Rewire Your Weight with Rachel Foy
Jun 5, 2026 · 14 min · 10 segments
In this emotionally charged episode, Rachel Foy explores the surprising impact that stepping on the scales has on our minds and bodies. Discover why weighing yourself can be a powerful trigger, firing…
It might be half a pound or kilos, whichever country you're in, but before you've even gotten dressed, before you've had your tea or your coffee, before the day's even started, it's like something just breaks in your head.
You're planning what you're gonna eat, what you're gonna avoid, whether you can undo what the scale has just told you happened overnight whilst you were sleeping, and here's the thing: you haven't done anything yet.
You've literally stood on a piece of metal in your bathroom, and you have handed your [chuckles] entire day and brain and nervous system over to it.
Now, a lot of people think that this behavior of jumping on the scales is a good thing, and it's about discipline, and it helps them stay in control.
It helps them think and believe that this is a responsible thing to do about their, quote-unquote, "health." But what it actually is, and this is maybe what we need to now talk about, is a huge freaking trigger, and the number that you're so focused on tracking is very likely the thing that's firing up the food noise that you are also so desperately wanting to switch off.
So today, we're gonna be getting into the scales, and I wanna explore with you why I tell my clients to stop weighing themselves and the actual psychology of what that number does inside your brain the moment that you see it.
It might be half a pound or kilos, whichever country you're in, but before you've even gotten dressed, before you've had your tea or your coffee, before the day's even started, it's like something just breaks in your head.
You're planning what you're gonna eat, what you're gonna avoid, whether you can undo what the scale has just told you happened overnight whilst you were sleeping, and here's the thing: you haven't done anything yet.
You've literally stood on a piece of metal in your bathroom, and you have handed your [chuckles] entire day and brain and nervous system over to it.
Now, a lot of people think that this behavior of jumping on the scales is a good thing, and it's about discipline, and it helps them stay in control.
It helps them think and believe that this is a responsible thing to do about their, quote-unquote, "health." But what it actually is, and this is maybe what we need to now talk about, is a huge freaking trigger, and the number that you're so focused on tracking is very likely the thing that's firing up the food noise that you are also so desperately wanting to switch off.
So today, we're gonna be getting into the scales, and I wanna explore with you why I tell my clients to stop weighing themselves and the actual psychology of what that number does inside your brain the moment that you see it.
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