A size six woman who lived on soup and salad in a bid to get a 'thigh gap' turned her life around to become a bodybuilder – and now eats 4,000 calories a day. Anna Thomson, 29, spent years eating less than 1,000 calories a day as she tried to maintain her slender frame, but now wants to close the thigh gap.
She was terrified of carbs and dodged rice and pasta for three years while only allowing herself half a carton of soup for lunch. At her lowest point Anna, from Edinburgh, weighed just 7st 9lbs and said looking back she thinks she had an eating disorder.
But five years ago she joined the gym and fell in love with weightlifting – and competed in two bodybuilding shows for the first time last year. Anna said: “I was really underweight, I was eating less than 1,000 calories a day and trying to get a thigh gap.
