Julie was an overweight child (190 lbs) who enjoyed horseback riding and pop tarts and had self-esteem issues. After breaking her foot from falling off a horse, she fell into depression and didn’t eat much for several weeks. For the first time in her life she was receiving a lot of positive attention and let her weight drop to 110!
Calorie intake was so limited that she had no energy to walk or move around at all. Intuitively she felt she needed to run which triggered an appetite increase and a return to a healthy running weight of 145. Then came college. Faced with a lot more activities and stress, she dropped running and used food for comfort. Weight boomed up to over 200 pounds.
Feeling that she could not control her eating habits, Julie engaged in something she could control: running. She felt better about herself, started to lose weight, and trained for a half marathon. Unfortunately she did not take walk breaks and burned out.
Love intervened as Julie and her boyfriend Chris trained for a marathon together. She discovered that the right portion of food, training, and rest intervals gives her the weight and body composition she wants. And she can eat Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups—as part of her calorie budget, of course.