About Love the Body You Have: Begin to appreciate what and who you see in the mirror.
Love the Body You Have, hosted by Daryl Perry of Your Level Fitness, helps you navigate the questions so many of us quietly ask ourselves. Why am I so hard on my body? Why doesn't losing weight automatically improve how I see myself? How can I appreciate my body while still working toward my fitness goals?
Through conversations about body image, confidence, self acceptance, fitness, and mindset, each episode will help you build a healthier relationship with yourself while creating a forever active lifestyle that reflects who you are, not who you think you're supposed to be.
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We live in a world that makes comparison incredibly easy.
We compare how we look.
We compare what we have accomplished.
We compare how we perform.
We compare where we are in life to where somebody else appears to be.
In this episode, I’m asking you to get curious about who or what you are comparing yourself to and why.
Who are you competing against?
What are you trying to prove?
What do you think that comparison says about you?
And if you keep asking yourself why, what do you find underneath the first answer?
I talk about using a simple “why” exercise to go a few layers deeper. You may start with one obvious answer and end up somewhere completely different after asking yourself why a few more times.
The important part is trying to observe instead of immediately judging yourself.
That can be difficult because comparison is already a form of judgment.
But there is still value in understanding the pattern.
I also talk about the fact that comparison and competition are not automatically bad.
There can be a time and a place for both.
Competition can be motivating.
Comparison can sometimes give you useful context.
The problem starts when either one becomes the thing that determines your worth.
You do not need to look like somebody else, perform like somebody else, or live like somebody else in order to be enough.
There is room for other people to win.
There is room for you to win too.
And most of the time, you are running your own race anyway.
So notice where comparison shows up.
Notice who you are competing with.
And most importantly, get curious about why.
28 Oct 2026
How Does Your Inner Dialogue Shape the Way You See Yourself?
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What is your inner dialogue actually like?
In this episode, I’m talking about the thoughts that show up when you look in the mirror and how quickly one thought can turn into a whole chain of thoughts before you even realize what happened.
Maybe you notice the first thought.
Maybe you do not catch it until you are seven or eight thoughts deep and wondering how you got there.
That matters.
What is your inner dialogue like on a good day?
What is it like on a bad day?
How does the way you think about what you see in the mirror affect the way you talk to who you see in the mirror?
And how much can that impact the rest of your day?
For some people, one difficult moment in front of the mirror can carry into everything that comes after it.
The same thing can happen with the scale.
If the number is not what you hoped for, does that change the way you see your body?
Does it change the way you see yourself as a person?
I also talk about why leading with more kindness toward yourself makes sense, even though it is not always easy.
You spend more time with yourself than anyone else.
But you also have a lifetime of thoughts, messages, experiences, and beliefs that may have shaped the way you talk to yourself now.
That is why I keep coming back to the idea of deciding how you want to see yourself, then reinforcing that choice with your thoughts and actions.
You already know how to reinforce a belief.
The question is whether the belief you are reinforcing is helping you.
So pay attention to your inner dialogue.
Notice what is already working.
Notice what needs to change.
And start practicing the way you want to talk to yourself moving forward.
27 Oct 2026
From How You See Yourself Now to How You Want to See Yourself
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Last time, we talked about getting clear on how you see yourself right now.
The next question is, how would you like to see yourself?
In this episode, I’m talking about why that question is worth coming back to again and again.
How you see yourself today and how you want to see yourself are both moving targets. They may shift a little from day to day, and sometimes they may shift a lot.
That is okay.
The important part is knowing where you are and having some sense of where you want to go.
You can be completely honest about what you want, even if it feels unrealistic from where you are right now.
You do not need to already believe you are there.
You just need to know the direction.
That is where the mirror exercise can become more useful.
When you stand in front of the mirror for fifteen, thirty, or sixty seconds, you are not just trying to force yourself to feel differently.
You are practicing a new way of seeing yourself.
You are reinforcing it with your thoughts.
You are reinforcing it with your actions.
And when the old way of seeing yourself shows back up, which it will, you can practice redirecting yourself toward the way you are trying to see yourself now.
You are not going to do that perfectly.
That is not the goal.
The goal is to keep practicing.
Where are you now?
Where do you want to go?
And what would it look like to keep moving in
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