i wasn’t expecting this... 2/12/19

[Whatthefuck]

"WAAAAAA I neeed more calories WAAAAAA." No, bitch. Obese people can safely eat 800 calories a day, in contrast to overweight and normal people, where women should eat at least 1200 calories and men should eat the minimum of 1500 calories. As far as I know, she's a planet and thus 800 calories (this optavia thing was like 900kcal per day) is completely SAFE.

That's why her whole my singing doctor totally agreed with my self assessment that I'm starving to death makes no sense whatsoever.

 

[Wake me up]

Did Becky not tell her family that Amber was going to be on a restrictive diet?

Oh yes because Becky's family would totally give a fuck because this is definitely the time she'll stick to a new diet for more than 48 hours. I wouldn't be surprised if Becky didn't even bother telling them.

I wouldn't be surprised if Hamberg ate the pizza regardless and just told us she didn't.

 

[ihavent_ee_uhn]

So... it's really just all downhill from here. We all saw it coming, yadda yadda, but what more does she have to offer until her last video? Mukbangs and Torrid tents from bed?

 

[Strine]

My new theory is that she ate all the optivia products in two days and wouldn't pay for more so it's "not for her" now.

 

[Beelzebub's Gate]

Ya know, surprisingly after the recent video and whatnot with the like to dislike ratio, she's still gaining plenty of subscribers.

Spoiler: Of course

Whose to say the people subscribing are just there to laugh at her.

 

[Aldora]

Amber may have spent $400 on some granola bars and some pancakes, but she has probably made more than double that since.

 

[Keyboard Warrior]

All those uninsured anorexics who spend months in recovery facilities are getting financial aid. Eating disorder clinics that focus on anorexia and bulimia receive grant money from foundations or grateful wealthy former patients that enable them to offer "scholarships" to broke patients. Not so much with obesity-related EDs.

I'm very curious how some eating disorders get grant money, while others do not. Someone like Eugenia Cooney is just as fucked in the head, just on the opposite end of the spectrum. Is it because society deems one disorder to be more a product of laziness than another? It seems like both anorexia/bulimia and super-morbid obesity all have certain things in common, like poor coping mechanisms and a need for control.

Appreciate your posts.

 

[Whatthefuck]

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Ya know, surprisingly after the recent video and whatnot with the like to dislike ratio, she's still gaining plenty of subscribers.

Spoiler: Of course

Whose to say the people subscribing are just there to laugh at her.

I honestly don't understand how she has subscribers. I can't make my way through any of her "content" unless it's edited by Katie W or being reviewed by someone else. I'm a hate watcher, but I'll be damned if she's making money on my view. It's so odd to me that I can figure out how to avoid paying her to be an asshole and yet there are folks who pay her for the privilege.

 

[IslamicContentental Belt]

I honestly don't understand how she has subscribers. I can't make my way through any of her "content" unless it's edited by Katie W or being reviewed by someone else. I'm a hate watcher, but I'll be damned if she's making money on my view. It's so odd to me that I can figure out how to avoid paying her to be an asshole and yet there are folks who pay her for the privilege.

She's beginning to make me really A-Log happy. I don't want to get like the Wings trolls or anything but she really openly trolls the audience and thumbs her nose at even fairly mild critical advice.

 

[Munchma Quchi]

I'm very curious how some eating disorders get grant money, while others do not. Someone like Eugenia Cooney is just as fucked in the head, just on the opposite end of the spectrum. Is it because society deems one disorder to be more a product of laziness than another? It seems like both anorexia/bulimia and super-morbid obesity all have certain things in common, like poor coping mechanisms and a need for control.

Appreciate your posts.

I've wondered this myself. Even if someone were to casually Google eating disorder clinics, therapists, support groups, etc, results are heavily* skewed towards helping anorexia and bulimics. Overeaters and binge eaters are often ignored even though it seems to be a bigger* problem.


*heh.

 

[I liek fr0gs]

She's beginning to make me really A-Log happy. I don't want to get like the Wings trolls or anything but she really openly trolls the audience and thumbs her nose at even fairly mild critical advice.

To be fair AL does a good job of not feeding trolls too much so she wouldn't be that good as troll bait like Wings. She makes a jab at them every now and then but she generally waddlea through her usual course.

Furthermore she does a fine job of sabotaging herself. Let's sit back relax and enjoy the show.

 

[Malibougie]

I've actually wondered what would happen if she were in an accident that left her with amnesia. If she had no recollection at all of her childhood/whatever fucked her in the head to cause her to use food as a coping mechanism, would she still feel compelled to eat the way she does?

Maybe. But I think her hormones are out of whack. Leptin, ghrelin, and insulin all have some effect on hunger and satiety, and these hormones become deranged when a person has increased fat tissue. So she might always be hungrier than the average person.

But if she could direct her binges away from candy, cookies, chips, fast food, fried food, and so on, and instead eat big salads, it would go a long way to help her lose the weight. And her hormones would improve as the weight drops.

I'm not saying she has to eat grockbot slop but it wouldn't hurt her to binge on some roasted asparagus now and then.

Editing to add: but amnesia might help her forget that she uses food as a coping mechanism. Maybe post-coma amnesiac blank-slate Amber can take up meditation and nature walks as a way to process difficult emotions as they arise.

so someone needs to give her a good whack on the head with the grockpot and put the theory to the test.

I think you're right. She has completely thrown her body chemistry out of whack and that could cause her to be irrationally hungry. That's why, like any addict who's body chemistry has changed, she needs professional help. She will never come close to making progress without getting to the root of the problem and having the proper support to deal with it. She's not going to do that because the thing she's scared of more than eating herself to death is holding up a mirror to herself that she can't eyefuck.

That’s another thing that we don’t mention too often. We talk about Becky enabling and the gays not giving a fuck, but she doesn’t have a good support system at all to do what she needs to do. So not only does she have a giant hill to climb, she doesn’t have ANY friends and or family to help, encourage or support her along the way. The only thing she could have is a support group, but everyone would end up hating her, and a therapist, but she doesn’t trust professionals so she has that working against her too. It would take an act of cheesus to save her. Nothing less than a miracle will work for her.

 

[89elbees]

I've wondered this myself. Even if someone were to casually Google eating disorder clinics, therapists, support groups, etc, results are heavily* skewed towards helping anorexia and bulimics. Overeaters and binge eaters are often ignored even though it seems to be a bigger* problem.


*heh.

The tl;dr of it is that humans evolved to crave high fat foods in large quantities. Present day, obviously, with the calorie content of our food and our general activity levels taken into consideration, this is largely unnecessary. It's led us to have to develop a "stopping point" when it comes to food. We all want to eat the whole bag of chips, skip the workout and go have pizza, get up for seconds, etc. It's a basic instinct that we have to combat with logic and reason.

People with binge eating disorders cave in to that instinct we've all had to learn to fight. It's easy to judge that because we can all relate to it on some level, and we've risen above it. They didn't. That's why we universally dislike the Amberlynns and Chantals of the world. Anorexic/bulimic types get our sympathy because their disorder requires incredible willpower, fighting some of our most natural instincts.

 

[L. Ron Hubbard's Cat]

I'm very curious how some eating disorders get grant money, while others do not. Someone like Eugenia Cooney is just as fucked in the head, just on the opposite end of the spectrum. Is it because society deems one disorder to be more a product of laziness than another? It seems like both anorexia/bulimia and super-morbid obesity all have certain things in common, like poor coping mechanisms and a need for control.

Appreciate your posts.

My opinion:

Spoiler: Fatties are gross m'kay?

Tragedy without beauty rapidly becomes comedy. There's nothing less beautiful than an obese person, especially if we think they did it to themselves out of pure self-indulgence. There's something romantic about some tragic heroine wasting away from a broken heart (or whatever). There's nothing appealing about a girl eating herself into immobility, even if she's suffered as much as the thin girl.

Obesity is seen as gluttony, which is a moral issue. We've all been tempted to overindulge from time to time, but we exercise some restraint and thus don't get fat. We take a dim view of those whom we perceive as not being able to control themselves in this way. (In fact, a lot of people feel this way about addicts in general -- most people don't get the appeal of fasting the way they get the appeal of drinking, though, so we don't see anorexia and alcoholism in the same terms at all). Additionally, bulimia and anorexia can be interpreted as an attempt to be thin/attractive/healthy (not interpreted correctly, necessarily, but people can see it that way). Again, most people can relate to the pressure to "look good," so they understand and sympathize a bit more.

Finally (and this is probably the biggest issue): I think the idea that BED might be an actual disorder is pretty new. We've had several generations of other eating disordered people getting therapy and setting up grants and funding and such. Give it time.

 

[Wake me up]

People with binge eating disorders cave in to that instinct we've all had to learn to fight.

On the other hand, as far as instinct goes, how about not becoming a big bag of shit that needs to sit on an electrical personal vehicle to move around inside a store or... you know, not dying before you're 40?

I understand the reasoning behind "we all crave food" but I don't buy that Hamberg is just following instinct.

 

[IslamicContentental Belt]

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Ya know, surprisingly after the recent video and whatnot with the like to dislike ratio, she's still gaining plenty of subscribers.

Spoiler: Of course

Whose to say the people subscribing are just there to laugh at her.

Amberlynn doing what she’s best at, gaining.

 

[Masta]

My opinion:

Spoiler: Fatties are gross m'kay?

Tragedy without beauty rapidly becomes comedy. There's nothing less beautiful than an obese person, especially if we think they did it to themselves out of pure self-indulgence. There's something romantic about some tragic heroine wasting away from a broken heart (or whatever). There's nothing appealing about a girl eating herself into immobility, even if she's suffered as much as the thin girl.

Obesity is seen as gluttony, which is a moral issue. We've all been tempted to overindulge from time to time, but we exercise some restraint and thus don't get fat. We take a dim view of those whom we perceive as not being able to control themselves in this way. (In fact, a lot of people feel this way about addicts in general -- most people don't get the appeal of fasting the way they get the appeal of drinking, though, so we don't see anorexia and alcoholism in the same terms at all). Additionally, bulimia and anorexia can be interpreted as an attempt to be thin/attractive/healthy (not interpreted correctly, necessarily, but people can see it that way). Again, most people can relate to the pressure to "look good," so they understand and sympathize a bit more.

Finally (and this is probably the biggest issue): I think the idea that BED might be an actual disorder is pretty new. We've had several generations of other eating disordered people getting therapy and setting up grants and funding and such. Give it time.

You are 100% spot on, the general public sees it much, much differently than anorexia.
There is a video on YouTube of some football guy saying he developed binge eating disorder and the comments were like, can’t believe this is a thing, he needs to learn some discipline, just stop eating.
Pretty much anyone will develop binge eating if you went on a diet and restricted food, and now you eat the foods you can’t have for the day endlessly, so people just see it as a lack of will power instead of a disease.

 

[Cardboard Box Mountain]

I think you're right. She has completely thrown her body chemistry out of whack and that could cause her to be irrationally hungry. That's why, like any addict who's body chemistry has changed, she needs professional help. She will never come close to making progress without getting to the root of the problem and having the proper support to deal with it. She's not going to do that because the thing she's scared of more than eating herself to death is holding up a mirror to herself that she can't eyefuck.

Also, these deathfats literally stretch their stomachs out to several times their natural size. When it comes to dieting, you just have to power through the hunger until you adjust to smaller portions. You can also "fill in the hole" with nonstarchy vegetables such as green beans, spinach, etc. But she aint gonna do that.

 

[Guardsman42]

Hamber doesn't have Binge Eating Disorder. Jesus flying fuck why do you people keep saying she does? You are feeding her delusional state. At this point people doing that might as well be her official White fucking Knights on the forums.

She has -never- binged. Not once. She's fat, and she eats constantly. A binge implies some one you know, doing a binge. Like randomly wolfing down two large pizzas. Hamber plans every thing out. She has substituted food for intimacy, approaching her emotional stress like a mature adult. But she never binges. She's an addict, but not really to food. It's just she's never had the drugs like Meth etc or the pressure to try. I have no doubt had that been her coping mechanism early on, she'd by now be a full blown crackwhore or some thing vile.

She took fantasy play time to far in her head as a kid, and used food to cope. Then because of youtube, she could make money playing dainty princess and grazing 24/7. Human instinct is to feel panic when you become incapable of basic movement. Her problems lie in her delusional state. She has moments of clarity I'm sure. Her manic episode about this diet? A chance to unfuck her weight? It lasted 2 days at most then she replaced the creeping realization of failure with her addiction. But she isn't suffering Binge Eating Disorder. She never binges. She steadily consumes day to day, the same massive caloric intake.

 

[PuckishRogue]

Frankly, whether or not what she has is expressly BED is unimportant. Bitch clearly has some fucking issues with food, no matter what scientific name her particular issue has.

The core of the thing is the same regardless: Bitch needs professional fucking help, or she's going to die. She's too proud or lazy or fucking stupid to GET help, so she's going to die. She's a cunt and she did it to herself, that's true, but that doesn't keep it from being a an example of an ever expanding issue of people having mental issues that involve food. It's sad.

But, then I remember for ever Amber, there's a person that wants to fight their eating disorder and would kill for Amber's fucking resources, and she's just pissing it away. It's a never ending cycle of seeing the tragedy in her life, but also being pissed she isn't more humble and taking control of her life.