How to Measure Progress Without Obsessing Over the Scale as a busy mom

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In this  episode of The Strong(HER) Way, Alisha Carlson breaks down one of the biggest lies women have been sold by diet culture: that your weight defines your health, your progress, and your worth.

If you’ve ever found yourself spiraling because the scale went up—or felt like you could only celebrate when it dropped—this conversation will shift everything.

Alisha dives into the truth about body image, weight loss, and why the scale is a lagging metric that doesn’t reflect your true health. You'll learn how to track real progress through non-diet health metrics like energy, mood, strength, and hormonal health—because fat loss doesn’t always mean healing, and healing doesn’t always show up on a scale.

This is your invitation to redefine what it means to be healthy—from the inside out.

🔑 Key Takeaways:

• The scale is not a reliable indicator of health, fitness, or self-worth.
• Weight loss ≠ fat loss. Weight loss ≠ healing.
• Your health journey is about building—not just shrinking.
• Non-scale victories like better energy, improved sleep, and emotional resilience are far better health metrics.
• Diet culture teaches you to chase smaller. We’re here to build stronger.
• Track your mental health, emotional well-being, and how you lead your life—not just how you look.
• True success is living in alignment with your values, not just hitting a “goal weight.”
• Your body is not a project. It’s a partner.
• Celebrate your invisible wins: consistency, self-talk, and the way your kids see you showing up.

Snag your spot in The Strong(HER) Way Fit+Fueled group that launches early May. You can still get an early bird spot that will get you 1:1 coaching with me to help personalize the plan even further. 

Go to: alishacarlson.com/clientform