Jonathan Ressler: Lost 140 Pounds Without Dieting. Now I Help People Do the Same.
I help people stop lying to themselves so they finally lose the weight for real.
I lost 140 pounds without dieting, without a single second in the gym, and without waiting for motivation. I cut the excuses. I stopped pretending. I chose differently. Now tens of thousands follow my Stop Dieting. Start Choosing. system because they are done with the diet nonsense and ready for real change.
I spent almost 60 years on a weight-loss hamster wheel. More than 100 diets. More than 100 fresh starts. Every plan worked for a minute. Every plan failed. I blamed the diet. The truth was simple. I was the problem.
At 59 I weighed 411 pounds. I was on eight medications. I could barely move. I was exhausted and hiding from reality. Then I saw a photo of myself and everything stopped. No drama. No tears. No inspirational moment. I saw the truth.
“I did this. I can undo this. If I stop lying to myself.”
I didn’t diet. I didn’t join a gym. I didn’t track a single calorie. I didn’t wait for Monday. I made one choice at a time. One question before every bite. Do I want this or do I want to be lighter tomorrow.
That was the shift. That was the difference. That is the system I teach today.
The Diets I Tried. The Diets That Failed.
I have tried more than 100 diets in my lifetime. All of them worked temporarily. None survived my real life. Here are only some of them:
- Atkins
- South Beach
- Keto
- Paleo
- Weight Watchers
- Jenny Craig
- Optavia
- Nutrisystem
- Noom
- Whole30
- Zone Diet
- Low-fat
- Low-carb
- Sugar detoxes
- Intermittent fasting
- Master Cleanse
- Cabbage Soup Diet
- 30-day resets
- SlimFast
- Celebrity diets
- Doctor’s diets
- Every trending gimmick your friend swore by
Not one of them taught me how to live. Not one helped me manage stress, travel, chaos, cravings, or fatigue. They made me good at losing weight and great at gaining it back.
The Excuses I Used for Decades
I believed these excuses because they kept me comfortable. If you believe any of these, you are lying to yourself the way I did:
- I don’t have time.
- I need motivation first.
- Healthy food is too expensive.
- I have a slow metabolism.
- There must be something medically wrong with me.
- I’ve tried everything.
- I work too much.
- I’m too stressed.
- It’s too late for me.
Every one of these kept me fat and stuck. None of them were true. The minute I stopped repeating them, everything changed.
My Work Today
I am the author of Shut Up and Choose and the host of the Shut Up and Choose Podcast. I teach people how to stop dieting and start choosing. No rules. No counting. No prep. No gym unless you love it.
I work one-on-one and in small groups. Less than an hour a week. No scripts. No handholding. You do the work and your body changes. End of story.
If you’re ready to stop dieting and start choosing, stop waiting.
Prefer a formal background instead of the transformation story Read the Jonathan Ressler Biography .