Agree! I've spent my life having to go through periods of time avoiding dairy and gluten. But other times my body has accepted it. Same as with any food intolerance if you eliminate it to allow your gut to heal, it can often be reintroduced.The dairy thing isn’t that weird in my opinion either. The exact same thing happened to my friend, for about 6 years she was intolerant and could barely handle any dairy.
Suddenly it just sort of went away? she tried a little pizza because she missed it and thought she’d just deal with the discomfort but nothing happened
It was really strange but wow was she happy it did!
This was exactly me, when I was younger! Up until the age of 25/26, I was naturally skinny and quite tall; I've been 5'7" since the age of 14 and loomed over most of my friends at that age. My weight was ALWAYS commented on. 'you need to eat a burger' 'is your mum starving you?' When these people saw me eat, they'd be like 'whaaaat'. I think people probably assumed I had an ED, but I didn't even know what they were at that age.I have no idea if she does or if she doesn’t. BUT I highly doubt it, I just know that if she did, her family would 100% notice and not be okay with it happening.
I’m not as tall as Grace but I am thin (but a healthy weight), my whole life people have assumed I’m anorexic or at least restrict what I’m eating... it’s like they can’t believe that someone would actually eat till they are full and know when to stop? And it’s seriously SO frustrating. People assume I restrict or that I have an unhappy life because I don’t over indulge all the time (some times I do! But I know when to stop) and it always just seems like people project their own insecurities onto me (or a thin person in general) and it’s almost like you can’t do right for doing wrong. Not long ago people were complaining that her diet had too much sugar, now it’s moved onto that she’s anorexic.
Skinny shaming is so real and only the people that haven’t experienced it will say it’s not. I was once not even phased with my weight, I didn’t give it a second thought. Now I look at myself in the mirror and notice how lanky my arms are (something that I literally cannot control), I feel like I should cover them up because someone will think I’m anorexic and it’s just so sad that other people have put those insecurities in my head because of their own insecurities.
This.Stop bashing Grace! She's such a down to earth and innocent you tuber compared to the rest of them. The poor girl has done so well and even gifts any freebies she gets to others.
Why do people have to start jumping on the ED bandwagon. Look at her family. Her siblings are tall and slim as are her parents. Old photos of her are tall and lanky. It's just their genetics. She has a healthy and normal attitude to food and enjoys cooking and baking.
It's so easy when you have had or are having traumatic experienced yourself to project that on to others because you become obsessed with triggers that are familiar. It doesn't mean she's going through the same.
Leave the poor girl alone!!
Agreed, some people have a metabolism that works overtime. If she wasn't tall I would be concerned but she's a beanpole. Also, I think she talks about food so much because it is content, she likes trying new things and reviewing them and her fans keep asking for more of that. I think she is trying to give what the people want. I'm allergic to nuts but I still love hearing her talking about all her bakes, for inspiration.I agree, I think there’s almost an element of jealousy and projection. This is a rave thread and Grace is wonderful.
Yeh same thing happened to me, every now and again if I eat too much it will come back though (i.e. now after all the cheese at xmas), but it def isn't necessarilly a permanent thing like gluten allergy or something.The dairy thing isn’t that weird in my opinion either. The exact same thing happened to my friend, for about 6 years she was intolerant and could barely handle any dairy.
Suddenly it just sort of went away? she tried a little pizza because she missed it and thought she’d just deal with the discomfort but nothing happened
It was really strange but wow was she happy it did!
I disagree with literally all of this, but did want to specifically pick up on the thing about getting feedback. I'm from a family who love food (as the Booths seem to as well). We love trying new things, and cooking and eating together, but the downside is also that it feels like quite a lot of pressure sometimes when you're cooking for folk because there's truly nothing worse than being the person who makes a shit meal for people for whom that meal is like the focal point of the day. She wants them to enjoy the meal, she wants feedback on what to do differently next time if they don't. Grace is also the youngest of three siblings, and she really looks up to and adores Chloe and Jesse but also seems to really crave their approval a lot of the time. She has also talked about suffering from different kinds of anxiety (she doesn't really label it as anxiety but that's what she's describing). All of this combined is far more of what contributes to the feedback thing in my mind.Grace gives me ED vibes, she massively overcompensates / exaggerates re' the food she eats, and she has a few odd habits e.g.
she will go on big trips and buy loads of food and then only eat small bites (e.g. brighton ice cream, donuts and cookies in London etc., making a big deal of going to maccies and then just getting a healthy chicken wrap - who does that ),
she cooks and bakes loads and loads for her family - even stuff she can't eat or doesn't like (ref the christmas pudding that took ages .... like she would make massive cakes with dairy when she was dairy intolerant) and then she is quite obsessive about getting feedback on the food - a lot of ED people do this as it enables them to be 'close to food' without having to eat
pre getting really big on youtube she made a lot of what i eat in a week videos where the food would 90% of the time be out of camera shot - these videos always had loads of comments from people recovering from EDs
the whole Dairy intolerence going away and her saying she will explain it and then never getting around to doing so (even though she gets a lot of comments about it ) seems off too
I think it could simply be explained as shes dairy intolerant, tried introducing small amounts of dairy back into her diet but it was giving her the runs so she’s stopped? I don’t think there needs to be a massive hoohah about it personally...About her eating dairy - I found the whole dairy intolerant thing a bit strange and wonder if maybe she got the 'diagnosis' from one of those pseudoscientific food allergy testing companies. It might be the case what she actually has is just your bog-standard trouble digesting lactose and a bit of IBS. I could understand not want to talk about it if that's the case because she might feel a bit silly if she found out it's not 100% true she has to avoid all dairy completely. She might even be scared of getting backlash considering she was very keen in the past to point out she was 'dairy intolerant' not 'lactose intolerant' (whatever that means).
I agree it's not that deep, I wasn't trying to bash Grace I was just trying to give a reason why she might have been so drastic in eliminating all dairy in the past and why she's reluctant to talk about it now (that isn't to do with her secretly having an eating disorder which is clearly bollocks).I think it could simply be explained as shes dairy intolerant, tried introducing small amounts of dairy back into her diet but it was giving her the runs so she’s stopped? I don’t think there needs to be a massive hoohah about it personally...
Strange because that’s exactly what happened to me. Now I’m ok.The dairy thing isn’t that weird in my opinion either. The exact same thing happened to my friend, for about 6 years she was intolerant and could barely handle any dairy.
Suddenly it just sort of went away? she tried a little pizza because she missed it and thought she’d just deal with the discomfort but nothing happened
It was really strange but wow was she happy it did!
Personally I think this roast vs. rave divide is silly because no one is perfect and separating the forum in this way promotes both artificially harsh and glowing comments but that's off topic.Oh oops, completely hadn't clocked this thread is in the 'rave about' forum. Apologies.
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