It makes me cringe to think about all of the terrible nutrition advice I have followed over the years. Low carb, no fruit, no sugar, no fat, no salt, no, no and more no! Do we see a trend here? It seems like everything is forbidden. Who can blame us, though? Every time we turn on the tv or pick up a magazine, it seems like there is a new ‘diet’ trend telling us how to stay healthy or skinny. It’s overwhelming and confusing! Most of us know what ends up happening when we jump on the latest nutrition trend. We start seeing results, feel great and then in walks our friend deprivation. Deprivation doesn’t just walk in; it kicks down the doors sending us running for...

It's crazy to think how our relationship with food changes from the time we are born until the time we reach adulthood. When we are born, we eat when hungry and stop when we are full. As we get older, our relationship with food changes. We are influenced by magazines telling us what we should look like or what to eat so that we can appear like the women (or men) on magazine covers. We begin to scrutinize our bodies and our plates. It seems like everybody else knows what's best for our bodies except us. When the latest magazine diet doesn't work for us, we become frustrated, confused and begin to talk negatively to ourselves. We use food and exercise as punishment. In the best case...