We Only LOOK Thin

It’s the We Only Look Thin two year anniversary!  As we embark on another year and a new decade, it is important to reflect on what got us to where we are right now.  In your 20s, losing weight feels largely like a vanity project.  In your 40s and beyond, it’s about improving health and quality of life.  This week we look at past successes and failures.  No matter where you are in your...

This week, two people who wear glasses talk about having 20/20 vision. Or rather, a vision for the year 2020!  Just like you should get an annual eye exam, you should also examine your health, weight loss,  and fitness goals. How did your fitness choices serve you in 2019 and how would you like to change them for the coming year? We can have a dream in front of us, but unless we set specific actio...

It’s that time of year again!  The time when Catherine and Donald take a wonderful season like Christmas and make it about weight loss.  Of all the We Only Look Thins in the world, they’re the We Only Look Thiniest.  Just like Scrooge in the classic Dickens’ story, people love to believe that they’ll have an epiphany that will change them for the better forever.  In this we...

Have you ever been at a sporting event and the grounds crew or the Zamboni comes out at half-time and makes the field or ice basically brand new again?  Well, we’re half-way through the holiday season and it’s time to take another look at how we’re doing and how we’d like to do on our weight-loss adventure.  This week, Catherine and Donald take another look at the Holidays...

It’s the Centennial Celebration!  It’s half as good as a bicentennial celebration, but twice as good as whatever 50 is!  This week, Catherine and Donald give you 100 (give or take) non-scale victories they’ve experienced since they each lost over 100 pounds.  Sometimes we focus so much on the number on the scale that we lose sight of all of the other benefits of achieving our goa...

Meal Prep can seem overwhelming and impossible.  Who’s got time for that?  This week, Catherine and Donald answer that question (hint: you do!).  The couple try to demystify meal prep by applying their, “Good, Better, Best” method.  The Tip Of the Week (TOW!) is to get your knives sharpened.  The Product Of the Week (POW!) is a non-food advent calendar.  Plus, Chopin gets his kni...

The Hunger Games isn’t just a feel good holiday classic; it’s also what we’ve often played on our weight loss journ-venture.  Going on starvation diets, not planning head, and allowing ourselves to get so hungry that we make terrible decisions are just some of the pitfalls of these games.   This week, Catherine and Donald talk about strategies for winning the game of hunger.   Th...

It’s part two of our holiday extravaganza. We have so much advice that it couldn’t be contained in one episode!  In part 1, we focused on adjusting your mindset for the holiday season.  In part 2, Catherine and Donald focus on ways to face all the food.  Rather than enter 2020 with an additional 10 pounds to lose, we give you some strategies to make conscientious decisions for all of t...

Math is fun! Especially at the holidays.  That’s right, it’s that time of year again.  The time when Donald and Catherine take something wonderful like the holidays and ruin them with math. They got to their heaviest weights by spending years being victims of the holidays and they help you to not make the same mistakes.  The Tip Of the Week (TOW!) is to Pre-Track The Entire Container. ...

Are you lookin’ for love in all the wrong places?  Places like the refrigerator and the pantry?  People crave love in different ways and when they don’t get it, they often turn to food for comfort.  This week, Catherine and Donald discuss Gary Chapman’s book The Five Love languages and how those Love Languages relate to overeating.  You don’t need to be at your goal weight...

We don’t really own the night, no one does. But we do know a thing or two about night time over eating.  Have you ever stuck to your plan all day only to go off after the sun goes down?   Studies have shown that resolve weakens as the day goes on. In this episode, Catherine and Donald talk about ways to combat late-night over eating and stay on track.  The Tip Of the Week (TOW!) is to throw...

Sometimes words hurt, and not just when you get hit in the face with a book.  Negative talk about the size and shape of a person’s body can be damaging, even if you’re talking about yourself.  Self-deprecating language can run in two directions; It can hurt the person who is saying it and it can also make those around them feel worse.  This week, Catherine and Donald talk about how to...

This week, Catherine and Donald take you to business town.  You may think that a S.W.O.T. analysis is a deep dive into the 1970’s TV show with the super catchy theme song, but that’s actually a S.W.A.T. analysis.  According to the internet, A S.W.O.T. analysis is “a strategic planning technique used to help a person or organization identify Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, a...

We’ve always been told, “Don’t be a know it all”.  But is that always a bad thing?  Sometimes there are things that we know that we don’t know and other times there are things that we pretend that we don’t know, you know?  Remaining willfully ignorant to what we need to do on our weight-loss adventures is one of the biggest stumbling blocks to success.  In this...

Don’t confuse generosity with generosity. Do you think you’re an unappreciated super-hero?  Many times in life we feel like we have the weight of the world on our shoulders.  We’ll tell ourselves, “if I don’t do it, then no one will”.  This week Catherine and Donald talk about hero complexes and how they lead to overeating. We use food as a reward for being exha...

It’s a sobering episode of We Only Look Thin (because it’s about alcohol, get it?).  Alcohol can be a real stumbling block when trying to achieve our weight loss and fitness goals.  The calories from the drinks themselves coupled with the effect that alcohol can lead to overeating can be a one-two punch on our weight loss adventure.  This week, Catherine and Donald discuss strategies o...

It’s a practically perfect episode of We Only Look Thin!  On the road to our goal weight, we often say to ourselves that if we can’t do something perfectly, then we shouldn’t do it at all.  We wait for the perfect time, the perfect situation, or the perfect set of circumstances which will never come.  This week, Catherine and Donald discuss the idea of realizing that good is good...

Donald and Catherine get kind of science-y this week and discuss the often perceived idea of Weight Loss through Osmosis (i.e. “Weight LossMosis”).  We think that just by joining the club or buying the gear that we’ll successfully lose the weight.  We often confuse motion for action and we research and prepare instead of actually doing something.   Just being at the library doesn...

It’s a Laborious episode!  How many times have you said to yourself, “after this week things will settle down and then I’ll get back to it”.  Bad news, things will never settle down.  This week, Catherine and Donald discuss using Labor Day as a “Second New Year’s Day”.  They also talk about setting S.M.A.R.T. goals for yourself.  The Tip of the Week (TOW!)...

This episode is doubly discouraging!  In part of of their hard-hitting series about not letting failure discourage or stop you, Catherine and Donald give you many more ways in which to push past discouragement and achieve your weight-loss goals.   The Tip of the Week (TOW!) is to use the couch to 5K app for walking.  The Product of the Week (POW!) is the Tobrefe Foot Roller Massage Ball.   Also, d...

One of the most difficult things about weight loss can getting back on our plan when you haven’t been successful in sticking to it.  It can be just as difficult when you stick to your plan and you don’t see the results that you want.  In the first of a two part hard-hitting series about failure, Catherine and Donald discuss ways to deal with discouragement and how to keep going until y...

Sometimes with weight loss, you can do all the planning, take all the advice, set yourself up for success, and things still don’t go well.  Catherine and Donald are back from vacation and they discuss how they allowed a grocery shopping trip by a naturally thin person to sabotage a lot of their efforts and how they reacted afterwards.  The Tip of the Week (TOW!) is to keep up your fitness mi...

It’s an Oscar worthy episode of we only look thin and the title is based on another movie that Catherine hasn’t seen.  Donald and Catherine discuss the importance of diversifying your weight loss plan just like with your financial portfolio.   Many times with weight loss, our instincts are that if we can’t do everything we want, that it’s not worth doing anything.  Focus on...

It’s a thrifty episode of We Only Look Thin and we’re not talking about Thrifty Ice Cream. Do you “clean your plate” all the time because it would be wasteful not to? Do you insist on taking home and eating leftovers even when you don’t really want to eat the food? It turns out that there can be a high cost of trying to save; Catherine and Donald discuss this and ways...

It’s the 80th episode of WOLT, and in honor of the ’80s, Catherine and Donald are popping their collars, wearing slap bracelets, and binge watching Alf. They’re also going to try to help people lose weight! Have you ever made an appeal to The Weight Loss Fairy to just magically make you thin because you’re a good person and you deserve it? If your wish was granted, would yo...