Lindsey Vonn is synonymous with fitness, after appearances on the covers of magazines including Health, Fitness and Shape. But that was not always the case.
Vonn struggled with her diet and gained 25 pounds in the summer after competing as a 17-year-old at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
As she got older, she learned “all the exercise in the world can’t derail the effects of unhealthy eating.” By the 2010 Winter Games, when she won her first two Olympic medals, she was eating eggs and oatmeal for breakfast instead of bagels and pancakes.
Vonn reveals what inspired her to change her diet in the following excerpt from her new autobiography, “Strong Is the New Beautiful,” which will be available beginning tomorrow:
A few years after I joined the ski team, I moved to an apartment in Park City with three of my teammates, all guys.