I firmly believe those of us who went through the trauma of 90s diet culture and had parents who were also trained that way. We’re screwed. We have no idea how to eat. We bounce between “clean eating’ and ‘binge cycling’ Most of us don’t have hunger cues or know when enough is enough. I feel like it’s a never ending cycle and the guilt that goes with that cycle is ugly. Now we live in a world that spins between body positivity and intuitive eating. I just want someone to be like we’re starting from day 1 and just teach me how to function and how to eat so I feel my best. I’m so tired of food and thinking about it.
I completely agree with this. I grew up with a mom that pointed out the minute I was “too skinny” or “too fat”. There was no in between. Now I’m struggling with one or the other. It’s hard to hear that voice in the back of your head all the time.
Another TH-camr, Caroline Winkler, made a video about a year ago talking about how she stopped obsessing over food and it's SO GOOD and it helped me a lot. I think it applies to both restrictive and binge eating, because the root cause is the same. If anyone wants some parasocial support ❤
I'm sobbing. I needed to hear that. I needed to feel like I'm not alone. I feel like I'm going crazy. Some days I don't get 100-200 steps and I get down on myself and call myself terrible names. And then I order unhealthy food. But if a friend told me they were going through the exact thing, I would never call them names or even think that of them, I'd think they need a little added support and love right now. I wish I could love myself the way I love others. But Carrie, you're such an inspiration to me. I absolutely love your whole demeanor, style and just the way you put yourself out there in a way that helps others.
Carrie! Fellow millenial here 👋🏼Thank you so much for sharing and being vulnerable with us. Haven’t finished watching the vlog yet, but wanted to hop on here to let you know that we’re all here for you. I’m recovering from anorexia, orthorexia, exercise bulimia and binge eating. I have always struggled with finding that balance of allowing myself to eat the foods I love while not obsessing over the scale, my size, or the way I look and feel. It’s a really difficult thing to juggle. And the rise of social media and magazines we dealt with growing up did not help. It’s honestly still a struggle until this day, even though I don’t actively binge or deprive myself of foods. I think the first step is being honest and open about it and not being afraid to ask for help. So proud of you for being transparent and brave! I hope you continue to find your balance. Sending you lots of love! ❤
Woof, I had to pause at 9:29 to just take a moment for myself. You’ve captured everything I’ve been feeling and the complexities of striking balance to a T. Thank you for your vulnerability and for opening up. I share a very similar experience. I don’t even have anything to add except to name that you’re not alone in this either and I appreciated this segment of the video.
As someone with sensory issues, having your clothes get tighter and that causing anxiety is SO valid. Try to be kind to yourself and focus on enjoying your holidays. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself that just makes it worse! Try to focus on eating for comfort both in terms of yummy things and not upsetting your tummy! Be nice to yourself! Love you Carrie! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing your struggles with food and body image. I’ve been all over the place with all of it and now I’m trying to get pregnant and I have never felt more discouraged about my body in my whole life. We are not alone and we will take this one day and one choice at a time. ❤
Literally yesterday I broke down to my husband about how much I’m struggling with body stuff right now. There’s so much shame and doubt and sadness. Diet culture wants us to feel this way, swinging back and forth between various states of restriction and consumption. The more I reflect I truly believe that the cure to it is finding that balance. Also knowing that life has seasons and learning to ride out the waves with lots of self love and grace. Thanks for chatting about this, Carrie. None of us are alone.💗
Bruhhhhh. Hearing someone else talk about their restrictive eating and binge eating is so freeing for me to hear. I think for a lot of us we know that we can control how much we eat so that’s what we focus on when we’re not feeling at our best mentally. Additionally I know that I become even more concerned about my body when I’m PMSing bc I feel SO hungry and like a black hole. I’m trying to remind myself to just eat and my body will go back to normal afterwards. Thank you for being vulnerable bc as the comments show - a lot of us deal with this.
I really appreciate your openness on eating and how you feel about your body. It's incredibly relatable and I'm in a similar headspace. It's so hard to find the balance and giving grace to ourselves is a good place to start.
I think a lot of people have an all or nothing approach to health, like deciding to eat super clean & cutting out food, and working out 5-6 times a week straight away. It's a lot to adjust to and then when they give up they go back to how they were before. I think it's super helpful to start making small changes, like aim to workout 2-3 times a week or limit take out to once or twice a week and so on.
Thank you for opening up about your body image. Struggling with food is so hard to me because contrary to alcohol/drug use, you can't swear off of food. You can not just quit eating all together, you need to navigate eating every day and nourishing your body, while dealing with all of these complex issues. Anyways, sending you lots of love from Québec ❤
They say when you gain weight it’s a protective mechanism, it makes sense as you don’t feel completely settled where you are. It’s like a subconscious protective layer you put between you and the world. The same happened to me and when I really thought about it I didn’t feel completely safe in my environment. Sending you so much love Carrie and I think it’s amazing that you brought light to this situation, so many of us have gone through the same. Please do treat yourself with more kindness you’re such a great person 💜
Carrie, thank you so much for opening up about your struggle with body image and relationship with food at the moment. I have been struggling so much recently with the same issues. I’ve been through eating disorder recovery, and as you mentioned I’ve been here already and it’s so frustrating. I do just think it goes to show how deeply embedded diet culture and societal messaging can be in terms of how bodies “should” look, and how anything outside of that is inadequate. I just want you to know how appreciated and loved you are. I know you were really nervous opening up about this, but I feel validated in you sharing your feelings and I can’t thank you enough. We’re gonna get through this, I promise.
Carrie, I so appreciate every time you are vulnerable with us here online with you. I always relate and it feels comforting to know we are all going through our own things, yet we are all still moving forward. ❤
Your park convo is exaaaactly what I have been struggling with. I am either all in or all out and both of those lead to constantly thinking about my body and how it fits into the world. I know it is a land mine you have to navigate when talking about it, but I so appreciate you still being honest 🫶🏼
I’ve learnt that being all or nothing is a very common trait in people with adhd. Since getting diagnosed last year, I’m trying to be more in the middle with things in life. It’s soooo hard! Thank you for being vulnerable with us and making me teary because it’s sad this is such a common and universal experience ❤
I'm right there with you Carrie sending you healing and love. Life has been unexpected and I know I haven't been kind to my body. Thank you for sharing and be an inspiration to us all ❤❤
I’m so glad you didn’t take that townhouse. Sounds like they were bias. You dodged a bullet. They were making up their own rules. I’m also going through binge eating. I am diagnosed with food addiction. It’s so hard I empathize with you. But you look great. You can wear anything and look cute in it. Be gentle with yourself. Thank you for your blogs. They are very comforting. I always look forward to them. Xx
Wow this whole vlog is exactly everything I'm going through right now. My partner and I just found a place in LA after a year and a half of viewing places! It's so bleak out there! Also struggling with body image for the first time in years and nodding along vigorously to everything you were saying about that. I'm an eating disorder therapist and it's honestly such a hard time to be helping people with body image in the age of ozempic and thin being "in" again. It's helpful to know so many of us are in the same boat. You're the best ❤
I’m happy that you are addressing the body image issues you’re going through. It is okay to be honest and open about it. We all go through it, no matter what size
Your vlogs are the only ones ive cared to watch this vlogmas. Thank you for taking the time to share your lives with us! I hope Drew is feeling better!
Everything you said about body image and your struggles resonated very deeply with me. I'm a bit older than you (I'm 41) and growing up in the "nothing taste better than skinny feels" era really did a lot of damage to us Millennials. I love body neutrality and wish I was a part of that movement for myself like I am for others. We are always so harsh on ourselves, while we give others such grace and it sucks. Just know you aren't alone.
So much to say about this. First, as a fellow ADHD girlie, I have so many problems around food at times. Sometimes it’s an all or nothing mindset and we’re more likely to do things such as binge eat bc we lack some impulse control skills. Second, I LOVE body positivity but I think I also went too far with it and let myself make unhealthy choices disguised as healing my eating/being body positive. My body hurts. I’m uncomfy. So because of this, I am starting to focus a bit more on what I’m eating and how I’m moving my body day to day. Because even though we don’t want to hear it, it does make us feel better! But all of it is so hard and such a difficult mental load. I have loved you and have watched your content for years and I think it is so brave being so vulnerable about these things online. Most of us struggle with it so opening that line of communication is amazing. ❤ Last point : Sierra made me want to start couch to 5k and I am LOVING it! Coming from someone who hasn’t run in years lol
Thank you so much for speaking about binge eating and your struggle with it. Ive been going through the same thing since June with on and off binging, and I also feel like Ive gone through the *exact* same pipeline you described with having a restrictive ED, going the fully opposite direction w/ recovery, and then suddenly ending up with BED/ binge eating behaviors. Struggling with binging can feel so shameful and isolating, even more so than restrictive EDs i feel, because *no one* talks about it. Hearing you open up about it made me feel less alone and im sure its done that for others too. I really hope you can have more success in striving for health. Remember to take it one day at a time 🫶🏻
The way you express complicated issues is frankly astonishingly kind and direct. You could be a professional motivational speaker. The flip side is your Christmas tree fell off the car ! I audibly gasped and burst laughing. It reminded me of the banana order in a vlog awhile back… again laughed so hard. You are a gem on TH-cam.:)
Thank you so much for being so honest about your struggles with your body image Carrie. My chronic illnesses and treatment make my weight fluctuate massively and my stomach is constantly bloated , both of which affect my body image and I have always struggled with restrictive and binge eating so I can really relate. And I also find it so much easier to give grace and advice to others than myself. I think it’s that millennial mindset we inherited from our parents unfortunately, but thank you for always using your platform in such a positive way despite your own struggles ❤️
Thank you for sharing struggles with food/ body image. I think with the whole glp1 craze right now is really getting to me. I’m so happy people have something that helps them. It’s making me wonder all the time if I need to try it. I’m constantly thinking about it. It’s so hard. A lot of people are in the same boat.
Carrie, recovering and healing is always an ongoing journey. It's ok. We all struggle and fluctuate. Thank you for being vulnerable. I'm very grateful for your openness about the body image issue. I'm sure many of us can resonate with this. Don't know why it's usually easier to be kind to others than to ourselves. A lot of the times I realize I'm talking to myself in a way that I'll NEVER talk to my friend like that.
Carrie, you are the person who gave me the confidence to feel ok about my body. It's normal to have ups and downs. Sending you good vibes. Thanks for being you! ❤
I struggle with a lot of similar things that you do. Also a millennial. I understand the body image issues on such a deep level. But I also understand the struggles of binge eating and PCOS. Starting a GLP one has been so helpful for me. More than anything mentally.It has helped improve my relationship with food and helps with the inflammation that I have in my body. I encourage you to research the other benefits aside from weight loss when it comes to these medication’s. I wish there wasn’t such a negative stigma around them.
6:03 I’m the same! I, just like you am so body positive/neutral but still I cannot seem to treat myself the same way as I do others.. you are not alone. And now that you know you are not treating yourself the way you should, you can actually do something about it. Tell yourself everyday you deserve the same grace, and so will I :)
I love that there are going to be 12 blogs from you this month! I'm a fellow elder-millenial who is using a glp1 to help with binge-eating. It's making me so aware of what full feels like even when I don't make healthy choices.
Thank you for being vulnerable! I’m having the same struggles with body image currently. I struggled for years with restrictive eating, recovered…and finally had gotten to a peaceful place. For the past couple years though, especially since being part of the music scene and all the weight loss trends, the self doubt is real. Hugs to you!
It's totally normal to stumble and fall back with your food and health journey. I am in the exact same boat as you and the one thing I'm really learning is that the mental aspect is really the most important for me. I was making myself stressed and disappointed at my food choices so I'm working on giving myself grace and it helps to make food not a central point. Sending you so much love 💕
I think there is a difference between what you are feeling and the negative side of things. You are just feeling uncomfortable and maybe not FEELING healthy. Weight/image aside, if you don’t feel good then there is no problem with focusing on making a change to feel better in your body! I am very much struggling in my body as well. I’ve been trying to just be a little more conscious of my choices and I have felt a little better. One step at a time! It’s also so hard during the holidays
Those landlords would have been Soooooo in yalls grill 24/7. Theyd be asking u who came over because they saw a different car in the drive between 3:34 and 3:56pm on tuesday. Lollll
We love you for your raw and relatable content. As a society, we're always comparing ourselves to others online, thinking we need to follow a diet trend or get plastic surgery to feel better about ourselves and hold ourselves to the current beauty standard. Your vlogs have been so comforting to me, I've had the worst year of my life when I lost my mom in May. So you have been one of the very few creators who have been bringing me comfort during this time. ❤
You’re not complaining, you’re being real!!! I was watching and agreeing with almost everything you said. Your 30s are a different beast and with the body trends becoming popular again it is SO HARD not to compare. I’m right there with you. Body struggles are real and hard and it’s good that we talk about them. Sending you love and compassion!! ❤
Hi Carrie, the struggle is real... i'm 41 now and since i was a child i have issues with my body, food, people pleasing, self esteem and the relationship with myself. It's all or nothing with food and excercise...what i learned is that life is a journey with ups and downs. The most important thing is being kind to yourself. And love yourself no matter what happens. This time will pass and i hope you and Drew will find you're happy place again ❤ love from the Netherlands
I appreciate your willingness to be vulnerable with us about your body image. It's truly a lifelong struggle. I started glp1s last spring, and I have never felt better and more in control of my relationship with food. ❤
Carrie, you have been one of my favorite creators for many years now. I love your authenticity and the way you always keep it real in how you share your struggles and also your fun personality. I hope you can see how amazing you are! Love you so much always!!!!
❤❤❤ you are not upsetting us.food neutrality is a journey 💕 one thing that’s important is to treat yourself as if you were in charge of helping a friend.
Thank you for the honesty 💜 I’m 28 weeks pregnant almost 29 weeks and I’m struggling with getting outside. I know our stories are different, but thank you for sharing your heart. 💜 You are beautiful inside and out!
I don't often message but your just my favourite person to watch. You and Drew make me laugh so much and your videos really are my happy place. Thank you for sharing ❤❤
I feel like one the best things I have been able to implement myself is finding some recipes that I love or look forward to. Do not care too much about the nutritional content etc just find a few recipes you love that are say around the 400-600 calorie amount and make them a few times maybe 2 or 3 a week and start there. Make sure it’s something you love or look forward to and don’t worry if it’s technically ‘healthy’ and start there. It helped me so much.
Definitely being feeling a lot of this journey- also relating to everything you said in the last video about having a hard time eating things that make you feel good. I have a candida overgrowth and my eating struggles have been SOO hard. I am so bloated and have had so much pain and it’s so hard to avoid the foods i want like sweets 😭 I feel you queen thanks for sharing ❤
I feel so seen!!! I also am struggling with the balance of avoiding diet culture rhetoric while also focusing on behaviors that are better for my mental/physical health ❤❤❤❤
Carrie this is so relatable you have no idea. The past 5 months have been hell for me too, we moved 3 times due to Hurricane Helene, I had a miscarriage, currently jobless and some extended family struggles. It’s been a lot and I have let every healthy habit I’ve ever had go right out the window and I’m also maybe getting 100 steps a day even tho I know better 🙃 thank you for being vulnerable and sharing with us. You’re not alone unfortunately. Brighter days ahead for all of us, I’m sure 💕
I truly appreciate you opening up about your body image because I have felt the SAME exact way. I’ve gained a bunch of weight and my clothes are so uncomfy and overstimulating. Everything is so tight. I am just working on nourishing my body and not focusing so much on “good vs bad” food. We deserve to be happy and take care of ourselves the way we take care of others! 💖
Carrie, it's my favorite when you and Drew get the giggles!!! You guys are SO ADORABLE AND HAPPY TOGETHER!!! Much love to you and Happy Holidays, girl!
I feel like I’ve been spiraling with my eating the past week. I know I’m not alone but at the same time, it feels that way. Sending you positive vibes with the apartment hunt. I’ve been so blessed to have an amazing landlord who treats us like his own from the start. We’ve been here 7 years now
My body image has never been worse and everything that you said resonates with me more than you can know. Thank you for being real and vulnerable with us, it makes me feel so much less alone. ❤
Thanks for sharing, Carrie. As many here, fellow millenial and your story is very relatable. Clothes were getting tight, bought a few bigger pants (so good to fit into something that fits) but also trying to get back into feeling better in my body through excerice. So glad you share your story.
Thank you for talking about this.. honestly i feel seen… my binge eating can get out of control to the point im physically sick… and then i can go two months of starvation. To only binge for a month next time… it’s exhausting. My relationship with food and my body is horrendous. As much as I wish no one else felt the way I did.. it’s really nice to know I’m not alone 🫶🏻 you are such a beautiful person inside and out and I always feel so welcome and understood on your channel Carrie 💕
Yay!!! I woke up excited for this vlog 🎄🥰🎅🏽 Also when I lived somewhere I didn’t like, I had the same struggles. I think it’s a form of trying to seek control in life when you aren’t feeling fully aligned. I feel like planning to move back to LA would do wonders for your mental health ❤
Hey Carrie, as a woman who struggled with a 11 year eating disorder, this uptick of weight related marketing, especially for weight loss medications, is so hard to ignore and get past it. You are someone who has really encouraged me to treat myself with kindness. I'm so glad you exist on the Internet and someone to relate to. Sending you so much love and hugs. I'm so proud of you 💜
I’ve dealt with something similar. I know this isn’t accessible for most people, but I sought out an intuitive eating therapist and it tremendously helped me with those extremes that you described. I highly recommend checking out the book intuitive eating if that’s of interest to you. Thank you for opening up about this. I’m a very private person and I can’t imagine the toll it must take balancing being open but not trying to hurt or make anyone uncomfortable. Please try to be gentle with yourself. You’re doing the best you can ❤️
I am part of the younger millennial/ older gen z cusp and I’ve always been thin & around 130 pounds my whole life. As soon as I realized how much I was under eating and restricting myself and that I had multiple eating disorders was when I started to gain the weight back (normal right?) well it’s been 2 years now where I’m 60+ pounds more and it’s the hardest thing to accept but it’s also the healthiest I’ve ever been. Just hard because i got so much praise when I was skinny & modeled a bit but now it’s crickets
Most relatable body image discussion for me ever. Thanks for your vulnerability. It’s nice to not feel alone in the very delicate work of balancing body neutrality and mental health and physical comfort. Thanks for this.
I totally understand what you're going through Carrie, I am currently going through the same exact thing, and have been since the last 8 years, some days I feel I am ok with it and that I need to make peace with my new body and accept it and try to wear what makes me feel comfortable, and other days I feel so overwhelmed and obsessed with it all and feel depressed about it. Still trying to find a middle ground in all of it. You're definitely not alone Carrie ❤
I appreciate you sharing your journey with body image SO much!! I’m in such a weird phase of life atm, a year post partum so my body has changed a lot. Trying to appreciate that my body grew at literal human (!!) so my body will of course look different but it’s hard. I could talk about this for hours but just thank you for sharing as always, normalising it for the rest of us ❤
I think the all or nothing mentality is so unhealthy. I think we all get addicted to completely starting fresh, but it’s never sustainable. We have to make changes smaller and slower. Adding one workout a week and maintaining that for a few months, then adding another. Or with other habits. As soon as you start to feel your new habits slipping, it means you probably went too hard too fast. We love you Carrie and we’re all in this together ❤
Really appreciate what you’re saying body image wise, I feel very similar at the moment and have a number of personal friends that are too. Strongly resonate with the sentiment of giving yourself grace, I am so vile to myself about my body and I would absolutely never think, let alone say the same things about anyone else! We can be so cruel to ourselves! I am so lost with what a ‘normal’ healthy diet and lifestyle looks like, like you I feel I go to extremes either way. Thank you for discussing this, reading the comments too, this has made me feel so reassured, appreciate it’s a very difficult topic to discuss. Sending lots of love ❤️
Renting is a pain for a lot of reasons, but requiring multiple cosigners cause the applicants aren't married is so bizarre. And a 14k deposit?! Is it a castle? Will there be a moat? What the hell!
Carrie, coming to you as a few months from being 50 and have fought the fight all my life. There isn't anyone who is overweight who doesn't know how to turn it around- that doesn't meant we CAN. Girl, there is SOOOO much more to it than most people think. ugh I feel you, sending so much love.
First off, thank you for taking the time and space to be vulnerable with us! I know that’s not always easy and the internet is a spicey place to say the least. You do what you feel is best for you you, no matter what people on the internet say. This goes for health, diet, weight - whatever you feel best doing for yourself is the best thing to do 🫶🏻 People will criticize you for gaining weight or for deciding to lose weight and at the end of the day you are the one living in your body and that’s all that matters. As Queen Brittney once said, “She’s too big now she’s too thin”. And to just state the obvious (even tho it’s not always so obvious to ourselves), you look amazing and are glowing. I know there are tough things behind the scenes and you may not feel like you’re glowing or feeling your best, but you are such a bright light in this dark world 🥰 Don’t let the muggles get you down, signed a fellow millennial 💖
So grateful that you opened up to us about your struggles with food. I can relate so strongly. I have been trying so hard to give some of that grace to myself but it is very difficult. ❤
As someone who has had an eating disorder in the past I so feel you. And I appreciate the reality of this vlog. It’s very hard seeing everyone taking weightloss drugs and losing weight. While I know those are not something I would mess with it’s really bothersome none the less. You are not alone and you’re amazing. ❤❤❤
I really appreciate you sharing how your feeling because I've been in the exact same spot for the past couple years after getting diagnosed with Crohn's. It is such a tricky balance of not going to far in a direction when it comes to food. I found the thing that is helping me the most is thinking about how I'm going to feel physically after eating something or ordering food from a certain place and it's seemed to help because it has nothing to do with shame. Its all about being able to have energy and listening to your body. I hope this helps someone else too ❤
I rarely comment on videos but I’ve been a longtime viewer and what you said about how you’re feeling about your body image recently resonates so deeply with me at the moment and I feel so seen. 🩷 I initially came to this channel because you have a similar body type to me and it was refreshing watching someone who looked like me living a fulfilled, happy life. I recently gained weight because I went through some bad mental health times and resorted to binge eating and didn’t exercise as much as I used to and im also finding that clothes no longer fit etc. Knowing that you are going through something similar, as are many people in this community, makes me feel less alone. Im so grateful for your videos and your vulnerability. This channel is amazing and you’re genuinely my favourite creator because you are so real! Thank you for making this video, I really needed it. 🫶🏻 Sending you love!
Omg Carrie... You're speaking my truth! I'm honestly the same age and size as you and I'm dealing with the same struggles. I needed to hear this soooo badly. I look up to you so much and really appreciate your honesty, realness, and continual positivity. Thank you!
I relate to the body image and landlord struggles! Thank you for sharing. Our landlord story in LA ended with the realtor yelling at me on the phone for not complying with the landlord’s bizarre requirements. Clearly he was desperate to get that rental off his plate but yikes. When we had a good landlord we stayed for many years! Very thankful.
Yes love you and your content Carrie thank you for sharing that you struggle just like I do with body image issues. We are not alone! I really appreciate your vulnerability. ❤❤❤❤🤗 sending so much love! Your one of my comfort TH-camrs thanks for making videos that are relatable.
Totally also going through body image issues (all while also going through IVF treatments). Binge eating is so hard to manage. I appreciate your openness about topics like this because it is so vulnerable. You are not in this alone! While our society is all about rapid weightloss right now we also live in a country that makes it so difficult to eat heathy (because we are all so addicted to processed foods). Happy holidays and hope your mind can settle and be at peace.
Carrie I appreciate your honestly in your eating/ exercise journey. I relate so much with the all in or all out mentally. I’m trying so hard to figure out how to not be so severe in either direction. Thank you for sharing you are the same way. Us Gen X have been through it all too we were taught be skinny to be worth something. Sending supportive hugs!
Carrie thank you! I have been struggling recently with my body image too and I just feel so seen when other people talk about it. I'm only 21 but it's nice to know that although it never goes away, it comes in waves and I will one day be more accepting of myself. Anyway I'm now trying to nourish my body and work out not just to lose weight (since it's not a need) but also to be more mentally healthy. Sending lots of love to you and Drew!
My weight fluctuates HARD, for all the reasons you have mentioned. I’m a Gen x-er whose parents & grandparents talked about weight & diets CONSTANTLY. I think every generation has their version of shitty diet culture, truly. I do wanna say good on you for speaking up, as it can be so so isolating for so many of us.
Oh Carrie, I am going through some of the same issues. I appreciate you talking about it. I have gained weight, and cant workout because of health issues, and the shame and sometimes I hate for my body is terrible. I also never am as hard on other people as myself, and its just so hard. Sending you so much love and peace
Hi Carrie! As a fellow girly with PCOS, I know the food struggle to my very core. It’s such a hard and lonely struggle at times. While I wasn’t thrilled with the start of GLP1’s, the insulin resistance of my PCOS began to balance out when I started those meds. It was an amazing feeling. However, the minute I went off of them I felt like shit and my hormones and mindset reverted. Binge eating has been horrible again. So, I found so much peace in you speaking about it, knowing I’m not in it alone. So just please know you’re not alone and you DO make a difference by speaking about it.
Thank you for sharing and being so vulnerable about your feelings! I find myself in a similar boat on I’ve swung too far the other direction. I always had a decent relationship with food and my body and then I had a baby and for 6 months (and basically the entire pregnancy) I’ve been saying “oh it’s ok I grew a baby or am growing one. Then I got to the point of thinking I shouldn’t question how my body looks because I should just be thankful that I was able to carry a baby and this is what a body looks like after that. Now that I’m 6 months postpartum I’m able to look at myself and say yes I am thankful but also I need to be healthy so that I can see my baby grow up and play with her! Thank you for being open ❤️
I firmly believe those of us who went through the trauma of 90s diet culture and had parents who were also trained that way. We’re screwed. We have no idea how to eat. We bounce between “clean eating’ and ‘binge cycling’ Most of us don’t have hunger cues or know when enough is enough. I feel like it’s a never ending cycle and the guilt that goes with that cycle is ugly. Now we live in a world that spins between body positivity and intuitive eating. I just want someone to be like we’re starting from day 1 and just teach me how to function and how to eat so I feel my best. I’m so tired of food and thinking about it.
I love the way you're able to word this!
I completely agree with this. I grew up with a mom that pointed out the minute I was “too skinny” or “too fat”. There was no in between. Now I’m struggling with one or the other. It’s hard to hear that voice in the back of your head all the time.
Another TH-camr, Caroline Winkler, made a video about a year ago talking about how she stopped obsessing over food and it's SO GOOD and it helped me a lot. I think it applies to both restrictive and binge eating, because the root cause is the same. If anyone wants some parasocial support ❤
Yeah me too, she said exactly what we're feeling @@devonwinkler9943
I agree 100%. My thoughts exactly
I'm sobbing. I needed to hear that. I needed to feel like I'm not alone. I feel like I'm going crazy. Some days I don't get 100-200 steps and I get down on myself and call myself terrible names. And then I order unhealthy food. But if a friend told me they were going through the exact thing, I would never call them names or even think that of them, I'd think they need a little added support and love right now. I wish I could love myself the way I love others.
But Carrie, you're such an inspiration to me. I absolutely love your whole demeanor, style and just the way you put yourself out there in a way that helps others.
"I believe it more for other people than I do myself." This is so resonant and so relateable and you deserve that grace just as much as you give it.
Carrie! Fellow millenial here 👋🏼Thank you so much for sharing and being vulnerable with us. Haven’t finished watching the vlog yet, but wanted to hop on here to let you know that we’re all here for you. I’m recovering from anorexia, orthorexia, exercise bulimia and binge eating. I have always struggled with finding that balance of allowing myself to eat the foods I love while not obsessing over the scale, my size, or the way I look and feel. It’s a really difficult thing to juggle. And the rise of social media and magazines we dealt with growing up did not help. It’s honestly still a struggle until this day, even though I don’t actively binge or deprive myself of foods. I think the first step is being honest and open about it and not being afraid to ask for help. So proud of you for being transparent and brave! I hope you continue to find your balance. Sending you lots of love! ❤
Thank you for sharing your struggle with food, it’s helpful knowing other people have the same struggles.
Woof, I had to pause at 9:29 to just take a moment for myself. You’ve captured everything I’ve been feeling and the complexities of striking balance to a T.
Thank you for your vulnerability and for opening up. I share a very similar experience. I don’t even have anything to add except to name that you’re not alone in this either and I appreciated this segment of the video.
As someone with sensory issues, having your clothes get tighter and that causing anxiety is SO valid. Try to be kind to yourself and focus on enjoying your holidays. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself that just makes it worse! Try to focus on eating for comfort both in terms of yummy things and not upsetting your tummy! Be nice to yourself! Love you Carrie! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you for sharing your struggles with food and body image. I’ve been all over the place with all of it and now I’m trying to get pregnant and I have never felt more discouraged about my body in my whole life. We are not alone and we will take this one day and one choice at a time. ❤
Literally yesterday I broke down to my husband about how much I’m struggling with body stuff right now. There’s so much shame and doubt and sadness. Diet culture wants us to feel this way, swinging back and forth between various states of restriction and consumption. The more I reflect I truly believe that the cure to it is finding that balance. Also knowing that life has seasons and learning to ride out the waves with lots of self love and grace. Thanks for chatting about this, Carrie. None of us are alone.💗
Bruhhhhh. Hearing someone else talk about their restrictive eating and binge eating is so freeing for me to hear. I think for a lot of us we know that we can control how much we eat so that’s what we focus on when we’re not feeling at our best mentally. Additionally I know that I become even more concerned about my body when I’m PMSing bc I feel SO hungry and like a black hole. I’m trying to remind myself to just eat and my body will go back to normal afterwards.
Thank you for being vulnerable bc as the comments show - a lot of us deal with this.
I really appreciate your openness on eating and how you feel about your body. It's incredibly relatable and I'm in a similar headspace. It's so hard to find the balance and giving grace to ourselves is a good place to start.
I think a lot of people have an all or nothing approach to health, like deciding to eat super clean & cutting out food, and working out 5-6 times a week straight away. It's a lot to adjust to and then when they give up they go back to how they were before. I think it's super helpful to start making small changes, like aim to workout 2-3 times a week or limit take out to once or twice a week and so on.
Thank you for opening up about your body image. Struggling with food is so hard to me because contrary to alcohol/drug use, you can't swear off of food. You can not just quit eating all together, you need to navigate eating every day and nourishing your body, while dealing with all of these complex issues. Anyways, sending you lots of love from Québec ❤
They say when you gain weight it’s a protective mechanism, it makes sense as you don’t feel completely settled where you are. It’s like a subconscious protective layer you put between you and the world. The same happened to me and when I really thought about it I didn’t feel completely safe in my environment. Sending you so much love Carrie and I think it’s amazing that you brought light to this situation, so many of us have gone through the same. Please do treat yourself with more kindness you’re such a great person 💜
Carrie, thank you so much for opening up about your struggle with body image and relationship with food at the moment. I have been struggling so much recently with the same issues. I’ve been through eating disorder recovery, and as you mentioned I’ve been here already and it’s so frustrating. I do just think it goes to show how deeply embedded diet culture and societal messaging can be in terms of how bodies “should” look, and how anything outside of that is inadequate. I just want you to know how appreciated and loved you are. I know you were really nervous opening up about this, but I feel validated in you sharing your feelings and I can’t thank you enough. We’re gonna get through this, I promise.
Carrie, I so appreciate every time you are vulnerable with us here online with you. I always relate and it feels comforting to know we are all going through our own things, yet we are all still moving forward. ❤
Your park convo is exaaaactly what I have been struggling with. I am either all in or all out and both of those lead to constantly thinking about my body and how it fits into the world. I know it is a land mine you have to navigate when talking about it, but I so appreciate you still being honest 🫶🏼
I’ve learnt that being all or nothing is a very common trait in people with adhd. Since getting diagnosed last year, I’m trying to be more in the middle with things in life. It’s soooo hard! Thank you for being vulnerable with us and making me teary because it’s sad this is such a common and universal experience ❤
I'm right there with you Carrie sending you healing and love. Life has been unexpected and I know I haven't been kind to my body. Thank you for sharing and be an inspiration to us all ❤❤
I’m so glad you didn’t take that townhouse. Sounds like they were bias. You dodged a bullet. They were making up their own rules.
I’m also going through binge eating. I am diagnosed with food addiction. It’s so hard I empathize with you. But you look great. You can wear anything and look cute in it. Be gentle with yourself.
Thank you for your blogs. They are very comforting. I always look forward to them. Xx
Wow this whole vlog is exactly everything I'm going through right now. My partner and I just found a place in LA after a year and a half of viewing places! It's so bleak out there! Also struggling with body image for the first time in years and nodding along vigorously to everything you were saying about that. I'm an eating disorder therapist and it's honestly such a hard time to be helping people with body image in the age of ozempic and thin being "in" again. It's helpful to know so many of us are in the same boat. You're the best ❤
I’m happy that you are addressing the body image issues you’re going through. It is okay to be honest and open about it. We all go through it, no matter what size
We are always rooting for you, FOREVER! 🫶🏼
Carrie, thank you for being so raw and genuine during your body image talk. It’s refreshing to see someone be open about those struggles. ❤
Your vlogs are the only ones ive cared to watch this vlogmas. Thank you for taking the time to share your lives with us! I hope Drew is feeling better!
Everything you said about body image and your struggles resonated very deeply with me. I'm a bit older than you (I'm 41) and growing up in the "nothing taste better than skinny feels" era really did a lot of damage to us Millennials. I love body neutrality and wish I was a part of that movement for myself like I am for others. We are always so harsh on ourselves, while we give others such grace and it sucks. Just know you aren't alone.
So much to say about this. First, as a fellow ADHD girlie, I have so many problems around food at times. Sometimes it’s an all or nothing mindset and we’re more likely to do things such as binge eat bc we lack some impulse control skills. Second, I LOVE body positivity but I think I also went too far with it and let myself make unhealthy choices disguised as healing my eating/being body positive. My body hurts. I’m uncomfy. So because of this, I am starting to focus a bit more on what I’m eating and how I’m moving my body day to day. Because even though we don’t want to hear it, it does make us feel better! But all of it is so hard and such a difficult mental load. I have loved you and have watched your content for years and I think it is so brave being so vulnerable about these things online. Most of us struggle with it so opening that line of communication is amazing. ❤
Last point : Sierra made me want to start couch to 5k and I am LOVING it! Coming from someone who hasn’t run in years lol
Catching up on vlogmas. And girl this hit home for me. Feeling for you. Sending you love. Thank you for being vulnerable and sharing. 💜
Thank you so much for speaking about binge eating and your struggle with it. Ive been going through the same thing since June with on and off binging, and I also feel like Ive gone through the *exact* same pipeline you described with having a restrictive ED, going the fully opposite direction w/ recovery, and then suddenly ending up with BED/ binge eating behaviors.
Struggling with binging can feel so shameful and isolating, even more so than restrictive EDs i feel, because *no one* talks about it. Hearing you open up about it made me feel less alone and im sure its done that for others too.
I really hope you can have more success in striving for health. Remember to take it one day at a time 🫶🏻
The way you express complicated issues is frankly astonishingly kind and direct. You could be a professional motivational speaker.
The flip side is your Christmas tree fell off the car ! I audibly gasped and burst laughing. It reminded me of the banana order in a vlog awhile back… again laughed so hard. You are a gem on TH-cam.:)
Thank you so much for being so honest about your struggles with your body image Carrie. My chronic illnesses and treatment make my weight fluctuate massively and my stomach is constantly bloated , both of which affect my body image and I have always struggled with restrictive and binge eating so I can really relate. And I also find it so much easier to give grace and advice to others than myself. I think it’s that millennial mindset we inherited from our parents unfortunately, but thank you for always using your platform in such a positive way despite your own struggles ❤️
Thank you for sharing struggles with food/ body image. I think with the whole glp1 craze right now is really getting to me. I’m so happy people have something that helps them. It’s making me wonder all the time if I need to try it. I’m constantly thinking about it. It’s so hard. A lot of people are in the same boat.
Carrie, recovering and healing is always an ongoing journey. It's ok. We all struggle and fluctuate. Thank you for being vulnerable. I'm very grateful for your openness about the body image issue. I'm sure many of us can resonate with this. Don't know why it's usually easier to be kind to others than to ourselves. A lot of the times I realize I'm talking to myself in a way that I'll NEVER talk to my friend like that.
Carrie, you are the person who gave me the confidence to feel ok about my body. It's normal to have ups and downs. Sending you good vibes. Thanks for being you! ❤
I struggle with a lot of similar things that you do. Also a millennial. I understand the body image issues on such a deep level. But I also understand the struggles of binge eating and PCOS. Starting a GLP one has been so helpful for me. More than anything mentally.It has helped improve my relationship with food and helps with the inflammation that I have in my body. I encourage you to research the other benefits aside from weight loss when it comes to these medication’s. I wish there wasn’t such a negative stigma around them.
I love those sunglasses in the beginning!!!!
6:03 I’m the same! I, just like you am so body positive/neutral but still I cannot seem to treat myself the same way as I do others.. you are not alone. And now that you know you are not treating yourself the way you should, you can actually do something about it. Tell yourself everyday you deserve the same grace, and so will I :)
I love that there are going to be 12 blogs from you this month! I'm a fellow elder-millenial who is using a glp1 to help with binge-eating. It's making me so aware of what full feels like even when I don't make healthy choices.
What I have done for themed parties is place a festive napkin in a plain bowl then put the treats inside! Festive Christmas bowl!
Thank you for being vulnerable! I’m having the same struggles with body image currently. I struggled for years with restrictive eating, recovered…and finally had gotten to a peaceful place. For the past couple years though, especially since being part of the music scene and all the weight loss trends, the self doubt is real. Hugs to you!
Hey Carrie - I appreciate your bravery to be vulnerable. I am with you girl - it's a struggle. Trust that you will find peace again.
It's totally normal to stumble and fall back with your food and health journey. I am in the exact same boat as you and the one thing I'm really learning is that the mental aspect is really the most important for me. I was making myself stressed and disappointed at my food choices so I'm working on giving myself grace and it helps to make food not a central point. Sending you so much love 💕
I think there is a difference between what you are feeling and the negative side of things. You are just feeling uncomfortable and maybe not FEELING healthy. Weight/image aside, if you don’t feel good then there is no problem with focusing on making a change to feel better in your body! I am very much struggling in my body as well. I’ve been trying to just be a little more conscious of my choices and I have felt a little better. One step at a time! It’s also so hard during the holidays
Those landlords would have been Soooooo in yalls grill 24/7. Theyd be asking u who came over because they saw a different car in the drive between 3:34 and 3:56pm on tuesday. Lollll
We love you for your raw and relatable content. As a society, we're always comparing ourselves to others online, thinking we need to follow a diet trend or get plastic surgery to feel better about ourselves and hold ourselves to the current beauty standard. Your vlogs have been so comforting to me, I've had the worst year of my life when I lost my mom in May. So you have been one of the very few creators who have been bringing me comfort during this time. ❤
You’re not complaining, you’re being real!!! I was watching and agreeing with almost everything you said. Your 30s are a different beast and with the body trends becoming popular again it is SO HARD not to compare. I’m right there with you. Body struggles are real and hard and it’s good that we talk about them. Sending you love and compassion!! ❤
Hi Carrie, the struggle is real... i'm 41 now and since i was a child i have issues with my body, food, people pleasing, self esteem and the relationship with myself. It's all or nothing with food and excercise...what i learned is that life is a journey with ups and downs. The most important thing is being kind to yourself. And love yourself no matter what happens. This time will pass and i hope you and Drew will find you're happy place again ❤ love from the Netherlands
I appreciate your willingness to be vulnerable with us about your body image. It's truly a lifelong struggle. I started glp1s last spring, and I have never felt better and more in control of my relationship with food. ❤
Carrie, you have been one of my favorite creators for many years now. I love your authenticity and the way you always keep it real in how you share your struggles and also your fun personality. I hope you can see how amazing you are! Love you so much always!!!!
❤❤❤ you are not upsetting us.food neutrality is a journey 💕 one thing that’s important is to treat yourself as if you were in charge of helping a friend.
I feel the exact same way. It’s been so hard to find a balance of eating/physical activity.
Thank you for the honesty 💜 I’m 28 weeks pregnant almost 29 weeks and I’m struggling with getting outside. I know our stories are different, but thank you for sharing your heart. 💜 You are beautiful inside and out!
I find the binge eating so hard
Especially when I’m cooking so I appreciate you sharing makes me feel less alone.
I don't often message but your just my favourite person to watch. You and Drew make me laugh so much and your videos really are my happy place. Thank you for sharing ❤❤
I feel like one the best things I have been able to implement myself is finding some recipes that I love or look forward to. Do not care too much about the nutritional content etc just find a few recipes you love that are say around the 400-600 calorie amount and make them a few times maybe 2 or 3 a week and start there. Make sure it’s something you love or look forward to and don’t worry if it’s technically ‘healthy’ and start there. It helped me so much.
Definitely being feeling a lot of this journey- also relating to everything you said in the last video about having a hard time eating things that make you feel good. I have a candida overgrowth and my eating struggles have been SOO hard. I am so bloated and have had so much pain and it’s so hard to avoid the foods i want like sweets 😭 I feel you queen thanks for sharing ❤
I feel so seen!!! I also am struggling with the balance of avoiding diet culture rhetoric while also focusing on behaviors that are better for my mental/physical health ❤❤❤❤
Carrie this is so relatable you have no idea. The past 5 months have been hell for me too, we moved 3 times due to Hurricane Helene, I had a miscarriage, currently jobless and some extended family struggles. It’s been a lot and I have let every healthy habit I’ve ever had go right out the window and I’m also maybe getting 100 steps a day even tho I know better 🙃 thank you for being vulnerable and sharing with us. You’re not alone unfortunately. Brighter days ahead for all of us, I’m sure 💕
I truly appreciate you opening up about your body image because I have felt the SAME exact way. I’ve gained a bunch of weight and my clothes are so uncomfy and overstimulating. Everything is so tight. I am just working on nourishing my body and not focusing so much on “good vs bad” food. We deserve to be happy and take care of ourselves the way we take care of others! 💖
your honesty is as always so refreshing!! thank you, carrie🥺
Carrie, it's my favorite when you and Drew get the giggles!!! You guys are SO ADORABLE AND HAPPY TOGETHER!!! Much love to you and Happy Holidays, girl!
I feel like I’ve been spiraling with my eating the past week. I know I’m not alone but at the same time, it feels that way.
Sending you positive vibes with the apartment hunt. I’ve been so blessed to have an amazing landlord who treats us like his own from the start. We’ve been here 7 years now
My body image has never been worse and everything that you said resonates with me more than you can know. Thank you for being real and vulnerable with us, it makes me feel so much less alone. ❤
Thanks for sharing, Carrie. As many here, fellow millenial and your story is very relatable. Clothes were getting tight, bought a few bigger pants (so good to fit into something that fits) but also trying to get back into feeling better in my body through excerice. So glad you share your story.
Thank you for talking about this.. honestly i feel seen… my binge eating can get out of control to the point im physically sick… and then i can go two months of starvation. To only binge for a month next time… it’s exhausting. My relationship with food and my body is horrendous. As much as I wish no one else felt the way I did.. it’s really nice to know I’m not alone 🫶🏻 you are such a beautiful person inside and out and I always feel so welcome and understood on your channel Carrie 💕
Yay!!! I woke up excited for this vlog 🎄🥰🎅🏽 Also when I lived somewhere I didn’t like, I had the same struggles. I think it’s a form of trying to seek control in life when you aren’t feeling fully aligned. I feel like planning to move back to LA would do wonders for your mental health ❤
Hey Carrie, as a woman who struggled with a 11 year eating disorder, this uptick of weight related marketing, especially for weight loss medications, is so hard to ignore and get past it. You are someone who has really encouraged me to treat myself with kindness. I'm so glad you exist on the Internet and someone to relate to. Sending you so much love and hugs. I'm so proud of you 💜
I’ve dealt with something similar. I know this isn’t accessible for most people, but I sought out an intuitive eating therapist and it tremendously helped me with those extremes that you described. I highly recommend checking out the book intuitive eating if that’s of interest to you. Thank you for opening up about this. I’m a very private person and I can’t imagine the toll it must take balancing being open but not trying to hurt or make anyone uncomfortable. Please try to be gentle with yourself. You’re doing the best you can ❤️
I am part of the younger millennial/ older gen z cusp and I’ve always been thin & around 130 pounds my whole life. As soon as I realized how much I was under eating and restricting myself and that I had multiple eating disorders was when I started to gain the weight back (normal right?) well it’s been 2 years now where I’m 60+ pounds more and it’s the hardest thing to accept but it’s also the healthiest I’ve ever been. Just hard because i got so much praise when I was skinny & modeled a bit but now it’s crickets
Most relatable body image discussion for me ever. Thanks for your vulnerability. It’s nice to not feel alone in the very delicate work of balancing body neutrality and mental health and physical comfort. Thanks for this.
I totally understand what you're going through Carrie, I am currently going through the same exact thing, and have been since the last 8 years, some days I feel I am ok with it and that I need to make peace with my new body and accept it and try to wear what makes me feel comfortable, and other days I feel so overwhelmed and obsessed with it all and feel depressed about it. Still trying to find a middle ground in all of it. You're definitely not alone Carrie ❤
I always appreciate your transparency and realness, here for it 100%
I appreciate you sharing your journey with body image SO much!! I’m in such a weird phase of life atm, a year post partum so my body has changed a lot. Trying to appreciate that my body grew at literal human (!!) so my body will of course look different but it’s hard. I could talk about this for hours but just thank you for sharing as always, normalising it for the rest of us ❤
I think the all or nothing mentality is so unhealthy. I think we all get addicted to completely starting fresh, but it’s never sustainable. We have to make changes smaller and slower. Adding one workout a week and maintaining that for a few months, then adding another. Or with other habits. As soon as you start to feel your new habits slipping, it means you probably went too hard too fast. We love you Carrie and we’re all in this together ❤
I love when you open up about how you’re doing ❤ you’re my big sis and I really needed one for the almost decade I’ve followed you.
Really appreciate what you’re saying body image wise, I feel very similar at the moment and have a number of personal friends that are too. Strongly resonate with the sentiment of giving yourself grace, I am so vile to myself about my body and I would absolutely never think, let alone say the same things about anyone else! We can be so cruel to ourselves!
I am so lost with what a ‘normal’ healthy diet and lifestyle looks like, like you I feel I go to extremes either way.
Thank you for discussing this, reading the comments too, this has made me feel so reassured, appreciate it’s a very difficult topic to discuss.
Sending lots of love ❤️
Renting is a pain for a lot of reasons, but requiring multiple cosigners cause the applicants aren't married is so bizarre. And a 14k deposit?! Is it a castle? Will there be a moat? What the hell!
Carrie, coming to you as a few months from being 50 and have fought the fight all my life. There isn't anyone who is overweight who doesn't know how to turn it around- that doesn't meant we CAN. Girl, there is SOOOO much more to it than most people think. ugh I feel you, sending so much love.
First off, thank you for taking the time and space to be vulnerable with us! I know that’s not always easy and the internet is a spicey place to say the least. You do what you feel is best for you you, no matter what people on the internet say. This goes for health, diet, weight - whatever you feel best doing for yourself is the best thing to do 🫶🏻 People will criticize you for gaining weight or for deciding to lose weight and at the end of the day you are the one living in your body and that’s all that matters. As Queen Brittney once said, “She’s too big now she’s too thin”. And to just state the obvious (even tho it’s not always so obvious to ourselves), you look amazing and are glowing. I know there are tough things behind the scenes and you may not feel like you’re glowing or feeling your best, but you are such a bright light in this dark world 🥰 Don’t let the muggles get you down, signed a fellow millennial 💖
So grateful that you opened up to us about your struggles with food. I can relate so strongly. I have been trying so hard to give some of that grace to myself but it is very difficult. ❤
As someone who has had an eating disorder in the past I so feel you. And I appreciate the reality of this vlog. It’s very hard seeing everyone taking weightloss drugs and losing weight. While I know those are not something I would mess with it’s really bothersome none the less. You are not alone and you’re amazing. ❤❤❤
I really appreciate you sharing how your feeling because I've been in the exact same spot for the past couple years after getting diagnosed with Crohn's. It is such a tricky balance of not going to far in a direction when it comes to food. I found the thing that is helping me the most is thinking about how I'm going to feel physically after eating something or ordering food from a certain place and it's seemed to help because it has nothing to do with shame. Its all about being able to have energy and listening to your body. I hope this helps someone else too ❤
I have never related more!!!!! Thank you for talking about your experience with body image. You speak so beautifully and honestly.
I rarely comment on videos but I’ve been a longtime viewer and what you said about how you’re feeling about your body image recently resonates so deeply with me at the moment and I feel so seen. 🩷 I initially came to this channel because you have a similar body type to me and it was refreshing watching someone who looked like me living a fulfilled, happy life. I recently gained weight because I went through some bad mental health times and resorted to binge eating and didn’t exercise as much as I used to and im also finding that clothes no longer fit etc. Knowing that you are going through something similar, as are many people in this community, makes me feel less alone. Im so grateful for your videos and your vulnerability. This channel is amazing and you’re genuinely my favourite creator because you are so real! Thank you for making this video, I really needed it. 🫶🏻 Sending you love!
You can easily be a fashion model. You are stunning! Love you and all your channels Queen!
I always appreciate your honesty. It does not come across as complainy. If anything it makes those of us who also struggle feel less alone.
Omg Carrie... You're speaking my truth! I'm honestly the same age and size as you and I'm dealing with the same struggles. I needed to hear this soooo badly. I look up to you so much and really appreciate your honesty, realness, and continual positivity. Thank you!
Thanks for bring so vulnerable about your body image and eating issues. I am right there with you. It’s a daily struggle, but we will prevail!
I relate to the body image and landlord struggles! Thank you for sharing. Our landlord story in LA ended with the realtor yelling at me on the phone for not complying with the landlord’s bizarre requirements. Clearly he was desperate to get that rental off his plate but yikes. When we had a good landlord we stayed for many years! Very thankful.
Yes love you and your content Carrie thank you for sharing that you struggle just like I do with body image issues. We are not alone! I really appreciate your vulnerability. ❤❤❤❤🤗 sending so much love! Your one of my comfort TH-camrs thanks for making videos that are relatable.
Wow really needed to hear the chat today, I’m so there with you girl
Your talk at the begining made me feel so seen and heard. Thank you for your vulnerability, it is so powerful.
The Centella water fit sunscreen is my favorite! I saw that bottle at the beginning of the video. I love it so much 😊 Happy vlogmas!
Totally also going through body image issues (all while also going through IVF treatments). Binge eating is so hard to manage. I appreciate your openness about topics like this because it is so vulnerable. You are not in this alone! While our society is all about rapid weightloss right now we also live in a country that makes it so difficult to eat heathy (because we are all so addicted to processed foods). Happy holidays and hope your mind can settle and be at peace.
Carrie I appreciate your honestly in your eating/ exercise journey. I relate so much with the all in or all out mentally. I’m trying so hard to figure out how to not be so severe in either direction. Thank you for sharing you are the same way. Us Gen X have been through it all too we were taught be skinny to be worth something. Sending supportive hugs!
Carrie thank you! I have been struggling recently with my body image too and I just feel so seen when other people talk about it. I'm only 21 but it's nice to know that although it never goes away, it comes in waves and I will one day be more accepting of myself. Anyway I'm now trying to nourish my body and work out not just to lose weight (since it's not a need) but also to be more mentally healthy. Sending lots of love to you and Drew!
My weight fluctuates HARD, for all the reasons you have mentioned. I’m a Gen x-er whose parents & grandparents talked about weight & diets CONSTANTLY. I think every generation has their version of shitty diet culture, truly. I do wanna say good on you for speaking up, as it can be so so isolating for so many of us.
Oh Carrie, I am going through some of the same issues. I appreciate you talking about it. I have gained weight, and cant workout because of health issues, and the shame and sometimes I hate for my body is terrible. I also never am as hard on other people as myself, and its just so hard. Sending you so much love and peace
Hi Carrie! As a fellow girly with PCOS, I know the food struggle to my very core. It’s such a hard and lonely struggle at times. While I wasn’t thrilled with the start of GLP1’s, the insulin resistance of my PCOS began to balance out when I started those meds. It was an amazing feeling. However, the minute I went off of them I felt like shit and my hormones and mindset reverted. Binge eating has been horrible again. So, I found so much peace in you speaking about it, knowing I’m not in it alone. So just please know you’re not alone and you DO make a difference by speaking about it.
Thank you for sharing and being so vulnerable about your feelings! I find myself in a similar boat on I’ve swung too far the other direction. I always had a decent relationship with food and my body and then I had a baby and for 6 months (and basically the entire pregnancy) I’ve been saying “oh it’s ok I grew a baby or am growing one. Then I got to the point of thinking I shouldn’t question how my body looks because I should just be thankful that I was able to carry a baby and this is what a body looks like after that.
Now that I’m 6 months postpartum I’m able to look at myself and say yes I am thankful but also I need to be healthy so that I can see my baby grow up and play with her!
Thank you for being open ❤️