Dieting doesn’t work, so, what does? (2/3)

Written By Nicole Hagen

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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Nicole Hagen

A Nutrition Coach, adoptive mom, dog mom, and mint chocolate chip ice cream lover.

I didn’t always have this business: the Masters degree in Nutrition Science and Public Health, the passion, the clients... in fact, years ago you could have found me endlessly counting calories and trying to find my worth on the scale and at spin class, exhausted in my pursuit of (what I thought was) health and happiness.

In my early twenties, I struggled with crash dieting and disordered eating. Little did I know, those circumstances would be my one-way ticket out of my restrictive relationship with food & fitness. Those experiences led me here: to the life-giving, sustainable, habit-based nutrition philosophy I embody today. Today you can find me living life without a calorie counting app and spending time with my husband, one year old son, and our two crazy golden retriever pups.

I enjoy spending my free time reading, sipping on matcha lattes, and dreaming of ways I can help other women create healthy, confident relationships with food without selling their souls to food rules and calorie counting apps.

Because nothing lights me up more than helping women live full and vibrant lives without food fear, rules, or restriction. I want to be that permission granter in your life that whispers: “you really can do this” while the rest of the world continues to settle for short-term satisfaction.

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