You’ve probably heard about the changes to food guidelines  that flipped the food pyramid, with more focus on protein and less focus on whole grains, among other things. As is often the case, I have a hard time with these broad categorizations, and thinking about it reminded me of an exercise I did a while back.   Good food or bad food? The exercise was to look at certain foods and ask, is this good or bad? Some items to consider were chocolate, pasta, hamburgers, and a salad

How do you overcome negative thoughts?   Someone recently asked me this question, wanting to know my answer, especially in relation to my journey with food and weight. Here are some of my specific thoughts and how I got past them.   I’m so fat and ugly I had this thought almost constantly in my younger years. It started with getting dressed in the morning, and it continued with seeing media images and comparing myself to every other woman I saw.   I only started moving past i