The Number on the Scale Does Not Dictate Your Value
âTo be beautiful means to be yourself. You donât need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.â ~Thich Nhat Hanh
We try to give our bodies value with numbers. Weâre obsessed with the number on the scale and the circumference of our waist.
We also think our value lies in labels. Words like âobese,â âfat,â and âoverweightâ are triggers for many, and we abhor them like coffee breath, because weâve been immersed in pocrescophobia (the fear of getting fat) from before we can remember.
But we are more than a category on a pie chart. We are …