There are a number of different factors that can make it hard to lose weight, from diet to environment to exercise habits and even to your mindset. Sometimes, it’s just one factor you need to change, and other times, it’s a combination of many.
One of the things that can help decipher what’s holding you back from shedding some extra pounds is hearing what worked for other people. Valerie Bertinelli, 60, recently opened up about how she lost over 40lbs, and for her, it was all mindset. Keep reading for more details.
Valerie Bertinelli Shares How She Lost Weight By Changing Her Mindset
The 64-year-old has been in the spotlight since her 20s, so most of the world has seen how her weight has fluctuated over the years. Most recently, she lost over 40lbs after her 2022 divorce from Tom Vitale. How'd she do it? Speaking to the Washington Post, Valerie first revealed what wasn't working for her.
"What wasn't working for me was living my life by a number," she explained. "Because no matter what that number was, it wasn't going to be good enough."
She continued, recalling how once she entered her 60s, she realized she had started the bad habit of emotional eating. "And if I try to push it away, shove it away, eat it away, the feeling’s not going to go anywhere," she said. "It's going to pop up again."
She realized that rather than eating to distract from unpleasant emotions, she needed to address her emotions at the source. "It's not the food that's bad for us," she said. "It's how, or why, we're eating it. If we're eating it unconsciously, if we're eating it to soothe an emotion."
Valerie Bertinelli Shares How She Sees Health Now
Now, Valerie has a new perspective on her health, one that's clearly working! Earlier this year, she posted a throwback bikini photo from a decade ago, and wrote in the caption: "2014 #tbt. This is a 150lb body on a 5'4" frame. I don’t weigh myself anymore because this is considered overweight by whose standards I don’t know. It’s stupid and I believed them for far too long."
"I now, finally," she continued, "know that I am a kind, considerate, funny, thoughtful woman."
In a separate post, she wrote again, encouraging her followers to step away from the numbers: "Health is not a body size. Health is not the number you see on the scale. Your worth as a human being isn’t dictated by your body." Spoken like a truly healed woman!
