{"id":16,"date":"2017-03-14T05:35:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T05:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/scero\/?p=16"},"modified":"2017-04-06T15:57:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T15:57:28","slug":"blog-revision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/scero\/2017\/03\/14\/blog-revision\/","title":{"rendered":"my biggest wish is that i could eat anything i want and not gain weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The camera eats first”.<\/p>\n

My sister thrusts her hand over my food, almost getting impaled by my incoming fork. I wait, looking greedily at my pork burger topped with pork belly avocado creme and sweet jalape\u00f1os, for my sister to take an Instagram-worthy picture.<\/p>\n

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Picture taken by Olivia Cero<\/p><\/div>\n

After my meal, I scroll threw my newsfeed, account after account is full of food pictures. Everywhere I look, there is food. The fact is, people are obsessed with food, and social media has provided a platform for people to post everything they eat, and I mean everything<\/a> .<\/p>\n

Link to gif: https:\/\/media.tenor.co\/images\/dc272089d9c0fc14a068763fdb1b896d\/raw<\/p><\/div>\n

Body Image on Social Media<\/strong><\/p>\n

However there’s an oxymoron in that statement. Social media has enabled food to be everywhere a person looks, but social media has also created body-image issues. On Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr (and about 50 other social media websites), people only put their best self online. People enhance<\/a>\u00a0their pictures by face tuning (removing blemishes) and thinning their photos.<\/p>\n

Social media has a huge effect on young people’s body confidence – Caroline Nokes, member of Be Real: Body Confidence for Everyone<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Looking on social media, people only put up the photos where their bodies are a 10 and their skin is perfect. There will always be someone that has better skin, a better body, but social media has created a platform that rubs that fact in a girl’s face because those “betters” are just a scroll away.<\/p>\n

Where is the Balance Between Food and Health<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the popular page, there will be a picture of a delicious-looking brownie sundae, then right next to it, a picture of an incredibly thin girl, or maybe a “fits-po” picture (fit +inspiration). The worst is when a user has a food account, and there will randomly be a picture of the person behind the camera, and guess what? stick skinny. I mean… how does that even happen? Don’t tell me you eat the four cheese mozzarella sticks or triple layer artichoke dip and still\u00a0<\/em>look like that. The problem that I face, and many people, do is how do I balance the two? I want to be fit, but also, I am never gonna say no to extra fries.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kayla_itsines\/<\/p><\/div>\n

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https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/infatuation\/<\/p><\/div>\n

The Struggle Between Food Accounts and Health Accounts<\/strong><\/p>\n

Food accounts on Instagram introduce me to new restaurants, maybe a different type of food all together (think: grilled cheese donuts). Fit-accounts teach me new workouts, and they honestly do inspire me to go on a run.<\/p>\n

The problem is, when I go to a new restaurant and try the Cap’n Crunch french toast (courtesy of foodnbabyny), the next moment I go on Instagram and KaylaItness has a new post, featuring her perfect abs and toned legs. My legs feel infinitely larger, and I know (I KNOW) the french toast went straight to the thighs.<\/p>\n

On the flip side, I’ll be eating “clean”, starting to finally feel a little bit of that french toast to leave my love handles, and I’ll suddenly find a new restaurant (via Instagram) that features a goat-cheese pizza with truffle oil and suddenly, all of my progress doesn’t seem worth it, and I have to, have to, have that pizza.<\/p>\n

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From giphy.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Finding a Balance<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, with spring break fast approaching, but a new cookie ice-cream sandwich\u00a0store opening, I had to find a balance. There is no way I could unfollow my 20+ food account (@treatyooooself<\/a>, @infatuation<\/a>, @indulgenteats<\/a> to name a few), but I also\u00a0do\u00a0<\/em>want to be healthy. I decided to try a balance.<\/p>\n

TheOdyssey.com<\/p><\/div>\n

Searching through my Instagram, I found a food account called Goodful<\/a>. This account has\u00a0videos of food being made<\/a>, but the food, is semi-healthy. Now, don’t get me wrong, it is not celery and carrots healthy, but the food is better than the triple-patty hamburger that @starvinginseattle<\/a>\u00a0just posted.<\/p>\n

From Goodful, I found more realistic health accounts. Instead of following the already stick-skinny, perfect arms and legs, girl that has 500k followers, I decided to find accounts<\/a> that show realistic people: people who have skip days, might have a little cellulite, but still encourage me to go on runs and forgo the third piece of cheesecake.<\/p>\n

By adding these to my Instagram feed, I found a nice middle, one that doesn’t tear me down about my body, but also encourages healthy-eating with of course, the once-a-week (maybe more) cheat days. It is up to you what this balance between food accounts and health accounts is, the “middle” is personal. The trick is finding\u00a0your\u00a0<\/em>balance, that makes you happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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