After 12 years of eating disorders - How fitness and nutrition helped Sinead Forde find a healthy balance

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Article Summary
Freya Drohan wrote about Irish woman Sinead Forde and the various eating disorders that she had been battling with for over a decade.  Drohan writes that Forde had always been self conscious about her weight and started dieting at age fifteen because she thought it would make her happier and more popular.  She was diagnosed with anorexia and sent to a weekly support group but had no interest in recovery and ended up in the hospital twice by the time she was eighteen.  Forde spent the next three years as in inpatient at a private hospital and was told she was a chronic anorexic and would never have a normal relationship with food.  Despite this, she was determined to go on with her life and enrolled in Dublin City University where she got the opportunity to visit America for a three months.  This was good for her because she got a break from pressures at home and started eating again.  She stayed at a healthy weight for about a year but everything fell apart again when she got back to college.  She started eating to feel better.  This quickly developed into binge eating and she was soon overweight, despite working out and trying countless dieting techniques.  She felt worse now than she ever had before and made a new year's resolution to get back to a healthy, maintainable weight.  She started lifting weight with her instructor, Stephen, and met with a dietitian to help her control her binge eating.  After a year of hard work and dedication, she managed to get back to a healthy weight and feels better than ever.  She loves working out and encourages others to take control of their bodies and to not take shortcuts because she knows firsthand that it's worth the extra effort in order to look and feel good.

Disorders and How to Get Help
In the article, it says that Sineade Forde dealt with both anorexia and bulimia.  She did exactly the right thing by seeking out help.  In the beginning, it was her parents that contacted all the doctors and the support group and everything but she went along with it and allowed herself to be helped.  Eventually of course, you need to help yourself and Forde did just that.  She got away from everything at home that was making her feel bad about herself by spending those three months in America.  She overshot, however and began eating too much.  It was only a year or two that she put up with her bulimia before seeking out help for herself this time.  She had tried short term solutions like fad diets and knew that she needed a long-lasting solution so the began exercising with a trainer to help her out as well as finding people who could help her maintain a healthy diet and a healthy relationship with food.  An eating disorder isn't something you can beat on your own and there are all kinds of treatment centers and support groups and individuals out there ready and willing to help out someone with an eating disorder.  All you have to do is ask.