All food is made up of calories and calories give our bodies energy. Instead of thinking of food as ‘good’ or ‘bad,’ we can think about all foods containing varying amounts of nutrients. 

Despite what we have been taught, there are no ‘good’ or ‘bad foods. Our individual health is much too ambiguous to attach such labels to our food. These words often do the opposite of what we intend and lead to counterproductive nutrition behaviors and leave us stuck in a cycle of restricting ourselves from certain foods.

When we allow ourselves more flexibility in our food choices and look beyond ‘good’ and ‘bad’ or ‘healthy and ‘unhealthy,’ we open ourselves up to not just enjoying foods we love, but doing so without continuing in the cycle of perpetual restriction.