A man overcame anorexia which saw him wake up in the middle of the night to run laps to burn calories. Dave Chawner, 34, began restricting his food intake at school as a way of "stopping time" ahead of him and his mates heading to university.
He was triggered by a number of factors, including praise he received for losing weight. His disorder took hold in his second year at university when he would set his alarm for 3am so he could run laps around the school grounds to pre-emptively run off the day's calories.
Comedian Dave was able to play the system - fooling medics by concealing from them the severity of his condition. In truth his eating disorder was so encompassing he was suicidal and began writing letters for his family to read when he was not around.
