We Only LOOK Thin
341 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago - ★★★★★ - 674 ratingsCatherine and Donald Wygal are a married couple who, after a life-long struggle, have each lost over 100 pounds. Join them as they work on keeping the weight off and pass along what they’ve learned along the way.
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Episode 339 – N.E.A.T. Me in St. Louis
July 08, 2024 02:52 - 41 minutes - 34.1 MBSummertime is traditionally a time for beaches, pools, road trips and vacations. Just like teenagers in love who walk hand in hand, road trips and vacations are paired with food ...
Episode 338 – WOLT Hot American Summer
July 01, 2024 02:55 - 46 minutes - 37.6 MBFor some, the official start of summer means BBQs and vacations. For others, it means getting stuck in a rut. This week, Catherine and Donald help you look at the ...
Episode 337 – Convenient Store – Part 3
June 24, 2024 02:55 - 47 minutes - 38.4 MBMental effort, physical effort, and routine. When you hear that a podcast episode is about those three things, it makes it extra tempting to listen. But what if we threw ...
Episode 336 – Convenient Store – Part 2
June 17, 2024 02:54 - 35 minutes - 29.3 MBIf you’re the band Erasure, you probably want to Break These Chains of Love. If you’re BJ Fogg, PhD, you want to make your ability chain stronger. It’s sort of ...
Episode 335 – Convenient Store – Part 1
June 10, 2024 03:02 - 57 minutes - 46.7 MBYou’ve heard of necklace chains and bicycle chains and probably even the “Chain of Fools”, but have you heard of the Ability Chain? BJ Fogg, author of “Tiny Habits”, encourages ...
Episode 334 – The Weakest Link
June 03, 2024 00:43 - 50 minutes - 40.8 MBIf you’re a character from Game of Thrones, you might be known as the “Breaker of Chains”, but if you aren’t a character from Game of Thrones, you probably aren’t. However, even if ...
Episode 333 – Thinside Job – Part 3
May 27, 2024 00:31 - 45 minutes - 37.5 MBIf Schoolhouse Rock taught me anything, it’s that three is the magic number. And if that’s true then Episode 333 must be triple magic! AND, it’s part three of our ...
Episode 332 – Thinside Job – Part 2
May 20, 2024 02:51 - 45 minutes - 37.3 MBThe middle episode of a trilogy is often considered filler. Just a bridge to get from the set up in part one to the final payoff in part three. But ...
Episode 331 – Thinside Job – Part 1
May 13, 2024 02:53 - 45 minutes - 37.5 MBLoopholes. Sometimes we work so hard to jump through them, we should call them “hoopholes”. Because people make themselves jump through hoops. Get it? This week, the couple go ...
Episode 330 – Doom Patrol
May 06, 2024 02:51 - 49 minutes - 40 MBWhen we name an episode of this show after DC Comics’ wackiest super team, it might be easy to assume that Donald came up with the title, but in fact, ...
Episode 329 – Never Say Never
April 29, 2024 02:55 - 45 minutes - 37.3 MBWhat has dinosaurs, talking mice, street teams, and 3 cats in a trench coat? This episode of course! Have you ever said to yourself, “I’ll never do that again” only ...
Episode 328 – Tricked by the AARP – Part 2
April 22, 2024 00:15 - 47 minutes - 38.5 MBThose loveable scoundrels at the AARP tricked us into reading an article by Katie Smith about ten habits that could change your life forever. Wouldn’t you know it, the article ...
Episode 327 – Tricked by the AARP – Part 1
April 15, 2024 02:05 - 48 minutes - 39.4 MBWhat if we told you that there were ten habits that could change your life forever? What if we further told you that the habits came from the AARP? Then, ...
Episode 326 – Habit Elementary – Part 6
April 08, 2024 01:44 - 1 hour - 52.8 MBThis is it! The final level! The boss battle! But wait, is that a mirror over there? It IS a mirror over there. Look at it. It turns out that ...
Episode 325 – Habit Elementary – Part 5
April 01, 2024 01:09 - 56 minutes - 46.2 MBIf weight loss and fitness were a video game, you’d complete a level and move on to the next. It isn’t, but in this episode, we’re pretending that it is. ...
Episode 324 – Habit Elementary – Part 4
March 25, 2024 02:51 - 53 minutes - 43.9 MBIn part 4 of our series on navigating the different levels of your health and fitness jourventure, we ask you to do some detectivating. Your first mission; figure out if ...
Episode 323 – Habit Elementary – Part 3
March 18, 2024 02:51 - 58 minutes - 47.5 MBThis week, take a cue from Q*Bert! In the third part of the We Only Look Thin series on building habits from the ground up, we’re about half-way up the ...
Episode 322 – Habit Elementary – Part 2
March 11, 2024 02:24 - 44 minutes - 36.6 MBAs that song from Stranger Things says, “Be running up that hill. Be running up that building”. Only in this case, that “hill” or “building” is a pyramid. And here’s ...
Episode 321 – Habit Elementary – Part 1
March 04, 2024 03:51 - 44 minutes - 36 MBWhen you hear the word “pyramid”, you might think about how King Tut got so funky or that food chart they taught us about in school or maybe those schemes ...
Episode 320 – Living at Room Temperature
February 26, 2024 00:16 - 52 minutes - 42.7 MBWait, what? You’re telling me that there are even more ways that I sabotage myself? We sure are. You didn’t think you were getting off that easy did you? In ...
Episode 319 – I WOLT The Line
February 19, 2024 04:02 - 46 minutes - 38.2 MBIs taking weight loss and fitness advice from Johnny Cash song lyrics irresponsible or the key to overnight success? Probably. Alice Boyes, in her book “The Healthy Mind Toolkit”, talks ...
Episode 318 – Blindspotting
February 12, 2024 04:03 - 53 minutes - 43.4 MBWhat’s that? You’re offering me a treat? You don’t have to know that I just ate, so I don’t mind if I do! If you’ve ever struggled with your weight, ...
Episode 317 – Hungry Like The WOLT
February 05, 2024 03:52 - 48 minutes - 39.4 MBLeave it to We Only Look Thin to take perfectly good concepts like “Revenge” and “Secret” and make them about eating. New listener Dave wrote in to ask the couple ...
Episode 316 – 366 Surprises
January 29, 2024 02:26 - 50 minutes - 40.7 MBMerry Soup Swap Day to you! If you’re like most people, you love math and hate surprises. Well, we’ve got the episode for you! It can be easy to use ...
Episode 315 – The Banana Splits
January 22, 2024 01:33 - 43 minutes - 35.7 MBThe wait is finally over! It’s time for part 2 of the origin story of We Only Look Thin. Listener Susan wrote in to ask about the early days of ...
Episode 314 – Bananas for Weight Loss
January 15, 2024 03:04 - 41 minutes - 34 MBIf you know anything about comic books, you know that all heroes and villains have origin stories. Catherine and Donald are no exception. Listener Susan wrote in to ask the ...
Episode 313 – The Three Whys Men
January 08, 2024 02:34 - 1 hour - 48.8 MBWhen it comes to losing weight, most people ask “how?”. How did you do it? How did you eat? How did you exercise? How does watching Star Wars cartoons fit ...
Episode 312 – Cold Turkey
January 01, 2024 17:02 - 51 minutes - 41.6 MBIt’s 2024 and this is the year you change everything. Starting today, you’re going to give up all of your unwanted habits and only do the healthy thing from now ...
Episode 311 – I’m Dreaming of a WOLT Christmas
December 25, 2023 02:15 - 44 minutes - 36.4 MBReflection; vampires can’t do it, but most others can. And yet, many choose not to. As 2023 comes to a close, Catherine and Donald ask you to reflect upon the ...
Episode 310 – I’ve Got My WOLT to Keep Me Warm
December 18, 2023 01:25 - 40 minutes - 33 MBAt this time of year you can’t turn around without having to dodge a fruit cake or some kind of nog. Whether you’re doing great with your health and fitness ...
Episode 309 – WOLTing in a Winter Wonderland
December 11, 2023 03:51 - 37 minutes - 30.7 MBYour expectation of this show is probably that it’s the greatest podcast recorded by humans. The reality is that you are correct. But oftentimes our expectations and reality don’t sync ...
Episode 308 – Season’s Eatings
December 04, 2023 04:02 - 45 minutes - 37.4 MBWhelp, it’s December. How’d that happen? Seems like only 11 months ago it was January. You may be saying to yourself, “How do I manage my holiday food expectations?” The ...
Episode 307 – The Nut Tracker
November 27, 2023 03:51 - 50 minutes - 41.4 MBThis is the episode that some are calling the greatest event in the history of recorded media. Hopefully that’s enough hype. You’ve probably just gone through Thanksgiving weekend and may ...
Episode 306 – Snack Friday
November 20, 2023 03:51 - 40 minutes - 33.2 MBFor some, Thanksgiving brings up warm memories of family and friends, or of Snoopy making popcorn for the Peanuts gang, or of your drunk uncle, drunkle if you will, embarrassing ...
Episode 305 – The Seven Year Itch
November 13, 2023 04:02 - 48 minutes - 39.1 MBWe’ve all at one time or another wished that the Power of Greyskull was real. That we could call upon it and instantly transform into She-Ra or He-Man (plus, who ...
Episode 304 – S.W.O.T It Like It’s Hot
November 06, 2023 03:51 - 40 minutes - 33 MBSome things just naturally go together. A lock and a key. Salt and Pepper. Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg. But what about business strategies and weight loss? This week, Catherine ...
Episode 303 – Day of the Dread
October 30, 2023 02:54 - 53 minutes - 43.8 MBIt’s Halloween time again and this part of the year can be all about dread. Dread of ghosts and ghouls and friends inviting you to parties. But dread can also ...
Episode 302 – Trick or N.E.A.T.
October 23, 2023 01:12 - 52 minutes - 42.3 MBIf you’re a person who watches things, chances are you’ve seen an infomercial. This type of program combines “information” with a “commercial”; get it? A lot of these infomercials promise ...
Episode 301 – TGI Friday the 13th
October 16, 2023 03:01 - 50 minutes - 41 MBIf you’ve ever watched a horror movie series, you know that even when the bad guy appears to be dead, he manages to return in the sequel. Just like Jason ...
Episode 300 – Caloric Credit Card
October 09, 2023 01:27 - 46 minutes - 37.7 MBIt’s the tricentennial episode of We Only Look Thin! Three Hundred episodes; wow, that’s a lot. But what should we talk about? There’s a lot of pressure to come through ...
Episode 299 – Know When to Fold ’em
October 02, 2023 02:51 - 48 minutes - 39.6 MBSome debates may never be resolved. Did the egg come first or the chicken? Tastes great or less filling? Should I focus on importing or exporting? Is it more important ...
Episode 298 – Know When to Hold ’em
September 25, 2023 02:52 - 39 minutes - 32.4 MBLearning can come from surprising places. For example, the late 1970’s country music crossover hit, “The Gambler”. If you listen to that song enough, you can start to believe that ...
Episode 297 – Thinterview with the Vampire
September 18, 2023 02:10 - 45 minutes - 36.9 MBIn the previous episode, Catherine and Donald held a metaphorical mirror up to themselves to reflect upon what they’ve leaned since they hit their goal weights and started this podcast. ...
Episode 296 – Mirror, Mirror, on the WOLT
September 11, 2023 00:33 - 46 minutes - 37.7 MBIf you’re The Fonz, you only use your mirror to check your hair, realize it’s perfect, and move on. If you’re not The Fonz, you probably use your mirror to ...
Episode 295 – The Law of WOLTraction
September 04, 2023 03:02 - 49 minutes - 40.1 MBWhen you think about consuming things and weight-loss, you probably think about food. However, we also consume ideas. We get these ideas from the people in our lives, the books ...
Episode 294 – Errant Errands
August 28, 2023 00:19 - 42 minutes - 34.4 MBYou’ve probably never put “derail my diet and fitness plan” on your to do list, but if you’re anything like the hosts of this podcast, you’ve turned your well-intentioned chores ...
Episode 293 – Courting Disaster
August 21, 2023 02:53 - 54 minutes - 44.3 MBIf you’re like most people, you sometimes think of yourself as a spy agency and you sometimes think of your health and fitness plans as top secret documents. Every time ...
Episode 292 – Calgon Take Me a Weigh
August 14, 2023 02:50 - 49 minutes - 40.6 MBIf you’re anything like Bruce the Shark from Finding Nemo, or the hosts of this podcast, you probably have to remind yourself that you’re not a mindless eating machine. Does ...
Episode 291 – Everybody’s Nerfect
August 07, 2023 00:42 - 35 minutes - 28.9 MBIf you’re only going to listen to one episode of this show this week, this is THE, with a capital “T”, “H”, and “E”, episode it should be. In part ...
Episode 290 – Pobody’s Nerfect
July 31, 2023 02:05 - 31 minutes - 26.1 MBIt’s the episode that’s almost as good as a late-night infomercial! Sometimes we just want to open the box on a new piece of fitness equipment and open our new ...