内容摘要：Three other prominent figures, including former

Three other prominent figures, including former

"You could be in the best shape of your life, but if you're miserable, what's the point?"My main aim is to show women how weightlifting helped me and can help others - both physically and mentally."

Sport and exercise professor Dr Hester Hockin-Boyers, of Durham University, has explored how women at various stages of recovery use weightlifting as a tool for treating their eating disorders.Her research found that weightlifting in different styles helped shift their perspective on exercise, "from a focus on restriction and becoming smaller to one centred on gaining strength and muscle"."This shift was crucial in fostering a healthier relationship with their bodies," said Dr Hockin-Boyers.

She added: "Weightlifting also provided a sense of structure that many women associated with feelings of 'calm' and 'safety', helping them compartmentalise exercise within their daily lives."Having structured workouts also encouraged rest days, she said, which played a key role in preventing exercise from becoming obsessive or compulsive.

She also found many participants established a strong sense of community in weightlifting, which provided social support throughout their recovery.

Eating disorder charity Beat said a positive relationship with exercise was possible for someone who had had an eating disorder once they were much further along in their recovery journey, but admitted it was a "very complex relationship".The independent commission, chaired by Baroness Louise Casey, will begin work in April but is not due to publish its final report until 2028.

Sarah Woolnough, chief executive of health think-tank The King's Fund, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the timescale "feels far too long" and urged the government to look at measures that could be implemented sooner.Other councils and care providers have said the final 2028 report is too long to wait for the long-term reform of vital services already on their knees.

The commission comes alongside immediate government plans to get care workers to do more health checks, and a funding boost for services to help elderly and disabled people remain in their homes.It will be split into two phases, the first of which will report by mid-2026 and identify critical issues and recommend medium-term improvements.