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Dieting Is the Most Comfortable Lie You Keep Repeating
Why Diets Fail Every Time and Why Choosing Works Instead If you are reading this the day after New Year’s Eve, you already know the pattern. You ate. You drank. You told yourself Monday would fix everything. You promised that this year would be different and, somewhere in that promise, you started thinking about which…
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Let’s Not Bullshit Each Other – You’re Not Starting This Week. So Here’s What You Need for Next Year
Christmas week is peak excuse season. You know it. I know it. Everyone knows it. You are not starting now. You are not flipping a switch. You are not suddenly disciplined because the calendar has decorations on it. And that is fine. What is not fine is lying to yourself about it. Every December runs…
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If You’re Waiting for January, You’re Not Serious – You’re Full Of Sh*t!
The Loudest Lie About January, Momentum, And Why Your Next Choice Beats The Calendar The loudest lie of the year is the idea that January fixes anyone. People cling to that fantasy like it’s a reset button. A new calendar page doesn’t reset cravings. It doesn’t patch sleep. It doesn’t organize a messy schedule. Your…
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You Don’t Need a New Diet — You Need to Grow a Set
Stop Outsourcing Your Weight Loss And Start Choosing For Your Life Diet culture sells certainty and delivers dependence. You bounce from keto to fasting to macro tracking and end up at the same weight with less confidence. The problem is not discipline. The problem is outsourcing your decisions to plans built for someone else’s life.…
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Thanksgiving Didn’t F*ck You Up. Your Choices Did.
WHY THANKSGIVING DOESN’T MAKE YOU FAT. YOUR CHOICES DO. Thanksgiving gets blamed for everything. The turkey didn’t ambush you. The pies didn’t scheme. The stuffing didn’t stage a revolt. The real problem hits before the first bite. People flip into holiday mode and treat the entire day like a permission slip to abandon every habit…
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The Biggest Lie From The Biggest Loser- Why Exercise Is Not The Answer
The cultural myth of transformation loves a montage. Sweat. Tears. Screaming trainers. A confetti weigh-in that promises redemption. When the cameras shut off physics and biology take over. This episode breaks down the Netflix piece on The Biggest Loser and shows why it proves the core idea behind Stop Dieting Start Choosing. Spectacle punished people…
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You’re Not Just Carrying Extra Weight — You’re Paying for It Every Day
Stop Dieting. Start Choosing: The Real Reason You Feel Stuck Most people think being overweight is about numbers. Calories, steps, or the scale. It’s not. The truth runs deeper. Extra weight steals from the parts of life that matter most—confidence, connection, energy, and joy. I know because I lived it. I showed up to meetings…
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The Weight Loss Conspiracy They Don’t Want You to Figure Out
Stop Dieting. Start Choosing: The Truth About Ownership, Dependency, and Real Transformation Stop Dieting. Start Choosing: The Truth About Ownership, Dependency, and Real Transformation The promise of “easy” weight loss has never been louder. Everywhere you look, someone is selling relief wrapped in convenience. Walk into a pharmacy, open your Instagram feed, or flip on…
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The Fat Kid’s Survival Guide to Halloween Candy
The Fat Kid’s Guide to Halloween Candy Halloween gets framed as a willpower test, but the real story is mindset. When the calendar flips to late October, candy bowls multiply and old diet scripts turn up the volume: Don’t eat that, you’ll blow it. That script is the problem. It assigns moral value to food…
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The Day I Stopped Dieting and Started Choosing To Transform My Life
Stop Dieting. Start Choosing. | Jonathan Ressler Stop Dieting. Start Choosing. I walked out of the hospital stitched together by meds and luck, holding a plastic bag of orange bottles and a head full of denial. Sepsis had wrecked me, but the moment I got home I slipped back into the quiet autopilot of bingeing…