In some sports, the practice of weighing athletes, sometimes publicly, sometimes weekly, sometimes within hours of competition, is so embedded in the culture that it goes largely unquestioned. Athletes are weighed in front of teammates. Targets are set without clinical input. Acute weight cuts are treated as a rite of passage. And the psychological and physiological consequences of all of this are quietly absorbed by the athletes who carry them. This blog is about the practic

Sport is one of the few environments in which the body is simultaneously a tool, a measurement, and a public statement, observed by coaches, photographed by spectators, compared to teammates, and increasingly broadcast to the world through social media. For most athletes, navigating that is part of the job. For many, it becomes a source of significant distress. Body image in sport is not the same conversation as body image in the general population. The pressures are differen

A guide for coaches and parents around some of the difficulties in approaching care for athletes experiencing eating disorders.

The fitness industry is a beast of an industry with often good intensions. But what happens when the people we are influenced by are portraying disordered eating habits and routines.

Over the past couple months I have completed close to 30 hours of professional development on binge eating disorder (BED), thanks to the ANZAED Autumn workshop series. I have come away from that training with a renewed conviction that this is one of the most underdiagnosed, misunderstood, and inadequately supported conditions in the athlete population and that current trends in weight-loss medication are making the situation more urgent, not less. What Is Binge Eating Disorde