It's likely to come as a bit of a surprise and this is the first time I've ever talk about this.

At the age of 16 I was the same height I am now. I weighted six tone and I was one week away from being hospitalised.

See the world of diet brainwashed so much that the guilt of eating anything deemed this unhealthy caused me to completely starve myself and eventually get diagnosed with an eating disorder.

I would excuse myself from restaurant meals to go to the bathroom and exercise because the guilt and shame of what I've had eaten at meal meant that I just wanted to try and burn those calories off as quickly as possible.

I'd been fed so many lies about good and bad food that meal timings would often bring me to tears.

So I'd end up resorting to eating foods that purely caused me so much pressure about what I could and couldn't be eating.

I suppose this goes some way to explaining why I'm so immensely passionate about removing the guilt associated with food.

Now before you go diving in the comments I want my intentions to be clear with this.

'm not looking for sympathy, I'm actually one of the lucky ones who got through that.

Instead I'd rather you view this as a young guy opening up and explaining the pressure and the struggles that he felt growing up to look and eat in a certain way.

And hopefully this can go a little bit of the way to helping folks talk a little bit more about the pressures associated with food.