When Leah Blair was planning her wedding last year, she was faced the added challenge of doing so with an eating disorder.
The 23-year-old from Ballymena developed issues with food around three years ago following a health and fitness diet after gaining weight at while university.
“I noticed that my relationship with food was changing and I had gone on a diet but I didn’t know how to stop or where the end was,” Leah told Belfast Live.
“I realised that my thoughts were completely preoccupied with food and it wasn’t normal anymore. I was very lucky before that and had no issues with food during all of my teenage years.”
Leah began manipulating her food intake and exercising excessively until her weight became dangerously low.
Soon afterwards, she was diagnosed with anorexia and had to be admitted to hospital for five weeks in April 2019.
Leah is speaking out to mark Eating Disorders Awareness Week as a new survey finds that over two thirds of people with an eating disorder feel their GP did not understand how to help them with their illness.
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