You are listening to Weight Loss Made Real and this is episode 48.

I'm your host, Master Weight Loss Coach and Arthur Cookie Rosenblum.

Today and every Tuesday, I'm here to coach you and teach you on how to end your emotional eating, how to bust through those

benches, and how to leave all your overeating habits in the past. So if you just

found me, welcome and if you're a regular listener, welcome back.

Today I'm going to talk about how you define yourself.

So get comfortable and get ready to be coached.

We're going to dive in.

Now, I've been thinking about this all day today after speaking to a number of clients

who all came to me with the same underlying issue and that is that they were judging themselves primarily by the

number on the scale so no matter how they were doing in life everything came back to their weight and they were seemingly unable to get

past this. And I'm wondering if you can relate to this struggle and ever have it yourself.

So today, what we're going to talk about is the fact that you are not your weight.

You may think you are, but I'm going to change your mind, so give me a few

minutes here. There are a lot of different ways that you could define yourself, right? We have all kinds of roles in our little universes and we are different things to different people in our lives.

You may be a sister, you may be a mother, you may be a coworker, you may be a wife, you may be a partner.

You are a woman or man in the world and despite all the different things that you have done and that you're capable of, and all the things you bring to life, you are in the habit of defining yourself by the number on the scale.

Now even worse for women, we are all taught to define ourselves with a big emphasis on how we look on our appearance.

So that number goes right back to our value.

If the number is higher than we think it's inversely proportionate to what we think

of ourselves. If the number is lower, then we have made up story that the lower the number the more value we have and I want to talk

about this today because this is so harmful to you to be thinking this way. Your number is a reflection of how you've been

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