For years, I have facilitatedfitness programs for plus-size women.
I relate and empathize deeply because for many years I was exactly the same way.
Every couple weeks I’d fall off the diet wagon and feel like a collassal failure.
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Mondays were for starting over.
My relationship with exercise was as stop-and-start as the diets.
It was always all or nothing.
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I thought this was the path to health, but I couldnt have been further from the truth.
Since then, Ive never been more happy, healthy, and free.
There is no other industry in the world that fails so many people while thriving so economically.
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I have seen many people declare that their fitness program isnt working simply because the scale isnt moving.
Often as part of my attempts to lose weight I would start going to the gym and gain weight!
When we are constantly referring to a number on the scaleit can become obsessive.
Been there, done that.
Id try anything to see a smaller number and it became all consuming.
Fixating on weight can make food feel like an enemy to be avoided.
It’s the fuel that powers your body!
Yesterday I rode 75 kilometers on my bike and last night I was starving, like nothing-could-quench-my-appetite starving.
I had burned almost 2,000 calories and my body was crying for replenishment.
When youre athletic, you should follow a model of healthy abundance not restriction.
Listen to your body, not the scale.
Many women believe that if they dont fit into the thin ideal their identity isnt as valuable.
We need to work on changing how we give value and worth to some body types and not others.
Our value can never be ruled by a scale unless we allow it to be.
Every body is valuable.
Never let the scale dictate your worth.
I know this can be true for you too.
I wish you all the health and fitness success in the world.
