Most of us have struggled with our weight at one point or another.
And if you havent, i applaud you.
Losing weight is an incredibly difficult thing to do.
What they say is true, a moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips.
Unless you are exercising multiple times a week and limiting your calorie intake, its
incredibly difficult to lose weight.
Because most of us have become accustomed with this struggle, we look for advice or
even inspiration from other people who are documenting their weightloss online.
But a youtuber called amberlynn reid has been the target of a vast amount of criticism lately,
and thats because she never keeps her promises and instead lies to her viewers.
Amberlynn Reid, is a youtuber who cant stop eating.
Welcome back to informoverload, I'm charlotte dobre.
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Before I get into this video, I would like to say that this video is in no way criticising
people who have trouble losing weight.
I myself have struggled with weight fluctuation for much of my life.
What this video is attempting to criticise is a youtuber's lack of sincerity, both to
herself and to her viewers.
Amberlynn reid is 28 years old, she from the US, who has become famous on youtube because
she has an eating problem.
She has around 128 thousand subscribers at the time of this recoridng, and her videos
get around 100 thousand views each.
At first, her channel began as a weightloss journey channel where she documented her weight
loss.
the channel was also a way to be held accountable.
If you're trying to lose weight on a platform, you arent only doing it for yourself, you're
doing it for your audience.
At the beginning, Amberlynns weight would fluctuate and the viewer was drawn in, this
was a real person with real struggles.
Amberlynn seemed genuine, and relateable, and her subscribers were rooting for her.
But years went by, its been 5 so far, and amberlynn has actually gained 100 pounds in
the last year, and her content is becoming repetitive.
In her videos, she begins by promising to eat well and exercise, but then later on in
the day, she succumbs and cheats by eating junk food.
Its become a pattern of behavior that people tune in to watch and ridicule.
Video titles range from How i lost 15 pounds in 5 days.
to Mukbang, Eat with me, indian food.
Some of the most popular videos on ambers channel are mukbangs.
Mukbang Chinese Food.
Eat with me.
Eating In Public as a girl.
What a 500 pound girl eats in a day. and so forth.
These videos have hundreds of thousands of views.
And it also could be one of the reasons why she can't stop eating.
Because she sees that her internal struggle gets viewership.
The response to these videos however is very critical to say the least.
In the vast majority, the dislikes outweigh the likes.
Many commentary and reaction youtubers have helped her get famous by reacting to videos
of her.
There's even a channel entirely dedicated to exposing the truth of amberlynn reid and
that channel gets more viewership than amberlynn's channel.
For those that dont know, mukbangs videos involve someone eating an excessive amount
of food in a short amount of time.
So why is amberlyn posting mukbangs on her channel thats supposed to be about a weightloss
journey.
The discussion around amberlynn has changed its tune because viewers have noticed that
even though she promises that she will stick to a diet and exercise regimen, she instead
does counterproductive things, like posting a mukbang sausagefest video.
In this video, as her first meal of the day, she eats a plate of sausage and potatoes that
is guaranteed, over 1000 calories.
She says shes doign a keto diet, but thats definitely not the case.
You're not supposed to eat any carbs on a keto diet, or hardly any, and she has potatoes
on her plate, which are full of carbs.
Doing a keto diet involves eating foods...and that will knock your body into a state of
ketosis where your body does not have carbs to feed on for energy, so it begins to consume
the in your body.
Keto does work, and has worked for many people.
But eating a ton of food while also eating carbs is not going to push your body
into ketosis, its going to make you pack on the pounds.
And while Amberlynn is doing this, she gives health advice and tips to her viewers.
You see how there's kind of a disconnect there?
There are many people that are struggling with weightloss each and every day, and there
are many people who are not strong enough mentally to lose weight.
But there are also many people who overcome the struggle and they do that by being honest
with themselves, and also by being incredibly disciplined.
But amberlynns problem is this.
If she finally does lose her weight, where will she go from there? the entire purpose
of her channel is to lose the weight, but once the weight is lost, what will happen?
Viewers will no longer watch.
There's also an entire demographic of people who watch videos of overweight people because
it turns them on.
All of which wont be so turned on if amber loses the weight.
Yes amber makes money from her channel, she puts as many as 8 ads on her videos.
So Its not that amberlyn cant stop eating, its that she wont stop.
This is potentially very damaging to people who subscribe to amber looking for inspiration
to lose weight themselves, but they see the cycle of her behavior and her inability to
keep promises to herself, and copy that behavior thinking its okay.
My hope is that amberlynn see's that her mindset is not healthy.
Its not healthy for her, its not healthy for the people watching her.
The only way she's going to improve her life is by changing her mindset.
I genuinely hope amber recognizes this, and I wish her all the best.
And please dont go to her channel and spread hate.
Lets be a part of the solution, not the problem.
That's all i have for you on this, i'm going to wrap up this video by responding to some
of your comments.
Steven will - charlotte in that outfit you look like a top business exec, youre just
missing the snobbish attiude to go with your look.
you cant buy snobbish attitudes at forever 21 can you?
Tesseret - I will overcome you as the new potato queen.
COME AT ME.
I will fight to the death for the potato kingdom.
my pet banana died help - ok but io gives me so much info because i dont have social
media.
please dont copy this because i almost got featured last time but someone stole my comment.
NO STEALING COMMETNS GUYS.
Defcon - anyone else thinks she looks and sounds like the chick from chicago pd?