080: Fat. Skinny. I was still miserable. Weight isn't the key to happiness.
School of Self-Image
Tonya Leigh
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Do you obsess over your weight? Do you pinch, obsess over and curse your fat? That was me years ago. When I looked in the mirror, there I stood 75 pounds more than my ideal weight. That's when I went on a mission to get rid of my fat. For the next decade, I dieted, exercised and went to even more extreme measures to lose weight. Yet, the harder I tried, the harder it became. Finally, I tried something different, something that radically changed not only me weight, but my life. I listened to what my fat was really telling me and started approaching my life with elegance.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the French Kiss Life podcast, all about living with more elegance, style, |
| 0:06.9 | and joie de vivre in your everyday life. I'm rocking it this morning. I got up early and I made a gorgeous cup of French |
| 0:40.0 | press coffee and I have my favorite candle burning. I spent some time reading a book and now I'm |
| 0:47.7 | getting to do this podcast for you. And this is going to be a very personal story today. |
| 0:54.8 | For those of you who don't know, I used to have a big struggle with my weight. |
| 1:02.1 | And so today I want to talk with you about if fat could talk. |
| 1:06.9 | This time of year was when I always would make the resolution to lose weight. |
| 1:12.1 | And it all started about 15 years ago when I looked in the mirror and there I stood, me and my extra fat. |
| 1:20.3 | What had happened? |
| 1:22.3 | I was 75 pounds over my natural weight. |
| 1:26.1 | And I wanted to blame pregnancy, but I had delivered my daughter |
| 1:29.8 | over six months before. My once healthy and slender frame was now buried quite literally under |
| 1:37.0 | a coat of lard. And I melted into tears. And then I did what most people do with that extra flesh, especially women. |
| 1:46.1 | I began to obsess over my weight. I made up stories in my head, stories about how I was |
| 1:52.8 | worthless, how I couldn't be happy, how I was out of control, how I had a weight problem. |
| 1:58.6 | And over the next decade, I focused on solving the problem. I'm the kind of woman |
| 2:04.8 | that has always been able to make things happen. So I attack this problem much like I had |
| 2:10.0 | everything else in my life through hard work. I fought, I struggled, I cursed it, and I tried to beat |
| 2:17.3 | the fat off. Some of the tactics I tried, I struggled, I cursed it, and I tried to beat the fat off. Some of the tactics I tried |
| 2:20.8 | were food deprivation over exercising, diet pills that made my pulse race, despite the fact that I had |
| 2:29.1 | a hard condition. I know, crazy, right? I tried various diet programs. |
| 2:36.8 | I read every book on the market about nutrition. |
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