This Instagram husband has hilariously parodied his girlfriend's fitness account

Anyone who uses Instagram will know that it’s pretty much impossible to scroll away on your morning commute without seeing a chia seed-laden acai bowl or a post-gym smoothie from a fitness blogger promoting wellness or clean living.

Now one up-and-coming new influencer has popped up on the scene to offer his own unique take on the paleo diet, living his best life and achieving the ultimate six-pack with just a sharpie and a whole lot of carb loading.

Meet @wellness_ted, the Instagram parody account that suggests eating spiralized potato (aka Tesco’s frozen curly fries), sprinkling your turkey dinosaurs with pomegranate seeds and meal prepping a nutritious batch of potato waffles and fish fingers to fuel your next HIIT session.

After being a part-time ‘Instagram husband’ to his fitness editor girlfriend and Instagrammer Amy Hopkinson, writer Edward Lane decided to start the tongue-in-cheek parody account to take a light-hearted swipe at the wellness brigade, after telling Mashable that there were “too many opportunities for ridicule to pass up.”

After paying careful attention to his wife’s posts, Lane’s account has all of the typical things you might find on a wellness blogger's Instagram: inspirational quotes, before and after shots and and flat lays of his breakfast set up. But his recipe ideas are anything but healthy.

Among his hilarious tips, Lane suggests boosting your brain function with chicken nuggets, trying a mid-afternoon Maxibon to “propel you through office energy slumps” and “just adding cheese” to all of your meals.

“Sure it will make you fart,” he adds. “But farts are funny, And I think everyone can agree that we need more fun in our lives.”

Lane jokingly says he was inspired to start the account after “spotting a gap in the market for a young, good looking, self-qualified voice in the world of #wellness.”

The tongue-in-cheek spoof account has since become a growing hit, racking up over 7,500 followers for its pitch-perfect skewering of the clean eating craze.

“This guy is spot on,” writes one fan of Lane’s alternative health tips.

“This is the best fitness account I have ever seen! You are my spirit animal,” adds another.

When quizzed on why he decided to turn the camera on himself, Lane told Mashable, "I just wanted to take the p*** out of a lot of people who present themselves as holier-than-thou health crusaders but who are actually using it as a free ticket to some south west London luxury lifestyle.”

Here are some of our favourite posts by Wellness Ted, which you might want to enjoy while chowing down on a Terry’s Chocolate Orange (one of your five-a-day, of course):

Sure, he might not a chef or a nutritionist, but in this day and age who needs to be? As Lane proves, anything can be an aspirational recipe if you put the right hashtags on it.