Labor Day Sale?!? Pumpkin Spice?!? Halloween Decorations?!? Wasn’t the summer just getting started? If you’re like a lot of us, you entered the year with lofty goals for your weight, health, and fitness. And if you’re like a lot of us, things haven’t turned out how you’d hoped. It’s tempting as we head into the Fall to just put it all off until nex…

Have you ever thought to yourself something like, “a positive attitude just means you’re not really paying attention to the word” or “these people need to get their heads out of the clouds and face that fact that they’re never going to get there”.? If you answered “yes”, you might need to work on your resilience. This week, Catherine and Donald tal…

When you’re in your 20’s, most people want to lose weight to look better in a pair of Vidal Sassoon blue jeans. As we get older, most people still want to lose weight to look better in a pair of Vidal Sassoon blue jeans. This week, Catherine and Donald talk about the importance of finding a deeper “why” for your weight and fitness goals. What do yo…

The Olympics may be winding down, but there are still a ton of lessons that “regular people” can learn from Olympians. In a lot of ways, hitting a goal weight is a lot like winning an Olympic medal. This week, Catherine and Donald talk about how, just like top athletes, you need to start planning for after the event even before you get there. Plus,…

If you’re like me, you were watching the Olympic Men’s gymnastics rings event this morning and you were thinking, “I could never do that”. Or maybe you were thinking, “It must be nice to just be able to do nothing except exercise all the time. If I could do that, I’d finally be thin.” Or maybe, “I would have made a great pole vaulter if I’d tried.”…

You probably think it’s a coincidence that the word “Storm” rhymes with the word “Swarm”, but is it? Probably. However, it isn’t a coincidence that when you are trying to change your behaviors, one of the most effective brainstorming methods is the Swarm of Behaviors created by BJ Fogg, PhD. This week, Catherine and Donald break down the Swarm of B…

Everyone agrees that there are only two kinds of people in this world: Spice Girls people and Backstreet Boys people. But what if we put aside our differences and used the lessons taught by both super groups to get to the heart of our weight loss and fitness goals? This week, Catherine and Donald talk about the first step in BJ Fogg’s Behavior Desi…

If you’re a space bounty hunter travelling with your adopted child, you probably don’t worry too much about weighing yourself. On the other hand, if you’ve had life-long weight issues you probably worry about it a lot. Maybe too much. Or maybe not enough. Developing a healthy relationship with the scale can be a difficult minefield to navigate. Thi…

Summertime is traditionally a time for beaches, pools, road trips and vacations. Just like teenagers in love who walk hand in hand, road trips and vacations are paired with food and drink indulgences. If you’re anything like Catherine and Donald, you can’t find one without the other. This week, the couple give you some basic tips on navigating the …

For some, the official start of summer means BBQs and vacations. For others, it means getting stuck in a rut. This week, Catherine and Donald help you look at the summer and adapt your health and fitness routine to the season. Maybe that means moving your activity outdoors and maybe it means moving it into air conditioning; either way it means movi…

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If you’re the band Erasure, you probably want to Break These Chains of Love. If you’re BJ Fogg, PhD, you want to make your ability chain stronger. It’s sort of ...By we-only-look-thin

You’ve heard of necklace chains and bicycle chains and probably even the “Chain of Fools”, but have you heard of the Ability Chain? BJ Fogg, author of “Tiny Habits”, encourages ...By we-only-look-thin

If you’re a character from Game of Thrones, you might be known as the “Breaker of Chains”, but if you aren’t a character from Game of Thrones, you probably aren’t. However, even if ...By we-only-look-thin

If Schoolhouse Rock taught me anything, it’s that three is the magic number. And if that’s true then Episode 333 must be triple magic! AND, it’s part three of our ...By we-only-look-thin

The middle episode of a trilogy is often considered filler. Just a bridge to get from the set up in part one to the final payoff in part three. But ...By we-only-look-thin

Loopholes. Sometimes we work so hard to jump through them, we should call them “hoopholes”. Because people make themselves jump through hoops. Get it? This week, the couple go ...By we-only-look-thin

When we name an episode of this show after DC Comics’ wackiest super team, it might be easy to assume that Donald came up with the title, but in fact, ...By we-only-look-thin

What has dinosaurs, talking mice, street teams, and 3 cats in a trench coat? This episode of course! Have you ever said to yourself, “I’ll never do that again” only ...By we-only-look-thin

Those loveable scoundrels at the AARP tricked us into reading an article by Katie Smith about ten habits that could change your life forever. Wouldn’t you know it, the article ...By we-only-look-thin

What if we told you that there were ten habits that could change your life forever? What if we further told you that the habits came from the AARP? Then, ...By we-only-look-thin

This is it! The final level! The boss battle! But wait, is that a mirror over there? It IS a mirror over there. Look at it. It turns out that ...By we-only-look-thin

If weight loss and fitness were a video game, you’d complete a level and move on to the next. It isn’t, but in this episode, we’re pretending that it is. ...By we-only-look-thin

In part 4 of our series on navigating the different levels of your health and fitness jourventure, we ask you to do some detectivating. Your first mission; figure out if ...By we-only-look-thin

This week, take a cue from Q*Bert! In the third part of the We Only Look Thin series on building habits from the ground up, we’re about half-way up the ...By we-only-look-thin

As that song from Stranger Things says, “Be running up that hill. Be running up that building”. Only in this case, that “hill” or “building” is a pyramid. And here’s ...By we-only-look-thin

When you hear the word “pyramid”, you might think about how King Tut got so funky or that food chart they taught us about in school or maybe those schemes ...By we-only-look-thin

Wait, what? You’re telling me that there are even more ways that I sabotage myself? We sure are. You didn’t think you were getting off that easy did you? In ...By we-only-look-thin

Is taking weight loss and fitness advice from Johnny Cash song lyrics irresponsible or the key to overnight success? Probably. Alice Boyes, in her book “The Healthy Mind Toolkit”, talks ...By we-only-look-thin

What’s that? You’re offering me a treat? You don’t have to know that I just ate, so I don’t mind if I do! If you’ve ever struggled with your weight, ...By we-only-look-thin

Leave it to We Only Look Thin to take perfectly good concepts like “Revenge” and “Secret” and make them about eating. New listener Dave wrote in to ask the couple ...By we-only-look-thin

Merry Soup Swap Day to you! If you’re like most people, you love math and hate surprises. Well, we’ve got the episode for you! It can be easy to use ...By we-only-look-thin

The wait is finally over! It’s time for part 2 of the origin story of We Only Look Thin. Listener Susan wrote in to ask about the early days of ...By we-only-look-thin

If you know anything about comic books, you know that all heroes and villains have origin stories. Catherine and Donald are no exception. Listener Susan wrote in to ask the ...By we-only-look-thin

When it comes to losing weight, most people ask “how?”. How did you do it? How did you eat? How did you exercise? How does watching Star Wars cartoons fit ...By we-only-look-thin

It’s 2024 and this is the year you change everything. Starting today, you’re going to give up all of your unwanted habits and only do the healthy thing from now ...By we-only-look-thin

Reflection; vampires can’t do it, but most others can. And yet, many choose not to. As 2023 comes to a close, Catherine and Donald ask you to reflect upon the ...By we-only-look-thin

At this time of year you can’t turn around without having to dodge a fruit cake or some kind of nog. Whether you’re doing great with your health and fitness ...By we-only-look-thin

Your expectation of this show is probably that it’s the greatest podcast recorded by humans. The reality is that you are correct. But oftentimes our expectations and reality don’t sync ...By we-only-look-thin

Whelp, it’s December. How’d that happen? Seems like only 11 months ago it was January. You may be saying to yourself, “How do I manage my holiday food expectations?” The ...By we-only-look-thin

This is the episode that some are calling the greatest event in the history of recorded media. Hopefully that’s enough hype. You’ve probably just gone through Thanksgiving weekend and may ...By we-only-look-thin

For some, Thanksgiving brings up warm memories of family and friends, or of Snoopy making popcorn for the Peanuts gang, or of your drunk uncle, drunkle if you will, embarrassing ...By we-only-look-thin

We’ve all at one time or another wished that the Power of Greyskull was real. That we could call upon it and instantly transform into She-Ra or He-Man (plus, who ...By we-only-look-thin

Some things just naturally go together. A lock and a key. Salt and Pepper. Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg. But what about business strategies and weight loss? This week, Catherine ...By we-only-look-thin

It’s Halloween time again and this part of the year can be all about dread. Dread of ghosts and ghouls and friends inviting you to parties. But dread can also ...By we-only-look-thin

If you’re a person who watches things, chances are you’ve seen an infomercial. This type of program combines “information” with a “commercial”; get it? A lot of these infomercials promise ...By we-only-look-thin

If you’ve ever watched a horror movie series, you know that even when the bad guy appears to be dead, he manages to return in the sequel. Just like Jason ...By we-only-look-thin

It’s the tricentennial episode of We Only Look Thin! Three Hundred episodes; wow, that’s a lot. But what should we talk about? There’s a lot of pressure to come through ...By we-only-look-thin

Some debates may never be resolved. Did the egg come first or the chicken? Tastes great or less filling? Should I focus on importing or exporting? Is it more important ...By we-only-look-thin

Learning can come from surprising places. For example, the late 1970’s country music crossover hit, “The Gambler”. If you listen to that song enough, you can start to believe that ...By we-only-look-thin