1135: Amelia Boone Takes on Her Biggest Obstacle... A 20 Year Eating Disorder

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sal, Adam and Justin speak with 4x world champion obstacle course racer Amelia Boone who goes into detail about her 20-year struggle with Anorexia and how she is taking control of this long-term challenge.

Her internal struggle with food and timeline leading up to her entering an eating disorder treatment center. (3:30)
Why it is so prevalent to talk about your relationship with food. (8:34)
How she feels brought to life by a challenge and the triggers that came from it. (9:42)
The value of unpacking bad behaviors. (12:32)
How the internal intrinsic motivations/characteristics that make you excel in so many areas of your life are also the ones that can drive you into mental health disorders. (14:12)
What did the process of treatment look like for her? (17:32)
Why she chose the treatment program she did and what was the most difficult part about it? (22:57)
Were there common things she found that was the underlying issue of the disorder? (28:25)
Her advice to parents regarding their own children. (30:18)
What has she incorporated into her life since being out of the treatment center? (32:25)
Did she share her story to inspire others? (33:45)
Does she feel more like herself since going through this process? (36:38)
Why no two eating disorders look the same: The importance of NOT making foods off-limits. (41:08)
How has she managed her nutrient/hormone levels through this process? (43:47)
Making friends with your feelings. (46:22)
What has the feedback been from her audience? (48:19)
Why we don’t recommend diets, we discuss them. (51:05)
How having GOOD relationships is GOOD for your health and wellbeing. (54:05)
Why we need a cultural shift around the weight stigma and the feeling of being hungry. (58:08)
What foods make her happy now? (1:02:15)
What does her current training look like? (1:04:30)

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0:00.0	If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.
0:05.9	MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts.
0:09.0	Salta Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.
0:13.2	So in this episode of MIND Pump, we interview one of our favorite people, Amelia Boone,
0:19.2	decorated OCR racer.
0:21.8	Now, is this the first time that she came out and talked, I'm publicly about her eating
0:27.3	disorder?
0:28.3	I know she's written blogs about it, but has she been on a podcast and actually talked
0:32.4	to have a discussion about it?
0:33.4	Sure, she shares the first time.
0:34.4	I don't think so.
0:35.4	And, you know, we commend her.
0:38.1	It's really hard to talk about something this personal and this challenging, especially
0:42.7	when you're, you know, people have kind of put you up on a pedestal.
0:45.8	You know, she's someone a lot of people look up to in that racing space and she's been
0:51.7	battling issues with food for a very, very long time.
0:56.6	She actually admitted herself to have help.
1:00.6	So that's what we talk a lot about in this episode, that whole process.
1:03.9	Like, what started it?
1:05.4	When did she first notice she had problems?
1:09.4	Why this time she told herself, okay, I need to get help?
1:13.6	What that process all looks like?
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