Ep 63- When You Hit Your Highest Weight
April 24, 2025
If you’ve recently stepped on the scale and seen your highest weight ever, this episode is for you. I share my personal story of hitting rock bottom, the panic that followed, and the mindset shifts that helped me move forward without shame, crash dieting, or harsh punishment.
You’ll learn:
Why taking panicked actions will lead to panicked results
What hitting your highest weight might actually be telling you
Steps on how to not binge eat and make helpful changes to your eating habits
Using this moment as your turning point towards success
First, pause
Before you make a single change, calm your nervous system. Inhale through your nose. Exhale a little longer than you inhaled. Do that twice more. You can’t make clear, kind decisions for your body while your brain is in alarm mode.
Separate facts from the story
Ask yourself what you’re making the number mean. Is your brain jumping to “I’m out of control,” “I’ll never figure this out,” or “no one will love me like this”? Now get factual. A scale shows mass against gravity. It is one data point, not a verdict on your worth, your lovability, or your future. Plenty of things influence it. Some you can address with habits and support. Some may be medical and worth checking with a doctor. Either way, you are not broken.
Switch from shame to curiosity
Shame makes you hide and double down on old patterns. Curiosity asks better questions. What has life looked like lately? More stress or less sleep? More time on screens and fewer true meals? More dieting rules and fewer steady, satisfying foods? Were there stretches where you didn’t feel hunger clearly and drifted into grazing? None of this is a moral failure. It’s information.
Take one tiny step
Panic wants a full life makeover by tomorrow. Real change starts small. Pick one thing for the next 24 hours and do it on purpose. Eat one meal sitting down without your phone. Check in with hunger once in the morning and once after dinner. Take a short walk to reset your head, not to “burn off” anything. Journal for five minutes about how you’re feeling. Tiny steps compound. They also rebuild trust.
Let this be a turning point
Rock-bottom moments can become origin stories. Mine did. I stopped Googling quick fixes and learned how urges work, how to feel hunger and fullness again, and how to make trigger foods boring. The scale settled down as a side effect of saner habits, not because I bullied it into submission.
If this is your turning point, you don’t have to do it alone. Support shortens the messy middle and keeps you out of the all-or-nothing trap.
You’re not stuck like this
Today’s number is not your forever. Get curious, take one kind action, and keep going. You’ve got this.
If you want help turning this moment into your comeback, book a free consultation and we’ll map your next steps together. If urges are loud right now, grab my free Stop a Binge audio and keep it handy for the next wave.