We Only LOOK Thin

This week, the couple has too many chuckles and not enough chuckles at the same time.  Are you planning a weekend getaway or full-fledged vacation this summer?  As more opportunities open up for travel, Catherine and Donald present strategies and tips for sticking to your fitness and weight-loss plan, or at least for limiting the damage, while getting away from it all.    You have the opportunity...

Please have a Gregorian Calendar handy as you listen.  Well, maybe not if you’re driving or taking a shower.  This week, Catherine and Donald ask you to look ahead at your Summer (in the Northern Hemisphere at least) and plan ahead for weight loss and fitness success.  Don’t use all of the “special” summer occasions coming up as an excuse to eat like Donald and Catherine di...

It turns out that you CAN handle the truth.  Lots and lots of truth, even when it’s hard.  In the third and final installment of the series that some are calling the Trilogy of Truth, the couple give you even more than 10 more things that you don’t want to hear about weight loss.  Are you being honest with yourself?  Are you as short on time as you say you are?  You might not want to k...

The couple unleash more hard truth upon you.  In part 2 of their series of an indeterminate number of things that you don’t want to hear, Catherine and Donald give you another roughly 10 things about weight loss and fitness that you don’t want to know.  What you might be avoiding, is yourself.  Plus, Catherine doesn’t know what she already said, Donald Loves the bus, and Metamuci...

The thing about Hard Truths is that they are both true and hard to hear.  This week, Catherine and Donald put aside their usual supportive and inspiring schtick and present the first part of An Indeterminate Number of Things You Don’t Want to Hear About Weight Loss and Fitness, But You Should.   Super catchy title and easy to say and remember.  They say that a spoon full of sugar helps the m...

Spoons.  Some people think that they are only for eating, but those people would be oh, so wrong.  As the band Soundgarden taught us back in 1994, they can also be musical instruments.  As Author Christine Miserandino taught us, they can also be a metaphor to explain how much energy we have in a given day.  This week, Catherine and Donald discuss Spoon Theory and as they do, they apply it to weigh...

If you were a book, what section of the bookstore would you put yourself in?  Tragedy?  Horror?  Comedy?  How many of us would put ourselves in the hero section?  Also, do bookstores have a hero section?  It can be easy to fall into the trap of thinking that positive people are just fooling themselves.  We sometimes feel like we don’t deserve to have our feelings expressed.  This week, Cathe...

You are cordially invited to the first WOLT Wedding!  How is your weight loss and fitness plan like a wedding?  No one wants to do either, but sometimes you just have too anyway.  This week, Catherine and Donald talk about how different types of weight loss and fitness plans are like the different types of relationships in our lives. Going into your plan with the right mindset might be the key to...

As the old saying goes, “Not all pots are lucky”.  When you hear “Potluck”, what do you think of first?  Gathering with friends and family?  Memorable times?  Reducing the burden on the host?  If you’re like Catherine and Donald, chances are the first thing you think of is the food.  There was a time when their primary reason for leaving the house was food.  This week...

Of all of the rooms in your home, your kitchen is definitely one of them.  Your kitchen can be an ally in your pursuit of your health and fitness goals or a mine field.  This week, Catherine and Donald talk about how to set up your kitchen, and your rules for yourself in your kitchen, to help you achieve your goals.  You don’t need to rely on willpower if you set yourself up for success.  Pl...

This week’s episode has a decidedly South American flair.  Okay, it actually has the same type of flair that it always has, but it was inspired by an email from Rodrigo, a listener in Brazil.  Catherine and Donald answer the difficult question of how to start over after re-gaining weight.  The couple talk about how to create a clean slate while still remembering the lessons learned from the...

Whether you’re talking about Appetizers or Applications for your phone, Apps have played a huge role in helping the We Only Look Thin duo reach and maintain their fitness goals.  This week, Catherine and Donald highlight the apps that have really helped and also talk about the apps that you might want to delete.  They even discuss the role that appetizers have played.  Plus, Catherine does M...

For many people, thinking about what to do when you hit your goal weight may seem like putting the cart before the horse.  However, planning for it and practicing for it may be one of the keys to hitting that mark and maintaining it.  This week, Catherine and Donald take a longer look at three related questions from their recent Ask Me Anything on the “Lose Weight, Eat Pizza” Facebook...

It turns out that tracks aren’t just for slot cars and runners.  They’re also for calories.  Or more accurately, tracking calories is one of the keys to hitting and maintaining a goal weight.  How many calories should I eat and track?  The gang at We Only Look Thin is glad you asked.  How off their Ask Me Anything on the Lose Weight, Eat Pizza Facebook group, Catherine and Donald discu...

In the same way that you should save the drama for your mama, you should save jump starting for your car’s dead battery and not for your diet and exercise plan. Thanks to the Facebook group, “Lose Weight, Eat Pizza (Counting Calories / CICO Weight Loss)”, Catherine and Donald recently did an Ask Me Anything (an “AMA” as the kids call it) and this week they do a deeper...

Last week’s episode couldn’t have been part 1 if this week’s wasn’t part 2.  We continue down our path of remembering Gretchen Rubin’s “Logic Loopholes” and making them all about weight loss and fitness because that what we do.  If you’re a human, chances are you’ve lied to yourself about whey you can’t accomplish your weight loss and fit...

We enjoy forgetting and we’re hoping that you do too.  Way back in episodes 11 and 12 of We Only Look Thin, when the podcast was still in black and white, Catherine and Donald looked at Gretchen Rubin’s “Logic Loopholes” through the lens of weight loss and fitness.  Now they’re doing it again!  Logic loopholes are the lies we tell ourselves that keep us from achieving...

The “Ask We Anything” trilogy comes to its thrilling conclusion!  The couple once again do a more in depth look at questions that they were asked on a recent Reddit AMA on the r/loseit group.  Do they still ask themselves, “What Would a Thin Person Do”?  How do they battle hunger?  Is Catherine hiding something?  Find out!  Plus, Donald is the bad boy of weight loss, Cather...

We Only Look Thin continues its series of deep dives into the questions they were asked on their recent Reddit AMA on the r/loseit group.  After tackling a hard-hitting question about the effects of rap music on weight loss, Catherine and Donald give advice on guiding your children towards healthy eating and fitness.  The couple discuss how being members of the “clean-plate club” as ch...

As everyone knows, resentment, secrecy, and shame are the three pillars of marriage and no one knows that better than Catherine and Donald.  Hot off of their AMA (that’s “Ask Me Anything”) on the r/loseit Reddit group, the couple answer questions about moderating their favorite snacks and about whether you should police your significant other.  Is it a bad idea to bring your favo...

If you think the last episode had a lot of mistakes in it, just wait until you hear this one!  This week, We Only Look Thin continues with Part 2 of some of the biggest and most common weight loss mistakes.  Inspired by an article at Healthline.com, the couple talk about having unrealistic expectations, not reading labels, not tracking, and many more.  Learn from all of the mistakes that Catherine...

Donald and Catherine have made every weight loss mistake in the book.  This week, the couple tell you about some of the biggest and most common mistakes and how to avoid them.  Inspired by an article at Healthline.com, they touch on eating too many calories or too few, focusing on the number on the scale, not eating enough protein, and many more.  Plus, Catherine has a Butterworth appointment, Don...

We Only Look Thin introduces their Disco Diet!  Not really, but they do reference Disco Duck.  Do you find yourself staying on track during the day and then going overboard after dark?  Do you rely on willpower to stay on your plan and just run out before bedtime?  This week, Catherine and Donald talk about how the treats come out at night and how to design your plan to minimize the impact.  Plus,...

This week, Catherine and Donald take the Dabney Coleman accidental rat poison situation and make it about weight loss and fitness.  You are the CEO of You, Incorporated.  You need to make sure all the different departments in your company are there and working together.  Is your Accounting Department doing its job by tracking what you eat and how much you’re moving?  Is your Research and Dev...

That’s right, we spelled it “Job Fare” because there’s a price to be paid.  Welcome to the We Only Look Thin Job Fair!  When it comes to your health and fitness, are you a part-timer, an intern, a volunteer, or are you trying to make it a career?  Take a tour of the booths with Catherine and Donald and see what’s right for you.  One of the booths has Funyuns.  Plus, C...