Due to inactivity while her foot healed, she saw her weight spike up to 200 pounds. Her always-fit body was, she felt, out of control.
Once her foot healed, Fatheree began working out like a maniac. She was so driven to lose weight that she also developed bulimia and then anorexia. Her weight dropped down to 130 pounds. By the next year, while training for the women's hockey team, she pushed her weight down to a dangerous 90 pounds.
At this point, her parents stepped in, hospitalized her and helped to regain her perspective. Following college, she continued to struggle with eating issues and finding a diet that worked for her. It wasn't until she tried competitive body building that something clicked. A friend helped her with nutrition, workouts, and learning pose and dress in competitions.
Fatheree recovered from her eating disorders, and found that a key to preventing destructive eating patterns was to stop weighing herself on a scale. She commented, "The scale was one of my triggers. It would make or break my whole day, if I didn't see that magic number."
(Source: www.newrichmon-news.com)
Labels: eating disorder, bulimia, anorexia, body building
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