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Jonathan Ressler | Transformation Guide
Hey, welcome back to the Shut Up and Choose Podcast, where we do something radically different. We stop dieting, start choosing, and finally take control of our health. Today I want to talk about something absolutely insane. You can now walk into Costco and buy Ozempic or Wegovy for $499 a month. No insurance. No doctor. Just a miracle shot sitting between the toilet paper and the trail mix.
They’ll sell you the syringe. They’ll sell you the hope. But they will never sell you freedom. Freedom doesn’t make them money. Dependency does.
We’re living in a time where you can order willpower online. One injection a week and you can pretend you’ve solved the problem. The ads call it control. Influencers call it empowerment. Let’s be honest. It’s sedation. Weight loss has become a subscription service.
Big Pharma doesn’t want you healthy. It wants you hooked. Every pound you lose becomes another reason to keep paying.
And before you roll your eyes, I get it. I almost fell for the same thing. When I was 411 pounds, sick, scared, and fresh out of the hospital, I was ready to sign up for anything that promised relief. Surgery. Ozempic. Anything that would stop the pain. Pain makes you desperate, and desperation makes you dumb.
I spent nights scrolling miracle stories. People dropping 100 pounds without trying. New life. Finally free. Except none of them sounded free. They sounded dependent. Addicted to the idea that their health was someone else’s job.
That’s the billion-dollar lie. The industry convinces you that you’re incapable of choosing for yourself. That you need their product, their program, their pill. That you’re too weak to decide what goes into your own mouth.
You don’t need another diet. You don’t need another injection. You need to stop giving away your choices. The second you do, you stop being a person and start being a customer.
They’ll tell you it’s not your fault. They’ll call it science. They’ll say they’ll fix you. But every time you outsource responsibility, you rent your results. And the moment you stop paying, everything comes rushing back.
You don’t need a doctor to shrink your stomach. You need a decision to change your life.
I didn’t find a plan that worked. I became a person who works a plan. That’s what this episode is about. The addiction to easy poisons more than your body. It poisons your power.
Weight loss isn’t about discipline. It isn’t about motivation. It’s about ownership. When you start choosing, everything changes. You stop dieting. You stop following. You stop being the product.
Every miracle starts with the same promise. This time it’ll be easy. Easy is the most expensive lie on the planet. We want express shipping on everything. Food. Dopamine. Success. Scroll your feed. Lose fat while you sleep. Reset your metabolism. Same hustle. They sell relief from effort because effort is bad for business.
After the hospital, I didn’t want a plan. I wanted peace. When people told me I needed surgery, what I heard was permission to quit. That’s what easy really is.
The industry turns surrender into strategy. They dress it up as science and tell you that you can’t be trusted with your own choices. That’s how they make billions.
I remember scrolling success stories at my kitchen table. For a moment, I believed them. Hope is a powerful drug. But every story ended the same way. Dependency. Subscription. Maintenance.
No one ever said, I learned to trust myself again.
Every shortcut steals the lessons that make change last. You don’t learn hunger. You don’t learn coping. You don’t learn emotional regulation. You can’t inject those skills. You earn them.
The first time I cooked instead of ordering takeout, I didn’t feel powerful. I felt stupid. The second time felt the same. Then it became proof.
There’s no effortless weight loss. There’s unconscious effort. Small, honest choices stacked until they run on autopilot. People call that discipline. I call it momentum.
Hating myself every day was hard. Eating real food, moving a little, drinking water. That’s not hard. That’s being alive.
The industry sells easy because if you ever realize how powerful you are, they’re done.
If easy worked, we’d all be finished by now. Every miracle creates a new excuse. The moment you stop waiting, everything changes.
The real miracle isn’t the shot. It’s realizing you already have the ability to choose.
No one in the weight loss industry actually wants you to win. If you did, the machine would collapse. Diet companies. Supplement brands. Pharma giants. Same business model. Keep people believing they’re broken.
Follow the money. Hundreds of millions raised for new GLP-1 drugs. Stocks exploding. Costco selling injections. That’s not innovation. That’s addiction at scale.
The industry doesn’t sell transformation. It sells maintenance of misery. They can’t sell done.
I fed that system for years. Over a hundred diets. Thousands of dollars. Every failure blamed on me. That’s the brilliance. They sell you the cure, the guilt, and the next cure.
The real disease isn’t obesity. It’s helplessness.
Choosing feels scary because it puts the steering wheel back in your hands. No rules. No guru. No one to blame. That’s why people call it hard.
But the more you choose, the stronger you get. You stop asking what should I do and start saying here’s what I’m doing.
You can’t patent choice. You can’t bottle self-trust. You can’t monetize self-respect. That’s why they never sell it.
The only plan that works is the one that fits your life. Not someone else’s rules. Alignment beats structure every time.
I built my approach on principles, not rules. Awareness. Alignment. Adjustment. Accountability. Adaptation.
I lost 140 pounds by choosing, adjusting, and adapting. Not by dieting.
When you stop dieting and start choosing, the fight ends. You stop punishing yourself and start showing up.
People will tell you that you need structure. Bullshit. You’ve survived worse. You can do this.
Self-trust is built quietly. Choice by choice. That’s why it works.
Stop dieting. Start choosing. It’s not about food. It’s about freedom.
If you want to go deeper, my book Shut Up and Choose lays this out step by step. No diets. No fluff. Just ownership.
And if you want something free, head to jonathanressler.com and grab my weekly tips. One minute. Real advice. No bullshit.
You don’t need another plan. You need to remember what you forgot.
Stop chasing easy. Stop renting results.
Shut up and choose.