18: How Disordered Eating Affects Current and Former Athletes of all Levels with Georgie Buckley, Dietitian and PhD Candidate

Today we have Georgie Buckley on the podcast. 

Georgie Buckley is an Accredited Practising Dietitian (Aus RD equivalent) and PhD Candidate. She practices in eating disorders and sports nutrition and is informed by Health at Every Size principles with an increasing influence from feminist theory.  Georgie is in her final year of her PhD where she has been looking at disordered eating in current and former athletes. Her research has been largely informed by her background and lived experience in elite level track and field as a distance runner. 

During this episode, we discussed:

• How detrimental commenting on girls and women’s bodies in sport can be long-term
• Her experience as an elite level track and field athlete
• What exactly disordered eating is
• How current and former athletes can heal from disordered eating
• How sport culture imposes pressure on athletes to look a certain way
• How we can change this obsessiveness with appearance and thinness in sport, especially endurance events.

Click here for the full show notes with resources and things mentioned in this episode. 

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