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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…
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Calories Don’t Lie — But Diet Gurus and Fitness Influencers Do
The Truth the Diet Industry Doesn’t Want You to Hear | Jonathan Ressler The Truth the Diet Industry Doesn’t Want You to Hear Stop dieting. Start choosing. The noisy churn of the diet industry thrives on confusion, identity, and false certainty. Everywhere you look—Instagram, talk shows, glossy magazines—someone’s promising the “real secret” to weight loss.…
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No Discipline or Willpower? No Problem. That’s Not What Got You Fat Anyway
The Loudest Lie in Weight Loss: Why “Try Harder” Keeps You Stuck The Loudest Lie in Weight Loss The loudest lie in weight loss is also the most seductive: try harder. That message works because it flatters our grit and fuels the illusion that success is a moral contest won by the toughest. Every ad,…
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Food Rules Were Meant to Be Broken
Food Rules Were Meant to Be Broken Diet culture loves commandments. You know the ones: Don’t eat after seven. Breakfast is mandatory. Salads are always healthy. Fat makes you fat. Save your cravings for a “cheat day.” These rules get repeated like gospel in magazines, TikToks, and weight-loss forums. They sound so clean, so certain.…
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