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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/katies-sunday-column-my-life-as-a-runner-began-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/">Katie’s Sunday Column: “My Life as a Runner Began for all the Wrong Reasons”</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted June 24, 2007 at 06:32 PM by Katie Drummond</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">HerActiveLife.com is excited to introduce the following regular Sunday Column to its site!&nbsp; Senior writer Katie Drummond waxes philosophical, dishes out healthy recipes, engages us with her nutritionl savviness, and invites us on her personal health and fitness journey. In this first column, Katie lyrically writes about her battle with an eating disorder, the turning point in her life, and how running gave her the strength and determination to regain her health. My life as a runner began for all the wrong reasons. Five years ago, at 16, I fell into the same trap as so many young girls, and my weight became equated with my self-worth. I don’t know how it happened, I don’t know why, but somehow I went to bed one night and woke up the next day with an absolute certainty that the…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/katies-sunday-column-my-life-as-a-runner-began-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/katies-sunday-column-my-life-as-a-runner-began-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/katies-sunday-column-my-life-as-a-runner-began-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/katies-sunday-column-my-life-as-a-runner-began-for-all-the-wrong-reasons/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-motivation/">her-motivation</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-story/">her-story</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/special-features/">special-features</a><br /><br /> </P>