How to Stop Worrying About Your Weight

Worrying about weight can feel constant- like background noise you can’t shut off. In this episode, I share the mindset shifts and practical changes that helped me step out of weight obsession and into a more peaceful, trusting relationship with my body. If you’re tired of weight worries taking up mental space, this conversation offers a gentler, more freeing way forward.

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Episode Transcript

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So, this is how I stopped worrying about my weight

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and how you can too.
So, worrying about weight canfeel so constant, like a
low-grade hum that you'velearned to live with, even
though it drains you and itimpacts everything.
So, for many of us, this worrydidn't just appear out of
nowhere.
It was shaped by those childhoodcomments, um, diet culture rules

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that you followed, doctors'visits that left you feeling
shameful, social media, and thebelief that our worth is tied to
just our shape and how small wecan be.
But the truth is that I'velearned personally, and from
years of walking alongsideclients with this, is that
weight worry doesn't have to bethe narrator of your life, but

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we have to do thingsdifferently.
It can absolutely soften, it canget quieter, and it often starts
with just a few intentionalshifts in how we relate to our
bodies and practicing this timeand time again.
So, number one, I want you tostop focusing on it.
I know that's hard, but let itbe.
This one sounds simple, but it'sit's work.

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Uh, we've been taught thatmonitoring, micromanaging,
controlling, and checking ourweight is uh is a responsible
thing, is a healthy thing, is anecessary thing.
Many people don't even realizethat that constant checking,
evaluating, and scanning is justanother form of that
hypervigilance and a nervoussystem that is stuck in that

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protection mode, trying to keepus safe.
But the more we fixate on ourweight, the more it becomes a
measuring stick for every singlechoice and decision that we
make, small and big.
And letting it be doesn't meanyou sudden you suddenly are
gonna love your body or you'renever gonna get triggered or
you're not worried about bodyimage, but it means you're gonna

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start to practice and notice theweight worry when it pops up and
say, Ah, there it is again.
And then you choose not tofollow it down that tunnel.
It's the practice of allowingdiscomfort instead of trying to
eradicate it at first.
And that actually will eradicateit over time.
It's holding multiple emotionsat once around body image, the

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fear, the hope, the frustration,the compassion for what you're
going through, and staying withyourself, anyways.
That's body respect in action.
Number two, live life anyways.
Say yes anyways.
One of the biggest lies weightworry tells us is that you can't
live life fully until your bodylooks differently.

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You can't have the things youwant until you look different.
But healing happens in theopposite direction.
You want to live now, you wantto eat the meal now, you want to
go on the trip now, you want tolet yourself be in photos now.
Your life is not on pausewaiting for a future version of
your body to be happy.
When we shift from how do I lookto what do I want to experience,

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what do I want to feel, what doI want to learn?
That's when things change.
Life starts getting bigger,better, softer, and more aligned
with your values, not with fear.
You don't have to feel fullyconfident to live fully.
You just have to be willing.
Number three, treat your bodywith respect.
This is the part that changeseverything.
And I have lots of videos onthis.

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Respect isn't about loving howyour body looks, it's about
treating it like someone youcare deeply about.
Even on the days when you don'tfeel connected to it or you hate
it.
Respect looks like feedingyourself consistently, learning
how to do that, even when thedisordered eating voice is
pushing back.
It means resting without guiltwhen your body's calling for

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that.
It's moving for joy, notpunishment.
It's about setting boundarieswith people who talk about
weight diets or bodies or makeyou feel not so good about
yourself.
It's about replacing thatself-blame with self-compassion
and curiosity.
It means choosing curiosity overcriticism.
Respect is how you build trustwith your body.

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And trust is how you buildsafety.
And safety is what makes worrylessen its grip.
And you don't wait for the worryto disappear before you do the
work.
You do the work and slowly theworry stops being in charge.
Wait worry fades, not because itmagically evaporates, but
because it stops being the placewhere you return to for control,

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identity, for safety.
You learn to live with your bodyas it is today, not as a project
you need to manage or a problemthat you need to solve.
Your body becomes a companion,not a battlefield.
And if you're ready to stopletting weight anxiety dictate
your choices and start treatingyour body with the respect and
tenderness it deserves, there isa path forward, a path grounded

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in freedom, nervous systemregulation and safety, and
trust.
One that leads to a life biggerthan anything weight worry could
ever offer.
And you really deserve it.