diff --git a/src/accelerate/utils/dataclasses.py b/src/accelerate/utils/dataclasses.py
index 39e048a6039..2f662081207 100644
--- a/src/accelerate/utils/dataclasses.py
+++ b/src/accelerate/utils/dataclasses.py
@@ -1678,6 +1678,16 @@ def __post_init__(self):
             )
             self.sync_module_states = True
 
+        if self.cpu_ram_efficient_loading != bool(
+            str_to_bool(os.environ.get(env_prefix + "CPU_RAM_EFFICIENT_LOADING", "False"))
+        ):
+            env_var = env_prefix + "CPU_RAM_EFFICIENT_LOADING"
+            warnings.warn(
+                f"The `cpu_ram_efficient_loading` flag for `FullyShardedDataParallelPlugin` does not match the environment variable {env_var}. "
+                "Setting environment variable to match `cpu_ram_efficient_loading`."
+            )
+            os.environ[env_var] = str(self.cpu_ram_efficient_loading)
+
         if isinstance(self.mixed_precision_policy, dict):
             self.set_mixed_precision(self.mixed_precision_policy)