“I Can’t” vs “I Don’t”: The Two Words That Rewire Your Willpower
Somebody holds out a plate. In the half second before you answer, you reach for a sentence, and which sentence you reach for shapes the rest...
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Weight Loss Mindset
Weight loss is 99% psychology. Without changing your mindset in the right way, your results won't be sustainable and you could even put on more weight. If you're like me, you've tried many p...
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The Upper Limit: Why Success Makes You Nervous And Then Makes You Snack
Something good happens. Somebody notices you've lost weight, or the scale finally moves, and twenty minutes later you're standing at the ven...
Why "Knowing Better" Never Made You Do Better
You already know it. All of it, the calories, the macros, the science behind every craving. And it's Tuesday, nine o'clock, and you're stand...
Emotional Eating Triggers: Root Causes, Signs, and Proven Psychological Fixes
Most eating isn't driven by hunger, and if you've spent years assuming that made you uniquely broken, this episode explains why it makes you...
Emotional Eating Triggers: Root Causes, Signs, and Proven Psychological Fixes
Most eating isn't driven by hunger, and if you've spent years assuming that made you uniquely broken, this episode explains why it makes you...
Ep Q3: Can You Lose Weight by Mindful Eating? How?
A listener named Diane writes in with the question everyone eventually asks: can mindful eating actually help you lose weight, or is it just...
Your Brain Doesn't Know Who You Are - It's Watching You To Find Out
In 1966, researchers went door to door in Palo Alto asking people to put a badly hand-painted billboard on their front lawn. On one street 1...
Ep Q2: What Is The Best Way To Stop A Craving?
Renata from Denver opens her desk drawer at 3:15 every afternoon, eats three pieces of chocolate she can't taste, and wants to know how to s...
Willpower Runs Out on Everyone - Identity Doesn't!
Willpower isn't a character trait. It's a battery, and every diet you've ever tried asked you to run on one that was never built to last. In...
Ep Q1: How Do I Know If I'm Emotionally Eating?
Danielle wrote in from Halifax asking how to tell if her 9pm pantry habit is emotional eating or just a normal snack. Rick walks through exa...
Weight Loss Mindset for Beginners: First Steps, Programs & Realistic Expectations
Most beginners think the first step is finding the right program. It isn't. This episode breaks down the Right Program Myth, the lie that th...
Intermittent Fasting vs. Mindful Eating for Sustainable Fat Loss
The diet world just picked another champion. This time it's intermittent fasting. The case for it is real, and so is the 38% dropout rate. T...
Why Feeling Better Often Makes You Eat Worse
There's a pattern almost everyone working on their relationship with food hits eventually. You start to feel better, the noise quiets, the f...
Why Your Brain Fights You Harder the Closer You Get to Your Goal
Most people assume the hardest part of any change is the beginning. The first week. The cold start. But that's not when the brain launches i...
Nobody Taught You to Soothe Yourself. So Your Brain Found Food.
Most people treat emotional eating as a discipline problem. It isn’t. It’s a nervous system that learned to do what it was never properly ta...
7 Mistakes People Make Trying to Think Their Way Out of a Food Spiral (And the One Shift That Works Instead)
You know exactly what you’re doing when the spiral starts. You can narrate it in real time. You understand every consequence. And you do it...
You Didn't Choose This Identity - A Scared Child Did
Before you had language, before you could question anything, a part of you made a decision about food. About hunger. About what it means to...
The Hidden Narrative Running Your Eating Habits — And How to Rewrite It Before It Costs You Another Decade
You've heard it a thousand times. That voice that shows up the morning after a rough night with food. There I go again. I always do thi...
11 Mental Traits of Naturally Lean People Over 40 That Have Nothing to Do With Discipline And Everything to Do With Identity
You know that person who eats half the dessert, pushes the plate away, and keeps talking, no guilt, no negotiation, no mental war? They don’...
Q&A16 "I Feel Numb," The Fear of Deleting Calorie Apps & Why You Feel Hungry 24/7
In this follow-up to our deep dive on Interoception, we tackle the real-world struggles of reconnecting with your body. We discuss why you m...