Valerie Bertinelli As the “One Day at a Time, her weight remains the one thing that holds her back. “I’m doing my best to live by the words I’ve written, to not care what the scale says. I think that’s important. I think many, many, many people live with a lie that we were told, that we’re unlovable when we gain weight, and it’s simply not true,” she explained. However, the scale keeps pulling her back regardless. “Yet, even as I say it, I’m like, ‘Now, wait a minute….’ Maybe, one day, I’ll be a perfect weight! Let’s wait until then…” she added.
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But that has since changed for Bertinelli, who also published her New York Times bestseller, “Enough Already: Learning to Love the Way I Am Today,” in early 2022. “I stopped weighing myself when I finished writing my book, which was a big thing for me, and I haven’t gotten on a scale since,” she writes. For the author, denial leads to self-regulation. “I’ve found that especially true as I’m trying to take care of my mental and emotional health, as well as the weight.” she writes.
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she spent decades thinking she needed to look a certain way to have people like and accept her, but she’s “done judging [her]self” as she works to be “kinder and more accepting” of her own body. “Whatever happens happens,” Bertinelli emphasized. “This is what I am. Right now. Today.”
