It’s that special time of year in between Halloween and Thanksgiving when people can only think of one thing; forming new and healthy habits. Friend of the show in our dreams, Gretchen Rubin, wrote a book about it and this week, Catherine and Donald go through her final eight strategies for forming habits. Are you going to turn to pairing, clarity, or other people? Or maybe everyone’s favorite pastime, loophole spotting. We’re confident that at least one of these will help you get where you...

You might be saying to yourself, “Look, it’s Autumn.  Can’t you just let me enjoy the leaves changing color and some pumpkin spice?”  It’s a fair point, but it’s not what we do here.  We help you form habits that will allow you to reach and maintain your weight loss and fitness goals.  And so does Gretchen Rubin.  This week, the couple takes you through 9 more of Gretchen Rubin’s strategies for habit formation and helps you apply them to your health.  Waiting for a Lightning Bolt? Trying to...

It’s that time of year again when everyone starts turning their attention towards one thing; habit formation. But how do you start? Close personal friend of the show, Gretchen Rubin (we wish) has some ideas. She literally wrote the book on it. This week, Catherine and Donald go over Gretchen Rubin’s first four strategies of habit formation and relate them to weight loss, health, and fitness. What kind of accountability do you thrive on? How do you distinguish yourself? What should you...

At Halloween time, dread is supposed to be part of the fun. But when it comes to exercise, dread is a major part of why we don’t do it. But where does that dread come from? This week, Catherine and Donald examine the origins of dreading a new healthy activity and give you some suggestions as to how to get over the dread and on with the movement. The chilling truth is that adults are responsible for their own habits. Plus, Catherine wants to un-read books, Donald introduces The Yolkening, and...

At this special time of year, we are reminded that demons like to possess young people and make their heads spin around.  Some people have demons from heck, while others have demons jn the form of snacks.  Nobody knows what to do about demon snacks, do they?  Catherine and Donald may have some suggestions.  Based on an article from neuroscientist Alex Korb, Phd, the couple walk you through some ideas for using your brain to exercise excessive snacking from your life. Or better yet, work...

This time of year striking a balance between werewolves and ghouls can get you.  Similarly, striking a balance between working treats into your life and cutting them out all together can get you.  Figuring out when to moderate and when to put a pause on certain foods and beverages is a tricky road to travel, and this week, Catherine and Donald are here to help. Planning, pivoting, portioning, and pausing are all options along the way.  Plus, Catherine thinks love is disgusting, Donald needs a...

If you’ve ever used a Quija (trademark Hasbro) board, it can seem like the other person or people are moving the planchette around.  It’s definitely not you making those choices.  When we make impulsive food decisions, we WANT to feel like we’re not making those choices either.  It was definitely the spirit world that made me eat that entire cake by myself.  This week, Catherine and Donald talk about the importance of letting go of your magical thinking and really taking responsibility for...

If you’re like me, you thought the movie “The Fall Guy” was about a guy who loved the Autumn so much that he dedicated his life to keeping the Fall season in his heart all the year round.  It turns out, that movie was about a stunt person in love with a Director who solves crimes for some reason.  Have you ever thought about how cool it would be to have your own stunt person step in when your health and fitness gets hard?  If you’re like Catherine and Donald, you’ve often wished for someone...

Most of us know that French is virtually impossible to translate, but there are a select few who understand some of the words.  Luckily, We Only Look Thin’s Catherine is one of those select few.  This week, the couple talk about how the culinary process, “Mise en Place”, or “Putting in Place”, can help us to achieve weight loss and fitness goals.  When we put the right habits and systems in place, it helps us do the things we say we want to do. Slow down, show yourself some patience, really...

If you’re like most of us, you’ve wished for a magical body transformation. To be granted a wish and to wake up in a brand new, perfect body. And you’ve probably promised that you’ve learned a lesson and you’ll always be good from now on if you can just be thin now. But if that really happened, would you know how to maintain that weight or would you celebrate with food? This week, Catherine and Donald talk about looking forward to maintaining your goal weight even as you work towards hitting...

We’ve all asked Mary, Mary quite contrary how her garden grows and she’s given us some story about using silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row. That story doesn’t seem to check out. What effect do silver bells have on plant growth? What even is a “cockle shell” anyway? When you think about it, the right question should be, “how do I make my mindset grow?” You’ve come to the right place for answers. This week, Catherine and Donald talk about the importance of a growth...

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 next year.  This week, Catherine and Donald walk you through the habits that they are re-committing to this fall so that they don’t dig themselves...

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 talk about the habits of people who are able to take the bad with the good and use it all to achieve their weight loss goals. It turns out that you...

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 you value in life? What kinds of things do you want in your future? Answering these types of questions for yourself can be one of the keys to...

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, Catherine Ws the Heck, Donald names tunes in notes, and you learn the truth about where Olympians spend the offseason. Join WOLT Place! Sign up...

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.” It turns out that none of those thoughts really helps us on our health and fitness journey-adventure. But what if there were some things that...

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 Behaviors and give you some examples on how to apply it to your weight loss habits so that you can take “I want to lose weight” and turn that...

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 Design model; clarify the aspiration.  When you set a nebulous “pie in the sky” goal, it can make it difficult to figure out how to get there. ...

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. This week, Catherine and Donald walk you through seven tips for using the scale in a way that works best for you. It’s kind of like using The Force;...

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 summer vacation season while still keeping your health and fitness goals in mind. A vacation doesn’t have to mean saying goodbye to all of your...

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 moving yourself towards your goals.  Plus, Catherine gets singular, not possessive, Donald drowns in berries, and there’s a Karen riot over...

Mental effort, physical effort, and routine.  When you hear that a podcast episode is about those three things, it makes it extra tempting to listen.  But what if we threw in “The Ability Chain”, invented by Stanford Professor and bestselling author, BJ Fogg, PhD?  And what if we let you know that Catherine and Donald take three links in the ability chain and help you troubleshoot adding more movement into your life?  Now it’s a slam dunk, right?  Right.  Plus, Donald has a good luck wrist...

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 a Yin and Yang thing. This week, Catherine and Donald look at the first two links in the ability chain, Time, and Money, and walk you through how you troubleshoot them to get more movement into your life. By making each of the links stronger, you can get yourself to make movement part of your daily routine. Plus, Donald raises the roof...

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 people to make behavior change easier to do.  Make it more convenient to do the habits that you want to put in place.  This week, Catherine and Donald talk about using the five links in the Ability Chain to make it easier to eat the way you want to in order to hit your weight loss and health goals.  Figuring out...