2665: [Part 1] Weight Tracker: Why I Ditched the Scale For Good (and You Can, Too) by Crystal Karges on Mental Wellbeing

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🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 2665: Crystal Karges shares her transformative journey of overcoming an unhealthy obsession with her weight and the scale. By eliminating the scale, she reclaimed her mental space and developed a healthier relationship with food and her body. Her story offers hope and practical steps for anyone looking to break free from diet culture and find peace with their body. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.crystalkarges.com/blog/weight-tracker-why-i-ditched-the-scale-for-good-and-you-can-too Quotes to ponder: "It became a competition with myself, a ritual determining the course of my day." "When I started focusing on feeding my body, regardless of what I weighed or without a scale to dictate my day, I understood just how much power I’d allowed it to have over my life." "Getting rid of my scale was one of the best decisions I made for my food and body healing journey." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Health Daily, episode 2665.
0:04.3	Weight Tracker, Why I Ditched the Scale for Good, and you can too.
0:08.6	Part 1 by Crystal Cargis of Crystalcargis.com, and I'm Dr. Neal, your very own personal narrator.
0:15.8	Hey there and welcome to another edition of Optimal Health Daily, where I read some of the best blogs
0:20.7	covering health
0:21.6	and fitness, just like an audiobook, and always with a bit of my commentary at the end.
0:27.6	Now, don't forget, we have a bunch of shows where we narrate blogs for you. Just search for
0:32.0	optimal living daily to find all of them. Now, today's post is a bit longer than what I typically narrate. So
0:38.5	whenever this happens, I read the first half today and then finish it up for you tomorrow.
0:43.7	So with that, let's get right to part one as we optimize your life.
0:52.8	Weight Tracker. Why I ditched the scale for good, and you can too. Part 1 by Crystal Cargis of
0:59.6	Crystalcargis.com. I was first introduced to the scale in elementary school. It was an old-fashioned
1:06.4	manual scale that stood tall in our hallway. I never thought much of it until I realized what it measured
1:12.3	about myself. I remember stepping on it for the first time and figuring out how to jerry-rig the pieces
1:18.3	to get it to tell me how much I weighed. While I don't recall the specific number, I do remember
1:23.8	thinking that I needed to make that number shrink, thus beginning my destructive relationship and downward spiral with the scale.
1:32.2	High school was the first time I actively began dieting.
1:35.2	With prom just a couple of months away,
1:37.1	I decided it was time to slim down to fit into my outfit.
1:40.3	I bought Slim Fast and detox teas from the supermarket
1:43.2	and was ready to jump on the dieting
1:45.5	bandwagon in the name of health and thinness.
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