Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. My name is Cinny Lamberti and for this blog I’m going to discuss eating disorders within sports. I am a gymnast myself and I know that in my sport alone, there are a lot of cases where gymnasts are forced to eat a certain way or be in a certain weight range and I feel as if that’s not healthy for the athlete themselves. This topic is an interesting one for people who aren’t athletes or aren’t athletes that go through this. It’ll give an inside look about how an athlete feels when they have a coach or fans tell them that they’re too fat and shouldn’t be in the sport.

Don’t worry, there will be way more sports involved than just gymnastics in this blog! Sports such as figure skating, dance, gymnastics, and, of course the one that everyone knows forces people to control their weight, wrestling will all be talked about in this. Like I mentioned earlier, people don’t realize that athletes are in fact affected by eating disorders quite frequently and a lot of the time it’s our coaches that are telling us that we need to lose the weight or calling us fat.

It’s important to talk about because it’s a serious topic that doesn’t get attention and the more attention we give it the bigger the chance of fixing the problem.

Thanks for joining me!

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