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"Watching other millennials work out, travel and share their progress really inspired me to do the same," says

One of Tibbs' followers even reached out to her to tell her how much her Instagram posts had helped him live healthier. "He said, 'I told my doctor about you and my doctor told me to keep following you because it's working,'" she says.

Another plus? So many pros have public Instagram accounts meaning you can get access to expert advice you wouldn't otherwise necessarily have the dough to shell out on, says Greenberg.

Case in point: After posting photos of dishes she had cooked to her personal Instagram account, Tibbs would get anywhere from 10 to 30 DMs a day asking her for the recipes. This inspired her to create a separate Instagram,

And what you see on Instagram could totally change the way you think about food, like it did for New Yorker Liana Garibayan, the owner and operator of an online natural products store, who's now a vegan.

"Instagram and Facebook are great sources for learning about healthy and vegan alternatives, recipes, fitness, and the reality of animal cruelty," says Garibayan, who's a fan of

After overhauling her diet, Garibayan decided to start her own online store, selling organic, allergen-free and vegan products and social media happens to play a role in her business. "My

Of course, Instagram can have its downsides when it comes to your health aside from the obvious of giving you a major case of tech neck. "People might see images and feel frustrated that they don't look like that or eat healthy and it can lead to someone sabotaging their efforts," says Alpert. Adds Greenberg, "People may find support for disordered thinking and behavior or may use the pictures to beat themselves up for not being healthy enough."

That's why

Ux, who follows a mostly vegan diet, says that he's had luck searching specific hashtags like

Tibbs has found that posting Instagram and Snapchat stories is a great way for her to combat the notion that everything you see on social media is so-perfect-it-must-be-fake. "I can document how I made a meal and when the pan explodes and there's sauce everywhere," she says. "It allows people to see that I'm not perfect."

Now excuse us while we get back to our phones we're trying to find a new take on avocado toast.

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