For years, I believed that my body couldn’t be trusted. I viewed it as a project to fix and felt inadequate because I didn't fit the societal mold of a smaller body like my peers. This belief led me to study nutrition in college and attempt various methods of controlling my body size. I learned how to restrict food and increase activity to an unhealthy level. I taught how-to classes weight loss and food elimination classes, wrongly assuming that the lack of progress from a patient was due to insufficient effort. In doing so, I endangered my own health and unfairly judged those around me, including my friends, family, and patients.