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Stop Dieting. Start Choosing. The Real Reason Diets Keep Failing (And What You Need to Do Instead)
For most of my life, I believed that weight loss required suffering. Restrict. Deprive. Obey the rules. Start over on Monday. Punish yourself for failure. Repeat. I lived inside that cycle for decades—and it almost broke me. But when I finally stopped dieting and started choosing, everything changed. Let me explain. I Was the King
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The Real Reason You Keep Falling Off (It’s Not What You Think)
The Myth of Willpower: Why Your Weight Loss Plan Keeps Failing The Myth of Willpower: Why Your Weight Loss Plan Keeps Failing (And How to Fix It) If you’ve ever found yourself saying, “I was doing so well and then I just fell off,” you’re not alone. That phrase—and its equally demoralizing cousins “I just
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Fat Isn’t a Feeling—It’s a Choice You Keep Making
I used to wake up every single morning, drag myself to the mirror, and mutter, “I feel fat today.” It was my default line, almost like a mantra. I didn’t even think about it — it just came out.But after years of saying it, one day it hit me: that sentence makes no sense. “Feeling
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Why Your Diet Is A Lying, Soul-Sucking Freak
If you’re a high-achieving executive who’s sick of starting over every Monday, I get it. I’ve been there — more times than I’d like to admit. I know what it feels like to walk into the boardroom with confidence… while secretly hating the way your clothes fit. I know what it’s like to crush quarterly
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F*ck The Diet Industry – Stop Starting Over, You Drama Queen
Have you ever eaten one cookie and thought,“Well, I’ve blown it now. Might as well eat the whole box and start fresh on Monday”? Yeah. You’re not alone. That exact thought used to run my life. It’s the trap most people fall into. It feels logical in the moment, but it’s actually one of the
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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
Why Small Smart Choices Beat Every Diet I Ever Tried I tried more than 100 diets. Every version of restriction. Every promise of fast results. And I kept ending up in the same place. Quit. Regain. Start over. What finally worked was not keto, intermittent fasting, shots, tracking apps, or living in the gym. It
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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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