COSMOPOLITAN: WOMAN WENT FROM 56 TO 221 POUNDS IN HER JOURNEY OF EATING DISORDER RECOVERY

It’s a complicated, heartbreaking tale but also hopeful because she’s on the road to recovery.

When her weight dropped to 56 pounds, she lost all mobility, faced liver failure, couldn’t think or recognize people, went bald, needed blood transfusions, and had an almost zero chance of survival. But it wasn’t easy and her recovery turned to binging because her body was so deprived.

“I binged. After many years of controlling, resisting and depriving myself of food, I gave in. It was an exhilarating, wonderful and scary sensation. I didn’t know how to stop. I was now 75 pounds and climbing. What I didn’t realize was I had traded anorexia for binging.”

When Brittany hit 221 pounds, she became bulimic, desperate to get “thin” again.  Her entire story will be in her book.

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