I never was able to imagine how some people forget to eat. Then i was diagnosed with PCOS with insulin resistance and was put on some medicine for it to regulate insulin and other hormones, and now that my hormones are much better i don't feel so hungry all the time. I sometimes forget to eat when I'm busy now, but like Abbey says, you do end up catching up later!

[mackenziehu]

Did loads of things when I was "skinnier" than now and those habits still haunt me as a recovering ed patient:) so used to skip meals and being hungry that my first response to being hungry is normally "ok let's ignore it for now I'll eat in a bit" then a bit became having lunch at 4pm and next thing I know I was getting injuries during my endurance running bc I underfueled my body 🥰 so DON'T do the sketchy shit like chugging water, binging on coffee or skipping meals, it is incredible difficult to get rid of those habits and I hope I had never done them ever ❤