We Only LOOK Thin

Some say the December holidays are the most wonderful time of the year.  Others say it’s a difficult minefield that derails health and fitness goals.  Between gatherings, parties, dinners, food treats at work, and the desire to feel festive, it can be hard to maintain a healthy lifestyle.  But what if you don’t really have a holiday problem?  This week, Catherine and Donald talk about...

Have you ever said, “I wonder how many different ways I could sabotage myself?” Even if you’ve never said it out loud, you’ve probably asked yourself that question without realizing it. Even when it comes to pleasure and self-care, we humans are good at finding new and inventive ways to sabotage ourselves. This week, Catherine and Donald talk about more ways that we hijack...

Sabotage can come from a number of different places, but when it comes to sabotaging your health and fitness goals, you need look no further than in the mirror. Catherine and Donald spent years derailing their own health and fitness trains and then looking around for someone to blame. This week, the couple walk you through some of the ways in which you might be undermining yourself and give you so...

Thanksgiving is supposed to be a day in which you get into arguments with your relatives over politics, but some people make it all about food.  It becomes a day to eat as much as you can stand until you can’t stand up.  But do you turn Thanksgiving Day into Thanksgiving Week or Thanksgiving Month or even let it extend all the way through the “holiday season”?  In this episode, C...

For the 200th episode of We Only Look Thin, Catherine and Donald could have recapped all 200 episodes of the show, or counted down their 200 favorite walks that they’ve taken together, but instead, they decided to interview two very special guests; each other! That’s right! Wow! Find out what advice they would like to give to their younger selves, what’s easier than they thought...

This week, we prove that November 1st is even scarier than Halloween by talking a lot about werewolves.   If you turn into a werewolf every month, it shouldn’t be a surprise when it happens to you the next time.  You may not be able to stop the transformation, but you can put plans in place to limit the damage that’s done.  In a similar vein, it shouldn’t be a surprise when thing...

At this time of year, you really need to watch out for vampires, ghosts, and werewolves, but as we all know, during the other 11 months of the year, the scariest things to watch out for, are children.  Did you know that there’s something inside you that’s even more frightening?  Your inner toddler.  This week, Catherine and Donald talk about how stress can lead us to fall back on the h...

It’s that time of year again when scary things come home with you. I’m not talking about ghosts and ghouls, but I am talking about candy. This week, the couple give you some strategies for dealing with Halloween Sweets before taking a look at getting trapped in your own loop of mistakes. It turns out that most of the time it’s not your external circumstances that are trapping you...

Stop.  Hammer Time.  Woah, Oh, woah-o.  Quitting can be a grand statement and can feel like a catharsis at the time.  Sometimes though, we can’t see what’s on the other side of quitting.  For Donald and Catherine, quitting on weight loss and fitness lead to revenge eating, weight gain, clothes not fitting, and a lot of guilt and shame.  This week, the couple discuss a three-step proces...

1977 may have been the year that Apple Computer was incorporated and the year that Star Wars was released in theaters, but it is best remembered as the year that the Shakespearean Johnny Paycheck song, “Take This Job and Shove It” was released. If you’ve ever gone on a diet, you’ve probably also wanted to shove it. You may have even wanted to quit worrying about your health...

If you’re like me, you’ve probably asked the question, what is a mindset and how do I get one? Here’s the good news; you most likely already have one. The bad news is that it may be limiting you. This week, Catherine and Donald unpack ways that you can foster a growth mindset and start down the path towards achieving your goals. You have more agency in your life and your mindset...

Growing isn’t just for plants anymore; it’s also for your mind. Do you have a growth mindset? If you’re like most people, you probably answered “yes” to that question, but do you really? This week, Catherine and Donald ask you to examine your mindset and figure out if you truly are poised for growth or if you might be holding yourself back. Adopting a growth mindset i...

During your health and fitness adventure, it can feel like you’re caught in a time loop; zig zagging up and down the scale.  For most of their lives, Catherine and Donald sought an ideal that they couldn’t maintain.  They would be “hard core” for a while and then snap back into old habits.  This week, the couple talk about the practical side of making health and fitness par...

The pursuit of perfection can lead to procrastination. I wanted to write that sentence sooner, but I kept putting it off.  For most of their adult lives, Donald and Catherine decided if they couldn’t go to a gym 6 days a week and eat the “perfect” diet, that they might as well not get any movement and eat mostly indulgent treats.  Shockingly, that approach didn’t go well. ...

It’s finally here!  The third and final part of our series on boundaries.  This week, the couple gets down to it and give actionable tips to establish boundaries.  Reaching your goal weight is about so much more than just being on the right plan.  Mindset plays a huge role in the process and part of that is setting boundaries in your life.  Telling people what you need can be difficult, but...

This was supposed to be the second of two parts about personal boundaries, but due to forces completely within our control, it’s now the second of three parts!  Just when you thought there wasn’t any more to say on the subject, we super-sized it.  This week, we give you some examples of what healthy boundaries look like and ask you to think about what’s really upsetting you when...

Shiver me timbers! It’s We Only Look Thin! Have you asked yourself, “How did I get here?” Have you asked yourself, “What have I done?” Are you just letting the days go by? When you say “yes” to something, you might also be saying “no” to something else. That “something else”, might be your own health and fitness. Is your emotional e...

Some podcasts give you cliffhangers, but this show gives you the whole cliff! Have you let your habits slip? Do you find yourself yo-yoing up and down the scale? Donald and Catherine can relate.  This week, the couple look towards the future and practicing habits so that you can achieve your health and fitness goals.  You become the person you want to be by doing the things that that person does. ...

Have you gone up and down on the scale so often that you mistake it for a pogo stick?  Have you been on and off diets so much that you began to dream you were a light switch?  Catherine and Donald have been there too.  This week, the couple ask you to look back on your past success and ask yourself why it didn’t last?  What changed?  Was that plan really right for you? Plus, Catherine chains...

You know that exercise is important, but did you also know that NON-Exercise is possibly more important?  The formula of exercising for 30 minutes a day — or even for an hour or two — and then sitting the rest of the time, may add up to doing more harm than good.  This week, the WOLT couple talk about the benefits of all your movement and how to make it a part of your entire day.  Plus...

If you listened to last week’s episode, your life has been more meaningful.  You also know that sometimes, in both business and weight loss and fitness, people sometimes focus on the wrong things.  This week, Catherine and Donald talk about not giving all of our energy to the habits that won’t really get you to your goals.  Figuring out that motion does not always equal action, can hel...

Inbox Zero is an approach to email with the aim of keeping your inbox empty, or almost empty, at all times.  Some talk about “inbox zero” as if it’s productivity nirvana, but has any top business leader ever attributed their success to keeping their email inbox empty?  In the same way with weight loss and fitness, people can put all their attention on particular habits while igno...

To some of us, a car represents freedom.  The freedom to secret eat.  Are you escaping to your vehicle so that you can eat away from prying eyes?  Do you keep “just happening” to drive past that fast-food restaurant that you can’t resist?  Are you “accidentally” putting treats in the front seat next to you when you buy groceries?  Catherine and Donald have both been t...

If you’re like some people, you’ve probably driven a vehicle.  If you’re like others, you’ve probably ridden in a vehicle.  You may have even taken a trip in said vehicle on a road.  If you have taken one of these “Road Trips”, you may have found it difficult to stay on your fitness and weight loss plan.  You may even have used the trip as an excuse not to.  Thi...

People.  No matter how hard you try to make yourself undesirable, they will eventually want to come and visit you.  Or worse, trick you into going to visit them.  You might think that these visits are the perfect excuse to stop burning calories and eat all the food.  This week, Catherine and Donald show you that you are oh, so wrong.  The couple relay strategies that will give you the edge to stay...