Eating Disorders Blog

Bobbie Jo Fatheree was finally hospitalized when her weight plummeted to 90 pounds. The Virginia native played sports avidly in high school and was always very physically fit. During her freshman year of college, however, she broke her foot.

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)

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Connecticut resident Sue Daigle began her struggle with anorexia at the age of 12. At one point in her adult life, she weighed only 80 pounds.

Like others who suffer from the clinical eating disorder known as anorexia nervosa, Daigle got hooked on the success of her initial weight loss and found she couldn't stop. She recalls, "I just started dieting and I saw myself losing. When I started losing, I liked it and I kept going, kept going ... I never thought I was skinny enough ... It got to a point that I was afraid to even let food touch my mouth."

Fortunately for Daigle, in the midst of her battle with disordered eating, she became interested in the sport of bodybuilding. Bodybuilding demands good nutrition, and her passion for the sport helped her to overcome her aversion to food.

Nearly 40 years after her disordered eating began, Daigle is an award-winning bodybuilder and is finally coming to terms with food and her body.

About bodybuilding, the sport that may have saved her life, she says, "It's just healthy and I just believe in it ... It's an achievement. And it's not with drugs, it's just with hard training and eating. Eating right."

(Source: www2.counton2.com)

Labels: eating disorder, anorexia, body building

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