My journey to triathlon || Overcoming eating disorders to find HEALTH, HAPPINESS & PERFORMANCE
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- My journey to triathlon wasn't the most stereotypical you could say! Growing up I had dreams of playing Lacrosse for England and competing at a national level as a runner. But that did not go to plan due to a naive, uninformed belief at the age of 13 that being lighter would make me faster led to a 5 year battle with anorexia, years of injury due to the health consequences, and anything but high-level sports performance. Oh how I wish I had read the small print!
Now 15 years on after multiple "what the **** moments", I can say I have overcome the eating disorder, I can accept my body for what it can do and embrace how it looks, I am fully healthy working towards my goals as a professional triathlete and I do not define myself by a number on the scale or food I have eaten - I think that is true freedom.
So here is my, quite emotional, journey from a sports-loving kid, to struggling to find a reason to recover from the #eatingdisorder, to me now leading my own life with #health, #happiness, and ultimately, #performance at the front of it.
For those of you who are struggling or needing a reason to challenge your beliefs around food & body image, I promise you one thing that every day you move further away from an eating disorder and your restricted views around body image the happier, fuller and more rewarding your life will be. And with that, the only regret that comes with full recovery is not doing it sooner, that I would not lie to you about. ❤️
The blog I refer to, A Letter to my 14-year-old self: eloisedulu.wor...
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Hey All! After quitting my job, years of failure and asking "what if", I made a promise to myself to jump; so here I am giving professional triathlon the full commitment it deserves, going all in and sharing the journey with you. Thanks for joining; a new video every Thursday.
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My friends ❤️ I am sharing my story with the hope to spread awareness around eating disorders and how damaging they can be to not only performance in sport, but most importantly a person's life, health and support network.
If any of you are currently struggling, keep fighting. I promise you one thing, you will not regret finding freedom - and that my friends comes with true recovery - mentally and physcially. 😘
Thank you for sharing. Fellow anorexia sufferer with a complex relationship with exercise. I’ve spent a lot of time being banned from any movement, but ultimately it doesn’t help me learn to manage my Ed alongside the thing im passionate about. I’ve realised recently that actually sport might be my way out.
You’re really quite harsh on your unwell self, you were unwell, give your past self some love! ❤
Im hoping to do my first sprint triathlon sometime next year
Thanks for your message. Just make sure sport doesn’t keep you stuck. It can certainly help you and it did for me, you just need to ensure you can get healthy, remember sport is for fun & love vs. A need and keep fighting. ❤️
You’ve got this and one day at a time. You won’t regret it x
Sport has saved my life and still saves my life most days - but it is so hard to get that balance- I think I do need to learn that I can still be alive without it - but its hard! @@eloisedulu
Thank you for sharing this Eloise, it can’t have been easy to be so raw and honest here but it’s a testament to your strength that you’ve done so and it’ll help so many people struggling with similar thought patterns in sport (and in life). Love your videos and your ability to take training seriously without taking life too seriously!
Thanks Jennifer for your sweet message and support. xx
Thank you so much for making this video, it was truly what I needed to hear today.
When you started crying, my heart broke. You do not need to blame yourself for not stopping sooner. You were ill, and you were just trying to cope with your struggles as best as you could, you didn’t know better. And look at how far you’ve come! You should be so proud of yourself.
Sending hugs xx
Thank you so much Claudia ❤ and you are so right, however much regret I have from not recovering sooner I know unfortunately I didn't have the power to change that - still don't! Keep smiling and thank you xx
Hi Eloise, I am only just discovering your channel, but I would just like to thank you for this video. I am an amateur athlete, but I have struggled with anorexia athletica for many years now, resulting in a series of injuries which have increased in severity, to the extent that my current knee injury has kept me out of training for most of this year and left me facing the prospect of surgery. I too struggled with the sense that restriction and excessively 'healthy' eating would improve my athletic performance if I combined it with an increase in my training volume. However, whilst I now have the knowledge that this is fundamentally incorrect (for example, I am qualified PT although I do not work in the industry), breaking the habits and thought processes that have become engrained after so many years is immensely difficult, whilst my inability to train makes attempting to reformulate my relationship with food even harder, as I have developed the mindset that you can only eat if you exercise, rather than eating in order to fuel exercise. I would just like to thank you for this video, as I can understand how emotionally difficult it must have been to film and, for my own part, I hope that I can draw on your experience of recovery in my own life and ultimately get back to the sports that I love.
I've only just seen this comment, sorry Daniel for the very slow reply, but thank you so much for your support.
I wish you the best of luck with everything you are doing and every day keep making the choices for your overall health & happiness. You can win. x
Thank you for sharing, I can relate a lot to your story and it helps to know I’m not alone and I haven’t ruined my chances in sport. I’ve just finished my 6 weeks for two pelvic stress fractures - one was sacral. I’m 18 and I will never accept not having a period again. Thank you so much!
Aww Grace I am sorry to hear about your struggles and your injuries, but yes no never settle for healthy and that includes having your period. From there you will be able to compete in sport again and be a far better athlete than before. Stay strong and focus on doing everything right this time, you wont regret it :) xx
Thank you for being so open and raw. 💕
Appreciate the support Kara and I was believe being open is the only way to help others x
@@eloisedulu Agreed completely. I've used my channel to share about my experiences having undergone weight loss surgery. The number of people who reach out to thank me for being open about it is staggering and humbling. Honesty really does help others.
Gosh… hats off to you… very brave… thanks for sharing
Thanks for your kind comment and support!
thanks for sharing such a great video about your history. it took a lot of courage to do that. i think this will help a lot of athletes because we can all relate to how body image affects you mentally.
Thank you Tony. I hope so for sure 😊🙏
Very open and honest
Great video ❤️
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😘😘 thanks lovely x
you hate bananas??? And i was just getting to like this channel hahaha
actually this is a fantastic video, very open and transparent! Youre a star Eloise!
Haha the worst! But thank you Neil, appreciate your support 😊