Drunkorexic: I barely ate to allow for the calories I downed in booze

For the entire three years I was at university, I probably subsisted on about 800 calories a day in food – plus a whole lot more in booze.

I didn't bother with breakfast. I ate one sandwich for lunch and that was pretty much it for the day. Instead, I puffed endless cigarettes which suppressed most of my hunger pangs and then, every night, I drank my body weight in – a combination of Smirnoff Ice, white wine, vodka and Diet Coke.

As a result of this very deliberate lifestyle, I was whippet thin. At my most slender, I weighed less than 8 st. My body shrank until my tummy really was as flat as a pancake, my shoulders were boney, my thighs were pin-like and, if you wrapped your hands around my waist, your thumbs and forefingers would touch.

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