Letter to Myself from 01Aug2011

This letter is from a time in my life when I struggled immensely with my eating habits. I recently graduated from high school and was about to go off to Iowa State to start my college experience. I had been starving myself for the past four to five months and a friend had just died from a rare disease.

Many emotions were swirling around in my heart as I wrote this letter. So many thoughts filled my head that I had to jot them down. It was probably one of the first times I journaled. The letter is partly a word to me and partly a word to God, pleading with him to help me…