HAL’s Katie Drummond:
“My life as a runner began for all the wrong reasons”
Posted June 26th, 2007 at 4:07 PM by Katie Drummond
Section: Running & Training, Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Exercise, Weight Loss
In this column for our partner site, HerActiveLife.com, senior writer Katie Drummond writes about the tragic beginning to her running “career”, battling an eating disorder, turning her life around, and how running gave her the strength and determination to regain her health.
My life as a runner began for all the wrong reasons. Five years ago, at 16, I fell into the same trap as so many young girls, and my weight became equated with my self-worth. I don’t know how it happened, I don’t know why, but somehow I went to bed one night and woke up the next day with an absolute certainty that the number on the bathroom scale should naturally dictate how I felt about my body and my value as a partner, a student, a daughter, a woman.
It soon wasn’t enough that I was eating nothing but rice cakes spread with mustard for lunch or just skipping lunch (and breakfast, and dinner) entirely. When I couldn’t stand to keep starving myself and changed my tactics, the scale snidely informed me that, no, throwing up wouldn’t make me any better, prettier, or worthier either.
Fed up, I tried another means of self-improvement, and started forcing my exhausted teenaged body onto the family treadmill every night…
Read the rest of Katie’s entry at our partner site: HerActiveLife.com
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Tags: anorexia, body, bulimia, death, eating disorders, exercise, exercise bulimia, fitness, health, purge, running, self improvement
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