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PART 6: Overcoming Food Struggles: My Journey from Emetophobia to Fitness

Name: PART 6: Overcoming Food Struggles: My Journey from Emetophobia to Fitness
Uploaded: 2024-11-20T10:54:27+00:00
Duration: 56 s
Channel: Misty Tripoli
Description: Misty Tripoli recounts a personal history of disordered eating beginning at age 14, including stockpiling "syrup of EPCAC" (syrup of ipecac) and a…

20 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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Misty Tripoli recounts a personal history of disordered eating beginning at age 14, including stockpiling "syrup of EPCAC" (syrup of ipecac) and a 16-year dysfunctional relationship with food and body image. She explains that by age 16 she began teaching aerobics—turning an obsession with burning calories into a paid fitness teaching role—and that fitness teaching became a positive, natural outlet.

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And so what I found out is that there's this stuff called syrup of EPCAC that you give babies when they're poisoned. And so I would go to all the different pharmacies and buy out their supply. So I always had a large supply of syrup of epic ACAC on hand. And so starting at 14, this massive dysfunctional relationship with food and my body and who I was began. And that lasted for 16 years. But during that 16 years, when I was 16, I started teaching aerobics because I was a natural dancer and mover and I thought, okay, well, I'm going to exercise anyways because I was obsessed now with movement and exercise because I was so afraid of every calorie that went in my body, I had to make sure I burned it off so I might as well get paid to exercise. So teaching aerobics was the best thing for me to do. It came pretty naturally. I loved it. I actually really loved teaching fitness.