Marlys Johnson - Understanding Exercise Addiction: A Teen Eating Disorder Prevention Book
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Published in 2000 by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. 29 East 21st Street, New York, NY 10010
Copyright 2000 by Marlys Johnson
First Edition
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Johnson, Marlys. Understanding exercise addiction / Marlys Johnson. p. cm. (A teen eating disorder awareness book) Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary: Discusses addiction to exercise, its relationship to diet diseases like bulimia and anorexia, its causes, and what can be done to overcome it. ISBN 0-8239-2990-6 (lib. bdg.) 1. Exercise addictionJuvenile literature. [1. Exercise addiction. 2. Eating disorders.] I. Title. II. Series. RC569.5E94 J64 2000 616.86dc21 99-042550 CIP AC
Manufactured in the United States of America
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About The Author
Marlys Johnson, M.Ed., LPC, worked as a children's and family therapist for seven years. For four years, she worked directly with the chemically dependent. She was a children's therapist at a women's residential treatment program, McCambridge Center in Columbia, Missouri. She has also worked as a teacher and behavioral consultant. Currently, Ms. Johnson is a journalist and freelance writer. She has written more than fifty articles on various topics, including health and business, and profiles of people of interest.
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Contents
Introduction
1
1. The New Exercise Craze
5
2. Exercise and Athletes
18
3. Exercise and Addiction
27
4. Exercise and Looking Good
40
5. How Do You Feel About Yourself?
53
6. Growing Up
63
7. Patterns of Addiction
78
8. Eating Disorders
92
9. Treating Exercise Addiction
109
10. A Balanced Lifestyle
121
Glossary
127
For Further Reading
131
Where to Go for Help
134
Index
137
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Introduction
Remember how you started exercising? You and your girlfriends hit the running track after seeing how good Britney Spears looked in her new music video. Or you wanted to be like Tiger Woods, a professional athlete at the top of his golf game, and you started to work on your golf swing. Soon you were working out regularly. Once you got into it, you liked the way it made you feel, how buffed and toned you looked, how pumped up you were, ready to try new things, maybe even ask the girl next to you in math class for a date. But something has changed.
Now you run and work out because you feel you have no choice. You schedule your day around it. You reschedule other activities and put things off so that you have time to exercise. You put off family, homework, and boyfriends or girlfriends because of your need to work out. You may even skip school or quit a job so that you can exercise. You exercise in spite of illness, injury, or threatening conditions like
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thunderstorms and icy roads. You exercise against the advice of your physician after you get an injury. If you do not work out, you feel anxious, depressed, restless, or you can't sleep at night. Sound like an addiction? It is.
Exercise addiction, like other addictions, takes over your life. It changes from something you do to keep fit and healthy to something that you have to do even if your health suffers because of it. Addiction changes something as healthy as exercise into something negative, something harmful. Overexercising causes injuries, exhaustion, degeneration of muscles and joints, back problems, and more. It causes problems with your family relationships, your schoolwork, and your social life. No matter what the consequences, when you are addicted to exercise you cannot stop working out. The urge to exercise is too strong. Exercise is your solution to everything. If you had a bad day, you go to an aerobics class to make yourself feel better. If you do not have a date for the weekend, you lift weights instead.
Teens exercise for different reasons. Many teens exercise as a way to control their weight, to purge themselves of calories. They reason that it doesn't matter if they had a double burger with fries for lunch; they will burn it off later when they work out. You can have butter on your popcorn at the movies if you want to, and maybe even a package of chocolate mints, because you will go to the gym later and work it off. Many times the compulsion to exercise is part of an eating disorder. An estimated 4 to 5 percent of all teenagers and young adult females have either bulimia or
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