Your Weight Does Not Define Your Worth

To all the girls whose worth was reduced to a number on a scale by others, by yourself…I want to say, rise above that twisted belief. 

You deserve to feel beautiful, worthy, unstoppable. You deserve to know you are a damn Queen. You deserve to feel at home in your body, to eat the cookie without a guilt fest, to savor every tiny part of life just as you are. You deserve to rest when you’re tired, to step off the treadmill, to stop hiding from the clothes you don’t think you can pull off. 

You are not a number on a scale. You are not a tag on your clothes. You are not the lumps and bumps or a smooth stomach or the thickness of your arms. You are, my Dear, wonderfully, beautifully magic, exactly as you are, today. 

It’s perfectly fine to pursue the healthiest version of yourself, to eat in a way that makes you feel good, to move your body. It is not fine, however, to let anyone dictate to you that you have to weigh a certain amount to be valued. It is not okay for anyone to make you feel like you would be more worthy if you shed some pounds. It is not okay to live in a status of depravity and punishment.

It is never okay to let anyone define you by a number on a scale. Ever.
Not your boyfriend or husband or wife or girlfriend.
Not your sister.
Not your parents.
Not your boss.
Not that agent who wants to work with you.
Not that friend.
Not that social media influencer.
Not that stranger at the grocery store.
Not that personal trainer.
And most of all, not you.

You are worthy and beautiful and deserving of living life to the fullest. You do not have to be a certain # on the scale to do that. You do not have to look a certain way to believe you are worthy of incredible things.

So eat the cookie. Choose joy. Celebrate how your body moves and looks today, as it is. Congratulate yourself on being a whole person, beautiful and magical and true. Live life wildly, boldly, and unapologetically.

And never let the number on the scale dictate your worth. Ever. 

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