Demi Lovato attacked a Froyo shop for having sugar free items on their menu

[Anonymous]

I've had the same eating disorder issues she has had and still have them. Her point is ridiculous. Calling something sugar free is not the diet culture or triggering. Now if things were called "healthy alternatives" and "indulgent" or "cheat day" I would agree with her more (even then it's a stretch). No one with eating issues walks into an ice cream place intent on getting cookie dough and then sees a sugar free option and thinks "ugh I should eat that. I don't need the cookie dough."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sugar free ice cream is now considered a trigger? She's nuts.

For some people with eating disorders it is. I have a friend (a bit younger than me) who remembers binging on sugar free foods and drinks at age 5. Worse, her mom was the one who supplied these foods with a lecture that she was getting too old for baby fat. By age 11, she was purging and exercising twice a day. It’s a terrible disease.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've had the same eating disorder issues she has had and still have them. Her point is ridiculous. Calling something sugar free is not the diet culture or triggering. Now if things were called "healthy alternatives" and "indulgent" or "cheat day" I would agree with her more (even then it's a stretch). No one with eating issues walks into an ice cream place intent on getting cookie dough and then sees a sugar free option and thinks "ugh I should eat that. I don't need the cookie dough."

It can depend on how sugar free foods were framed in your family or how you used them. Sugar free foods can still be high in calories if you are eating excessive amounts. Some people only binge ate those. I remember that fat free snack wells were a big binge food when I was in college. Girls would eat whole boxes in one sitting, but never have a single French fry! Very unhealthy.

[Anonymous]

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On the other hand, it's useful to have a discussion about who benefits from sugar free (diabetics only) and who can be hurt with artificial sweeteners (the rest of the world). So she may not be as addled as you think she is...

Hmm...this makes sense.

But she in no way is aiming to start that conversation, she doesn't allude to it at all. It's not about the macro level health issues with putting such manufactured shit in our diets collectively or about big agriculture or anything like that. It's about her completely misreading the reality of the room and taking it as a personal attack and trigger. Yes some of the sugar free marketing this store has is surely not JUST for diabetics but that's like saying a diet coke commerical is insensitive to all people with disordered eating, which is to say, ridiculous

[Anonymous]

She’s unhinged and needs to seek help

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Sugar free ice cream is now considered a trigger? She's nuts.

You can’t say nuts. It’s triggering on several levels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She’s unhinged and needs to seek help

She’s been very open about seeking and receiving help. You?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She’s unhinged and needs to seek help

This. She needs to be properly diagnosed and treated. And she needs to be surrounded by people that actually care about her and not her wealth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She’s unhinged and needs to seek help

She’s been very open about seeking and receiving help. You?

Because it gets her attention and it’s a way to make money. Don’t pretend she tells her tales to really help others or herself.

[Anonymous]

I love you Demi!!!!

Enjoy your yogurt.

You are beautiful!

[Anonymous]

8 1/2 minutes of WHAT? I'm still confused. Demi what's to make the environment safe for everyone. And wants the messaging clear for people who enter froyo shops everywhere!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I keep reading this and do not understand what she was trying to say. Or it’s so ridiculous it’s hard to believe.

She is not well in the head. She was trying to say SHE was triggered by seeing low-sugar options at the front of the store before she got to the full-sugar options further in, but instead implied it's triggering for EVERYONE in LA because diet culture is so prevalent there. She's really just ... not well in the head. I'm hoping she gets her feet under her and doesn't go the way of Amanda Bynes.

How is Amanda Byrnes now, if anyone knows? I remember her difficulties very well, but had totally forgotten about her. (I know I can Google, but DCUM has a unique perspective )

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Anonymous wrote:Sugar free ice cream is now considered a trigger? She's nuts.

You can’t say nuts. It’s triggering on several levels.

What, offensive to all the Pecans out there?

And macadamias, peanuts, pine nuts, chestnuts (best in show)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She’s unhinged and needs to seek help

She’s been very open about seeking and receiving help. You?

California sober is not receiving help. It's denial and delusion.

[Anonymous]

This is what happens when you're in you're 30-ish, unmarried, and still childless. She has no career and no purpose. It's clear she went off the deep-end because her ex Wilmer just had a baby. A gal as rich as she never has to work again and just be a good mom. Instead she's idle all day and driving herself insane.