Fitness blogger posts photo of bloated and flat belly to expose social media tricks

Super fit blogger Tiffany Brien is trying to encourage people not to believe everything they see online by posting side by side photos of her puffy stomach taken 12 hours apart, one before bed and the other just waking in the morning to show that even healthy, trim and fit people can some times have off days too.


Her stomach looks swollen on the photo on the left while the photo on the right her stomach looks flat. Besides the photos, she wrote,

‘NO I’m not six months pregnant. It’s just my food baby.”

“We are not all what we seem on social media”.
“I thought I would share a bad day with you to show you nobody is perfect, and it is OK to have an off day where your body just decides to not play ball.
“Don’t worry girls, it happens to the best of us.”

She said that her lethargic emotional and physical state was due to lack of sleep, hormones and food intolerance which was “a mixture for a whole lotta bloat”.

“I have learnt a lot through my own research into my own problems once I noticed my body playing up when I did certain things, and ate certain foods. It was really frustrating because I couldn’t work out what was triggering it,” she wrote.

“This photo is a bad day, a day I cannot tell you exactly what I ate that made me blow up. I have gone over everything I ate and I was relatively clean so it could be something I think is ‘healthy’ that my body now thinks ‘naaa no liked’.”

She acknowledge that stress was a big factor along with food and lack of sleep, that affected her body negatively.

“I love my job and wouldn’t change it for the world but I have to factor in de-stress time to help me unwind and allow my insides to untwist after a tough day in the office,” she said.

“Yoga, walks with the dog or just putting my feet up and watching Netflix normally do the trick.”

“I am miles away from being a role model when it comes to looking after myself fully in this sense. We all have our areas of weakness,” she said.
“I know what I am doing wrong and I know how to fix it but it is actually implementing it into your lifestyle that’s the tough bit.
“Yes it gets me down when this happens. No there’s nothing I can immediately do about it. But you can aid it and eventually overcome it”