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Sam Thomas

Award-winning Brighton-based writer, campaigner and public speaker; founder of the charity Men Get Eating Disorders Too and memoirist of Smashed Not Wasted.

Nov 3, 2026

2:46
And I don't know that I've had your particular point of view, but let's go all the way back to, you started in 2009, basically a support, a charity, a support group for men dealing with eating disorders.
3:04
Absolutely.
3:05
And if we go a bit further back, I mean, I developed bulimia at the age of 13.
3:12
This was way back in the year 2000.
3:14
And of course, back then, there was two things.
3:18
I mean, the awareness of eating disorders was minimal.
3:20
I mean, we heard about anorexia, but never about bulimia.

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25:41
So I was sort
speaker_2UNKNOWN
10:15
ago
10:16
and all i do remember is not liking drinking and thinking i never want to drink again and The other thing I should mention as well is that my first boyfriend, he was a posh sort of affluent type Catholic boy.
10:30
And because he didn't drink, I didn't drink.
10:32
One thing I should mention, I've told this story numerous times, is the fact that this was in the early 2000s when it was really uncool not to drink.
10:41
Teetotalism wasn't a thing.
10:44
So, yeah, so I didn't drink.
10:46
And then I mid-turned to Brighton.

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