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A young woman with a life-threatening eating disorder says her life was saved – by CHOCOLATE.
Anorexic Annie Windley’s weight plummeted to just four and a half stone (29kg) as she survived on a meagre diet one piece of toast and jam a day for five years.
The 21-year-old was even hospitalised five times as her nutrition-starved body brought her to the brink death.
However, amazingly she managed to beat the disorder after eating a single Lindt chocolate ball she had been craving one evening.
When she discovered she hadn’t put any weight on after, she lost a bit of her fear about eating and after a few years began eating normally again.
Now Annie, who now weighs seven stone (45kg), has spoken for the first time about her battle with anorexia.
It started when she was aged 15 and would count calories before eating.
She avoided carbohydrates, meat or dairy because she wanted to stay skinny and said, being in the same room as a plate of lasagne would cause her to sweat and shake.
She said: “It was crazy to think by eating one part of chocolate I’d instantly gain weight but that day was when I realised eating was not as frightening as I’d made it out to be.
“I used to refuse to eat meals, if you put lasagne in front of me I would physically shake, swear and become agitated, I could not be in the same room as food.
“Something so small was a big deal to me, I could not be near food, if I was going to eat I’d have toast with jam or low fat ready meals to avoid gaining any weight.
