Tag — Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morisette, the singer who has become the marathon-running poster child for good health recently spoke with Runner’s World about depression and how running has helped her deal with it. The 35-year-old said that,

“running has made being depressed impossible. If I’m going through something emotional and just go outside for a run, you can rest assured Ill come back with clarity.”

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The 35-year-old singer and song writer Alanis Morissette gives a candid interview about her past eating disorder struggles in the December issue of Health magazine. In the past year she has lost heaps of weight, run a couple of marathons and has become an advocate for eating disorder awareness. She told Health magazine that when she was a teenager she was both anorexic and bulimic because being in the public eye as a teen celebrity was just too much for her to handle. When she got into her 20s she was eating again but she wasn’t too concerned about health, she was just eating whatever she wanted, but because she was so busy she wasn’t necessarily getting fat.

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Alanis Morissette is looking better than ever. She no longer battles eating disorders, she recently ran the New York City marathon to support Edward Norton’s team, she also ran the Bizz Johnson Trail marathon and she has learned to eat right. She credits her weight loss to the book written by Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat to Live: The Revolutionary Formula for Fast and Sustained Weight Loss
. In regard to the book she said,

“I’m eating like an adult rather than like a seven-year-old at a candy store. Now around food, I can be trusted.”

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Alanis Morissette is one fit and trim woman these days as she is often spotted exercising and eating right. Recently, she has announced that she’ll be running a marathon on October 11th, the Bizz Johnson Trail Marathon, to raise money for the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA).  During her training for the 26.2 mile race Alanis has gotten into great shape but she told People Magazine that the training has also changed her views on food. She said,

“I’ve learned how to enjoyably fuel myself. Participating in this marathon has inspired me to treat my body like an instrument.”

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Alanis Morissette is back on top!  After her 2006 engagement with Ryan Reynolds was called off Alanis did what most girls do during a break up; eat.  And then when Reynolds quickly moved on to Scarlett Johansson and the couple got married, that just added more salt to the wound.  Now, the 35-year-old rock star has lost approximately 20 to 25 pounds thanks to exercise and a book she came across, Eat to Live.  She explained,

“I saw this book, Eat to Live, and I thought, that’s exactly what I want to do. I wasn’t interested in some fad diet that was unsustainable.  So I opened it and flipped through and thought the weight loss is incidental. The primary focus is disease prevention.”

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