Step 2: Define SUCCESS outside of the scale
Diet Culture teaches us that our weight defines our worth and that success = a smaller number on the scale.
When in reality, weighing less is NOT 🚫 synonymous with being healthier, happier, fitter, or better looking.
In fact, if the weight you’re losing is water, muscle, or bone, it’s bad news,
and it’s costing you health and happiness.
Instead of using the scale to define success; which is often misleading seeing as weight is easily influenced by things like 🧂 consumption, movement, digestion 💩, stress, hormones, and medication, you need to define success differently.
What does success FEEL like to you? How do you want to feel in your body and around food?
How does success CHANGE your life? What are you able to do when you reach your goal that you can’t currently?
How will you know you’re moving closer to that reality? Is it by obsessively checking the number on the scale? Or does the scale tell you next to nothing and metrics like energy, libido, confidence, mood, health markers, and clothing fit more accurately tell you you’re getting closer to your goal?
The scale can be a helpful metric,
but more often than not, when used to define success you end up self-sabotaging because weight is fickle and never tells the whole story.
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