Dear Thirteen-Year-Old Me

When I was in Jr. High, I stopped eating. I pushed food around on my plate and made excuses for why it wasn’t consumed. Maybe it was to prove that I could do it – that I had control over something in my life. A boy that I liked asked another girl to a school…

Flabby Imperfections

I used to have skinny arms. They weren’t super muscular or ripped, but they were nice. The kind of arms that easily go unnoticed. Now my arms, along with various other parts of my body, are carrying a lot of extra fluff. And my former-skinny self has been doing a lot of beating up on…