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Hey there , and welcome to the Healthy Hot Mess Mom
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podcast . Are you a frustrated mom
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trying to navigate the maze of diet
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and fitness trends , only to give up
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before you even start ? Do you wish
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you could stick to healthy habits , have more
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energy and finally feel confident in
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your own skin ? Are you tired
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of telling yourself this is the year I'll get
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healthier , only to find yourself back at
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square one ? Well , you're in the right
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place . I'm Rebecca , a health-obsessed
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working mom of two littles and
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a self-proclaimed hot mess mom . In
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this podcast , I'm here to help you cut through
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the confusion and discover practical ways
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to become the healthiest version of yourself
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, no matter how chaotic life
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gets . We'll dive into staying
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consistent with healthy habits , fueling your
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body without feeling overwhelmed , and
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making mindset shifts to keep you motivated
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. You'll learn to enjoy moving your
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body , lose weight and feel more energized
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and confident than ever before . Remember
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, it's all about progress , not perfection
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. So grab your iced coffee and let's get
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started on this journey together . Welcome
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to the healthy , hot mess mom community . Hey
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there , happy monday , and Welcome to the Healthy
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, Hot Mess Mom community . Hey
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there , happy Monday , and welcome back to the Healthy Hot Mess
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Mom podcast . Thank
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you for tuning in with me another day . I hope your beginning of your week is going off to a
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great start and today , because we are like officially into
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summer , I want to do an episode called
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Ditch your Scale . And
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I don't mean that in the sense of like never
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weigh yourself , never monitor things , Because
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if you've listened to this podcast before , I'm all about goals
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and you know small progress
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leads to big results . So I
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think we get caught up on this weight number
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and I've done like chats about this
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before . But recently I've
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put on like a full on like
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mission to stop stressing
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my weight on the scale and
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really focusing on building strength
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and just that little mindset
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shift instead of like looking at
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a number on a dial every day , looking
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for it to go down and then not seeing
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the result , or seeing major
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fluctuations every day and getting super
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upset , super depressed , getting in your own head
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. It derails your progress . All those
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things . I decided to invest
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in a body fat scale . Now , yes
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, it does give me my weight , but
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it's giving me a much
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deeper picture of what's going
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on in my body , and this is
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why I think it's so important . So
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you can basically weigh
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the same thing but your body
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composition can be completely different
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. So what that's going to mean is getting
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in smaller clothing , having a
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healthier body , smaller BMI
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, smaller waist to hip ratio , which
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is good in regards to long-term health and
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focusing on how
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much muscle mass I'm putting on
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. So , even if the scale goes
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up , I'm able to see a
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direct correlation to
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the work I'm doing in the gym and
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the number on the body fat
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scale going down . So
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for me , I've gotten rid of the regular scale
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, Even when I get on my body
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fat scale , which I'll go through , which one I purchased
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in a little bit the
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only thing I'm focused on is what I'm gaining
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, what muscle mass I'm putting
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on . If you're listening to this , I'm
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assuming you know you're done having kids , maybe
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you're in your 40s , maybe you're premenopausal
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, maybe you're menopausal and
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if you are over that , like 35
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year old , like hump , we
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start losing muscle mass year after
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year at a pretty like quick decline
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If we are not working on keeping
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it , at keeping in the gym , putting lifting the
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weights , putting in the time to build
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your strength . So I'm just like so
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dedicated to that right now . And if you're
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listening to this and you're super frustrated that the
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scale is just not moving , the
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mental shift of getting rid of a basic
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dial scale where you know we're women
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, we have menstru cycles , our water
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fluctuates pretty much on the daily . You
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can eat a piece of bread one day and gain five pounds and
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then it just completely puts you in a pissy
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mood for a week and
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then you just go down that negative spiral of
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negative self-talk , binge eating
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, emotional eating , feeling
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bad about yourself , all the things we do as women
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, and I know for me I've like put that to
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bed , Like I don't want to feel like that anymore
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. So if you are dedicated
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to your health , if you're dedicated to weight
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loss , to just feeling better , having more energy
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, do not weigh yourself
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on your regular scale . And
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one thing that I am really
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sticking to is not putting
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myself even on the body fat scale , but more
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than once a week , Because the
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problem is it becomes like such a mental
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game and you're not
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going to put on muscle that quick , Like that's
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just the reality , but week
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after week , maybe every two weeks , you can start
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to see some gains and it's super motivating
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. So the scale that I invested
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in is an InBody and I believe
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the model is the Dial H30
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, which is their newer one . It's an in-home model
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. It's not the ones you see in the gyms
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. Inbody does make ones that are in the gyms
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, so I felt pretty good investing into
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this one , because I know they have quality products
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. Now
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you put your body on there I do it fully naked
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, and you hold these hand things
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. You stick them out straight , you keep your arms away from your body
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. You're , you know , barefoot . All those things Takes
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about a minute , minute and a half and you get a full reading
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. You get so much information
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. So , yes , you do get a weight . However
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, that's like the last thing I'm even looking at
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. So
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it's super motivating to see you know what kind of percent body fat , how much skeletal muscle you
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have . It puts you in a chart whether you're average . It puts your body type in a chart and kind of
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lets you know like what's above average , what's normal
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. You can set goals for
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yourself . It tells you what your basal metabolic
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rate is , your water balance , all
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of these things and it's it
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graphs the points over time so
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you can say like , hey , last month
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I had X amount of body fat . This
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month I'm going down my body fat
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, up with my muscle . Even if your weight stays
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the same , you are a healthier
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you . You are maybe more
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energized , Maybe your clothes are fitting better
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. But before that information
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you would have beat yourself up . I
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know because I've done it right Like the scale doesn't
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budge . You're doing all the right things , you're feeling
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your body right , you're in the gym , you're doing
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your cardio , you're doing your weights , you're doing all the
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things . You're so focused and the weight doesn't
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move . That number doesn't budge
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. But if you can see the fluctuation
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and the shift that your body is making
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from burning the body fat and
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putting on muscle , who cares what
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you weigh ? Like really , who cares ? We
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all need to throw away this mentality that the scale number
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matters , because there's been so many studies
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of pictures of women where
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they weigh the same thing and you would think that
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the person that has more muscle
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mass actually weighs less . But indeed
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they weigh more . But visually speaking
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, you may think they weigh less , but that's not true
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. We just don't . We don't ever set ourselves
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up for , you know , really having
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that as a true metric . We're always looking
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at the number on the scale as a weight and
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saying whether it's good or bad , and that's just the
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wrong way to look at it . So I've
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really been dedicated to that in the last couple months
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. I know that if you get rid of your regular
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dial scale and you either find
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a clinic or a gym that has one of these
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and you can weigh yourself on it once a month , do
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the body fat scan , you know , find
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out where you are , you are going
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to be so much more motivated
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in the gym when you see what's happening
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to your body . I would even argue
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that getting rid of your
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regular scale if that's all you have and using
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a pair of pants as a metric is a better
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way to measure than just
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a simple one metric number of
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weight , Because I just think that it
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sets us up for failure and
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it doesn't motivate us if the number doesn't go down
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and really you could just be losing
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water rate and the number goes down , but that doesn't
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necessarily mean good or bad , right . So
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again , just a simple thing that we can
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do , something that I know I've struggled with with
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your , you know , through the years of just having the scale
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, that number kind of driving you
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like baddie , what you know , such a tone for the
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day , and it's not a good way , you
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know , to keep yourself motivated , knowing that
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the number didn't move in a week . But
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I truly believe that knowledge is power
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and having these metrics helps fuel the
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positivity , helps fuel you know
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. Just one step after the other
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, the small goals lead to bigger
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gains and you will keep yourself on
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that trajectory of better health , feeling better
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energized and get
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to where you really want to be , and that's
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ultimately the goal right , Like getting healthy
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, getting where you want to be , feeling good . So
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I think all these little gadgets
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, all these things that you can use are great
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, but ditch the regular scale
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completely . Ditch it , throw it out the window , burn
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it , run it over the car , whatever you got to do , Don't
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just rely on that number and
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see what happens . Right ? I
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hope this episode find you well and I'll chat with
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you next week . Thank
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you for tuning in to the Healthy Hot Mess Mom podcast
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. I hope you found some inspiration and practical
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tips to help you on your journey to
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a healthier , more confident you . Remember
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it's all about progress , not perfection . If
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you enjoyed today's episode , don't forget
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to subscribe , rate and leave a review
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. Your feedback means the world to me and
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helps other hot mess moms find our community
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. Join me next time as we continue
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to navigate the ups and downs of health and wellness
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together . Until then , keep striving
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for progress , stay consistent and embrace
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the beautiful chaos of motherhood . Take
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care , stay healthy and keep being the amazing
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hot mess , mom , that you are . See you next
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time .
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