Doesn't excuse diet-y comments, but it's understandable...

[tamsinterror]

I got my disordered eating from my mother, she got it from her mother.
I broke this cycle with my daughters. They deserve love and nourishment.

[acidrockmegayacht]

women have died from a mindset like that... its horrible

[zoinks]

companies be like "remember ladies, if your waist is big enough to contain all your abdominal organs, you are disgusting and should buy our diet products"

[zenawagner]

Gods my mom still says "I can pinch an inch!" to me to this DAY. She started saying it when I was four, it screws up so many people and generations

[Chris-wlnl]

I remember the "pinch an inch" campaign. And grew up thinking all of that stuff. Ugh. Thankfully your videos are helping reverse my thinking.

[melodyrose]

Lmao memory unlocked: being a kid in the late 90s and early 00s and seeing the “pinch an inch” campaign and thinking if I ate special k I could be skinny 😂😭

[danakedem]

I am 14 years old. Two years ago both my parents started a very restrictive diet, and they lost a ton of weight. It actually really damafed my relationship with food becuase they would always talk negatively about themselves. We started going to therapy together, and now we are all doing better❤

[Nunima-ej]

Huh? I'm almost at the underweight limit and I can pinch my waist too no problem?? It's literally just skin. This ad is so harmful and stupid

[KawaiiKoalaBear]

Kellogs really said "how can we make women insecure about the fact they have skin?"

[ChrisOdinson]

My Dad was an aggressive diet enforcer. When he learned I was binging and Purging ten years ago he didn't even care he just wanted me to be skinny.

My sister became a dietician though. I couldn't be prouder of her. It was like an official slap to diet culture. I'm proud of her.

[mandor-nrrt]

My teacher taught our entire class this in 5th grade. Imagine how embarrassing that was for me as the chubby kid. Funny enough the skinniest kid in class had ehlers danlos syndrome and could pinch way more than an inch lol.

[dinu]

“I bet I know what you're having for breakfast” Even the actress's face looked so defeated, creaking sad man

[allyash]

My late husband would tell me that everyone has at least a pinch and I wasn't getting fat. He was so sweet and also understood my food problems and body dysmorphia

[zenamorgan]

I remember seeing this little kid like maybe five or six years old. And thinking I need to lose some weight because I can pinch an inch. This commercial with on at least 2-3 times in the span of the Charlie’s Angels TV show, so I was pretty exposed to that way of thinking. Sadly, I still do that now.😮

[Spookybluelights]

I have had several conversations with my mom about this. I try and be gentle with her and remind her that losing weight and being skinny isn't always healthy and that some people lose weight in really unhealthy ways (including herself, she takes Ozempic because she's diabetic and she's lost a weight because of it because she's not eating as much, but it's also made her so weak and barely able to get out of bed some days, but she always talks like it's a good thing and not something to get concerned over). We were at the doctor's once and she "complemented" a random person on their weight and they said in a deadpan "Thanks, I have an eating disorder." She and I had a long talk in the car after that you never know what other people are going through and you might inadvertently enforce an awful idea causing someone to do unhealthy things to themselves by the things you say. Sadly, my mother is my mother and it didn't stick, but I tried. 🤷‍♀️

[cristiannaJ]

My nana is 99 and still talks about dieting and weight. It really never ends 😢

[Ocean-]

I’m gen z and my private schools girls health book said that and we were reading it in class and we all started raging. Literally EVERY girl can pinch more than an inch.

[sliceofgarlicbread]

My mom said this about herself when I was six, and I remember crying in the shower that night because I, too, could pinch an inch. I was an underweight child as it was, by the way.

[ASDFGHJKL-rurt]

I remember in school we were doing a fitness test, beep test and all that fun stuff.

The teacher (a woman) read out all the things require for the fitness test. One of those thing being a pinch test with an actual measuring device.

My teacher took one look at this and went “we’re not doing that”. I’m glad my teacher wasn’t insane but I feel horrified that that would be recommended to do on high school kids at all.

[mads]

My ED came from early childhood SA. The first person I told was my husband, who encouraged me to go to therapy. Trauma psychotherapy was scary and forced me to confront the emotions I bottled up to protect myself and also to inform my parents. My mind sought control over one of the few things a child can control, her food intake.