How Do You Recognize Signs Of Over-Exercising?
Body image and weight problems don’t only occur in the form of an eating disorder. Although getting sufficient amount of exercise is essential to a healthy lifestyle, too much exercise is just as detrimental to the health as bulimia or anorexia. If extreme dieting evolves into an eating disorder, extreme exercising can evolve into what author Alayne Yates refers to in her book “Compulsive Exercise and the Eating Disorder” as an activity disorder. Here are some steps to help recognize an activity disorder. “Signs and symptoms of activity disorder often, but not always, include those seen in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa,” said Carolyn Costin, author and founder of the Monte Nido Treatment Center, which rehabilitates people with eating disorders. One is an obsessive fear of being fat, never being satisfied with their body, binge eating, and a variety of dieting and purging behaviors. Costin said that studies have shown that 75 percent of anorexic and bulimic people use excessive e
