Throw away the food scale. Delete the calorie counting app. Remove the "before" photos from your fridge. Replace them with:

The fluorescent lights of the dressing room hummed overhead, casting an unforgiving pallor on Elara’s skin. She stared at the mirror, then down at the pile of jeans on the floor. Size 6. Size 8. Size 10. A denim graveyard of failed expectations.

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