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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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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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Eating Your Feelings? Try Feeling Them Instead (Weird, Right?)
Let’s get brutally honest: emotional eating is a silent, sneaky little saboteur. It’s not the burger, the cookies, or even the damn ice cream that’s the real problem—it’s why we reach for them. And emotional eating derails more weight loss journeys than any missed workout or skipped salad ever could. In our latest podcast episode,…
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10 Weight Loss Truths You Don’t Wanna Hear (But Seriously, Shut Up and Listen)
In the world of weight loss, we are constantly bombarded with conflicting advice, miracle solutions, and promises of overnight transformations. You’ve seen it all—detox teas, 30-day shredding programs, celebrity-endorsed nonsense, and those ridiculous before-and-after photos that leave you wondering why your “after” never looks like theirs. But here’s the deal: behind all the noise, filters,…