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E218: Ditch the Scale, Focus on This Instead!

E218: Ditch the Scale, Focus on This Instead!

Released Monday, 17th June 2024
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E218: Ditch the Scale, Focus on This Instead!

E218: Ditch the Scale, Focus on This Instead!

E218: Ditch the Scale, Focus on This Instead!

E218: Ditch the Scale, Focus on This Instead!

Monday, 17th June 2024
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Hey there , and welcome to the Healthy Hot Mess Mom

0:04

podcast . Are you a frustrated mom

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trying to navigate the maze of diet

0:08

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

1:01

to the healthy , hot mess mom community . Hey

1:05

there , happy monday , and Welcome to the Healthy

1:07

, 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

1:16

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

1:29

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

2:49

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

3:06

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

4:02

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

4:39

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

9:30

time .

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Healthy Hot Mess Mom | Weight Loss Tips, Personal Growth, Transformation, Healthy Lifestyle, Positive Mindset, Wellness, Simply Nutrition, Health Hacks

 Welcome to the Healthy Hot Mess Mom Podcast! Are you a busy working mom who is tired of feeling tired?Do you feel desperate to make healthy habits a routine but can't figure out how to be consistent?Would you love help figuring out how to make quick healthy meals the whole family will enjoy? Do you feel like you have no time to plan for anything, let alone find time to workout?Have you reached the point in your health and weight loss journey that the things that always used to work stop working?  Do you want to stop the food noise so you can finally have food freedom?Do you find yourself googling:How to lose weight over 40? Is this Perimenopause?Ways to get rid of belly fat?In this podcast, you will get simple, actionable steps to help you with your health and weight loss journey. You will learn to embrace your mess but not use it as an excuse to hold you back anymore.The goal here is to take small steps toward progress so that you don't get overwhelmed. I want to empower you to with the knowledge so that you can take control of your health and feel more confident.Hi, I'm Rebecca Santos. Wife. Working Mom of two Littles. Self Proclaimed Hot Mess Mom 40+ Juggling. all. the. things! After having my two kids and gaining a ton of weight (50+LBS both times on a 5 foot frame) I got tired of feeling tired, overweight and like complete garbage. After a lot of trial and error I have got my pre baby body back and I'm healthier than I have ever been my entire life even being over 40!Getting healthy is a journey and I want to encourage you to put yourself first because lets face it, us mama's run the world and our littles need us. So stop letting fear hold you back, get the negative thoughts out of your head and take one step at a time toward sustainable health! Messy is better than perfect!

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