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Don't live by the scale

When you start on your health or fitness journey, so often people talk about how much weight you need to lose.  I would love to see it become less about the weight and more about the person, the self, the whole being; and what you have to GAIN.  Weight loss and nutrition do not always go hand-in-hand.  Weight loss and fitness do not always go hand-in-hand.  Weight loss and health, do not always go hand-in-hand.  Health, fitness, and nutrition can result in weight loss but they can also result in weight gain, which can be the healthy result and absolutely okay.  That could be so mentally hard, mentally destabilising. It is so ingrained in us to think that we need to be thinner, weigh less, have a certain body type to be able to be considered fit and healthy.  And that is just wrong.  We have been trained to think that it is only a certain way we can look or present ourselves in order to be fit and healthy and we need to re learn because that is not...