We Only LOOK Thin

You might be in a hurry to drop your relatives off at the airport or go and see the new Police Academy movie, but should you be in a hurry to lose weight?  Do you have a high school reunion or wedding or dominoes competition coming up and you want to quickly lose some weight to look good for the old gang?  We’ve all been there, but is it a good idea?  This week, Catherine and Donald talk abo...

Whether you can’t wait to step on the scale or never want to do it again, the emotions surrounding weighing yourself can be…complicated.  Catherine and Donald understand.  This week, the couple dive into part two on navigating your relationship with the number on the scale.  The couple talk you through deciding on a goal weight and give you some advice on letting go of the guilt and sh...

Anyone can do a podcast about relationships with people, but only a select few can do a podcast about relationships with an inanimate object.  This week, Catherine and Donald talk about your relationship with the scale and how to navigate it.  You may feel a lot of pressure to hit a perfect number and it may reflect on your self-worth.  This week the couple talk about the frequency of weighing you...

Do you ever feel like a human yo-yo with all of your calorie counting ups and downs?  Do you feel like you can do anything in the morning and then feel like you can do nothing in the evenings?  Are you hitting your calorie goal, but feeling unsatisfied with your food choices?   Just when you think there are no more questions to ask yourself about it, Catherine and Donald come up with four more.   ...

In an alternate timeline, Mark Twain might have said, everyone talks about calorie deficits and the weather, but no one does anything about either of them. If you’re like a lot of people, you’ve heard you should be in a calorie deficit or eat a “low calorie diet”, but you’re not sure what that means. More importantly, you’re not sure how to prevent yourself from...

The Dictionary defines a “Loophole” as being nothing like a donut hole even though they both have the word “hole” in them. We Only Look Thin defines a “Loophole” as an excuse we invent so that we don’t have to work towards the Health and Fitness goals that we claim to have. This week, Catherine and Donald walk you through the second half of Gretchen Rubin&...

There are lots of kinds of holes in the world, but some of the most nefarious ones are loopholes. In this case, loopholes are the lies that we tell ourselves so that we don’t move closer to the healthier lifestyle that we say we want. This week, Catherine and Donald re-visit Gretchen Rubin’s first five loopholes and talk about how they relate to weight loss and fitness. Don’t mea...

Have you ever listened to We Only Look Thin and thought to yourself, “that’s easy for them to say” or “must be nice”?  Well, this week, Catherine and Donald invite you into Mr. Peabody’s Delorean shaped like a British Police Box to take you back in time to an era before “We Only Look Thin” existed.  The couple walks you through what their lives looke...

In last week’s episode, Catherine and Donald answered a listener email about what to do when you and your significant other aren’t on the same page when it comes to your weight loss and fitness journventure.  This week, they answer another listener email about a couple who are on the same page.  The problem is that page is about sitting and ordering lots of take out.  For many years, C...

It’s common knowledge that spouses and significant others are always on the same page about everything. They definitely all agree that spending their money on Funko Pops is a good idea.  But what do you do when you’re at different places in your weight loss and fitness journventure?  A listener writes in about this very topic and Catherine and Donald talk about their experiences and gi...

If you’ve ever been a super spy with amnesia, you might be the main character in “The Bourne Identity”.  If you’ve ever been anyone else, you might think you’re just stuck with the identity you’re born with.  We often want to focus on the outcome; “I want to be a person who weighs less” which isn’t the same as identifying as a fit person.  Mixi...

Sometimes it feels like something, or someone is trying to sabotage our weight loss and fitness efforts.  We look everywhere for the culprit to no avail.  It turns out that the saboteur is inside your home.  Because it’s you.  Shocking twist!  This week, Catherine and Donald turn to the advice of Dr. Alice Boyes to examine how you might be sabotaging yourself through hidden drains on your ti...

We Only Look Thin is a little different this week and more serious in tone than a typical episode.  A listener wrote in to ask about the Healthy at Every Size movement and how we deal with the messages that they send regarding weighing and measuring food and counting calories.  Catherine and Donald give their takes on navigating an extremely complex issue. National Eating Disorders Association htt...

When you think of Edgar Allen Poe, you of course think about Mexican Food.  Mr. Poe loved Mexican Food so much, that the first draft of “The Tell-Tale Heart” was about a man who ate tacos while on a diet and felt intense guilt and shame.  Many of us can relate to the protagonist of this story.  We put value judgement on our food choices, calling some foods “bad” and others...

Buckle up because this week’s episode is both fast AND furious. Have you ever thought to yourself, life is a highway, I want to snack on it all night long? Have you ever been riding on the freeway of love in your pink Cadillac only to find yourself stopping for fast food as if the car were driving itself? Are you hoping that all of the food will get out of your dreams and into your car? We&#...

A herring is a type of fish that Lew Zealand from the Muppets uses in his boomerang fish act. A Red Herring is a logical fallacy and a device used by authors to mislead and distract their audience. When it comes to health and fitness goals, we can be masters of the red herring. Focusing on distractions and irrelevant information rather than focusing on what we’re eating and how much we&#8217...

People love to talk about breaking things. Breaking records, breaking dishes, breaking bad, breaking news; the list goes on and on. But the thing that people talk most about breaking though, is habits. The phrase “breaking a habit” implies that if you just exert enough force on it, that it will snap, and you’ll be cured forever. We all know, it’s not that simple. This week,...

A swarm of bees is usually a bad thing, but a swarm of B’s can help you achieve your weight loss and fitness goals. This week, Catherine, a certified Tiny Habits coach, and her sidekick husband Donald, who has at least read the book Tiny Habits, discuss BJ Fogg’s “Swarm of Behaviors” method to developing habits.  It turns out that starting tiny can lead to huge changes.  Pl...

The episode so nice, they recorded it twice.  Have you ever said to yourself, “I would do anything to reach my goal weight”?  Then, someone asks you to do jumping jacks and you refuse?  We’ve all been there.  We’re told to do exercises that we hate and eat foods that we don’t like in order to reach our goals.  We’re also told that if we don’t follow a plan...

When looking at your health and fitness journey, have you ever felt like there were so many things that you needed to do that you ended up doing nothing?  Have you ever tried to change so many things all at once that you got overwhelmed and quit?  Catherine and Donald have been there.  This week, the couple give you 10 ideas for things that you can do right now.  And here’s the best part; yo...

In this week’s episode, you are welcomed to the jungle and we’ve got fun and games!  We’ve got everything you want, and we know the names!  Just be careful not to hurt your n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n-n, knees, knees.  Catherine and Donald discuss the basics of getting started, re-started, or re-focused on your health and fitness goals.  Sometimes it can be overwhelming to think about ma...

It’s 2022! A New Year! A Fresh Start! The Holidays are over and I have nothing to look forward to. Now what? This week, Catherine and Donald talk about the pressure to redefine yourself in the new year while the post-holiday blues make an appearance. The couple talk about how to gently step onto your health and fitness path while combating the January let-down. The good news is, you don&#821...

Christmas may be in the rearview mirror, but the holiday season is just getting warmed up.  Or it’s cold outside and we’re letting it snow.  Or something.  Either way, Catherine and Donald take this opportunity to answer more listener questions about handling the holidays.  What’s the holiday mental game about?  How do you moderate your holiday treats?  How do you get everyone ou...

You might think that the holidays stop people from having questions, but it turns out the holidays create even more questions for some.  Questions about navigating this festive time of year when trying to maintain health and fitness goals.  This week, Catherine and Donald open up their Facebook page to listener questions, and in the spirit of giving, the couple answer some of them.   Want some adv...

At this time of year, you can’t turn around without running into drummers drumming and pipers piping and partridges partridging in pear trees.   It can leave you wondering where you can get some practical advice on sticking to your health and fitness goals. Well, look no further than We Only Look Thin. This week, Catherine and Donald count down their 12 favorite tips for navigating the holiday sea...