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
9. Transform Your Self-Confidence
In this episode, we’re diving into something a little uncomfortable but so necessary for personal growth: boosting your self-confidence by asking others what they love about you.
We all struggle with self-doubt and insecurity, myself included. But here’s the secret- what if we could see ourselves the way others see us? Imagine hearing the positive things people love about you and using that to build up your confidence. It’s powerful.
In this episode, I’ll challenge you to ask someone in your life, “What do you love about me?” or “What do you think I’m really good at?” And I promise you, as uncomfortable as it might feel, it will help shift your self-perception in an incredibly positive way.
Key Takeaways:
- Confidence isn’t built in comfort zones - it’s built by doing uncomfortable work.
- Self-worth is not tied to your appearance or achievements—it’s about how you see yourself.
- The power of outside perspective: Hearing others’ positive feedback can help you see your strengths.
- Take action: Ask someone what they love about you, and embrace what they say.
- Small steps lead to big changes: Celebrate your growth, even if it’s uncomfortable.
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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 dietitian 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 without guilt. Now let's dive in together. Well, hello, and welcome back to another episode of Step Off the Scale. I am your host, Ashlee Wright, and I'm so thrilled that you're here with me today. I want to talk to you about something that is a little bit uncomfortable today but so necessary for growth. Now.
Speaker 1:I know that we all have those days where we feel just insecure and we doubt ourselves. I know I have certainly been there recently. But what if we could see ourselves the way that others see us? What if we could hear the positive things that people love about us and use that to build up our own confidence? So I'm going to give you a little challenge today. It might be a little awkward, it might feel a little wonky, but it'll help you build the self-confidence that you've been craving. You know it's not going to magically shoot it up to 100%, but every little bit helps, right, that we can build it up for ourselves. And I know that you know, trusting in our own self and having that self-confidence is something that so many of us struggle with, myself included, and it's something that I'm continually working on and I know for so many of my clients it's. You know, it's not just about the nutrition, it's about so much more than that. Food is just tied to so many things, and I think that if we can build up that level of self-confidence in ourselves, that it is such a big game changer that we don't necessarily focus enough on.
Speaker 1:Have you ever had somebody ask you the question if you had a superpower, what would it be? What would yours be? But mine would be the power to have other people see themselves as we see them. So like, if I'm talking to a client, it would be like I could grant them the power to see themselves the way that I see them and see their potential right. I think that would be such a game changer. If we could just start viewing ourselves like other people see us. Oh my gosh, we would live in such a better world, right? Imagine if you could see yourself the way that others see you. We spend so much time worrying about how we look, how we show up, whether or not we're good enough, but other people see us totally differently. They see the good, they see your strengths, they see the things that make you special as a human being. Right, and most of us have a tough time seeing our own worth. We're constantly battling that inner voice of doubt and insecurity. But here's the thing If we could just step outside of our own heads and see what others see, we'd realize how much more confident and truly amazing we really are. So here's the challenge for today. This is the thing that might get you feeling a little uncomfortable, but I promise you it is a game changer.
Speaker 1:I want you to ask someone in your life, whether it's a spouse, a friend, a family member, a co-worker. Ask them what do you love about me? Or what do you think I'm really good at? And it's always weird to like ask somebody well, what do you really like about me? You know, because I feel like we're always so negative when it comes to our own self. We're like, oh gosh, I should, I didn't do that right. What do you think about this? Oh my gosh. And then we just get into this negative spiral. But what if you ask somebody, what do you think I'm really good at? And if they tell you oh well, I think you're really good at podcasting, or I think you're really good at connecting with other people, or I think you are kick ass in the kitchen. I think that you are such a wonderful empathetic person.
Speaker 1:Imagine like you're hearing those things from somebody else and how much of a self-confidence booster that is. Ask as many people as you can, right? I know it's going to feel super uncomfortable, it's going to feel really strange at first and you might get a little squeamish. But trust me, this discomfort is exactly what's going to push you out of your self-doubt and into a more expansive place of growth. More expansive place of growth.
Speaker 1:Confidence isn't built by just staying in your comfort zone. It's built by doing the things that scare us and challenge us, which is by far not easy, because we're always constantly wired to stay in our comfort zones Like, ooh, that feels a little scary. I might as well just stay right here in my little bubble. That's always the easy thing to do, right? So we have to push ourselves just a little bit to move forward. So sometimes we're struggling with our self-worth and hearing it from someone else can be the totally missing piece.
Speaker 1:We need the reminders from the people around us to see what we can't see in ourselves, and it might be things as simple as like you make everybody around you feel so welcome, or you're so great at making others laugh, or you're incredibly strong, and I admire how you always push through and make things happen. You know you never know what somebody's going to say about you and it's totally cool when you hear those things. So I want you to know I get it. This is hard. We don't want to feel like we're fishing for compliments I know nobody likes to feel that way or like being super vulnerable, but the truth is that this is how we grow. And if we keep hiding from discomfort but the truth is that this is how we grow, and if we keep hiding from discomfort, we'll never get to the other side of where more confidence lives. So asking other people what they love about you might feel a little funny at first, but it's planting little teeny seeds of positivity in your heart and in your brain and you might be surprised what other people say and it will slowly help shift your self-perception an incredibly powerful way. So this is one thing that I want you to take away from this episode today Know that growth requires discomfort.
Speaker 1:If we want to feel better on our own skin, we have to do things that are uncomfortable, and this exercise is one of those things. It's not easy, but it works, and for this next week, I challenge you to ask at least one person what do you love about me, or what do you think I'm really good at? Whatever question just feels better to you. Ask them, and when you hear the answer, really take it in, let it sink in and use it to build up your self-worth, because your self-worth is it's infinite, right? We don't realize that about ourselves, like we tie our self-worth to things that really don't matter as much. So this is a way to help build up your self-worth in a completely different way. Besides, like you know, I think a lot of us tie it to you know our career? Or we tie it to like oh, if I get in shape, I'll be more worthy. Well, no, hell, no, you're worthy just as you are right now, first of all.
Speaker 1:But these are just little practices that we can do to help continually build up our self-worth and our self-confidence, because I think so many of us just beat ourselves down day after day and I am so tired of it for myself, I'm tired of it for you, and this is one of the biggest challenges that I see my clients face. I've been a dietitian for 14 years. I've heard it all, I've seen it all, and I just see so many women just being so hard on themselves and being like, oh well, I failed at this or I wasn't good at this. We need to start focusing on the things that we're doing well, because you're doing so many things well and you don't even see it. Remember, your confidence is not just going to magically appear right. I know it can't change overnight, but there's little things that we can do each day to help to build it up. We can do that uncomfortable work to build it up.
Speaker 1:So go ahead, ask the question and let yourself soak in the love that's already there. Journal on it, think about it, take a screenshot of it if you texted somebody, and make yourself a little folder. You know, make yourself a little self-confidence folder. We got to consistently remind ourselves of these things because our brain tends to go to the negative, so we have to start to rewire it and start to focus on the positive. So I want to hear from you. Did you ask somebody the question? What did they say? How did you feel about it?
Speaker 1:You can DM me over on Instagram at Ashley the Dietitian. You can send me a text here, right in this episode. It's right below, you'll see. Send Ashley a text Super cool. Just know that it's anonymous and I just want to know how things went for you. I'm always curious to know. I bet you you are going to have, you know, such aha moments doing something like this and I'm so excited to see what it does for you.
Speaker 1:And if today's episode helped you, I'd love it if you could leave a review and share this episode with a friend who might need this confidence boost. Your reviews and your comments just helped me to reach so many more women in this world, and that is my mission. So I am so excited for you to do this exercise. Remember, it's going to feel uncomfortable and that is okay, but you are doing great. I'm so proud of you and I will see you next time on Step Off the Scale.
Speaker 1: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.