Dr Natalie Crawford

I'm exercising to be in a bigger body because I know my mother and my grandmother.

So my grandmother spent the last 10 years of her life in a bed, incontinent, with dementia, and completely frail.

And my mother is on the same course.

My mother is 88, fell and broke her hip in January.

She just now is walking on a walker.

She's in assisted living facility for Alzheimer's.

I want to change that legacy for my children.

I don't want that to be my path.

And I don't want my children to have that to be an expectation.

So all of the things I would have done differently was...

I wanted to be thin.

Thin was healthy.

That is what I learned in medical school.

The thinner you were up to starvation, you know, up to you want the lowest body mass index possible without being a little bit too low.

You know, and I kind of skirted that line because I stopped eating in medical school due to stress.

I would have fed myself.

I would have lifted weights.

I would have stopped doing so much cardio because knowing I was chipping away at my bone density.

I was chipping away.

I was raising my inflammation levels.