Thin Thinking Podcast

Have you ever heard of tapping? Have you ever used tapping to help you with stress or get rid of unwanted habits or cravings? I just love it when I learn and discover new modalities that help us in a lot of amazing ways and one of them is what we call tapping. As we have the 46th episode of our Thin Thinking Podcast , we are privileged to have UK's leading vision board expert and award winning tap...

ORGANIZED. MANAGED. ORDERLY. These might be some of the words that most of us wish to have this 2022. You might even have wished that in just in a snap of your fingers, you'll get every aspect of your life organized and planned out. Even in our weight mastery journey, organization is an important matter and a huge key for success yet still, a lot of us find it hard to set up. This is even a part o...

In the world of weight loss, there is a lot of focus on the finish line - that moment when we reach our ideal weight - but a lot of people miss the fact that there is an important transition that happens when we reach our ideal weight. We call it weight maintenance. In episode 44 of the Thin Thinking Podcast , I interviewed Alice Murydian, a busy business owner who was able to release 18 pounds wi...

Hello and welcome to 2022! Are you excited for your journey this new year? Because I definitely am! As we all start embarking in this new season, both in our personal life and in our weight mastery journey, we will be facing many phases along the way - some are exciting while some will require great mental shifts on our end. Many people often know how to start losing weight but fail to keep pressi...

Happy New Year! I am sure, like me, you have been through a lot this 2021. You have your list of things that you are grateful for and you have those crappy things that you want to leave behind. Whatever those things are, the important thing is that you are about to enter a new season starting over and looking forward to a wonderful 2022. As we leave 2021, it's the best time for us to reflect and t...

It's that time of year when the diet ads are running and kale and protein powder have replaced the peppermint bark and Almond Roca on the shelves in your favorite store. Even if you didn't struggle with weight, you would probably feel compelled to jump on the diet bandwagon going with everybody else. And I'm saying, "Stop! Don't do this." There are very many compelling reasons not to impulsively j...

Aunt Millie's pumpkin pie, uncle Bob's famous stuffing, and so much more. No matter what the size of your holiday gathering (or gatherings) this year, if we aren't mentally prepared it can be a disaster for our waistline. So, in episode 40 of Thin Thinking , we are gonna walk through how to enjoy holiday meals with your family or friends without worrying that your weight loss or weight maintenance...

Eggnog, pumpkin lattes, Almond Roca, peppermint bark - the list can get long. We all have our own seasonal holiday favorites that we want to munch on because these foods only come this time of the year.. Indulging in our seasonal holiday favorites makes us feel great until we fall prey to their power, putting us in a position of overindulging. This leaves us to feel imbalanced, heavier, and most o...

Do you loooooove to bake? Especially during the holidays? Join the club! Baking for your family or with your family, serving them with all your loved recipes - these can be some of our most cherished moments during the holiday season. However, those memory making holiday baking adventures can quickly turn into a serious sugar-coma-inducing-weight-management-disaster with green and red holiday spri...

It's the official beginning of the holidays! Yay! It is also the beginning of the onslaught of highly tempting food and drinks...Yikes! Here in our Thin Thinking community, I personally do not want all of you to fall into those holiday traps and lose in your weight mastery journey. I want you, this holiday season, to enjoy yourself and your time with your family and friends without getting off tra...

Happy Thanksgiving! It's this time of the year once again that most of us love. Some of us will travel and visit some of our relatives while some will just enjoy the wonderful autumn weather at the comfort of their homes. And of course, enjoying and preparing sumptuous meals to be enjoyed by the whole family. Because of this, some find Thanksgiving a big challenge in their weight mastery journey....

Skinny people envy. Have you ever had it? Why is it so hard for us not to envy skinny people? Why are we resenting this subgroup of ideal weight humans for their ability to eat whatever they want and not gain an ounce? Grrrr! In episode 35 of our Thin Thinking podcast , we will be exploring this resentment that we often have with this group of people and how this belief may actually keep us strugg...

This is the time of the year when you just want to snuggle under the covers and dive into a great book. Am I right? Well, I've got your back! This week, in episode 34 of Thin Thinking , I'm reviewing the wonderful book, "The Willpower Instinct" , based on author and Stanford psychology professor Kelly McGonigal's popular course, The Science of Willpower . This book is full of fascinating and well-...

Are there certain specific foods that you can't stop at just one? You eat the whole carton or bag? Or maybe there are foods that you just can't seem to resist that take you off track again and again and again? You eat one, then eat another, not having realized that the food you are eating is already taking you over to the point of not being able to control yourself. We love them until we hate them...

Have you totally been crushing your weight release efforts during the week, but then undoing all the progress you made on the weekend? Do you feel like a hamster stuck in an endless cycle of being good during the week and then bad on the weekend? Then, this week's episode 32 of the Thin Thinking podcast is something you must listen to. I'll share with you my three mind hacks to avoid overeating on...

Have you ever tried self- hypnosis? It's pretty cool to be able to focus your mind on the specific changes that you want to make in a relaxed state but so many people shy away from it because they feel like it's too complicated or hard. In this episode 31 of Thin Thinking , I am going to walk you through an easy self-hypnosis structure that you can use to focus on your weight goals or other life g...

I have good news for you! There are dietary steps you can take to prevent cancer. In episode 30 of Thin Thinking podcast , my guest, oncological nurse practitioner and weight loss coach, Mary Welch , will give us the skinny on how to help prevent cancer--by the way you eat and will also reinforce how weight management is a powerful step towards cancer prevention. And if you are a cancer survivor,...

Many people can lose weight, but the second life takes a turn - we get sick or stressed or something happens either good or bad - we typically go back to our old ways and find it hard to get back. We might get frustrated, disappointed, or feel down because of the difficulty to get back on track with our weight mastery journey. I am thrilled to share with you, in this 29th episode of Thin Thinking...

Have you ever asked yourself these questions: "How could I be able to maintain a long-term weight mastery journey?" "Will I be able to stay consistent and strong in my weight management in the long run?" Well, I am excited to share with you my interview with one of the weight masters that I know who for her 13 years of weight mastery journey - through retirement, traveling the world, and then COVI...

Are people who are successful at long term weight loss superior? More disciplined? More focused? Blessed with some sort of gift? Absolutely not! But study after study shows that most weight masters started doing some things differently when they were finally successful in the long run. Things that you can start doing right now--today--that can set you on your own path of mastery. In today's episod...

It's my birthday again! That means another year older but it also means another year of weight mastery wiser and lots of "inner frosting"--reflections and gratitude to you in the Shift Community . So in this 26th episode of Thin Thinking , allow me to light the candles on my 26 years of maintaining a 40-pound weight loss with you as I reflect on what have been the most important keys to my success...

Weight plateaus...ugh! Does your weight seem to have a few "Comfort Zones" that it can get to when losing weight but doesn't really like to budge past there? We have all heard about weight set points, those places where our weight just seems to settle and get stuck no matter what we do. Well, we can blame genetics and metabolism, or we can begin to get curious. Today I would like to introduce you...

One thing I hear all the time as a weight loss hypnotherapist is "I know how to lose weight, Rita, I just can't seem to get myself to do what I know I should do." Most of what challenges us when we are trying to lose weight, isn't lack of conscious knowledge. We know how to lose weight. If it were only that simple. The key to successful weight release depends on making permanent shifts in our habi...

I hope you are well and enjoying these last few weeks of  summer. With schools starting up again and some of us heading back into the office, life is getting  busier and therefore what is the first thing to go? Self-care of course!  One of the most proven habits for healthy living is meal planning and prepping though many of us groan at just the thought of it. Good news! In episode 23 of Thin Thin...

I hope that everyone is having a great and fruitful time even in the midst of this hot summer. In this Episode 22 of Thin Thinking, we explore how to break the afternoon "snacking" syndrome. We created this episode because it was a request from one of our listeners who was challenged by late afternoon cravings on her weight journey. If you are great with your eating in the morning and at lunch, bu...