RESTRICT AND CONTROL
I thought it was something that I had invented,” says Sam Thomas, of the eating disorder that came to dominate his life between the ages of 13 and 21. “I didn’t even know what the word was.”
It wasn’t until he read the word ‘bulimia’ in an agony aunt column of one of his mum’s magazines that he understood he might be suffering from something other people dealt with, too.
Thomas’ experience is not uncommon. There is a slow, but growing, understanding of just how many men are struggling with disordered eating, becoming obsessed with what goes in and out of their bodies, purging and exercising too much in the process.
“It got to the point where I was doing 15 hours of exercise a day”
Some studies suggest that as many as a quarter of all eating
