Former Tally follower here and I’m ashamed to admit I got a bit sucked in by it all at one point. I know this sounds dramatic but I think she actually promotes disordered eating and becoming unhealthy, as was said above, to validate her own feelings and her overeating. I’m now recovering from the damage that she did to me by following her (I take full responsibility by the way) but I do feel her messaging is dangerous. I’m now realising it’s actually okay to want to lose some weight as long as it’s in a healthy way. I’m walking most nights after dinner with my partner and we are going to the gym at least 3-4 times a week, eating healthy balanced foods with the odd treat and I feel so much better! My sleep is better, my work and relationships are better and honestly I’m so glad to have seen the light. A treat is fine now and then but loading yourself with unnecessary calories on a daily basis is unhealthy and I’m sick of hearing people say being overweight isn’t dangerous! I’m sorry but it is!! I was listening to a podcast with Chloe Madeley and she was saying it’s a very inverted view to think that nobody else in the world can lose weight healthily, just because you can’t. I think that’s Tally’s problem - she wasn’t able to do it healthily so thinks nobody should. She needs some help to get the balance right, she is walking into a world of health problems. The problem is how does she do a u-turn on it all now?
 
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Farmer Sam

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“Mixed weight relationship” jeeeez everything needs a label doesn’t it! Thanks for posting that. I can only imagine the comments section. An article in the misogynistic Daily Fail is about the level of her career!
 
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i think the intuitive eating movement became quite popular last year(?) and it is actually a very easy movement to monetise. you don't have to believe in any of it and literally spin any moment in your life to say 'oh this is what i needed please unlearn bad behaviours!'

i think this is becoming really obvious in her content. before she would post more gym focused things and lean less into the morality of exercise and food but since she's gained weight and lost some engagement (i assume) the obvious answer is body positivity/intuitive eating. it's so frustrating because this is so common with this brand of influencers and they don't post anything of actual help, saying that food is not 'good' or 'bad' is the most basic introduction to people and it does not help anyone deconstruct anything about the diet industry, it's a cheap cash grab that aims at a vulnerable market (people that are unhappy with themselves and fat people), and there's no uplifting of any fat voices, any intuitive eating or joyful exercise accounts or any male voices in the space (except her podcast of course, which is still on the surface and serves HER specifically).

this always makes me so incredibly angry because it always comes after people gain weight, when they were smaller they would not really engage in this content because it wouldn't be the most profitable. what it shows is once it affects you, you have to care about it. she has not had empathy for people unhappy about themselves until that became her.

people do not hear to leave some carrots if they're not hungry!! they need inclusive gymwear, accessible exercising, easy balanced meals, an understanding of food, extremely basic cooking tutorials, different gym sessions based on time/access, how to know if exercise is joyful or not! tally saying how she didn't finish some food or she sat on the sofa because she was tired is so insulting and not helpful at all, but to people not in the space they'll think she's inspiring and helpful when she's tainting the movement from what it's meant to be. people do not have the luxury to go to bed when they feel tired, people do not have the money to always leave food - how do we manage this?

apologies for the rant, i hate rich influencers who solely profit off a movement that is not intended to serve them while giving no real advice or action to help the people it's meant to serve.
 
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Greencatfysh

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Imagine publicly posting that the hardest thing you have to do today is play with a puppy and do one instagram post. Like she actually posted that with no awareness of how that comes across. Absolute moron
 
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Rondoodle

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I've been following Tally for AGES. Since she was a skinny gym bunny before she even met Jack. My god what has happened. While I absolutely appreciate the fact that her early days were not healthy for her, WHY does she think that everyone that exercises is disordered? What is she trying to preach now? Because to someone who has followed her for a long time, it looks like that in healing herself from her old issues, she has a new disordered form of eating. One that has caused her to gain a huge amount of weight in a short space of time. She looks so unhealthy. So awful and grey. And I'm not talking about her weight here. Her skintone is off. Her weight distribution is so unhealthy looking, all around the mid section.

I haven't commented till today but the morning sleep thing really really got to me. I work out early most mornings. I have children who need to get to school and a full time (real) job. My evenings are spent making dinners, doing household chores and spending time with my family. I like to train for events both running and functional stuff and this takes time and dedication. But I bloody love it. My morning workout sets my day up so well. I feel so positive and strong after it. And the improvements that i have seen to my fitness and performance make me love it even more. I want to be better and the morning is the only time that I can dedicate to improving.

By her reasoning, its not really worth it (her exact words) because i could spend more time in bed.

She needs to stop and think about her messaging. Because right now she is looking like someone who has gained a whole heap of weight and is now actively discouraging people to exercise so they become like her. She claims to be fixed but I seriously beg to differ. This bullshit about everything being 'movement' is a crock of shit. She has become lazy and totally lost track of reality over the past year. Her days are filled with nothing and it shows in her messaging.
 
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Greencatfysh

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Jesus Christ, they literally act like Surrey is in Timbuktu. Tally saying she wasn’t sure how a reformer Pilates class would be “outside of London”. Literally give me strength lord
 
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I’ll be honest I don’t get the impression either Jack or Ant have much chat so it’s probably very quiet in their households once they’ve spoken about tuna baguettes and how overwhelmed Tally is just with breathing
 
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