In Conversation... Eating Disorders with Hope Virgo & Renee McGregor
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🗓️ 30 November 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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This week, Charlotte Collins is joined in conversation by multi award-winning international advocate for people with eating disorders Hope Virgo and the UK’s leading sports dietitian specialising in eating disorders, Renee McGregor, to learn more about the disease and how it can be treated. From causes to surprising symptoms and side effects to how to treat and talk to someone you think may be suffering, the two offer a fascinating insight into the minds of sufferers and the advice and treatment that really works.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Sheerlucks in conversation podcast with me Charlotte Collins. In this episode we will be discussing |
| 0:05.2 | eating disorders and exercise addiction. There will be no mentions of specific behaviors or numbers. |
| 0:10.6 | If you need additional support, please look at Feast, First Step C.D, the Hub of Hope, or ABC. |
| 0:15.6 | Eating disorders are sadly becoming more common and are one of the most life-threatening mental health conditions out there. |
| 0:27.0 | According to recent statistics, approximately 1.25 million people in the UK have an eating disorder and cases are on the rise. |
| 0:33.6 | Yet many taboos still surround eating disorders meaning support has never been more important. |
| 0:38.1 | Today we're joined by Hope Virgo, a multi-award winning international advocate for people with |
| 0:41.9 | eating disorders and Reney McGregor, the UK's |
| 0:44.4 | leading sports dietitian specializing in eating disorders, to delve deeper into the issue and provide |
| 0:49.1 | valuable insights to those who need help, whether you're struggling yourself or are worried about someone you know. |
| 0:54.0 | Welcome, ladies. Hi. Hi, thanks for heading us. |
| 0:57.3 | Not at all. Thank you so much for being here. Can we just go straight in. I want to ask you both about your backgrounds and how you got into this, |
| 1:05.2 | perhaps you can go ahead. Yeah, sure. Yes, I've been kind of campaigning probably for about four, five years now. |
| 1:12.4 | So I come at it from a lived experience. for about five years now. |
| 1:12.5 | So I come at it from a lived experience perspective. |
| 1:15.5 | So I grew up with anorexia and ended up being hospitalized |
| 1:20.5 | when I was about 17. |
| 1:22.2 | It spent a year in treatment and then kind of was in this ongoing state of recovery since then. |
| 1:27.0 | In about 2016, I did relapse and I tried to get support on the NHS but wasn't able to because I wasn't underweight. |
| 1:35.2 | And it was kind of when I came through that relapse, I realized that the way that the system |
| 1:39.9 | currently is set up is just so wrong on so many levels and that's not a kind of dig at the NHS, it's obviously due to funding, it's kind of an educational issue as well. |
| 1:49.0 | And so I kind of came through that relapse and just was like, actually I really, really want to change this and do what I can. |
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