Hi! Sorry to bother you about this but in one of your older posts you said Satoko talked about an ED in her book and if it's okay I was wondering if you could post what she said there? I totally understand if you don't want to, I'm just curious bc I thought she had some kind of condition causing her weight issues or smth but I couldn't find anything either way when I searched
(Content note for discussion of weight and disordered eating)
Hello, anon! It’s okay, I don’t mind, and it’s not a very long section. I’ll put the rest, including both her original words and my (amateur) translation, under a cut.
Before I read her book, I had a similar kind of impression as you did (and it’s always possible she has other things going on). I’m not sure if she’s talked about this elsewhere; I don’t remember seeing anything, and I skimmed through some articles about her and only found one throwaway mention. There an interview a few years back where she talks about learning to improve her eating habits and nutrition while rehabbing her hip fracture but says she previously skipped meals due to being busy.
Anyway, this part is from near the end of the book, in a section about her thoughts on her future and her interest in sports medicine.
As a result of my injury, I began to also think from another perspective how I might be able to have even some small influence on protecting figure skaters mentally and physically.
Looking back on my own experience, there wasn’t a time when I had a sudden growth spurt or fell into a slump because of my figure changing.
Even so, I put a considerable amount of care into controlling my weight. That was because I didn’t like how my body felt heavy if I went over the weight that I thought of as ‘this much seems about right’.
For instance, if when I weighed myself in the morning, I was heavier than ideal, I would hold back on meals, even on days I was training, and I would also do things like drastically reduce both my breakfast and lunch when I had plans and it seemed like I would eat a lot for dinner.
However, what I learned from my injury was that the weight I thought of as correct was too low.
It turned out that my hip fracture was connected to the fact that on top of keeping myself to a standard that was below the weight I should actually maintain, my weight was too low for the training load I had every day.
As an athlete, I had opportunities to receive guidance on meals and managing my health.
However, even if I understood it intellectually, in my head was the deeply ingrained image of ‘body is heavy = can’t do jumps’, and I wasn’t able to have proper meals.
Moreover, I’m thinking that while it’s necessary for figure skaters to control their weight, it’s also important for them to put on a certain amount of weight during periods of growth to sustain their mental and physical health.
将来的に、そういった医学的な見地からのサポートに少しでもかかわれればと考えています。
I’m thinking that in the future, I would like to have even some small influence on that kind of support from a medical point of view.
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