I guess I have a similar relationship to most women with running and fitness,” says Savannah Sachdev (would it be too much to call her a social media sensation? We think not! She has got 213,000 followers on insta, after all). “I kind of found it when I was in my mid teens as a way to burn calories and yes, sure, I lost some weight, but it all went a bit extreme. I went really hard, lost loads of weight, got sick of it, gained the weight and got into this unhealthy cyclical place.”
Savannah went to a school where she was one of the only people of colour and she struggled to fit in because she felt very different to the other girls her age. She says it wasn’t until she lost weight that she really got noticed, so for a long time she related being smaller with being like the other girls and being attractive.
After a while, though, she began to hate running and gave it up completely. And it was only years later, when lockdown happened, that she decided to go for a run down the street. She remembers: “I was in a difficult place mentally, and I started jogging to the sweet shop down the road every day. It turned into something that was a bit of a crutch during a hard time.”
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