"I was in denial, I didn't think anything was wrong. But things got so bad that my dad took me to the child psychiatric unit at Colchester Hospital - and I spent the next 10 months in and out of the ward."
But while she was now deemed physically healthy again, Megan admits she was far from recovered mentally - and she would spend the rest of her teenage years yo-yo dieting."I'd swapped anorexia for binge eating," she explains. "I started living in a diet and binge cycle, losing and gaining weight. But on either side of the spectrum, my body was never good enough.
And two years later she discovered the 'body positive' hashtag on Instagram, and saw women loving their bodies, no matter what their shape or size, for the first time.Megan says her life changed around when she found body positive images on Instagram"The day everything changed for me began with my normal routine: diet pills, a kale smoothie and a gruelling workout," she tells the Mirror. "I scrolled through Instagram for some fitness inspiration.
Inspired, Megan went looking for more women like her and quickly she made friends with many women posting online about self-love.Megan realised she'd spent her whole life hating areas of her body that she didn't need to changeCalling themselves the 'Pizza Sisters for Life', they challenged each other each week to post a picture that you'd be scared to post normally, or tell someone you don't know why their body is awesome.
So she just traded eating disorders, The Body positivity movement is a dangerous joke.
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