7: Why You Still Want To Lose Weight

You’re smart. You’re politically aware of beauty standards. You know diet culture is toxic. And yet. 

In this episode of Talking with Emma, we explore one of the most uncomfortable contradictions: How can you be committed to body acceptance… and still long for a smaller body?

We talk about why this desire is not a personal failure — it’s a survival response in a world that rewards thinness and punishes fatness. I share the story of a client navigating this exact tension, and offer a self-coaching tool to help you understand where your weight loss desire really comes from — and what it’s trying to give you.

You’ll learn:

• Why wanting to lose weight doesn’t make you a fraud — it makes you human
  
  
• How grief often hides beneath the fantasy of “being smaller”
  
  
• The questions to ask when you feel stuck between your values and your body image
  
  
• A coaching practice to meet your desire with kindness, not control

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