The One-Breath Shift That Puts You Back in Charge
You’re driving home, and there’s a warm paper bag on the passenger seat. You can’t find the moment you decided to stop for it. This episode...
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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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Childhood Trauma And Weight Loss: What Actually Helps
In 1985, Dr. Vincent Felitti noticed something strange at his San Diego obesity clinic. The patients who dropped out were the ones losing we...
Why Diets Snap Back: Mindset Strategies That End Self-Sabotage
You’ve counted the calories. You’ve done keto. You’ve fasted for months. And most dieters still watch the weight come back, then blame thems...
Why Can't I Stick To A Diet Even Though I Want To Lose Weight?
In 1944, 36 healthy men were put on half their usual food intake. Within months they were reading cookbooks in bed and hoarding kitchen uten...
“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...
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...