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Meal Plans Are Adult Lunchables for People Who Don’t Want to Think
Introduction: Why I’m Done with “Perfect” Meal Plans For most of my life, I believed what you probably believe right now: that the perfect meal plan was the golden ticket to weight loss. I can’t tell you how many PDFs I downloaded, how many programs I bought, or how many “done-for-you” diets I tried to…
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The Gym Is a Waste of Time (If You’re Trying to Lose Weight)
Stop Pretending the Gym Is the Answer to Your Weight Problem By Jonathan Ressler · August 13, 2025 Prefer the app? Open this episode on Spotify. Let’s cut through the noise and address the giant, sweaty elephant in the fitness room: the gym is not your weight loss solution. I know that ruffles feathers. You’ve…
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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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