‘I was in denial’: Aussie cricket legend opens up on shock retirement in powerful interview

Starc woeful against record IPL innings | 01:21Former Australia captain Meg Lanning has revealed that an unhealthy obsession with exercise and not eating enough food and the physical and emotional toll it took led to her sudden retirement from international cricket at the age of 31.

“I was overexercising and under-fuelling,” Lanning said. “I got to the point where I was doing about 85-90km a week. I was in denial. “It sort of slowly crept into conscious decisions. Essentially, I felt good. I was light. I could run heaps. I wasn’t getting injured like everyone was telling me I was going to do. It almost became a bit of ‘I am going to show you’ sort of thing.Source: Getty Images

Lanning, who said she was “in a good spot now”, didn’t think she had an eating disorder and her issue was not formally diagnosed as that.

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