.ShawnJohnson's cycle of dieting and overexercising didn't just end after the 2008 Olympics.
. But imagine the pressure I felt as a gymnast whose career stopped before college — then multiply it by 100 when you're Johnson training for the Olympics.
Johnson now identifies her perfectionism as a"sacrifice" and a"cost" of the sport."In gymnastics, because you are judged subjectively on the way you look, and mix that with being a teenage kid that didn't know proper nutrition and psychology, I took that perfectionism and the elite mindset way too far," she said, continuing on to say,". . . if I couldn't maintain perfection, I would go to any and all costs to achieve it.
It was only after Johnson's retirement, when she hired a therapist and nutritionist, that she saw a turning point. Then,
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