69: We Need to Stop Praising Women For Weight Loss (and what we should be doing instead)

The Confidence Project Podcast · Aug 21, 2018 · 18m

We're all guilty of it.

We see someone on the internet, or at a reunion, or at the gym, and we notice that they've lost weight. We congratulate them, we ask them what they've been doing, we tell them they look great.

What's so bad about that?

When all we do is preoccupy ourselves with others' weight- whether that's weight loss or lack thereof, we continue to fulfill the narrative that it's the most important thing about us.

We fail to recognize that our weight is the least important thing about us. When we can't see that for other people, that means we can't see that in ourselves either.

What…