Doctorโs appointments used to haunt me for weeks, simply because I knew it would be the one time Iโd step on the scale.โฃ
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๐โ๐ฅ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ญ๐บ ๐ต๐ณ๐บ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ด๐ต๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ต ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฆ๐ต ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฏ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ช๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ ๐โ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ง๐ง ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ.โฃ
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The other day, I walked in for an appointment and hopped on the scale. My sneakers and coat were still on, I just ate a meal, had drank water all morning, and didnโt flinch one bit.โฃ
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๐๐จ๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฐ๐ ๐ ๐๐ญ ๐ก๐๐ซ๐?โฃ
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Instead of completely avoiding the scale, I started weighing in more often.โฃ
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A few months back I decided I was in a place where I was mentally ready to tackle that fear (๐ฅ๐ช๐ด๐ค๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ฎ๐ข๐บ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐บ๐ฆ๐ต, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ตโ๐ด ๐ฐ๐ฌ๐ข๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ).โฃ
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First, I watched one of my favorite trainers track his weight on his stories daily (๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐บ๐ข๐ต๐ต).โฃ
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Then, I started to learn and understand some of the reasons the scale may fluctuate from day to day.โฃ
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Lastly, I started to step on the scale daily and share the process on my stories.โฃ
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For one, this held me accountable to actually following through with it, but two I hoped I’d be able to help someone else normalize their relationship with the scale like Jordan had done for me.โฃ
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๐๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ ๐๐ฆ๐ ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ.โฃ
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Not only, did I continue to successfully lose weight, but I also started to normalize my relationship with the scale.โฃ
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๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฃ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฑ๐ฑ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ค๐ฉ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ.โฃ
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐ฎ๐บ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ด๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ค๐ข๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ถ๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ.โฃ
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ช๐ต, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ช๐ป๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ญ๐ช๐ต๐ต๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ช๐จ๐ฏ๐ช๐ง๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ถ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ.โฃ
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So if something is scary to you, I want to give you a friendly little nudge to try and do it more often.โฃ
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๐๐ง๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฐ๐๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ง๐ฑ๐ข๐๐ญ๐ฒ:โฃ
๐๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ช๐ต ๐ช๐ต.โฃ
๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ช๐ต.โฃ
๐๐ข๐ฌ๐ฆ A๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ช๐ต.โฃ
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๐๐๐๐ฅ?! ๐ช๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐จ ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐๐ญ๐๐ง?