Real Talk on How Much You WEIGH
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Serious question: How often do you weigh yourself? Okay now I have another question for you…Why do you feel like you need to always know how much you weigh?
We become SO obsessed over how much we weigh. We could be feeling so awesome about ourselves until we step on the scale to see we “gained” five pounds. This instantly changes our mindset on how we view ourselves and our body. This needs to stop!
That’s why in today’s episode, I want to chat with you about that silly little number!
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TRANSCRIPT:
Hey, Hey, beautiful human. Can I steal five minutes of your time? I have something super important to share with you, but I promise I'll be really quick. You're listening to my weekly bonus episode of Embrace Your Real with me, Julie Ledbetter. I'm about to give you a quick tip for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving your authentic self. Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace a real, let's get it. Let's go.
Hello and welcome back to another bonus episode of the Embrace Your Real podcast. We are diving straight into it today, the truth about how much you weigh. I have a serious question, how often do you weigh yourself? And why do you feel like you always need to know how much you weigh? I know for me, prior in my eating and body image disorder about nine years ago. I had become so obsessed with how much I weighed. I would be feeling so awesome and then I would step on the scale and I would see that I gained five pounds or I gained seven pounds. And I instantly, it changed my mindset on how I viewed myself and my body. And I know that that's the case for many other women and this needs to stop. Which is why in today's episode, I want to chat with you about this silly little number.
But before I do, I wanted to share this review of the day. It comes from cowgirl 242, she says, "The best. Love this podcast so much. I've been following Julie's Instagram for a while and finally gave the podcast a listen. It's so refreshing to hear her authentic advice. I look forward to each new episode." Thank you so much for the review. If you haven't already rated and reviewed the podcast, all you got to do scooch over to Apple Podcasts, scroll all the way down, click that rate and review. It takes less than 30 seconds and it helps us out tremendously on the podcast of just reaching more women of this concept and of more importantly, this lifestyle, this mindset perspective on choosing to embrace your real. Okay, so let's get back to the episode. We give a silly little number way too much power over how we feel about our body, but here's the truth about your weight.
Are you ready for it? All right, here it goes. Your weight, yeah, your weight literally means nothing. First of all, your weight doesn't reveal how tall you are. It also doesn't reveal how much muscle you have, which are two very important factors. And your weight also doesn't know that maybe you haven't fully digested a meal or that you've been holding on to a little bit more water than usual, or maybe that you're a little bit more stressed or that your sleep is varying or it's that time of month. These are all factors that cause you to retain more water weight, not weight from fat. So just because you might've stepped on the scale and gained a few pounds does not mean that those pounds are from fat. And it doesn't mean that those few pounds are permanent. It also doesn't mean that you're less beautiful, worthy or valued. And it especially doesn't mean that you need to obsess over it until it's gone.
You could step on the scale in the morning and weigh one thing and then step on the scale at night and way another thing. It's normal for your weight to fluctuate throughout the day. For me, there could honestly be a five to seven pound difference between morning and night. But you know what? It's impossible to gain five pounds in one day. That would mean that I ate an extra 17,500 calories in a day to gain five pounds of fat. That is highly unlikely. So I want to share some more real talk with you. You have no control over your weight fluctuating. So if you continue to give that number control, you will never have control over how you feel about your body. Let me repeat that for those of you who are trying to develop a more loving relationship with their body. If you continue to give the amount that you weigh control, you will never have control over how you feel about your body.
So I need you to say step off the scale. Step off the scale, forget about that little number and focus on how you're feeling, not what you are weighing. You know, one of my favorite things to say honor your body with movement, nourish your body with what it needs, and then just let your body be whatever it is after that. Because that's what your body is actually meant to be. That is your natural weight. There's no reason to obsess about it being other than that. So if you are currently struggling with weighing yourself or you're currently struggling with that weight, having so much power over your mindset, I'm going to list off some episodes that I need you to go listen to. If you haven't already, or if you have listened to them, I need you to relisten to them. Remember, there is no shame in listening and relistening to an episode.
I think it's really important that we get this truth into our brain. And that happens by repetition. That happens by constantly saying the same things and allowing your brain to rehear certain truths so that it can actually pick up and recognize that it's important. So first things first, I need you to listen to episode 104, how to stop thinking you need to be skinnier to be valued. Then the next episode that I need you to listen to his episode 107, seven ways to become more self-aware. In this episode, I'm really going to break down self-awareness. And in self-awareness I think that's where you can really identify the triggers that are holding power over you in your mindset. And then the other episode that I need you to listen to is episode 108, the number one thing that transformed my mindset with giving myself more self love and self acceptance. So be sure to tune in there. I will also be sure to link those in the show notes below. And then the last episode is episode 118, three steps to shifting your negative self narrative.
All of those episodes will be linked in the show notes below. So be sure to give those a listen, if you love this episode, I would just ask that you share it out. You can post it up on your Instagram story. I would love to know what came from it. I would love to know your aha moments, and I would also love for you to share it with a friend or coworker or sister. If you want, you can copy the link, you can send it to them in a text message. Again, you can post it up on your story and have people that follow you, check that out for themselves. I appreciate you sharing it. I appreciate hearing from you and I love seeing your aha moments and just putting faces to names of the beautiful, incredible, and powerful listeners that are here week in and week out. Thank you so much for tuning in, and I will talk to you guys in the next episode.
All right, sister. That's all I got for you today, but I have two things that I need you to do. First thing, if you're not already following me on the gram, be sure to do so, @juliealedbetter. Yes, it's with an A in the middle. For that daily post-workout real talk, healthy tips and tricks and honest accountability to keep your mind and heart in check. The second thing, be sure to subscribe to Apple Podcasts, to never miss an episode. Thank you so much for joining me. It means the absolute world, and I'm going to leave you with one last thought. The most beautiful women that I have met in my life are the ones who are completely confident and secure in being authentically themselves. Remember that beauty goes so much deeper than the surface. So go out there and embrace your real because your worth it.