{"id":277153,"date":"2025-07-20T10:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277153\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:50:10","slug":"ex-olympic-cyclist-emma-pooley-on-the-pressures-of-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/277153\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Olympic cyclist Emma Pooley on the pressures of diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said she addressed those issues in her book and said it was important that the sport &#8220;gives a healthy impression on the viewers as well, so that it should inspire people to cycle&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some of her recipes were meals she &#8220;learned to make to support my training, but now I eat as part of a healthy lifestyle&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, she said attitudes had &#8220;changed for the better and there was a lot of really well-founded science-based thinking in cycling and other sports about a balanced diet and a healthy body&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Some people are naturally very slim and some aren&#8217;t and you can&#8217;t force everybody to look the same,&#8221; Pooley said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;No-one forced calorie restriction upon me, it was because I was told it was better to be thin and I looked around me and saw lots of thin people so I inflicted it upon myself, but I realised&#8230; the more I ate the faster I went.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Now I realise that I was over-restricting and so a lot of people realise it&#8217;s not about restriction, it&#8217;s about healthy fuel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;My point is that enjoyment is a really big part of&#8230; healthiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She said she addressed those issues in her book and said it was important that the sport &#8220;gives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-277153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114885179741113463","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}