Above: Anna's Good Samaritan and fellow anorexia sufferer, Ella Crouch

“I had a look on Ella’s blog and for the first time thought ‘this is the way the to go’,” Wyatt says. “If she hadn’t given me that note I think I’d have been hospitalised pretty soon as I would have kept losing weight.

“I found I needed to put on weight first, and then the mindset could change.”
“It was an incredible thing for the person to do, to be brave enough to walk up to a stranger and offer that help.”

Naturally the road to recovery is always a difficult one, but Wyatt explained that 18 months after the act of kindness had “changed my life.” She is now planning to trek Machu Picchu in Peru next August in order to provide equipment to a hospital in northern Ski Lanka. On her Just Giving page, she wrote:

"It's an important goal physically and mentally for me too.

"Over the last few years I've been recovering from severe anorexia (with the help of an awesome personal trainer), and now that the worst is behind me I find that challenging myself to complete physical and mental challenges is something that motivates me every day to keep going and to hopefully prove to others out there suffering that the world is a much more fun place when your body is strong enough to enjoy it."

Anorexia falls under the umbrella of eating disorders, which is estimated to affect 1.6 million people in the UK. It's a serious mental health condition and is statistically more likely to affect women, with the onset of the condition most likely to occur at the age of 16-17.

For more information and support on overcoming eating disorders, check out NHS advice here.

“It was an incredible thing to do”: the random act of kindness that helped this woman overcome anorexia