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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
No, I did not eat normally. Limited (very consciously) to 1,000-1,500 per day.
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Originally posted by ABBAKiss
I ran at least 8 miles every day, plus an hour of stairmaster (this was a "normal day"), and on "training days" (three days per week) would run 15-20 miles. Year round.
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Call me crazy, but that sounds like anorexia to me. Maybe I don't have a good understanding of the disease, but it seems to me that you were not eating like any marathoners I know. Putting aside the lack of menstruation (which is indeed normal for most female athletes), I don't understand how a person could train at such a high level, eat so little, and not consider that an eating disorder. Moreover, I have an even harder time understanding how the body can perform at that level with so little food for such a prolongued period of time.
Zak
