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This is episode number 257. Don't throw out the scale.

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Hi, my dear friends.

How are you today?

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

It's so sunny and bright.

And I got to tell you something right off the bat. Let me be totally honest. This is my second attempt at doing the same

podcast. So I feel like I'm repeating myself over and over again, even though you haven't heard

me. But I want to tell you how I'm thinking about it because first I was a little frustrated,

but this is where I'm kind of reframing my mind on how I'm thinking, is that the podcast that

I just did that I erased by mistake that I thought was pretty good, I really believe that it probably wasn't exactly what you needed to hear.

And now I get a second opportunity to make sure you hear and I deliver the information

just like you need it.

So here we go again on number two podcast, which is all about the scale.

And the reason that the scale is coming up again so much for me is that I had a couple individual

sessions with some of my clients today, and I just did a group session yesterday. And I've had a lot of

people feeling discouraged because of the number on the scale. And I want to tell you a really

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