According to NEDA, “Orthorexia starts out as an innocent attempt to eat more healthfully, but orthorexics become fixated on food quality and purity. It could lead to orthorexia, a term that literally means fixation on righteous eating. While drinking green juice and doing Pilates is by no means harmful, a lifestyle that aims to follow a strict “healthy eating pattern” can be. Their body size/shape is largely due to genetics not an iron-clad willpower to only eat clean and do Pilates every day. What a lot of us scrolling through Instagram or Tik Tok don’t stop to think is that these girls likely already had this body shape/size before adopting this lifestyle. Meh, what I see is a glorification of whole foods, no junk, clean ingredients. Of course, this is all under the guise of a lifestyle change and each girl in the video is showing us how we can become “that girl” if we just eat healthier and exercise. It includes a lot of egg white omelets, matcha lattes, “clean ingredients”, and low-calorie meals. #1: It gives me major orthorexia vibesĬutaway all the dreamy made bed shots, burning candles, skincare routines and you are left with a very similar pattern of food. Here are four reasons why the “That Girl” trend is providing more harm than good to women online. And that’s my overall problem with the That Girl trend.īut, let’s break it down for a second. But curating and publicizing a 30-second summarization of only the best, most aesthetically-pleasing parts of your day is misleading and deceitful at best. If that truly were the case, then that would probably be something that I can get behind. The trend began to inspire other women to be their healthiest, most productive selves (and get likes). That girl is the queen of romanticizing her life - the girl who naturally has all her sh*t together.” That girl makes her bed, blends a kale and matcha smoothie to drink with her avocado toast, and follows it up with a well-curated journaling session. “That girl wakes up and meditates on a yoga mat facing the sun. What does it mean to be That Girl? Bustle, an American online magazine, defines it well.
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If your TikTok for you page has been anything like mine has been lately, I’m sure you’ve seen your fair share of videos on how to be “That Girl” but is this trend just really a socially acceptable way of disguising orthorexia?
Find more of her work kateskitchenette on Instagram. This blog post was written by Kate Aragon, current dietetic intern at Saint Louis University.
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