healthy meals for teenage girl athletes

start 00:01aimee: i'm achieving things, and i want other anorexics to see that they can achieve thingsas well because it's such a trait with the illness that you don't have any beliefin yourself. 00:12comm: like so many teenagers aimee corner

healthy meals for teenage girl athletes, was desperate to fit in. 00:17aimee: i used to look at all the popular girls and they used to be like quite thin and ithought if i'm thin then maybe people will start liking me.

00:26comm: and this belief led her to starve herself until she was dangerously underweight. 00:31aimee: i always wanted to get down to four and a half stone, and that was like my goalweight. i think realistically i knew i would never get to it because i probably would havedied. 00:43comm: aimee, from washington, tyne and wear admits she was just eight years old when herproblems with foods began. 00:49aimee: i just remember like as tory being told by my dad and it was about someone whoknew that his friend had choked on a piece

of meat and i thought i better stop eatingmy food fast and it got to the stage where i was frightened to eat any solid foods, 01:10comm: and by the age of 14, her difficulties had escalated as she faced bullying, anddesperately wanted to be liked at school. 01:17aimee: i thought people would start to like me more if i lost weight because i thoughti would change into a different person. i just thought i'll just keep losing weight,i don't care, i just don't care about eating any more and i got down to literally thinking i could survive off like a spoonful of yoghurt and two forkfuls of potato.

01:35maureen: we knew she was losing weight but we didn't think it was that. we didn'trealise it was anorexia. 01:41comm: as well as starving herself aimee was also exercising compulsively to increase herweight loss. 01:48aimee: as i got more and more unwell, like i couldn't like do proper exercise, so i usedto walk everywhere but then it gradually built up, i mean some mornings i wasn't even goingto sixth form because i would spend the entire morning walking around like, the local area. 02:03aimee: then i would walk to sixth form for

like two hours in the afternoon, then i wouldwalk home, and then i would try and get out again to walk even more. at most i would sayi was doing like 6 to 8 hours of walking a day. 02:16comm: eventually her obsession saw her stop eating and drinking for two whole weeks. 02:21aimee: i thought if i didn't eat at all then my weight loss would continue rapidly andi thought i'm sorted. 02:27aimee: but then obviously they caught me in time to put me in the hospital.

02:31comm: being hospitalised was the wake up call she needed. 02:34aimee: i remember sitting in the ambulance on the way to the hospital and the paramedicwas like i don't actually know how you're still conscious or how you're actually stillalive because someone with a blood sugar this low should be a coma, they should be dead. 02:48aimee: it's horrible when i look, i don't look like me, i look like an old woman. likeit just ages you so much, i look like seventy on some of them photos and i used to thinki looked nice.

03:01diane: i was in hospital with her and obviously i had to wash her and i know it sounds awfulbut can't - i couldn't bear to like touch her, when you washed her you couldfeel everything, like her shoulder, collar bones, her spine and her hair was coming outin clumps, it just broke my heart. 03:23comm: now nineteen, aimee is trying to increase her weight to a healthy eight stone, two. 03:29aimee: but it wasn't until i hit my lowest weight and then something clicked in my headand i actually can't live like this. i thought i've had like five years of this, i just can'tdeal with it any longer so i started eating

and eventually i put on like a bit of weightand they discharged me, i'm eating better than i've ever ate in about five years, comm: andshe's about to start a degree in psychology. 03:54aimee: i want to be able to help other anorexics because it makes me feel awful seeing howmuch they suffer and i've conquered some of my fears and i want to show them from arecovered anorexic's point of view that you can do it.