What is healthy? What is “normal” eating? Do those questions cause you feelings of confusion and discouragement? What is healthy? The World Health Organization defines healthy as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”(1) Being healthy does not just mean physical health but includes mental and emotional health as well.

My career is entirely based on food. With work and eating in my own daily life, I end up thinking about food several hours of the day. And with all my experience and training, I’ve gotten pretty good at picking up on dieting behavior and all this diet talk. What is diet talk? Every where I go,

Trigger Warning: Article mentions topics of weight, eating disorders, and disordered eating. I have been thinking about writing this blog post for a long time now…. It’s scary for me to post this, but it’s time. It’s time to own my own story. This generation needs more voices speaking out about eating disorders and the dangers of dieting.