Food and comfort. Two things I love, two things that have also been an incredible roadblock for my insecurities, my health, my mental wellbeing. I’ve struggled with my weight and relationship with food since I was 8. I can remember the exact moment when I realized I use food as an emotional outlet, and so the rollercoaster love/hate relationship with eating began. Let me say that again, when I was only an 8-year-old child. My dad just came home from Dallas, Texas (my hometown