From extreme to extreme. Emily Brand went from anorexia to bodybuilding in two years

At 17, British Emily Brand weighed 31 kilograms, and now she is so pumped up that she wins bodybuilding competitions. She was able to overcome her fear of food and the mirror, but in return she got another addiction. The girl became obsessed with muscle building and “rocking”, and her methods of building a new body are questionable.

“Girlfriends made fun of me.”

Anorexia usually begins with careless words of close people, classmates, fellow students, colleagues at work. Emily began to develop the disease at school when she was just 11 years old. “Girlfriends started teasing me, although I was never overweight. It’s now I realize that at 11 years old such conversations look ridiculous. But in my head it was stuck that I should eat less,” – said the girl.

Said – done. First, Brand began to throw breakfast in the trash, then refused school lunches, and eventually it came to the fact that she ate one apple for the day. At the same time, Emily was involved in athletics, specifically middle and long distance running.

She began to have conflicts with her mother, who persuaded her daughter to get out of her head and start eating normally. At the age of 14, the British girl first went to the hospital, her condition was critical. She was so weakened that she could not move around on her own – only in a wheelchair.

“I looked in the mirror and thought I was fat.”

The girl came out of the hospital only after a year. A year later, can you imagine? But after a short time, the problems started again. Emily stopped eating again, the disease wouldn’t let her go.

I looked in the mirror and thought I was fat. I couldn’t even see in the reflection what was really there. I thought I was grossly overweight.

At 17, Brand weighed only 31 pounds. She was once again admitted to the hospital where she was force-fed. The girl resisted, poured out special cocktails, threw away food, but at some point she realized one simple thing: if she continues to resist, she simply will not get out of the hospital.

With the help of doctors, Emily overcame her nightmare state. And it’s not just that she began to gain weight, but also that she stopped being afraid to look in the mirror, almost gone fear of food. Seven months later, the British woman was discharged from the hospital with a weight of 44 kilograms. She was not yet fully healthy, but she was already a different person.

I was determined to change my life completely.

From anorexia to bodybuilding in two years.

Two years later, Brand weighed 53 pounds. And, according to her, the gain was in muscle mass – plus 9 kg of solid muscle! How is that possible?

Emily began to go to the gym regularly, but given her background, it was not possible to achieve quick success. She still did not eat enough of the right foods to gain muscle mass.

In the gym, the girl met a trainer Rob Reynaldo, who volunteered to help Emily become different. But only on the condition that she completely revises the meal plan. Now Brand eats six times a day, the caloric content of her diet – about 3000 kcal. In two years, the British woman has turned from anorexic to a powerful bodybuilder, who almost daily posts photos on social networks, which shows a pile of muscles.

And it is unlikely that coach Reynaldo stopped only on the right diet. In sports universities during the study of physiology teachers say that the natural way with proper training for a year you can achieve a gain of lean muscle mass of no more than 3-4 kg. But it is impossible to achieve what Brand has achieved in the usual way.

Judging by the saturated “Instagram”, we can assume that to gain mass Emily used “chemistry” – growth hormone, testosterone and other special drugs. They accelerate metabolism, improve cell nutrition. It all looks like an accelerated rewind button, but with side effects on the body, which are unlikely to allow you to return to the original state. After all, if something enters the body from the outside, it almost ceases to be produced naturally.

The new hobby has turned into an addiction, which the girl simply does not notice. Getting rid of one disease, Emily Brand got another.