I wasn’t worried about gaining weight because, despite my massive alcohol consumption, I would skip lunch four times a week in a deliberate ploy to stay thin and maintain my size eight frame.
“‘Drunkorexia’ is a pattern of behaviour that combines diet restrictions, excessive exercise and consumption of large amounts of alcohol, leading to significant physical and mental health risks,” said Professor Elena Andrade Gomez, who led the research at La Rioja University in Spain.
That left me with just 700 calories for food, if I stuck to the recommended NHS guideline of 2,000 calories a day for a woman.
A recent study found one in three female students was regularly cutting back on food and increasing physical exercise to compensate for calories gained from alcohol.
I discovered a hack: I would barely eat and ‘save’ my food calories for alcohol.
