Incredible transformation: ‘I was so skinny I could snap’

A mum who battled anorexia for 17 years has celebrated her incredible transformation after being 'so skinny she could snap'.

Holly Griffiths, from London, was eight-years-old when she first stopped eating and for nearly two-decades her life was plagued by the horrific eating disorder.

The mum-of-two's wake-up call came last year after realising she had to 'start recovering or die' after her weight fell to a skeletal 31kgs.

"I realised you can't live forever with an eating disorder,” Holly, 25, says.

"I either had to stop and turn things around or carry on and die.”

Holly's wake-up call came last year after being denied access to free NHS treatment because she was continuously relapsing.

That’s when a pizza-a-fortnight became her trick.

“I ate half a low-calorie pizza from Pizza Express, I thought I really like that so I will commit to eating this same pizza at least once a fortnight,” she says.

She was prescribed anti-depressants, sought out private therapy to fight body dysmorphia and every two weeks she ate pizza and posted photos of her achievement.

"Body dysmorphia had blinded me to the point where I looked like I was about to die, I looked horrific, I can't believe I could even stand up back then,” Holly remembers.

Since then, Holly recovered to passed 50kgs by working out at the gym to gain muscles and eating a 2,000-calorie-a-day diet for the first time in nearly two decades.

“Now when I look at my body I can see I'm stronger, my skin is healthier where before it was yellowish-grey, I don't have bones sticking out at weird angles and I no longer have spots,” she says.

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“I don't cry when I look in the mirror anymore, I'm proud of my body and what I've achieved.”

Holly, who formally diagnosed with anorexia at 13, says she was fuelled by dangerous pro-anorexia communities online.

“My illness had me at the point where I was lying down and was convinced I could see my thighs touching so had to take a picture to prove it wasn't true,” she says.

“I was told to eat a burger more times than I can count, that it looked like I was going to snap because I was so thin and other things but I was so immersed I couldn't see it.”

When she was 17 the constant battle became too much for her and she suffered a mental breakdown.

She now posting amazing videos to show her transformation and is training to become a counsellor.

“I never thought it was possible to be where I am now, I thought I would always be destined to live in that grey area where I was still restricting my diet,” Holly says.

“I threw out all of my skinny clothes too, which was a big deal for me as I used to keep them all ready for my relapse, now I see this as part of the bigger picture.”

with reporting by Caters News.

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