Ellie Goulding details her extreme chocolate diet

  • 02/10/2015
Ellie Goulding (AAP)
Ellie Goulding (AAP)

British pop star Ellie Goulding verged on an eating disorder during her university years as she was addicted to sugar and her diet mainly consisted of chocolate.

The 'Burn' singer admits she had a troubled relationship with her appearance growing up, and she developed an extreme eating regime that was so unhealthy, she began worrying her friends.

"I remember being so badly addicted to sugar that I could eat two big Galaxy bars in one day - and nothing else", Ellie tells British Glamour magazine.

"I was terrified of eating potatoes or rice or any kind of carbohydrates, but I would still have loads of chocolate every day.

"It made no sense. My friends were so worried about me because I would come to their houses with bars of chocolate and when they asked what else I'd eaten that day, I would tell them, 'Chocolate for breakfast, chocolate for lunch and then an apple and a salad.'"

She insists an eating disorder "would maybe be too strong a term" but she can see, in hindsight, how damaging it was to her body, compared to her current healthy diet.

"I definitely thought about food in a way that wasn't healthy, and ate in a very extreme way that should have given me diabetes," she says.

"Now that my attitude to nutrition is balanced, I feel and look better. My skin is brighter and my eyes are brighter - and when I look at myself in the mirror, I've got far fewer hang-ups."

Ellie, who is dating McFly star Dougie Poynter, now sticks to a vegetarian diet and often posts videos of her workouts on Instagram.com.

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