Miscellaneous
I can remember thinking I needed to lose weight or make a certain part of my body smaller as young as 14 years old. Right then and there was the first time I started losing. In this episode, I’m going to dive right into all that I lost through my years of on and off dieting. Sure, I lost a little weight here and there..BUT I can tell you today...I weigh more than I ever did when I was constantly trying to make some part of my body smaller or fit into a certain size. All those years had me lost..pieces of me that I had to reclaim in order to be WHOLE again. I let the diet industry make me think I needed to be obsessed with all the numbers and my size...and for what? I lost way more than a few pounds each time I went on a diet...I lost MYSELF. I lost my health, belief in myself, trust in my body...love, respect and acceptance for my body went right out the door. I’ll never forget when I realized this and what all those years took away from me. Sadly, these exact feelings came from the diet culture...the same thing I ran to EVERY TIME I thought I needed to be “fixed”. Go ahead and listen to the rest of my story as you may hear some similarities and if you do, just know you are not alone. I discuss all the feelings that came along with this and how I have turned it around to not only help me but help so many other women out there in similar situations with weight loss.