'I stopped working out to look good - here's how my body changed'

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When Alice's periods stopped, she realised her priorities had to change

The constant external reinforcement that she needed to look a certain way - read: slim and very toned - ended up causing Alice to set unrealistic expectations for herself."I think that's where it started to damage my mental health," she tells me."My success was so tied up in looking that way, I worried that if I regressed or stepped back from that, people would think, ‘She clearly can't maintain it,' or, 'She obviously doesn't work hard enough.

 

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