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You are cordially invited to the We Only Look Thin after party! Be sure to read all the fine print before sending your RSVP. WOLT Place member Sarah asked how to restart after a few days of “out of control” eating and Catherine answered and then Catherine and Donald answered again in the form of this podcast. We all have setbacks that make us feel like we need to restart, recover, and...

It’s our Swiftisode part 3.  You don’t have to be a Swifty to listen, but it doesn’t hurt.  If you say the right things, talking to yourself can be productive.  On the other hand, negotiating with yourself usually results in disappointment.  This week, Catherine and Donald conclude their series on self-negotiation and taking it of your decision making.  The couple focus on making...

Sadly, there was no sequel to the classic 1998 Samuel Jackson movie, “The Negotiator”.  If there had been, I’d like to believe it would have been called, “The Negotiator 2: Still Negotiating”.  Thankfully, there is a sequel to last week’s episode of We Only Look Thin about self-negotiation.  And this is it!  This week, Catherine and Donald continue to go through...

When you think of “negotiations”, you probably think of a business deal or a labor dispute.  When you think of “The Negotiator”, you probably think of the 1998 Samuel Jackson movie by that name.  When it comes to sticking to our health and fitness goals, the real negotiator is often times the person looking back at us in the mirror.  Yikes!  Inspired by an article written b...

Setbacks.  No one needs them, but everyone has them.  This week, listener Coco asks the We Only Look Thin team about how to deal with setbacks in your life that cause you to pause your Health and Fitness Journey.  Catherine and Donald talk about adopting a long view mindset and about how safety nets and insurance are important. Hopefully, we never use them, but they help us when setbacks occur.  P...

Some podcasts can discuss the burning bush and others can discuss burning calories, but this is the only podcast that discusses both!  This week, Catherine and Donald present ten or so MORE principles for healthy and sustainable weight loss.  How can We Only Look Thin afford to give this much advice?  Volume!  The couple discuss “all or nothing” attitudes, weird tricks, sleep, perfecti...

Listen to this episode or thou shall be smoten! Just like Charton Heston in that movie about Moses and the Ten Commandments (what was it called?), Catherine and Donald present ten or so principles for healthy and sustainable weight loss. Instead of carving them into stone tablets, the couple record them onto a podcast which makes it easier to listen to. They discuss eyeballing condiments, eating o...

If you only listen to one health and fitness podcast that brings up Enya, Falco, Fabio, Hobbit Sticks and Light Sabers, this should be the one.  Continuing our series based on questions that our listeners asked on The Socials (as the kids call them), Listener Megan wants to know how to get through “the slog” of being in “the middle” of your fitness journventure.  Catherine...

We Only Look Thin asked you which topics you’d like us to talk about and you answered. Now Catherine and Donald will answer your answers, which were really questions, in the form of a podcast or ten. This week, the couple address two questions from Instagram from a listener who wants to know how to “eat healthy” when you have small children and no time and what to do with leftove...

First, we were told that fats were bad. Then we were told that carbs were bad. Next it was processed foods that were bad and cooked foods that were bad and on and on it went until the only things left that were “good” were Tab and celery. This week, Catherine and Donald discuss working your favorite foods into your diet without the guilt and shame. There are no “good” foods...

Would you use a game spinner to choose an exercise routine? How about flipping a coin to pick your diet plan? What about using a Pop-O-Matic to figure out how many calories you’ll eat? You probably said “no” to all of these questions, but most people engage in bargaining or magical thinking at some point during their weight-loss adventure. People say things like, “Oh great...

This week, The We Only Look Thin players present a very special episode that involves some of the finest acting a Health and Fitness podcast has ever seen.  Have you gone to a Super Bowl party or similar gathering and made food and drink choices that you weren’t proud of?  Have you let an indulgent day turn into an indulgent weekend or week or year or decade?  Catherine and Donald have been...

Have you spent your life doing the Goldilocks with your weight loss and fitness plans?  This one’s “too hard” and that one’s “too cold” and never finding one that’s “just right”?  Did you blame it on the rain that was fallin’, fallin’? Did you blame it on the stars that didn’t shine that night? Whatever you do, don’t put...

Some people love board games like Monopoly or Chutes and Ladders.  Others love card games like Uno or Go Fish.  For some, their favorite game is the Blame Game.  When we don’t achieve a goal, such as a health and fitness goal, we often blame everyone and everything outside of ourselves.  Catherine and Donald have done it too.  This week, the couple talk about why we do it and give some advic...

In classic We Only Look Thin fashion, we name an episode after a fictional 1970’s TV Detective that hardly anyone under 40 will remember.  It’s good to know that some things never change.  What also never changes is the desire that some people have to do almost anything other than count calories.  They’d rather take any kind of pill, have any kind of surgery, or eat any kind of t...

Love.  Exciting and new.  Come aboard; we’re expecting you.  When the great poet Paul Williams wrote the lyrics to the Love Boat theme, he probably wasn’t thinking about couples who enabled each other’s weight gain, but that’s why Catherine and Donald are here.  With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, the couple bring you an episode about how love and relationshi...

If you were one of the thousands of people who listened to last week’s episode of We Only Look Thin and remarked, “these are the deepest thoughts I’ve ever heard”, then you’d better buckle up.  This week, Catherine and Donald’s thoughts go even deeper.   The couple talk you through the final 5 questions from an article by JoLynn Braley to ask yourself along your...

Thinking is one of the top ways in which we have thoughts.  But what if you really want deep thoughts?  Do you need a thinking shovel or some kind of mind backhoe?  No, those don’t exist.  What you need is to ask questions of yourself.  This week, Catherine and Donald bring you another 5 questions from an article by JoLynn Braley to ask yourself along your weight loss and fitness Jounventure...

You probably ask a lot of questions during your average day.  How much is it?  What’s in it for me?  Who invented liquid soap?  It turns out that some of the most important questions you can ask are of the person in the mirror.  You didn’t see that twist coming, did you?  Inspired by an article written by JoLynn Braley, We Only Look Thin takes you through 5 questions to ask yourself on...

It’s a new year and so you’ll be imbued with magical powers to transform yourself into the person you’ve always wanted to be!  But wait, isn’t that what you said last year too?  That’s what Catherine and Donald used to think too.  They spent most of their adult lives hoping that the mystical properties of a new year would allow them to accomplish their health and fitn...

The week between Christmas and New Year’s Day can be a magical time, but it can also be a struggle.  You might be torn between your big-city lifestyle and the simple country life from whence you came.  Or maybe that was a Hallmark movie I saw? When it comes to health and fitness during the Holidays, we know we’re going to be inundated with holiday food, but there are less obvious chall...

Although not usually associated with the holidays, the great Salt-N-Pepa taught us that we could push it.  Push it real good.  But what if the “it” that’s being pushed, is food?  It’s almost inevitable that we’ll encounter food pushers sometimes and during the holidays the chances are even higher.  Armed with phrases like, “C’mon, just have one” or &...

For some, this time of year is about traditions, gathering with loved ones, and being just a little bit nicer to each other for a while.  For others, it’s about trying to eat as many holiday treats as possible before the imaginary clock runs out and the new year starts.  This week, Catherine and Donald try to get you to move closer to the first group than the second.   The couple give you ad...

Everyone knows how important it is to stick the landing.  You can have an amazing routine that wows the crowd, but if you wobble on the dismount, it can cost you the gold. Well, I’m happy to report that even the Russian judge gives this episode a perfect 10!  This week, Catherine and Donald bring it home with the third and final part of their series of sustainable, gentle weight-loss tips ba...

I said-a Tip, Top, the Tippie, the Tippie, To the Tip Tip hop-a you don’t stop the snack, It to the bang-bang cookie, say up jump the hoagie, To the rhythm of the Slushy, the treat (apologies to the Sugar Hill Gang). That’s right, just when you thought that the tips couldn’t possibly get more delightful, they do. Catherine and Donald present the second part of their epic trilogy...