147: A Gymnast’s Journey From Anorexia To Future Dietitian

In this client testimonial episode of the Female Athlete Nutrition podcast, I am joined by collegiate gymnast, future dietitian, and Rise Up Nutrition client, Camille. Camille recently graduated from our Female Athlete System of Transformation, aka the FAST Track Program, and is now part of our Alumni Program. Camille talks about her struggles with disordered eating and depression as a high performing student-athlete. Camille shares how both receiving intensive outpatient eating disorder support at a treatment center, as well as being part of our virtual FAST Track Program helped her feel less alone in her struggles, connecting her to a community of female athletes she could relate to and be motivated by. Having completed the FAST Track Program, she talks about maintaining the connection to this community and the Rise Up Nutrition team as part of our Alumni Program: key reasons she believes the FAST Track Program was truly transformational for her. She discusses her fears and hesitations about whether the program would actually work for her (spoiler alert: it did!), and how our team helped Camille stay accountable and on track making good nutrition choices. We talk about what food freedom means, intuitive eating, and respecting your hunger and fullness cues.

Camille shares about her struggles transitioning to college freshman year, and the culture of disordered eating and mindsets in gymnastics, including body judgment, comparison and perfectionism. Now entering her sophomore year, Camille talks about the coping skills she’s learned to support herself, and how improving her nutrition has led to big athletic improvements. By embracing her body’s strength, rather than trying to look a certain way or be smaller, Camille has seen her gymnastics performances improve, something Camille wants to highlight to listeners. Camille speaks about studying to become a dietitian and the power of sharing our struggles to help others. 

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In this episode we talk about:

2:30 Introduction to Taylor, and why she started working with Rise Up Nutrition

8:45 2:20 introduction to Camille, collegiate gymnast and Rise Up Nutrition client

4:30 Camille’s story with an eating disorder and depression; Eating disorder treatment at an intensive outpatient center 

6:50 Life after leaving the treatment center; Triggers on a college athletics team, freshman year, and relapse

8:40 Finding Rise Up Nutrition (R.U.N) and developing coping skills for long-term recovery  

12:00 Recovery hesitations and why R.U.N. worked for Camille

14:00 Motivations for studying nutrition while also struggling with disordered eating  

19:20 Post-recovery athletic performance

21:00 Intuitive eating and hunger cues: “it’s also okay to say no to food!”

25:05 Food freedom: a client's perspective 

28:20 R.U.N. FAST Track Program 

35:30 Support after the FAST Track Program with the Alumni Program 

38:00 Gymnastics culture of body ideals and size, perfectionism, and comparison

44:40 Camille’s advice to listeners: embrace change, it’s inevitable 

47:30 End of the podcast questions