Woman's Day Magazine NZ

‘Exercise Masked My Eating Disorder’

At the peak of her eating disorder, Emma Wright would faint if she stood up too quickly.

“My periods also stopped for years and I couldn’t regulate my body temperature, so I was freezing all the time and I’d started growing fuzz all over my body,” recalls the 54-year-old.

Emma, now a “body freedom coach” and author of the recently published book Body Confident : A Guide To Raising Happy Eaters,says she first started bingeing, purging and restricting food when she was 14.

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