Jonathan Ressler

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…

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…

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…

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…

When I embarked on my weight loss journey, I quickly realized that the focus shouldn’t be solely on losing weight. It’s easy to get caught up in the numbers on the scale, obsessing over every calorie and workout, but that approach is not only exhausting; it’s unsustainable. Instead, I discovered that the key to lasting…