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While the 20 somethings of the past would binge drink cheap wine and party until the early hours (or so I vaguely remember), my hangover free canada goose outlet kokemuksia contemporaries seem more likely to ask to arrange to meet at a yoga studio for an acai bowl than anything else.What’s the difference between disordered eating and an eating disorder?Part of this, perhaps, is due to the way that technology has allowed us to access so much more information on health, fitness and nutrition: we can do pilates in our living room by following YouTube videos, find healthy version of every recipe in the world within seconds and even use our phones to canada goose outlet store toronto help us meditate.But by far one of the most common technology products honing in on this trend are the myriad of apps, canada goose clothing uk which are supposed to canada goose outlet uk sale help us track our fitness levels, water intake, sleep patterns and crucially food habits.Ads for these apps follow me around Instagram, Facebook and Google, they strike deals with influencers to feature them in canada goose https://www.goosesea.com outlet store new york their YouTube videos and even appear on the escalators in the Tube every now and then.Abbie is a 21 year old student based in Wiltshire. Like me, she saw all canada goose outlet canada the hype around these fitness trackers, and downloaded an app last year in the hope it would help her be a bit more healthy.’As soon as you sign up, you put canada goose jacket outlet sale your weight in and say how much you want to lose.’It tells you how long it’ll take you to reach your desired goal and at the time it seemed like ages, but I quickly realised that if I reduced the calorie intake, it would tell me I could lose more weight quicker.'(Picture: Getty)This attitude quickly canada goose coats uk spiralled into an obsession, checking the app multiple times a day, tweaking what was inputted to see how she could lose weight quickest by eating the food with the fewest calories.’I thought it would make me feel better and healthier, but it just turned into a really negative control issue.’The app that Abbie downloaded like many of these products encourages users to input a huge amount of data: weight, height, fitness goals, how much water you drink, how many steps you walk but most crucially, every morsel of food you put in your mouth.There are of course benefits to this kind of exercise.Understanding the nutritional breakdown of meals and ingredients can be incredibly helpful to canada goose outlet online store leading a more balanced and healthy diet, and there is some evidence that people who keep a food diary are more likely to lose weight.To track your intake properly, you need to mostly focus on eating foods that the app can calculate.This means weighing your ingredients, measuring out salad dressing, counting calories not to mention carbs, protein, fibre and vitamin intakes and avoiding anything you haven’t prepared yourself.These are all textbook signs of disordered eating, yet the apps are billed as ‘healthy’ often they don’t even mention weight loss which can make it hard for us to identify the negative aspects of these behaviours.She sees how these apps, which almost ‘gamify’ our food and exercise, can be a real problem for people who have struggled with disordered eating in the past.’These behaviors can be awakened easily when people are using a tool that makes their controlling behavior more “normalized”.’It can make the disordered eating worse because a lot of the apps encourage food tracking, and calorie control.’This “data gathering” aspect of entering food can become a rewarding stimulus for people they can experience pride and euphoria from tracking very little food, because they ate very little, and thus get in under their max calorie count for the day.’According to the mental health charity Mind, eating problems can stem from a large variety of concerns, but they are most commonly considered to be an outlet for control people who feel aspects of their life are chaotic and beyond their ability to change, can fixate on food as a way to gain back some autonomy and a sense of calm.Food tracking apps feed right into this ideal: they tell you that if only your life was healthier, you would feel great, be more productive, look amazing and live the Instagrammable fantasy life we all dream of.(Picture: Getty)Lily (whose real name she’s asked we don’t publish) is a 25 year old journalist based in London.She has a history of complex relationships with food, and downloading these apps made it worse.’These apps play on people’s desperation to gain control over what they eat. At first it can be almost soothing to write down everything you’ve eaten, but it becomes a perverse game canada goose outlet of arithmetic.’Lily is referring not just to the calorie counting, but to the way these apps give you extra calories to consume everytime you log exercise even just a 20 minute walk.Abbie expressed similar concern for the idea that you can just ‘write off’ calories through exercise after all, wellbeing shouldn’t be a numbers game.Zoe Thompson is a life coach who among other things is passionate about helping clients lose weight in a healthy way.

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