Defeating Anorexia Athletica is an extraordinary true story charting the author′s life-threatening battle with anorexia athletica – obsessive-compulsive exercise addiction. Her story takes the reader on a compelling and often painful journey that touches on the complexities of our fixation with physical perfection, eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia, and obsessive-compulsive disorders. It also sheds valuable light upon the unquestioned links between diet pills, mental illness and suicide. This journey of discovery and self-healing describes the author’s metamorphosis from an obsessed and depressed lost little girl to a healthy mother with a blossoming and balanced life. This memoir has been a lifetime in the making. While the author began writing it to bring healing and closure to the many issues affecting her life, her main aim is to raise awareness of anorexia athletica, which remains a relatively unexplored topic, and deliver fresh hope and understanding to anyone touc
