Hey everybody and welcome to RealPod. I'm Victoria Garrick, former D1 athlete and mental

health and body image advocate and I'll be your host. We've got awesome guests, weekly

inspiration in our bringing you the realest conversations about everything and anything.

Now let's get real.

Welcome back to RealPod everybody. I hope you are having an amazing week. Thank you for

submitting all of your wonderful questions for today's episode. For those of you that

don't know, it is National Eating Disorder Awareness Week which started yesterday and

I uploaded a video to my YouTube channel which shared my binge eating disorder story and

I also posted to my Instagram, Appetary Garrick asking for submissions of questions to talk

about eating disorders, keep raising awareness and help answer any questions that you guys

might have for me and my personal story that I've shared on YouTube and on social media.

So I'm really excited to answer all your questions. I'm currently, let me set the scene

for you. I just spoke a Dartmouth today and I am on the road so I am recording in my hotel

room but it's nice and convenient here. I just had chicken fingers which were delicious

and I'm laying in bed and I have your questions on a Google Doc and I am just ready to

get real answer them. I almost feel like we're having a sleep over. So this is great.

Let's just dive right in. If I feel bad if you didn't get the chance to ask me a question

but just make sure that you are following Instagram and YouTube so that you can also be

the first to know about this stuff. Okay with that said, I'm going to dive in with the

first question. So the first question is how do you know you have a problem with food

or you have an eating disorder? And then a few questions that are related to that I want

to couple together are how do you know when a diet and trying to eat healthy turns into

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