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OMG this is his screensaver?! On his own laptop?? Fuck me….
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He’s such a dick, so much ick

As a long time Tattle reader, this is the first time I have ever felt compelled to actually create an account and post.

I'm not entirely sure how someone who professes to be a Medical Doctor, Nutritionist and an advocate for Women's Health, can suddenly think her followers will appreciate her new #instahun lifestyle. Completely appreciate she maybe in love and so happy in her new relationship, however the comments regarding being ships in the night.....I mean seriously? Is she so unaware of how many couples have to live like this whilst having real jobs that don't make ends meet half the time?

You've moved to Bali, are effectively exploiting the country's cheap labour laws and pushing more people into poverty whilst you live your 'dream life', pretend to work for a couple of hours on a new Sales course and then "commute" to the gym.

The posts have now become a mixture of look at my perfect insta boyfriend DB, here I am with my laptop working SO hard, off I go to commute to working at...the gym with all of my instafriends (who also sell "fitness" courses) and oh wait, I now need to post generic information about obstetrics and gynaecology, with no actual expertise, because that's the real reason people actually started following me in the first place.

I mean can someone please give this woman a reality check? For someone who began their insta career discussing medical health, this new instahun lifestyle is actually starting to become really distasteful and embarrassing to watch.

Truthslayer said:

She has lost a lot of weight. Not surprising given that she considers a plate of kale and a slice of chicken to be a meal I guess!!

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I screenshotted this story because of the egregious photo manipulation. I know a 0.5 zoom can elongate the lower half of the body but she’s purposely manipulated this photo because the locker and bookcase behind her are suffering from vertical wobbly line syndrome.

I’m surprised this thread hasn’t got more traction recently. When I first discovered her in 2017 I thought it was great that I seemed to have found someone fitness related that actually had all the credentials (Qualified doctor, nutritionist and personal trainer) to back up what she was saying. She was juggling a demanding career, popular blog and social media which was commendable and I found her very relatable but now I look back there were issues even back then. I bought her first book and attempted to make the Chocolate Coconut Protein Balls, I realised that I needed over double the amount of coconut oil in the recipe to get them to stick together. She claimed the recipe made approximately 12 golf-ball sized balls, I can only assume she’d never got close to a golf ball, the portion sizes were tiny and if you wanted to make them golf ball sized you’d have got about 5, max out of the recipe. With all the changes that needed to be made, they worked out at just over 300 calories each so I realised it just wasn’t worth it.

As the years rolled on I ignored some of the more annoying posts and stories because I still enjoyed most of her content.

When she was single and in her old flat I was surprised that she posted so many stories where, with a bit of time and google maps, you could work out where she lived. It was obviously a ground floor flat, she had a very recognisable door mat and would post her running route, disguising specifics but still identifying the area she lived in. I was impressed that she could afford all the rent and bills on one salary as well as the weekly flowers, posh gym etc but, as now discovered, she comes from a wealthy family, must have been doing well from books sales, blog stuff etc and doesn’t always declare freebies.

Again, when she was single in the old flat, she would often post OOTD pictures with links (of course) and then get arsey during Q and As when people asked what size and height she was. She never replied to the size questions and replied to the height question with “5 foot 5 (Why does it even matter)”. When you post OOTD pictures, your height does matter as people want to know what height you are so they can compare how the clothes/trouser leg/skirt length sit on your body to how they may sit on theirs for goodness sake .

When she started selling on deepop I had a look to be nosey and find out her size (6, which is no surprise, why she didn't just tell people I don’t know because she had to put the size of her clothes on deepop) and found a jumper she was trying to sell which in the description said had a large stain which could’t be removed on the arm. She was trying to sell a stained jumper for £10 on Deepop, which seems a tad desperate.

Quite often she would have a social media break on the weekend for her metal health with a ‘See you on Monday’ however, on Sunday you’d get a roundup of everything on the Food Medic website because she couldn’t possibly miss that Sunday evening engagement. At this point I thought her Food Medic website posts on social media may be posted by someone else but she claims it’s all her.

It’s a shame she gave up her job and no-one would criticise her being burnt out after the chaos of Covid, but by that point she was sitting in a room part time, calling and talking to people suffering from long Covid and…… that’s it, that’s all she was doing.

As the money dried up from her ‘career’ the monetisation from her social media had to increase and I ‘think’ this is when the webinars started. The first one looked vaguely interesting and I wasn’t very busy at the time so I thought I’d see how much it was. £30 for a webinar, with some nonsense about an ‘online goody bag’ (worth nothing) and CPD points (which I’m guessing would only apply if you worked in a medical field). Very money grabbing. I’d be very interested to know how many people fork out the money to attend these.

Then, inevitably came the smug arsehole of a boyfriend, initially I was happy for her because she was clearly happy, despite the fact that I thought he looked far too smug and shiny. Then I found out he had been on some TV show and was actually a smug wanker so more fool her really, he’ll never love her as much as he loves himself.

My final straw was the move to Bali. That’s when I feel she jumped the shark and became completely unrelateable. She tried to justify it by claiming that she’d spent 10 years building up her brand to be able to do this yadda yadda yadda but very few people can just jump ship to Bali for a few months and work remotely - unrelateable.

This year the monetisation has really ramped up, first the paywall for her website so she can ‘work on even more content’, by which I’m assuming is completely useless recipes that don’t work and workouts from someone who ran themselves into injury and didn’t let themselves recover, plus lots of discussions about periods because 99% of her followers will have one so it’s likely to gain a lot of engagement. There was the nonsense about periods being wounds every month because the womb lining is ripped away. A very worrying and nonsensical view from someone who is a trained (no longer practising but still trained!) doctor.

Recently there’s been a huge amount of engagement baiting (What questions do you have about running? Has someone ever said to you, “You’re very emotional, are you on your period?”) which always leads to her promoting a new webinar, course, this ALIGN thing which, naturally all come with a cost. She barely does any content which doesn’t lead to a paid for subscription anymore.

5 years ago she was my favourite (non-friend) person on instagram to follow, now for some reason I can’t quite click the unfollow so she’s become a hate-follow instead. That doctored picture on her story yesterday is the icing on the shitty instahun cake.

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Is she seriously putting “chatting with DB” as part of her schedule?! Just call it a morning shag and be done with it

This girl went for it

Polkadotshorts said:

View attachment 2454085“Wed-min”? “Wifey”? Jesus Christ. It’s like they’re playing house. This is serious life altering stuff Hazel. You’re cuffing yourself to a moron for validation?!

also, is she taking a tip from Zanna-not-like-the-other-girls with saying she doesn’t have a Pinterest board? Bore off hazel

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no Pinterest board but a suitcase of white outfits at the ready for the proposal

That’s it, I’ve unfollowed. She needs serious help. Why is she hyper fixated on what he thinks of her body, what she’s eating, how much she’s moving?! It’s insane she’s built a successful platform and is trashing it with her obsession with him. Did she really think a video of him leering at her body was great content?

YoungHollywood said:

No one is wishing she was “sad” or is bothered by her being in a relationship. It’s the fact she is SO fake, still calling herself a medic, still the pinned posts on her Instagram are of her as a doctor in scrubs, she still poses for interviews with a stethoscope etc. That all winds me up the most as it’s so dodgy and she is cashing in on that status. And all because her content is so boring now, nothing like it used to be when it was informative and of value. It’s just generic instahun (cleaning my kitchen shelves, jeez..no one cares!). Add to that, she always posts triggering things such as the story just before this one, showing her tiny meal next to his big one - WHY?! We know you eat less, we know you can’t train as hard, we know you think you are less of a person! Stop bowing down to this imbecile. And lastly the reason she gets negativity is her boyfriend has the biggest ick factor of anyone I have seen online. He is so big headed and arrogant. No one wants to see or hear from him yet she has to have him on everyone post now. He is grim!

Hope that helps

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Exactly this! Also - she seems to forget that she has now merged businesses with a guy who says things like ice baths and meditation is pretentious, bodybuilding is pointless, he used to think stretching was ‘just for girls’, and there are still recent videos of him howling his head off at exercises other people choose to do because he thinks it’s funny to laugh at others. So Hazelnut, not only does he come across as nasty, unintelligent and arrogant, he also sounds very much like he has no idea about fitness and wellness, which, given its his job, is pretty concerning!

And as you say, I also actually think it’s great if someone is happy, brilliant in fact. But as a 41 year old woman I couldn’t give a hoot about whether I have tiger stripes or not and the fact she said when DB said ‘hey I have those too’ (which sounds completely made up!) changed her world is frankly concerning. Yes there will be a handful of women of her age that still have enough time on their hands to worry about things like that but most of us women are more worried about our jobs, family, overall health etc, and at her age if she is so heavily focussed on that she needs help. She seems so insecure and I personally just cannot relate - I want to see women that are strong, confident, get on with things, and yes it’s fine to show some struggles as well but not flippin tiger stripes. It’s 15 year old girl content - not for me I’m afraid.

So Hazel has finished her first ever marathon and her tosser bf has posted on his stories not a congratulation to her, but stories about himself and his own half and ultra marathon races and times.

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Holding out the phone to capture this? Seriously Hazelnut. Get a grip

He sounds like a fucking nightmare

Do you know what I find intimidating in the gym? It's not people walking past, it's these bloody influences who have no respect for other people's privacy and post photos and videos.

This is WILDLY inappropriate. She’s absolutely vile.

Do you think he's off doing some messy play or colouring in?

How embarrassing. A DOCTOR going on about her tiger stripes and that her fiancé has them too tee hee so I feel so happy and accepted tee hee. Rather than “unrealistic expectations on women’s bodies that are perpetuated by the patriarchal media so I’m not even gonna make a fuss about a measly white mark”. Fucking hell Hazelnut you continue to regress.