Australia's 18,000 personal trainers and fitness instructors are being given new guidelines to identify and help people who might be over-exercising and at risk of developing eating disorders.
From Wednesday, the 18,000 registered personal trainers and fitness instructors across Australia will be given guidance on identifying people who might be over-exercising, exercising when injured or cutting out multiple food groups.
Gyms will also be encouraged to change their language and not use body-shaming terms such as"fat","fugly" or"skinny" and instead focusing on building health, wellbeing and strength through healthy exercise. Sarah Maguire, director of Inside Out, said both men and women with eating disorders struggled with over-exercising — a cycle they needed to break in order to recover.Types of eating disorders:Restrictive energy intake leading to being unable to maintain a normal weight, with an intense fear of gaining weightRepeated episodes of binge eating followed by compensatory behaviours, with an emphasis on body shape or weightEating large amounts of food over very short periods of time while feeling a loss of controlEngaging in excessive exercise and over training to gain a certain type of muscularityBehaviours such as food restriction, skipping meals and binge eating that can be indicators of a disorder developing."Once it becomes ritualised, compulsive or obsessive, or once you can't take days off and if you feel guilt and shame when you don't do it, then we are moving into the territory of eating disorders forming part of a mental illness."According to the Butterfly Foundation — a group supporting those with eating disorders and negative body image issues — as many as 1.2 million Australians live with an eating disorder."It got pretty bad," she said."It got to a point where I was basically living off caffeine because I couldn't stomach food, I didn't like how I felt after I would eat and I needed to perform so for me the lighter I felt, the better I would feel and perform.
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