disturbing-- Anne Slowey

http://nymag.com/fashion/07/spring/28151/inde x3.html

how does she live?

This can't be for real.  Can it?  If you ate like this, wouldn't you be embarrassed to let everyone know?  It's like asking people to tell you that you have an eating disorder.

Absolutely insane.. Hope she can manage with hospital food while she waits on her turn for a new liver.

This is scary...more than scary, 'cause the model eats way more than her. Vitamins? And they published this? Bad them, it just encourages young, impressionable girls to form horrible eating habits and sets them up for failure. And to look way older faster.

That wasn't what she eats day in and day out... I remember the article - it was part of a special on Fashion Week - when their whole lives are wrapped up in the fashion shows which take up like 18 hours a day. But as the name says it's fashion WEEK, not fashion year. Nobody could live like that for more than a few days at a time without killing themselves.

I was reading all of them, and that's insane.

Especially the female model and the vitamin taking one.  A week, wow.  I don't know how they do that! That's really scary.

The personal trainers meal plan looks okay though. I really am liking the oatmeal combos.

She won't last long.

It's understandible if it's just for Fashion Week, and I'm sure their lives are wrapped up in it, but then all the more reason to start the day off at home with a decent breakfast, not just vitamins. I think it's very irresponsible of New York Mag to publish something like that. I know that here in Montreal not only would something like that never make it to press but the city is instating rules for minum weight/size for models to prevent the use of anorexic models during our fashion week.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/story/2008/ 10/14/fashion-thin.html

I found the anorexic one when I used your link, but when I went back from page 4 to page 1 on the site, it was a different model, one who eats. Hopefully there were too many complaints!!

That reminds of the diet I used to have in college.. when I was on uppers of course.

Okay, see, I think some CC members are hypocritical and just downright rude.

I see all the time people starting topics like "I ate 4000 calories today!" or "I had 10 doughnuts for lunch!" or "I binged 3 days in a row!" and are almost always consoled and told "Oh it's okay sweetie, just keep going, you can do it!"

Um, why is it fine to condone an unhealthy eating habit like severely overeating or making a meal of something completely void of nutritional value?... Then when someone posts "I only had 400 calories today." they are bashed and called unhealthy? Truth is BOTH are unhealthy and obviously sometimes people slip - either by over or under eating - but I have a problem when people seemingly condone overeating and look down upon people who sometimes don't eat enough.

Like someone else said, I'm sure it's not a way of life for Anne Slowey - it was fashion week and she was insanely busy. Sometimes people have days where they are incredibly stressed and busy and don't have time to/forget to eat. It doesn't make it any worse than pigging out like a cow for a day or week.

Original Post by anie87:

Okay, see, I think some CC members are hypocritical and just downright rude.

I see all the time people starting topics like "I ate 4000 calories today!" or "I had 10 doughnuts for lunch!" or "I binged 3 days in a row!" and are almost always consoled and told "Oh it's okay sweetie, just keep going, you can do it!"

Um, why is it fine to condone an unhealthy eating habit like severely overeating or making a meal of something completely void of nutritional value?... Then when someone posts "I only had 400 calories today." they are bashed and called unhealthy? Truth is BOTH are unhealthy and obviously sometimes people slip - either by over or under eating - but I have a problem when people seemingly condone overeating and look down upon people who sometimes don't eat enough.

Like someone else said, I'm sure it's not a way of life for Anne Slowey - it was fashion week and she was insanely busy. Sometimes people have days where they are incredibly stressed and busy and don't have time to/forget to eat. It doesn't make it any worse than pigging out like a cow for a day or week.

 Take into consideration also, a lot - I mean a LOT of the people on here who post up that they only ate 400 calories, say they do it FREQUENTLY, and usually have some sort of eating disorder going on as well. And there are a lot of people on this site who are very supportive to encourage others to increase their calories kindly. Do not simply just chose to see that people who under eat get 'attacked' while others are not. You are selectively reading, and since comming to this site I have read rude comments for both spectrums (over and under eating) as well as sympathetic, kind comments for both as well. uusually posters who get 'attacked' for under eating, have been posting up their undereating for long periods of time and are looking for some sort of sick satisfaction in posting their starvation and are not really looking for support.

But, I must agree as well, there is a lot of stress surrounding the Fashion wekk, however, on that SAME site (I clicked around) they brought up the Eating Disorder issue in the ashion industry, and it pinpoints just how hard it is to keep a healthy view of food and eating when the moment your weight gets up past a certain level, the risk of you getting tossed aside is even more increased. I feel sorry for models, and I don't think they deserve to have so much flak for just trying to keep in such a cut-throat environment.

Original Post by direwolf689:

Original Post by anie87:

Okay, see, I think some CC members are hypocritical and just downright rude.

I see all the time people starting topics like "I ate 4000 calories today!" or "I had 10 doughnuts for lunch!" or "I binged 3 days in a row!" and are almost always consoled and told "Oh it's okay sweetie, just keep going, you can do it!"

Um, why is it fine to condone an unhealthy eating habit like severely overeating or making a meal of something completely void of nutritional value?... Then when someone posts "I only had 400 calories today." they are bashed and called unhealthy? Truth is BOTH are unhealthy and obviously sometimes people slip - either by over or under eating - but I have a problem when people seemingly condone overeating and look down upon people who sometimes don't eat enough.

Like someone else said, I'm sure it's not a way of life for Anne Slowey - it was fashion week and she was insanely busy. Sometimes people have days where they are incredibly stressed and busy and don't have time to/forget to eat. It doesn't make it any worse than pigging out like a cow for a day or week.

 Take into consideration also, a lot - I mean a LOT of the people on here who post up that they only ate 400 calories, say they do it FREQUENTLY, and usually have some sort of eating disorder going on as well. And there are a lot of people on this site who are very supportive to encourage others to increase their calories kindly. Do not simply just chose to see that people who under eat get 'attacked' while others are not. You are selectively reading, and since comming to this site I have read rude comments for both spectrums (over and under eating) as well as sympathetic, kind comments for both as well. uusually posters who get 'attacked' for under eating, have been posting up their undereating for long periods of time and are looking for some sort of sick satisfaction in posting their starvation and are not really looking for support.

But, I must agree as well, there is a lot of stress surrounding the Fashion wekk, however, on that SAME site (I clicked around) they brought up the Eating Disorder issue in the ashion industry, and it pinpoints just how hard it is to keep a healthy view of food and eating when the moment your weight gets up past a certain level, the risk of you getting tossed aside is even more increased. I feel sorry for models, and I don't think they deserve to have so much flak for just trying to keep in such a cut-throat environment.

 I don't selectively read posts... I as well have seen supportive and attacking comments for both sides, but it's mostly the undereaters who are attacked. People need to keep in mind that this site isn't just about losing weight, it's about changing eating habits in either direction to become healthy. Yes I agree I get annoyed when I see posts like "im 13 5'7 and 92 lbs, what do i do?" from the same poster over and over, yeah, that's wanting attention. But for some people, it's just as hard to make yourself eat as it is for another person to cut back and not eat as much.

And I'm just saying that in our society, if someone habitually overeats, they're just a typical American or they have a big appetite or whatever. Unless they are morbidly obese, rarely would a person say to them "You have a psychological disorder, you need to seek help." But when a person habitually undereats, it's all "You need to get help. You have a problem."

This about it, if you went out to dinner 3 times with a person who had an appetizer, fatty entree, and dessert to themselves, you probably wouldn't confront them about it. If anything you'd just think to yourself "Hm, they sure are eating a lot.." BUT if you went out 3 times with a person and all 3 times they only had a small salad or less, most people would say "Hey why aren't you eating? What's wrong with you? You need to eat more." I just don't think that's right.

I don't think it's just a fashion week thing for Anne Slowey. She is a maniac. Seriously.

I was surprised by how much the female model ate, actually. That seems to be how much food a model eats normally, and on fashion week you wouldn't want to be bloated and whatnot. But if Anne has time to down 4384938 vitamins, I think she can eat a protein bar for breakfast. And while there's pressure for her to be thin as she's in the industry, she won't lose her job if she's 10 lbs heavier like a model would.

Original Post by vollard:

I don't think it's just a fashion week thing for Anne Slowey. She is a maniac. Seriously.

I was surprised by how much the female model ate, actually. That seems to be how much food a model eats normally, and on fashion week you wouldn't want to be bloated and whatnot. But if Anne has time to down 4384938 vitamins, I think she can eat a protein bar for breakfast. And while there's pressure for her to be thin as she's in the industry, she won't lose her job if she's 10 lbs heavier like a model would.

 How do you know she eats this way all the time? Are you a close friend or relative? Maybe she's like me - I'm not hungry at all for the first 2-3 hours when I get up.

Original Post by anie87:

Original Post by vollard:

I don't think it's just a fashion week thing for Anne Slowey. She is a maniac. Seriously.

I was surprised by how much the female model ate, actually. That seems to be how much food a model eats normally, and on fashion week you wouldn't want to be bloated and whatnot. But if Anne has time to down 4384938 vitamins, I think she can eat a protein bar for breakfast. And while there's pressure for her to be thin as she's in the industry, she won't lose her job if she's 10 lbs heavier like a model would.

 How do you know she eats this way all the time? Are you a close friend or relative? Maybe she's like me - I'm not hungry at all for the first 2-3 hours when I get up.

...yeah she's just also "not hungry" for the remaining 16 hours of the day...

Original Post by vollard:

Original Post by anie87:

Original Post by vollard:

I don't think it's just a fashion week thing for Anne Slowey. She is a maniac. Seriously.

I was surprised by how much the female model ate, actually. That seems to be how much food a model eats normally, and on fashion week you wouldn't want to be bloated and whatnot. But if Anne has time to down 4384938 vitamins, I think she can eat a protein bar for breakfast. And while there's pressure for her to be thin as she's in the industry, she won't lose her job if she's 10 lbs heavier like a model would.

 How do you know she eats this way all the time? Are you a close friend or relative? Maybe she's like me - I'm not hungry at all for the first 2-3 hours when I get up.

...yeah she's just also "not hungry" for the remaining 16 hours of the day...

 She also doesn't list how much of certain foods she ate. For the Camembert and crackers, guacamole and chips, and fennell salad, it doesn't say how much. She could have had a whole box of crackers and a cup of guacamole. Not a high likelihood but still, we don't know. And really, I think it was just because of fashion week.