The Scales of Wellness

Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minYou catch yourself standing at the pantry at 8pm. You know you are not hungry, but you are most definitely WANTING food. And you have no idea why.What if I told you that there is a tool that can help you figure out exactly why you do this? It costs nothing. It does not require a meal plan, a tracking app, or anything fancy or expensive. It's one of the most extraordinarily fast and effective tools you can use, and there's a very good chance you already own everything you'd need to start tonight.I have had many clients who initially told me that this tool was not going to work for them. As they work with me, they usually find that it's become one of the most useful parts of their whole process.This tool will slow you down. It will show you the real reasons behind wanting to overeat (it's never actually random). You can then make progress towards your weight loss goal instead of just feeling the pull of a craving and eating without knowing why.In this episode, I walk you through what this tool is, why it works, why you're probably not using it even though you've heard of it before, and why the version of it that you're picturing right now is almost certainly wrong.If you've ever eaten your way through your feelings, if you've told yourself "I'll figure out why later" and never did, if you've already written yourself off as someone this won't work for, this episode is for you.Ready to get to the root of what's actually driving your eating? Book a free consultation call: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced

Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minWhat is one thing that you do for yourself every day just to make yourself happy? To make your life more fun? (Please share!)One of my daily non-negotiables lately is listening to one song every day that makes me feel good. The other day it was Foo Fighters' "Learning to Fly." I put it on, then went and watched the music video, and ended up down a whole rabbit hole about the band. And somewhere in that rabbit hole, this week's episode was born.Because here's something most people don't know. Planes are off their planned course an estimated 90 percent of the flight. Not occasionally drifting. Off course almost the entire time. And they still land exactly where they meant to.Nobody watching that flight would call the pilot a failure for drifting. So why do we do that to ourselves over one off-plan meal?What if you could get to the point where being off track stopped meaning something is wrong with you, and started being just... normal? Where a hard day didn't require a Monday reset, a "clean" restart, or starting completely over?In this episode I dig into where this all-or-nothing belief actually comes from, what real course correction looks like instead, and why this one skill might change a lot more in your life than just how you eat.If you've ever had one bite of something "off plan" and decided the whole day was ruined, if you've ever quietly given up on a goal after missing it a few times, if you've ever wondered why you keep starting over instead of just continuing, this episode is for you.Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/

You've researched mattresses for three weeks straight. Read every review. Compared five brands before you'd commit.You've sat with a spreadsheet open comparing credit card rewards, or spent a Saturday afternoon test driving four different cars before signing on the dotted line.But have you ever sat down and actually calculated the return on investing in your own body?That's what I'm doing in this episode. Running the real numbers on what you actually get back when you invest in losing weight, the physical return and the mental return, because most people only think about one of those, if they think about either at all.What if you could get to the point where losing weight wasn't just about a smaller number on the scale, but about a calmer nervous system, better boundaries in every relationship in your life, and a body that works better for longer?In this episode I walk through the physical benefits most people already sort of know about, and then the mental and relational benefits almost nobody calculates, things like finally being able to say no to people without guilt, or watching the restrict-binge cycle just disappear. And I explain exactly why none of this shows up when you lose weight through a diet, and why it only shows up one specific way.If you've ever thought "I'll deal with my health later," if you've ever spent more time researching a mattress than thinking about your own body, if you've ever wondered whether this work is really worth the investment, this episode is for you.Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation call here: https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minJoin Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced

Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here and let's talk about your goals and struggles:https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minYou're at dinner, feeling good about where you're at. Then your mom asks if you are really going to order the burger and shouldn't you get a salad. Or your husband orders dessert and slides it toward you, despite the fact that he knows you are trying to lose weight and weren't planning on dessert tonight. Or, even worse, he says "Oh just have dessert. I mean why bother with a diet, it's not like you're not going to lose it this time either."If you've ever felt like the hardest part of changing your relationship with food isn't the food at all, it's the people closest to you, you are not imagining it, and you are definitely not alone.What if you could get to the point where you finally understand that none of this is actually about you? And stop needing your family members to support your weight loss goals?I'm walking through the different ways spouses and family members can seem to sabotage your efforts, what's really going on underneath it (it's not what you think), and exactly what to say back, without starting a fight and without losing your resolve.If dinner with your spouse has ever felt like a negotiation, if a comment from your mom has ever derailed your whole week, or if you've ever wondered why the people who love you don't seem to want you to succeed, this episode is for you.Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here and let's talk about your goals and struggles:https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced

Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here and let's talk about your goals and struggles:https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minYou step on the scale and there it is. Up three pounds from yesterday. Your stomach drops. You start replaying everything you ate this week. Was it the pizza on Friday? The wine at dinner? Did you eat too much sodium? What did you do wrong?What if the answer is nothing?I'm walking through exactly what can cause a scale to jump like this and why a 2-3 pound jump overnight is not even physically possible from fat. But more than that, I want to get into why that number can hijack your entire day in the first place, and what it would actually take to stop letting a random Tuesday morning number decide how you feel about yourself.If you've ever canceled plans, restricted the rest of the day, or spiraled into "I already ruined it" thinking because of a scale number, this episode is going to change how you see that number for good.Don't miss your chance to get into the last round of No Judgment! Book your free consultation here and let's talk about your goals and struggles:https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced

You're standing in the kitchen wondering if you're really hungry. So you run the test that's all over the internet. Would you eat a red pepper right now? Would you eat plain chicken breast?Maybe you're someone who swears by this test. Maybe you think it's ridiculous. Either way, I promise you've never heard it broken down quite like this.Why? Because underneath a simple yes or no question is something a lot bigger. The way you're asking yourself "am I hungry" is shaping how you feel about food, and about yourself, way more than you realize.Tune in for a new viewpoint on the Red Pepper Test and what it might be able to do for you.__________________________________________________________________Book a free half-hour private call here to explore your weight loss goals and how No Judgment can help you:https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced

Have you seen the reels on Instagram that mock almond moms? Maybe you laughed and kept scrolling.Social media has turned judging other women into a content genre. And I have a theory about why it's everywhere right now, and what's actually driving it.But that's not even the part of this episode that's going to stick with you. Because there's a question buried in here that changes everything once you actually sit with it. Why does one comment about you roll right off your back, while another one wrecks your entire afternoon? It's not random. There's a reason, and once you see it, you can't unsee it.I'm walking through exactly what that reason is, and why it might be the single biggest thing standing between you and the life you actually want.If you've ever caught yourself rolling your eyes at another woman's choices, if a comment about your body has ever ruined your whole day, or if you've ever wondered why the same insult bothers you some days and not others, this one's going to connect a lot of dots you didn't know were connected.__________________________________________________________________Book a free half-hour private call here to explore your weight loss goals and how No Judgment can help you:https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced

You catch yourself saying it without even thinking — "I'm such a hot mess." "I'm so needy." "I'm so stupid, I can't believe I did that."Your eating, your schedule, your feelings — none of it is the problem.The way you're talking to yourself about it? That's the problem.In this episode I'm breaking down the typical patterns of self-talk and showing you exactly how they show up in your own head every single day.Then I'm giving you the alternative: a way of talking to yourself that's accurate, respectful, true, and actually supports you.Hit play and start catching your self-talk so that you can change it.__________________________________________________________________Book a free half-hour private call here:https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced

What do you hear when you listen to rock music?The melody? The lyrics? The guitar riffs? Do you even know what you focus on — or does it just happen without you noticing?And what does any of that have to do with weight loss?More than you think.In this episode I share what I discovered when I went down a research rabbit hole before a live concert last Friday — something that completely changed the way I listen to music and connects directly to the most important thing I know about why people struggle to lose weight.If you've ever felt like you're doing everything right and still can't figure out why you keep getting in your own way — hit play.__________________________________________________________________Book a free half-hour private call here:https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced

You were good all day. So good! But now, it’s 9pm and you just finished eating chips, then a protein bar, then a protein brownie…trying in vain to feel full and satisfied. Ugh, now you’re bloated, overly full, and wondering WHYYYYYY do I keep doing this?Holy cow, is this episode for you. I discuss in detail how you can know that your nighttime eating is not about:youyour lack of discipline / willpoweryour inability to stick to a plan Next, I dive into the four specific factors driving this pattern.Once you know what they are, this finally becomes something you can SOLVE. Listen to this week’s episode and finally stop the nighttime eating that is derailing your weight loss goals.__________________________________________________________________Book a free half-hour private call here:https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced

No Judgment Group Coaching is enrolling and it may be the last chance to get into it! Don't wait -book a free call now to see if  to see if this is the thing that finally moves the needle for you:  https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minYou catch yourself thinking it again. "I know exactly what I need to do. I'm just... not doing it." Maybe it's the eating plan you already know works. Maybe it's the workout you keep meaning to start. You can practically recite the steps — and somehow you still haven't moved.This episode is about that gap. The one between knowing and doing. And it's not what you think it is.Because here's the thing — that sentence, "I know what to do, I'm just not doing it," isn't actually a neutral observation. It's quietly doing something to you every time you say it. It's keeping you in a loop, and most people have no idea they're even in it.We're getting into why "knowing" was never really the missing piece, what's actually standing between you and action, and why the plan you think you need might be working against you from the start.If you've ever felt defeated before you even tried, told yourself "this is just how I am," or wondered why this time would be any different than the last ten times — this episode is going to hit close to home.Book a free half-hour private call here:  https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced

No Judgment Group Coaching is enrolling and it may be the last chance to get into it! Don't wait -book a free call now to see if  to see if this is the thing that finally moves the needle for you:  https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minYou finish lunch and someone asks what you had and you genuinely have to think about it. You sit down with a bowl of something and forty minutes later it's empty and you have no real memory of eating it. Sound familiar?Welcome to LaLa Land eating. And most of us are there at mealtimes more than we realize.In this episode we're talking about what it actually costs you to eat on autopilot — and some of it is going to surprise you. It's not just about eating more than you planned. Distracted eating has real physiological consequences — for your stress levels, your digestion, your nutrient absorption, and the way your brain learns to relate to food over time.We're also talking about what mindful eating actually means — and it is not what you think. It is not a meditation practice. It is not chewing every bite thirty-two times. It is something much simpler and much more doable than that.If you've ever finished a meal and felt weirdly unsatisfied, or found yourself snacking again an hour later even though you just ate, or felt bloated and uncomfortable after meals you'd consider perfectly healthy — this episode is going to explain a lot.Book a free half-hour private call here:  https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced

No Judgment Group Coaching is enrolling and it may be the last chance to get into it! Don't wait -book a free call now to see if  to see if this is the thing that finally moves the needle for you:  https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minCan you eat when you're not hungry? Is it sometimes OK to eat when you're not hungry? Am I doomed if I eat when I'm not hungry?Those sound like simple questions. But the way you've been answering them — probably without even realizing it — might be the exact thing standing between you and actually making progress.In this episode we're getting into one of the most loaded topics in weight loss. The urge to eat (and the need to eat) when you're not hungry show up in so many different ways, for so many different reasons, and how you respond in those moments matters more than you think.We're talking about why the language you use with yourself is everything, why the most well-intentioned rule you've ever made around food is probably backfiring, and what it actually looks like to be in charge of your own choices instead of being dragged around by your primitive brain.This one will change how you think about food, hunger, permission, and what it means to actually trust yourself.Book a free half-hour private call here:  https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced

If you've been grinding through your weight loss journey waiting for it to just be OVER already — this episode is for you.Here's the thing: you can take any part of losing weight — planning your food, eating what you planned, fitting movement into your actual life, eating when you're hungry and stopping when you're not — and turn it into either a miserable slog or a genuinely fun experience. Same actions. Completely different experience. Completely different results. And it has nothing to do with what's on your plate.We're also talking about why your brain is honestly one of the funniest things you'll ever encounter on this journey — like when you eat a perfectly delicious satisfying dinner and your brain immediately starts making a case for why that wasn't quite enough. That's not a willpower problem. That's just your hilarious brain doing its thing. And when you can watch it happen and find it funny instead of believing every word of it? That's when your mental load lightens and you start to see results.Plus we're talking about jigsaw puzzles, gardening, pickleball, and what watching your favorite TV show has to teach you about losing weight (seriously!)Tune in to my free hour of coaching plus Q + A on Wednesday, June 3 at 12-1pm CST on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/2428039579Book a private consultation call here:  https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced

Can you really lose weight eating carbs? If you've ever been told to cut them out, restrict them, or felt guilty every time you ate bread, pasta, or fruit — this episode is for you.This week I break down what carbs are, what a low carbohydrate diet really means versus what diet culture has told you it means, and why cutting carbs out completely may be doing more damage than you realize — including some surprising research on what happens to your blood sugar when you bring them back.You'll also walk away with three concrete things you can start doing right now to heal your relationship with carbs — without a single new rule to follow.None of this is about rules. It's about understanding your body, trusting yourself, and finally making peace with the food that diet culture made you afraid of.Book a private consultation call here:  https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced

Have you ever had someone say something about your body that stopped you in your tracks? Something you smiled through, said nothing about, and then carried with you for years?This episode is about those moments. The comments from doctors, colleagues, friends, and people we trusted. The ones meant as compliments that landed like criticism. The ones that were just cruel. The ones nobody had any business saying out loud — and yet said anyway.But why does this keep happening? Why is commenting on women's bodies so accepted, so normal, so unremarkable that most people don't even realize they're doing anything wrong? I dig into that too — because understanding where this comes from is the first step to stopping it from having power over you.We're going to talk about why these comments hurt so much more than people realize, and what you can actually do about it — both in the moment and long term.Because those comments didn't just sting and disappear. They built something inside you. A voice. A belief. A way of seeing yourself through other people's eyes that has been running your relationship with your body — and your eating — ever since.Your body was never up for discussion. This episode is about finally acting like it.Sign up for the free webinar happening tomorrow - Why Can't I Just Stick to a Diet?https://www.kathybedward.com/wcijstad-may2026Book a private consultation call here:  https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced

You've probably seen The Devil Wears Prada. You might have loved it. You might have quoted it. But when I rewatched it recently, I was shocked by what I hadn't noticed the first time around — a movie-length masterclass in diet culture, dressed up in Chanel and Valentino and presented as aspirational.In this episode I go scene by scene through moments that I genuinely could not believe I had missed the first time around. Once you hear this, you will never watch this movie the same way again.But this episode isn't really about a movie. It's about the water we're all swimming in — the messages about bodies, thinness, and food that were installed in us long before we were old enough to question them. From the magazines in waiting rooms to the comments at family dinners to the doctors who made the scale the first order of business — these messages are everywhere. And the most dangerous thing about them is that they feel like reality rather than what they actually are: beliefs we never chose.If you've ever felt guilty after eating something you love, started over on a Monday more times than you can count, or looked in the mirror and seen a problem instead of a person — this episode is for you.The water you've been swimming in is not the truth about your body. And you get to decide what happens next.Sign up for the free webinar on May 19, Why Can't I Just Stick to a Diet?https://www.kathybedward.com/wcijstad-may2026Book a private consultation call here:  https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/🎙️Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced

Last week we questioned "more is better." This week I'm flipping it.Because here's what I've noticed — the same women who were handed the "more is better" message their whole lives were also handed the opposite one. At the exact same time. From a completely different direction.Less food. Fewer calories. Smaller portions. Tighter windows. Less fat. Cut the carbs. Take up less space.We traded one story for another. But what if the second story is just as worth questioning as the first?In this episode I'm looking honestly at "less is better" — where it's true, where it completely falls apart, and why so many smart, motivated women have followed this advice faithfully and ended up further from their goals than when they started.This isn't about giving you a new set of rules. It's about something that will actually change how you think.Book a private consultation call here:  https://calendly.com/kathybedwardconsult/30minPlease leave a review of The Scales of Wellness podcast on Apple iTunes. Your review helps the podcast grow and reach more people. Thank you!Visit my website: http://kathybedward.comEmail me at [email protected] me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kathybedward/Follow me on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TTJCOACHINGFollow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathy-bedward-jd-certified-life-coach-aaa600275/Join Becoming Balanced yoga membership! $7 for your 1st 7 days. $54/month after your 1st 7 days. Cancel at any time. We have two live-on-Zoom classes each month for our fun community. Get stronger, more flexible, calmer, and more intentional. You will improve every aspect of your health.Join the very personalized membership here: https://www.kathybedward.com/becoming-balanced