Ep 387: Body Success Beyond the Scale

School of Self-Image

01-05-2024 • 22 mins

Unlocking Lasting Peace with Your Body

Success should be judged beyond the scale and dress size. This episode emphasizes the importance of redefining how we measure success with our bodies. Host and Master Self-Image Coach Tonya Leigh highlights that relying solely on the scale or dress size as indicators of success can be detrimental to our overall well-being. Instead, she encourages listeners to shift their focus towards how they feel emotionally and physically.

Tonya shares her personal journey of struggling with weight and body image issues, where she found herself trapped in a cycle of using external measurements to determine her worth. She explains that tying success to a number on the scale can lead to feelings of discouragement, fear, and obsession. By shifting the focus to how we feel each day and how our bodies feel, we can create a more sustainable and fulfilling approach to body success.

Join Tonya as she delves into finding beauty and joy in life, beyond the numbers on a scale.

Talking Points:

02:25 Finding peace with your body.

10:18 - Rethinking Body Success Measurement

15:28 - Creating Intrinsic Body Success

18:10 - Embracing Imperfection and Gratitude

21:01 - Choosing Definitions of Body Success

Quotes:

"If you even look at the definition of the word slim, it's to rid of the excess, to slim down."

"We have a limited amount of energy and how much of yours is going into obsessing, hating, resisting, trying so hard to lose weight?"

"I have this belief that we're successful even when we fail, if we use those failures to grow us."