TV3 star Elaine Crowley has confessed she regrets appearing on Celeb Operation Transformation and told how she piled on the pounds once again when the cams stopped rolling.The presenter said in retrospection starring on the hit weight-loss show in 2016 was a bad idea.The Cork native informed the RTE Guide:”In hindsight
would I do it once again? No. The team were excellent however for me it wasn’t a great idea.”Emotionally, it can be rather harmful to be weighed in such a manner. “While I remained in an excellent location mentally and physically when I was asked to be on the program, when I agreed I started to worry.”< figure data-mod=image itemprop =image itemscope=itemscope itemtype=http://schema.org/ImageObject >
The 40-year old presenter admitted pressure to drop weight on live TV was counterproductive leading to an unhealthy relationship with food.She included
: “Mentally it knocked me back into binge eating. I believed ‘Well I’m a fatty anyway, so I might as well binge.
“So I gain weight, lost it and put all of it back on once again. I would not put myself under that pressure or examination ever again.”
The broadcaster admitted she was more confident about her body when she turned 40 in 2015, than ever before.She stated:”Sure,
40 is a complicated age however I’m still here and I have actually seen friends die.
“Naturally, part of me will constantly want more but the bigger part tells me to police on and enjoy what I have in life.”
Brave Elaine opened up about having suicidal thoughts when her depression took over.She stated:
” I’ve been down at the bottom. I’ve been that person believing what is the point in existing?
“I didn’t wish to exist but I never actively did anything. If I had a button and could have pressed it to disappear I would have done it in a heart beat.
“It’s a really fine line. We don’t talk adequate about psychological health in this country, especially about depression in backwoods.
“When I initially spoke about my anxiety there were individuals in your area stating I shouldn’t be doing it, that it was really insensitive.
“It ought to be the opposite. For several years I hated myself for the way I looked. Now I do not provide a fiddler’s about that anymore.
“I’m grand, my body works and I’m healthy and strong.”
Train with Elaine, the brand-new physical fitness section on the broadcaster’s TV3 program, was born out of her own experience of coping with anxiety and learning to like herself again.She included:
” I believe that we have completely f ** cked up our relationship with our bodies and health over the last few years and I’m a living breathing example of that.
“I had been so messed up about what is great for you that I didn’t understand the wood from the trees.
“Now my focus is on health, muscle strength and fitness. It’s not about weight. I have actually been skinnier than I am now and I have actually been miserable.”
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