The Skinny on Body Image
Going into Penn as a freshman, I had gained a fair amount of knowledge on healthy eating habits. This was only because my senior year of high school was plagued with decidedly unhealthy eating habits—they persisted into my freshman year at Penn. I would restrict my diet so that everything I was eating was “light” or “fat free.” Despite having met with experts on the subject and having gained insight into what real nutrition looks like for someone like me, I was too afraid to let myself become one of the girls who “let herself go” in college by gaining weight. So, I let myself go in another direction.