The newest eating disorder: Orthorexia

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36. A trainer I used to go to was certain that she was...

...gluten intolerant. She seemed to thinks everyone else must be too, and would speak the word carbs with such venom that it sounded like profanity. She talked about what a bad mother she had been because she had given her daughters bagels when they were little girls. She pronounced ba-a-a-a-agels with such horror and disdain that you would have thought she'd fed her kids dog excrement.

After 5 years of using a variety of fitness techniques, she went for the Cross Fit trend, offering the standard explanation that all the techniques and movements used were based on and useful in your everyday life. I am 63 and had a hip replacement about 18 months ago. There are certain movements my ortho guy insists I not do so as not to dislocate my bionic body part. Chief among those moves is really deep squats, which are a mainstay in Cross Fit. I had to modify about 50% of the exercises. I decided to go elsewhere after a class in which we were asked to do inverted push ups - get into a handstand posture with feet against a wall, and do upside down push ups. I decided that if were in a situation where my life could be saved by doing an inverted push up, I would accept the fact that I'd be toast.