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F*ck Your Trainer- Your Lazy Excuses Can Bench More Than You !
In the world of weight loss, we’ve been conditioned to believe that hiring a personal trainer is the silver bullet solution. We convince ourselves that spending money on training sessions will finally force us to take our health seriously. We imagine a transformed version of ourselves who wakes up excited for workouts, loves meal prep,…
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Do Less. Do It Daily. Shut Up Already. Big results don’t need big drama
Let’s start with a little truth bomb: The fitness industry has completely bamboozled you. Yeah, I said it. They’ve sold you on the idea that weight loss requires suffering. That you need to become a green-juice-chugging, treadmill-sprinting, macro-counting robot with no joy left in your life. That success only comes through punishing workouts, strict-as-hell diets,…
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Healthy, Not Hellish- Eating Smarter Without Hating Life
Welcome back to Shut Up and Choose, the no-BS guide to actually changing your life without selling your soul to the diet industry, losing your mind, or swearing off pizza forever. I’m your host, Jonathan Ressler — and today we’re diving into something you already think you know: healthy eating habits. But we’re going to…
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Small Smart Choices = Big Results- AKA How I Outsmarted My Inner Fat Kid
After trying over 100 diets and constantly falling into the same trap of restriction, failure, and regain, I finally discovered what actually works for sustainable weight loss. It wasn’t keto, intermittent fasting, or expensive shots. It wasn’t hours in the gym or counting every calorie. It was making small, smart choices consistently—a concept so simple…
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Eating Your Feelings? Try Feeling Them Instead (Weird, Right?)
Let’s get brutally honest: emotional eating is a silent, sneaky little saboteur. It’s not the burger, the cookies, or even the damn ice cream that’s the real problem—it’s why we reach for them. And emotional eating derails more weight loss journeys than any missed workout or skipped salad ever could. In our latest podcast episode,…
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Jonathan Ressler Reintroduction – Year Two- Who I Am & How Far I’ve Come
Let’s get one thing straight: the journey of sustainable weight loss is completely misrepresented in our culture. We’ve been brainwashed. Bombarded. Bamboozled by an industry that wants you to believe the hardest part is losing the weight. As if once you drop 20, 50, 100 pounds, you’ve made it. Cue the applause. Post the before-and-after…
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10 Weight Loss Truths You Don’t Wanna Hear (But Seriously, Shut Up and Listen)
In the world of weight loss, we are constantly bombarded with conflicting advice, miracle solutions, and promises of overnight transformations. You’ve seen it all—detox teas, 30-day shredding programs, celebrity-endorsed nonsense, and those ridiculous before-and-after photos that leave you wondering why your “after” never looks like theirs. But here’s the deal: behind all the noise, filters,…
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Why “Eat Less, Move More” Is the Worst Weight Loss Advice Ever
Let’s get one thing straight: if losing weight were as simple as “just eat less and move more,” we’d all be walking around looking like Greek gods in yoga pants. But we’re not. You know why? Because that piece of advice is absolute garbage. It’s the diet industry’s equivalent of telling someone to “just stop…
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F*ck Your Meal Plan: Why You Need to Learn How to Eat Like a Normal Person
For decades, the weight loss industry has sold us a shiny, well-packaged lie:“Follow this meal plan, eat exactly what we tell you, and you’ll finally lose the weight.”Sounds great, right? No thinking required, no room for error, just plug-and-play your way to skinny. But here’s the raw truth no influencer or “celebrity coach” wants to…
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Fit, Lean, and Clueless—The Truth About Online Fitness Gurus…And A Few That Matter
Why I Don’t Look Like the Fitness People on Instagram—And Why That’s a Good Thing The other day, my son told me, “You’re trying to be an influencer.” And let me tell you—I hated that. Because in my mind, an influencer is just someone trying to sell you stuff. Their whole job is to convince…
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