We Only LOOK Thin

On a weight loss journventure, we all know about eating too many calories, but did you also know that you can eat too few?  Inspired by an email from listener Brittany, Catherine and Donald talk about ways to figure out how to eat the right amount each day.  Eating as little as possible is NOT healthy and is not going to lead to long-term success.  Plus, Donald likes badges, Catherine Step-Splains...

Some people think that the key to weight loss is just to find the right diet or exercise program to go on for awhile.  This week, inspired by an article from cnet.com, Catherine and Donald open up a six pack of hard truths about weight loss.  Adjusting your mindset, emotions, stress, and sleep are just as important as figuring out what to eat and how to move.  The Tip of the Week (TOW!) is to set...

Whether you are on a weight loss journey, a weight loss adventure, or a weight loss journ-venture, figuring out the best method of travel from where you are to your goal weight can be one of the most difficult decisions to make.  People often spend so much time researching or bouncing from plan to plan that they forget to make progress.  This week, Catherine and Donald talk about how they did this...

Donald wanted to do a salute to the great building maintenance people from pop culture.  From Snyder on “Good Times” to Mr. Miyagi in the “Karate Kid”, he and Catherine would breakdown all of their favorites.  However, since this is a weight-loss and fitness podcast, they decided to talk about weight maintenance instead.  Inspired by an email from a listener, Catherine and...

The We Only Look Thin team harvest another childhood memory and make it about weight loss.  This time, it’s the classic children’s book, “The Giving Tree”, by Shel Silverstein.  Sometimes on your fitness journ-venture, you’re the boy who takes and takes and takes.  Sometimes you’re the tree who gives and gives and gives.  Being 100% take or 100% give is not sust...

It’s a little known fact, that getting on a scale is one of the leading ways in which people weigh themselves.  Developing a healthy relationship with your scale can be a bit like walking a tight rope.  Weighing too often can create anxiety and obsession.  Avoiding the scale entirely can be an indicator that you don’t want to face reality.   In this episode, Catherine and Donald talk a...

Do you spend your time looking for the next “get thin quick” scheme? Do you wish you could be instantly in shape without developing a plan to get there? If you were magically at your goal weight, would you have the habits in place to stay there?  This week, Catherine and Donald talk about how they spent years being victims of their own lives until they realized that it was their duty t...

If a famous fitness detective accused you of crimes against your own health, could you produce an air-tight alibi?  Was it Colonel Mustard or the Bratwurst with mustard that really did you in?  This week, Catherine and Donald discuss how they spent years telling themselves that they were “doing everything they could” until they actually began to write down all of the food they ate and...

If you’ve ever wondered which character on Gilligan’s Island you’d be, this is the podcast for you.  Do you find yourself saying, “I just need to get past this week (or month, or project or school year or …) and then I’ll get back on track.”?  Do you imagine a time in the future when everything will align perfectly, and you’ll have the time and motiv...

In this week’s episode, Catherine and Donald ask the age-old question; who’s your Spirit Muppet? Sometimes it can feel like there are monsters all along the road to weight-loss and fitness.  It turns out, that the real monsters are ourselves. Gulp. Gosh!  How we define our situations and ourselves can be our biggest obstacles. There’s a whole book full of things that we can&#8217...

This week, instead of getting loopy, Catherine and Donald talk about loopholes. In this case, the weight loss and fitness loopholes created by COVID-19.  In this unprecedented time, it can be difficult to walk the line between being kind to yourself and using your circumstances as an excuse to overindulge or skip your exercise.  Your hosts point out 10 ways in which you may be lying to yourself ri...

If you’ve listened to this show at all, you know that there is no finish line to weight loss.  Nearly everyone who has lost weight has faced at least some amount of weight regain in their lives. in this week’s episode Catherine and Donald discuss their experiences with weight regain and ways to not “throw out the baby with the bath water” and other terribly grim expressions...

We present another episode recorded before we were all staying at home.  Have you ever said, “Well, you know me. I’m either all into my diet or I’m all out.”?  Everyone has succumbed to the “all or nothing” mentality from time to time.  Or maybe most of the time.  This week, Catherine and Donald discuss how being “all or nothing” got them a whole lot...

We Only Look Thin presents the episode that was supposed to come out just before St. Patrick’s Day.  So, let’s all agree to pretend everything is normal and that it’s about two weeks ago…  This close to St. Patrick’s Day, everyone knows that the most effective weight-loss strategy is to capture a Leprechaun and force it into giving you three wishes.  But what if you&#...

In this unprecedented time in modern history, Catherine and Donald discuss how to stay on track while being stuck at home.  The couple point that this could actually be an opportunity to engage in the fitness you’ve always wished you had time for.  Use those under house arrest as examples of what to do in these troubling times.  Also, We Only Look Thin is very popular in Germany, Donald cree...

With a Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic going on,  instead of our normal zany, slide-whistle filled episode, we decided to post a recording of a Facebook Live that Catherine conducted on Sunday, March 15th, 2020.  Catherine discusses how to maintain a schedule while working from home, incorporating movement in your day, not beating yourself up when you’re not doing everything you think you shou...

We Only Look Thin presents you with a romantic fitness comedy.  If you’re like most people, you might assume that fitness instructors are born fit, or even more likely, created in a laboratory.  This week, Catherine and Donald interview a fitness instructor who was neither.  The couple talk to Stephanie Youmans Robinson about her journey from getting nauseous from exercise to becoming a Zumb...

It might be spiders, heights, grizzly bears, or socks with sandals, but chances are we’re all afraid of something.  When it comes to fitness, we can all relate to the fear of gaining weight, but we don’t often talk about the fear of losing weight and fear of the process that goes along with it.  In this episode, Catherine and Donald talk about how their fears kept them from having weig...

While nearly everyone has eaten themselves into a “food coma” at one time or another, some of us make it a regular habit.  Catherine and Donald binge ate over and over again for many years.  Our inner toddler has a meltdown and the only way we know how to deal with it is with food. On this week’s episode, the couple discuss overeating as a form of self-harm and the strategies tha...

Few things can derail the fitness train faster than a bad cold or the flu.  Chances are, somewhere during your fitness journey, you’re going to get sick, and getting sick can lead to giving up.  This week, Catherine and Donald talk about the mental side of getting sick and give advice on what to do about diet and exercise when illness comes calling.  Any success comes with setbacks.  When yo...

It seems like a no-brainer that the people who love you the most would be the most supportive when you decide to make a big change in your approach to health and fitness.  However, many times this turns out to be a brainer after all.  This week, Catherine and Donald discuss why your family and friends might not support you and the couple give some suggestions on what do about it.  Plus, Catherine...

This week, a couple of squares talk about pyramids.  You’ve probably heard of or even studied Maslow’s hierarchy of needs which is usually represented by a pyramid with basic human needs at the bottom and aspirational needs at the top.  It turns out that there’s also a pyramid of weight loss needs.  Catherine and Donald discuss that the key to long-term success is taking care of...

Sure, moving around sounds like a lot of work.  We’d all rather sit on the couch and do nothing, but it turns out that isn’t a good idea when it comes to health and fitness.  This week, Catherine and Donald throw excerpts from a bunch of studies at you that indicate that a sedentary existence is bad for your health in more ways than just your weight.  They also give you loads of tips o...

If you were a movie goer in the 80s, you know the rules for Gremlins.  Don’t expose them to bright light, don’t get them wet, and don’t ever, ever feed them after midnight.  What if people came with convenient warning labels with do’s and don’ts for their weight-loss and fitness adventures?  This week, Catherine and Donald continue their lists of the rules that they&#...

Just like Gremlins begin as a cute and cuddly Mogwai, so do fitness journeys begin with good intentions.  Feed us after midnight however, and it’s like a bunch of tiny monsters terrorizing a small town at Christmas.   This week, Catherine and Donald discuss their rules that keep things “cute and cuddly” while they lose and maintain their weight.  The Tip of the Week (TOW!) is to...