It all started when I first made the decision to lose some weight. I was not overweight in any way, in fact, I had a completely normal BMI. I just wanted to tighten up a little bit, so I set a goal weight, decided how I would eat and started […]
Author’s Note: In my story, the eating disorder has been personified to be known as “Ed”. I don’t remember how this all started. One moment, I was a child living without a care in the world, fearlessly reaching for the stars for I simply didn’t know failure existed. And then, […]
Whilst growing up, my life was flooded with body confidence issues. Being the larger girl in the family weight wise, comments from family members made me constantly feel uncomfortable and like the ugly duckling of the bunch. Comments on my weight, clothes, even my nail varnish colour, all told me […]
My name is Jessie Arellano and I am 20 years old. I never thought I would be able to say that my eating disorder was the “best-worst” thing to happen to me; however, because it changed my perspective on food and nutrition and led me to adapt a healthy lifestyle… […]
All of my life, I had always been the “chubby girl” in school. While I was never considered obese, I was always just a little bigger than all of the other girls in my grade. Between my sophomore and junior year, I had a lot of stress and emotion […]
