Step off the Scale: Break Free From Dieting
Are you tired of feeling like your worth is defined by the number on the scale?
Step Off the Scale is the podcast that helps you break free from diet culture and food guilt—for good. Hosted by Ashlee Wright, a registered dietitian and nutrition coach with over 14 years of experience, this show empowers women to build a healthier, more joyful relationship with food.
If you’re ready to stop obsessing over food and start living freely, you’re in the right place.
This podcast will deliver practical tips and mindset shifts to help you ditch dieting, heal your relationship with food, and embrace intuitive eating. Ashlee challenges toxic wellness trends, busts nutrition myths, and shares strategies you can actually use in your busy, real-life routine.
This show will answer common questions like:
How can I stop emotional eating?
What does food freedom mean, and how do I achieve it?
How do I overcome diet culture and its effects?
How can I improve my body image and self-esteem?
Is intuitive eating suitable for everyone?
What are the principles of intuitive eating?
How does stress affect my eating habits?
Whether you’re an entrepreneur, content creator, coach, or busy woman trying to balance it all—this podcast provides valuable insights to help you build lasting healthy habits without restriction or shame.
Subscribe now to step off the scale and into the life you were meant to live - free, nourished, and empowered.
Step off the Scale: Break Free From Dieting
1. Breaking Free from the Scale
Tired of food guilt and diet BS?
Step Off the Scale is the podcast for women who want to stop obsessing over every bite and start feeling good—for real. Hosted by dietitian Ashlee Wright, each episode delivers no-rules, real-life advice to help you eat with confidence and enjoy your life (and your snacks).
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Welcome to Step Off the Scale, the podcast where we are redefining health and happiness beyond the numbers. I am your host, Ashlee Wright, a dietician for over a decade, mom of two and craft beer lover. Together, we'll say goodbye to restrictive diets and learn simple strategies to help you actually enjoy your food again, without guilt. Now let's dive in together. Well, hello there. I am Ashley Wright and I am so excited to welcome you to the very first episode of Step Off the Scale. This is a podcast for women who are tired of the food guilt, the diet drama and the obsession with the number on the scale, of the food guilt, the diet drama and the obsession with the number on the scale. This is a safe space where you're not going to be told to count your macros or count your almonds or any of that shit. We're not doing any of that here.
Ashlee Wright:Like so many of you out there, I myself have struggled with body image and food, and when I was in college, I had this sign on the back of my door that said Ashley's losing weight plan and, and throughout high school, I was never the you know like the popular skinny girl that all the dudes were chasing after. You know, looking back. I'm like, geez, what was I so worried about, right? Um, but when I got to college, I felt, okay, I really need to start like working on my body and feeling better and like fitting in with all the popular girls. And so I put the sign on the back of my door that said Ashley's losing weight plan. And every time that I'd open the door and I'd see that, I would just think to myself well, shit, what did I really do this week to get me there? Oh gosh, I got to go to the gym. Oh my gosh, are there's going to be so many people there? Oh, I just had a hot pocket Like there's. There was all these things that were running through my brain, and it was never anything positive. It just made me feel more miserable and uncomfortable in my own self. Then there was one day where I had just I had it and I ripped that thing off the back of my door and I tore it to shreds, and I haven't looked back since. Yes, of course I still have moments where I'm like, oh gosh, ashley, you should really lose some pounds, or your jeans are a little tighter today, or maybe you shouldn't have that extra gummy worm. Those thoughts are still always going to creep in, right. They don't ever go away completely, but we can learn to manage them better over time. We can learn to feel better in our own skin over time. It doesn't happen overnight, but there's things that we can do that can really help us to better get there right, and those are things that we're going to talk about in this podcast that I'm so excited to share with you.
Ashlee Wright:I have been a dietitian now for the past 14 years, and after years of watching women beat themselves up over food, I knew that I had to start doing things differently. I am a weight loss expert yes, I am, but to me, I have just realized that it's about so much more than you know. Looking at the calories and the protein and the carbs, which is all things like yes, they have their place, but it's not just about. It's really the underlying relationship with food that matters the most. That's the thing that's really going to give you the success in the long haul, and so many people don't really talk about that. That's the foundation, and if you think about, like if you try to build a house on a foundation that's super wonky, what's going to happen? It's going to fall right. So we need to really build that foundation, and that's what we're going to be doing together here in Step Off the Scale.
Ashlee Wright:I knew that I had to share this message with you and get it out there. It's been on my heart for so many years and I'm finally doing it, and I can't tell you how thrilled I am that you are listening to me right now. So I get you. I am here for you. I am a mom of two little ladies myself, who are currently eight and three and a half, and my three and a half year old gives me a run for my money. So you know, if you are a mom out there, who you are trying to juggle all the things. You're trying to still lose weight from the baby you had three years ago, which I get it. Trust me, you're in. To still lose weight from the baby you had three years ago, which I get it. Trust me, you're in the right place because I'm going to help you feel better in your body, feel more confident in your own skin and just enjoy food like you've never enjoyed it before. That is my mission.
Ashlee Wright:This podcast is not here to help you shrink. It's help you to feel good in your body. It's going to help you stop thinking about food 24-7 and to ditch that all or nothing mindset that so many of us get trapped into and just enjoy a damn slice of pizza without spiraling right. I'm here to give you real talk and mindset shifts and simple nutrition tips that don't involve cutting out bread, that don't involve cutting out bread. That don't involve cutting out your you know Sour Patch Kids that you love, which I do too, so I'm never going to tell you to do any of that. I'm going to give you bite-sized advice that you can actually use and give you encouragement on the hard days.
Ashlee Wright:So this podcast is for the woman who knows what to eat right. We all say that I know what to eat. I'm just not doing it, of course, right. Like I know you're not stupid. I know you know what healthy eating looks like. It's not a foreign concept, but it goes so much deeper than just knowing what to do, which we'll get to, and I know that being consistent in habits and staying consistent in your eating habits is always a big thing that I hear too. But we're going to talk a lot in this podcast about what it really means to stay consistent and what that actually means for you. So if you're the mom out there who's hiding from the camera at her kid's birthday party because she doesn't love how she looks, if you're, you know you got this pantry full of 100 calorie little diet snacks and you still feel like you're failing. We're going to work through all that. We're going to figure out a better way. I promise you that. And if you've ever sat down and gone down the Google rabbit hole of how I get back on track after a vacation, how do I reset after the weekend, you are in the right place. We're going to talk about all of it. I promise you that In the coming episodes, we are going to tackle some big subjects, the first one being emotional eating.
Ashlee Wright:I think that this is something we all struggle with, and if you're out there listening and you're like Ashley, I don't struggle with that, think again, you do at times, I can pretty much guarantee it. And emotional eating is not just eating like when you're, you know, feeling depressed or anxious or sad. It's not just about that. There's all kinds of emotions that can go on with it. So I just want you to know you're not alone in it, and we're going to talk about some strategies that really help to stop emotional eating before it actually starts. So we can't eradicate emotional eating, but we can manage it much better, and I'm going to share with you all of my favorite strategies for managing it better. So this is what you need to do next Subscribe, so you don't miss a single episode, because we are just getting started. My friend, leave a review if you're already feeling lighter from hearing this message, and this is gonna help other women just like you find this podcast too, and share it with a friend who can use it.
Ashlee Wright:I am on a mission to get this podcast out to as many women as I possibly can, and come hang out with me on Instagram at Ashley the Dietitian. I would love to hear from you and I'll be sharing things in my stories like my meals, my mom life and probably my latest trip to Target or the latest craft beer I'm drinking. Probably that's usually what's happening. So, and tell me in the comments or the DMs what's the worst diet advice you've ever gotten. I would love to know what that is, because there is some crappy advice out there and I want to know the worst of it so I can debunk the myths.
Ashlee Wright:Okay, so I am so, so thrilled that you chose to spend your time with me here on Step Off the Scale, and I want you to remember that you are so much your time with me here on Step Off the Scale, and I want you to remember that you are so much more than a number on the scale. You're allowed to feel confident, you are allowed to enjoy food and you are definitely allowed to be human. You are allowed to not be superwoman all the time. You are allowed to give yourself grace. Okay, I am so glad that you're here. Let's step off the scale and step into something that's way more freaking joyful, and I will see you next week.
Ashlee Wright:Thank you so much for spending your time with me today on step off the scale. I know that life can be crazy busy and I truly appreciate you taking the time to be here with me today. And just a quick reminder that your worth is not defined by number on the scale and you don't need to follow restrictive diet rules to feel good in your body. You deserve to feel freedom, confidence and a life where eating feels easy again. If today's episode resonated with you, I'd love for you to subscribe, leave a review or share it with a friend who needs to hear it. Your support means the world to me and it helps this message reach more women who are ready to break free from diet culture and live a happier life in their own body. Take good care of yourself and I'll see you next time.