I wanted to lose 30 pounds healthfully and still be able to enjoy my college experience. Having succeeded in doing just that, I wanted to share my experiences with others who could benefit from my direct knowledge of the difficulty of trying to balance college life with being healthy. It became a journey about healthy lifestyle choices, including tips and tricks for creating a new relationship with food where I was in control and could learn to love food healthfully again.

Growing up in my family, it wasn't important that we always be the best; it was important that we were going to try to be our best and give it our all.

If I don't get to go to the gym, walking is the answer.

If you live your life all out today, not only is it fun, but you are preventing a midlife crisis.

While fad diets might seem like the quick-fix solution to lose weight, they won't help you get healthy in the long run.

We need to demand that our food is labeled, especially genetically modified foods, and learn how it is produced, processed, and grown.

Standards are what you hold for yourself, too. If I don't hold those standards with friends, colleagues, and lovers, I can't hold them to their relationships.