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Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 4935
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 06:39 pm: | 
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Addiction to exercise can be harmful
05:44 PM PST on Saturday, February 24, 2007
By JEAN ENERSEN / KING 5 News
We are constantly barraged with messages about the importance of getting enough exercise for our health. But there is actually such a thing as too much exercise, and it's likened to addiction and eating disorders.
Those who suffer from the disease cannot distinguish how much exercise is too much.
Lisa Rubin had it all figured out -- an easy formula for staying in shape.
"You eat two pieces of bread, you work out two hours, once piece of bread, okay, one hour," she said.
But it was an obsession. Rubin said she'd spend four or five hours a day at the gym. She'd also train and run marathons with broken bones and while recovering from surgery.
"Apparently that is not a normal thing. Doctors would say to me: 'Outside you look great, but inside your bones are just falling apart,'" she said.
For 30 years she's battled a disorder called exercise bulimia.
Sondra Kronberg from the National Eating Disorder Association said that those who suffer from the disease cannot distinguish how much exercise is too much.
"It is the degree to which your exercise, thoughts and behaviors interfere with the quality of your life and ultimately take up space inside your head and ultimately infringe on your wellness and your health and potentially your life," said Kronberg.
The warning signs include a compulsion to exercise, and the need to keep moving to burn calories. It may include antisocial behaviors, fatigue, anxiety and depression.
Rubin said she is now able to limit her workout to 30 minutes and knows she needs food for energy, but she also knows it's an uphill battle.
"You have to constantly keep fighting it. It's been a month that I've been free. …But I have to work to make it last. It's not going to go into remission by itself,” said Rubin.
http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_022407HEnbc_exerciseobsessionEL.d0f33 2d.html
I never did it on broken bones or anything crazy like that but to me some of this is familiar. I actually had to stop exercising for awhile because I felt things were getting out of hand. But now that summer's right around the corner I'm thinking about starting back up again. But I'm not sure. I kind of don't want to fall off the deep end again if that's what actually occurred...but I don't know if it really did. So, anyway, has anyone here ever experienced anything similar to this before? |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4107
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, March 20, 2007 - 11:15 pm: |
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I believe that physical activity is important, but unless you're a professional athlete all that exercise is NOT necessary. A normal person doesn't need to be on a treadmill, going to the gym, jumping up and down and all that other stuff. People are too easily brainwashed into believing that this is the thing to do. Besides all of that, you're supposed to go to the doctor prior to starting any exercise program - how many people actually do that?
Speaking of people being brainwashed - I have determined that the reason that half of the population is overweight is because of the USDA food pyramid. People actually believe that what's shown on the pyramid is what they should eat everyday
If I ate 6 servings of meat and milk and 11 servings of bread and pasta everyday I'd be as big as a doggone house. But guess what, that's what people are doing and that's why so many people are overweight.
People aren't adjusting their food intake to their lifestyles. Obviously if you have a very active lifestyle then you need to eat more and if you're a couch potato or a sedentary existence then you don't need to eat as much.
I think people should do what works for them. Eat what you need to sustain yourself properly, exercise in the manner that suits your physique and schedule, and stop worrying about trying to keep up with what other people are doing.
And go to your doctor so that he will know what you're doing, so that he can provide you with the correct guidance about your food intake and exercise program. And get some rest, people are so busy being in rush mode that they forget to sit down and relax.
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Moonsigns
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Post Number: 1853
Registered: 07-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 08:10 am: |
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Good post, Tonya! A lot of women have have this problem, and over-exercising is extremely harmful to the adrenal glands. If the adrenals are fatigued, this imbalance negatively influences almost every function of the human body (weight gain/weight loss, anxiety, depression, extreme fatigue, PMS issues, hair loss). |
Moonsigns
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 08:16 am: |
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Also, it's quite easy to detect a woman who over-exercises -she may be thin but her face looks really, really aged. This happens, again, because the adrenals are usually fatigued. And when an individual over-exercises, this addiction causes the body to use biochemicals faster (breakdown) than it can rebuild. Hence, the rate of the aging process is greatly increased. If the addiction isn't apparent (which is rare), it is internal (heart disease, endocrine disorders, and other diseases related to aging).
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Cynique
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Post Number: 7925
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 12:40 pm: |
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I'm surprised the article didn't mention how excessive exercising has the potential to become addictive because it stimulates the brain to secrete euphoric endorphins which eventually require a fix that can only be supplied by more exercise. And, of course, as in any addiction if the "fix" isn't satisfied, withdrawal symptoms kick in. This is particularly true in the case of joggers. |
Latina_wi
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Username: Latina_wi
Post Number: 289
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 04:10 pm: |
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Thank you Tonya, I will show this to a few people. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4115
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 04:24 pm: |
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I have the cutest little refrigerator magnet that says:
Whenever I get the urge to exercise
I lie down until the feeling passes
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Latina_wi
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Post Number: 292
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 04:35 pm: |
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^^^LOL, reminds me of something funny I read yesterday.
"I am a fat girl with a skinny girl screaming to get out.
But I just shut her up with chocolate". |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 4941
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 - 06:20 pm: |
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We rarely get the chance to look at this from the other side, thanks y'all.
Moonsigns: you're scaring the shit out of me, Sis. Hair loss? Adrenal fatigue? The aging process is greatly increased??? Stop playing!!
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