Q&A with Shelley Jensen

By the time I was 8 years old, I weighed over 100 pounds. By 13, I was 185 pounds. By 15, I was 230 pounds. And by 21, I was over 270 pounds. During those years, I tried desperately to lose weight, playing many games with myself. If I promised not to eat for a week, then I could have all the ice cream I wanted. If I could just learn to purge, then it wouldn’t count. And so the cycle continued.  

In my 33-year journey of recovery, I lost 135 pounds of pain, insecurity, fear, obsession, panic and self-loathing, and finally reclaimed my lost self.