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At this special time of year, we are reminded that demons like to possess young people and make their heads spin around.  Some people have demons from heck, while others have demons jn the form of snacks.  Nobody knows what to do about demon snacks, do they?  Catherine and Donald may have some suggestions.  Based on an article from neuroscientist Alex Korb, Phd, the couple walk you through some id...

This time of year striking a balance between werewolves and ghouls can get you.  Similarly, striking a balance between working treats into your life and cutting them out all together can get you.  Figuring out when to moderate and when to put a pause on certain foods and beverages is a tricky road to travel, and this week, Catherine and Donald are here to help. Planning, pivoting, portioning, and...

If you’ve ever used a Quija (trademark Hasbro) board, it can seem like the other person or people are moving the planchette around.  It’s definitely not you making those choices.  When we make impulsive food decisions, we WANT to feel like we’re not making those choices either.  It was definitely the spirit world that made me eat that entire cake by myself.  This week, Catherine...

If you’re like me, you thought the movie “The Fall Guy” was about a guy who loved the Autumn so much that he dedicated his life to keeping the Fall season in his heart all the year round.  It turns out, that movie was about a stunt person in love with a Director who solves crimes for some reason.  Have you ever thought about how cool it would be to have your own stunt person step...

Most of us know that French is virtually impossible to translate, but there are a select few who understand some of the words.  Luckily, We Only Look Thin’s Catherine is one of those select few.  This week, the couple talk about how the culinary process, “Mise en Place”, or “Putting in Place”, can help us to achieve weight loss and fitness goals.  When we put the righ...

If you’re like most of us, you’ve wished for a magical body transformation. To be granted a wish and to wake up in a brand new, perfect body. And you’ve probably promised that you’ve learned a lesson and you’ll always be good from now on if you can just be thin now. But if that really happened, would you know how to maintain that weight or would you celebrate with foo...

We’ve all asked Mary, Mary quite contrary how her garden grows and she’s given us some story about using silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row. That story doesn’t seem to check out. What effect do silver bells have on plant growth? What even is a “cockle shell” anyway? When you think about it, the right question should be, “how do I make m...

Labor Day Sale?!? Pumpkin Spice?!? Halloween Decorations?!?  Wasn’t the summer just getting started?  If you’re like a lot of us, you entered the year with lofty goals for your weight, health, and fitness.  And if you’re like a lot of us, things haven’t turned out how you’d hoped. It’s tempting as we head into the Fall to just put it all off until next year.  Th...

Have you ever thought to yourself something like, “a positive attitude just means you’re not really paying attention to the word” or “these people need to get their heads out of the clouds and face that fact that they’re never going to get there”.? If you answered “yes”, you might need to work on your resilience.  This week, Catherine and Donald talk...

When you’re in your 20’s, most people want to lose weight to look better in a pair of Vidal Sassoon blue jeans. As we get older, most people still want to lose weight to look better in a pair of Vidal Sassoon blue jeans. This week, Catherine and Donald talk about the importance of finding a deeper “why” for your weight and fitness goals. What do you value in life? What kind...

The Olympics may be winding down, but there are still a ton of lessons that “regular people” can learn from Olympians. In a lot of ways, hitting a goal weight is a lot like winning an Olympic medal. This week, Catherine and Donald talk about how, just like top athletes, you need to start planning for after the event even before you get there. Plus, Catherine Ws the Heck, Donald names t...

If you’re like me, you were watching the Olympic Men’s gymnastics rings event this morning and you were thinking, “I could never do that”. Or maybe you were thinking, “It must be nice to just be able to do nothing except exercise all the time. If I could do that, I’d finally be thin.” Or maybe, “I would have made a great pole vaulter if I’d tri...

You probably think it’s a coincidence that the word “Storm” rhymes with the word “Swarm”, but is it?  Probably.  However, it isn’t a coincidence that when you are trying to change your behaviors, one of the most effective brainstorming methods is the Swarm of Behaviors created by BJ Fogg, PhD.  This week, Catherine and Donald break down the Swarm of Behaviors an...

Everyone agrees that there are only two kinds of people in this world: Spice Girls people and Backstreet Boys people.  But what if we put aside our differences and used the lessons taught by both super groups to get to the heart of our weight loss and fitness goals?  This week, Catherine and Donald talk about the first step in BJ Fogg’s Behavior Design model; clarify the aspiration.  When yo...

If you’re a space bounty hunter travelling with your adopted child, you probably don’t worry too much about weighing yourself. On the other hand, if you’ve had life-long weight issues you probably worry about it a lot. Maybe too much. Or maybe not enough. Developing a healthy relationship with the scale can be a difficult minefield to navigate. This week, Catherine and Donald wal...

Summertime is traditionally a time for beaches, pools, road trips and vacations. Just like teenagers in love who walk hand in hand, road trips and vacations are paired with food and drink indulgences. If you’re anything like Catherine and Donald, you can’t find one without the other. This week, the couple give you some basic tips on navigating the summer vacation season while still kee...

For some, the official start of summer means BBQs and vacations.  For others, it means getting stuck in a rut.  This week, Catherine and Donald help you look at the summer and adapt your health and fitness routine to the season.  Maybe that means moving your activity outdoors and maybe it means moving it into air conditioning; either way it means moving yourself towards your goals.  Plus, Catherin...

Mental effort, physical effort, and routine.  When you hear that a podcast episode is about those three things, it makes it extra tempting to listen.  But what if we threw in “The Ability Chain”, invented by Stanford Professor and bestselling author, BJ Fogg, PhD?  And what if we let you know that Catherine and Donald take three links in the ability chain and help you troubleshoot addi...

If you’re the band Erasure, you probably want to Break These Chains of Love. If you’re BJ Fogg, PhD, you want to make your ability chain stronger. It’s sort of a Yin and Yang thing. This week, Catherine and Donald look at the first two links in the ability chain, Time, and Money, and walk you through how you troubleshoot them to get more movement into your life. By making each of...

You’ve heard of necklace chains and bicycle chains and probably even the “Chain of Fools”, but have you heard of the Ability Chain?  BJ Fogg, author of “Tiny Habits”, encourages people to make behavior change easier to do.  Make it more convenient to do the habits that you want to put in place.  This week, Catherine and Donald talk about using the five links in the Ab...

If you’re a character from Game of Thrones, you might be known as the “Breaker of Chains”, but if you aren’t a character from Game of Thrones, you probably aren’t.  However, even if it’s not a literal chain, there may be links in a metaphorical chain holding you back from achieving your weight loss goals.  This week, Catherine and Donald talk about BJ Fogg&#8217...

If Schoolhouse Rock taught me anything, it’s that three is the magic number.  And if that’s true then Episode 333 must be triple magic! AND, it’s part three of our series on Logic Loopholes.  Is that too many threes in one episode?  Have Catherine and Donald gone too far this time?  Listen and find out!  This week, the couple explore the final three (another three!) of Gretchen R...

The middle episode of a trilogy is often considered filler.  Just a bridge to get from the set up in part one to the final payoff in part three.  But this middle part is more of a hole and filler.  Loophole that is.  In the second part of their Logic Loophole series, Catherine and Donald talk about 4 more of Gretchen Rubin’s “barriers to habit formation” and add a few more of the...

Loopholes.  Sometimes we work so hard to jump through them, we should call them “hoopholes”.  Because people make themselves jump through hoops.  Get it?    This week, the couple go through first three of Gretchen Rubin’s “Logic Loopholes”; excuses we tell ourselves to get out of doing what we promised ourselves we’d do.  Then the couple add a few of their own. ...

When we name an episode of this show after DC Comics’ wackiest super team, it might be easy to assume that Donald came up with the title, but in fact, Catherine did.  Maybe she’s more of a nerd than you thought.  Anyhoodle, Catherine found an article from timeular.com about the importance of setting realistic goals in your work life and the gang here at We Only Look Thin decided to mak...