Tell me if this sounds familiar. You have made some significant diet and lifestyle changes. You are feeling confident and are sure that you have lost weight. You pull out the scale that you’ve avoided for years, you are now ready to weigh because you are feeling so good with the changes you’ve made!

You step on the scale and your mindset abruptly changes to disappointment when you see the number. The scale hasn’t moved at all or maybe it has only moved 1 or 2lbs.

The scale has a powerful way of getting into our head, doesn’t it? The number on the scale can make us feel confident or discouraged like we have failed or we have succeeded. All of that power in the way that we PERCEIVE a number. A lot of women tie that number to their self-worth.

I know I have been guilty of this. One week I feel confident in my body, the next I find myself picking apart my flaws.

The Way Hormones Affect Weight

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