We Only LOOK Thin
329 episodes - English - Latest episode: 13 days ago - ★★★★★ - 651 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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Episodes
Episode 79 – Stinkin’ Thinkin’ – part 2
July 15, 2019 04:13 - 53 minutes - 43.6 MBIt’s a catastrophic episode of We Only Look Thin! Or maybe we just think it is. As is the case with so many things, when trying to lose weight, falling ...
Episode 78 – Stinkin’ Thinkin’ – Part 1
July 08, 2019 04:03 - 40 minutes - 33 MBIn the first of a two-part series, Catherine and Donald talk about an article from Mango Health that discusses negative thought patterns and the couple make it very clear that ...
Episode 77 – The Rebekah THINterview
July 01, 2019 04:01 - 1 hour - 50.3 MBThis week, Catherine and Donald bring you a rare We Only Look Thin interview; a “Thinterview” if you will. They talk to friend of the show and fellow weight-loss inspiration, ...
Episode 76 – Pairing is Caring
June 24, 2019 04:01 - 36 minutes - 29.9 MBIf you reside in one of the earth’s hemispheres, you need to listen to this week’s episode. Catherine of Donald talk about habit stacking and habit pairing in your weight ...
Episode 75 – Tipapalooza
June 17, 2019 04:02 - 44 minutes - 36 MBThe We Only Look Thin warehouse manager has alerted Catherine and Donald that they are way overstocked on Tips of the Week (TOW!) and need to make room before the ...
Episode 74 – Must Be Nice’itis
June 10, 2019 04:01 - 49 minutes - 40.2 MBIn another nice episode of We Only LOOK Thin, we find out that Donald a little bit jealous and Catherine is a little bit rock and roll (yes, a Donny ...
Episode 73 – The Hedonic Treadmill
June 03, 2019 04:01 - 42 minutes - 34.3 MBNo, the Hedonic Treadmill is not the Product of the Week (POW!) and it has nothing to do with exercise. Humans have a tendency to return to a relatively stable ...
Episode 72 – Sleeping with the Enemy
May 27, 2019 04:02 - 43 minutes - 35.5 MBDo you want to know who was in the movie sleeping with the enemy? You’ll have to Google it because Donald and Catherine have no idea. What they do know, ...
Episode 71 – Office Space
May 20, 2019 04:01 - 56 minutes - 45.7 MBThis week we’re going to knock you down your worth of salt. That will sort of make sense after you listen. Many people have jobs and many of the people ...
Episode 70 – Orange is the New Snack
May 13, 2019 04:01 - 42 minutes - 34.4 MBLive from Folsom Prison, Catherine and Donald prove that this is not a one-note podcast. It has at least 3 notes. We spend so much time thinking that the perfect ...
Episode 69 – Dog the Boundary Hunter
May 06, 2019 04:02 - 56 minutes - 46 MBIf you’re like most people, when you think about boundaries, you probably think about plate tectonic boundaries. Or perhaps you think about lesser known boundaries between countries. In this episode, ...
Episode 68 – Getting Started Part 3 – One Step Beyond
April 29, 2019 04:01 - 1 hour - 52.1 MBThis episode is madness! Because it’s called “One Step Beyond”, get it? In the third and final part of their award winning series on getting started with weight loss, Catherine ...
Episode 67 – Getting Started Part 2 – A Salute to Calories
April 22, 2019 04:05 - 57 minutes - 46.4 MBHave you tried all of the diets and just can’t stick to one? Do you want to lose weight, but don’t even know where to start? In the second of ...
Episode 66 – Getting Started Part 1 – Mentalism
April 15, 2019 04:01 - 47 minutes - 38.9 MBDo you want to lose weight, but you’re lost on how to get started? Have you tried everything, but nothing seems to work? Are you well on your way, but ...
Episode 65 – Valley of Disappointment
April 08, 2019 04:06 - 39 minutes - 32 MBThis week, it’s analogies, analogies, and more analogies! When trying to lose weight we just want it to be over and done. We want the pounds off now. Catherine and ...
Episode 64 – Identity Theft
April 01, 2019 04:01 - 31 minutes - 26.1 MBNegative self-talk can easily derail us on our weight loss journ-ventures. Using words like “stupid” and “fat” to describe ourselves runs deeper than we know. In a well-caffeinated episode, Catherine ...
Episode 63 – Double U, Double U, Double U
March 25, 2019 04:01 - 35 minutes - 28.7 MBA great internet taste-maker once said, “if you fail to plan, then you don’t have a plan”. In this week’s episode Catherine and Donald talk about ways to stop the ...
Episode 62 – Clothes Encounters
March 18, 2019 04:01 - 46 minutes - 37.6 MBLive from Fashion Week (not really) Catherine and Donald talk about clothes and the importance of a good fit at any size. The Tip of the Week (TOW!) is the ...
Episode 61 – Fun House Mirrors
March 11, 2019 04:15 - 40 minutes - 32.7 MBWe all have an image of our own bodies and for many of us, that image has little to do with reality. Catherine and Donald discuss Body Image Distortion and ...
Episode 60 – Gorillas in the Mist
March 04, 2019 05:02 - 34 minutes - 28.5 MBIn a foggy episode, Catherine and Donald talk about a being observers of your own life and starting where you are. By being scientists observing our own lives, we can ...
Episode 59 – Stockholm Syndrome
February 25, 2019 05:05 - 31 minutes - 26 MBIn an episode that is both captive and captivating, Catherine and Donald tell you what Stockholm syndrome has to do with losing weight. Spoiler Alert; it turns out that the ...
Episode 58 – Occam’s Razor
February 18, 2019 05:01 - 38 minutes - 31.6 MBThis week, Catherine and Donald take you where no weight loss podcast has taken you before; to 1300’s England. In a parsimonious episode, the couple discuss Occam’s Razor and how ...
Episode 57 – You’ve Got Mail
February 11, 2019 05:03 - 39 minutes - 32.3 MBIn the very first episode of WOLT recorded at night, Catherine and Donald answer two letters from their listener mailbag. It’s a lot like Santa Claus opening his bag of ...
Episode 56 – Groundhog Flipping
February 04, 2019 04:52 - 39 minutes - 32.5 MBThis week, Catherine and Donald introduce you to the international sport of groundhog flipping. It’s now February and you may have set New Year’s resolutions that you’ve already broken, but ...
Episode 55 – Level Up
January 28, 2019 05:04 - 37 minutes - 30.9 MBIn a special 8-bit episode, Catherine and Donald get Pac Man fever and don’t want to find a cure. The couple discuss the idea of surrounding yourself with people and ...
Episode 54 – You Might Be Wrong About Yourself
January 21, 2019 05:04 - 39 minutes - 31.9 MBDo you think that you just can’t do it? That you’re too busy or that you have the world’s worst metabolism? Catherine and Donald used to think the same things, ...
Episode 53 – Listen All of Y’all It’s a Sabotage
January 14, 2019 05:06 - 46 minutes - 38 MBCatherine and Donald can’t stand it. They know you planned it. In this episode, they are gonna set straight this Watergate. The couple introduce you to the various life cycles ...
Episode 52 – WOLT Disney World
January 07, 2019 05:01 - 35 minutes - 28.8 MBSometimes weight loss takes a vacation to a large theme park in Orlando, Fl and sometimes so do Catherine and Donald. Your intrepid WOLT hosts discuss their struggles with weight ...
Episode 51 – Baby New Year
December 31, 2018 05:03 - 53 minutes - 43.5 MBEntering a new year can be a time to tell yourself that you’re going to really get it together this time. It can be a time to make New Year’s ...
Episode 50 – Party of One
December 24, 2018 05:10 - 49 minutes - 40.3 MBAre you and your significant other in different places when it comes weight loss and health? In this episode, Catherine and Donald open up about how codependency in their marriage ...
Episode 49 – Chutes and Ladders
December 17, 2018 05:02 - 42 minutes - 35 MBAre you treating weight loss like a game? Trouble? Boggle? Hungry Hungry Hippos? In this episode, Catherine and Donald become magicians and turn games into metaphors. They help you figure ...
Episode 48 – Depression is My Co-Pilot
December 10, 2018 05:03 - 48 minutes - 39.2 MBIn this week’s episode, Catherine and Donald talk about depression and how it relates to weight loss and how the tools to push past your thoughts are where change comes ...
Episode 47 – Comin’ In Hot
December 03, 2018 05:00 - 40 minutes - 33.1 MBHave you found the perfect weight loss plan? Have you purchased all the stuff? The shake weight, the wristband, the membership kit? Are you telling everyone about how great it ...
Episode 46 – There is No “i” in Quit
November 26, 2018 05:03 - 47 minutes - 39 MBHave you ever just wanted to quit on weight loss? Catherine and Donald are here to tell you that life isn’t a wrestling match that you can just tap out ...
Episode 45 – Thunderstruck
November 19, 2018 05:00 - 35 minutes - 29.1 MBAre you hoping for a lightning bolt to strike which will jolt you into action towards weight loss goals? Do you think that you’ll be visited by three ghosts to ...
Episode 44 – Canary In A Coal Mine
November 12, 2018 05:01 - 39 minutes - 32.5 MBLegend has it that miners took canaries into coal mines to act as a warning sign of dangerous gasses. Are you hiding from your scale? Refusing to wear your fitness ...
Episode 43 – Honey Glazed Holidays
November 05, 2018 05:01 - 45 minutes - 36.9 MBIs the battle between “less filling” and “tastes great” stressing you out? That can mean only one thing; the holiday season is almost upon us. Catherine and Donald are here ...
Episode 42 – The Wizard of oz
October 29, 2018 10:10 - 41 minutes - 33.9 MBJust in time for Halloween, we have a scary good episode in which we take you through the ins and out of weighing and measuring your food. Catherine and Donald ...
Episode 41 – Winter is Coming
October 22, 2018 04:01 - 44 minutes - 36.1 MBIn the world’s first known “Game of Thrones”/Aesop’s Fables mashup, Catherine and Donald remind you that winter is coming. Sometimes winter is a season between fall and spring, and other ...
Episode 40 – Ten Percent Pretty
October 15, 2018 04:03 - 35 minutes - 28.8 MBSomeone, somewhere, probably said, “Never trust a pretty face; especially not your own”. In this episode, Catherine and Donald discuss being an unreliable narrator in our own weight loss stories. ...
Episode 39 – Friday to the Danger Zone
October 08, 2018 04:01 - 40 minutes - 33 MBA dictionary that I just made up defines “Weekend” as two days that end the week. Sometimes it seems like these two days, three if we include Friday, can sabotage ...
Episode 38 – Let Cheez-Its Take The Wheel
October 01, 2018 04:04 - 37 minutes - 31 MBSometimes on We Only LOOK Thin you lean valuable lessons. This week you learn that not all “t”s are silent and that Catherine is a yuk mouth who thinks apples ...
Episode 37 – The Motivation Bus
September 24, 2018 04:06 - 33 minutes - 27.4 MBHave you ever said, “I can’t lose weight because I’m just not motivated?”. Catherine and Donald sure have, but in this episode, they reveal that motivation is a fallacy in ...
Episode 36 – Planned Obsolescence
September 17, 2018 04:02 - 33 minutes - 27.2 MBWhen you fail to plan your obsolescence you plan to be obsolete. Okay, that makes no sense, but I promise that this podcast will make everything clear. In an episode ...
Episode 35 – You Can’t Fight Math
September 10, 2018 04:03 - 35 minutes - 29.3 MBMath; none of us understand it. Certainly, none of us like it. But it turns out that it’s futile to fight against it. In this episode, Catherine and Donald talk ...
Episode 34 – What to Expect When You’re Expecting Company
September 03, 2018 04:05 - 33 minutes - 27.1 MBOn our weight loss adventures, it’s often easier to stick to our goals when we stick to our normal routines. Unfortunately, loved ones and friends sometimes want to see us ...
Episode 33 – 365 Surprises
August 27, 2018 04:00 - 34 minutes - 28.2 MBAs the song from the musical that we never saw reminds us, there are 525,600 minutes in a year. Surprise! During our weight loss adventures, we often use things like ...
Episode 32 – Imaginary Arizona Force Field
August 20, 2018 04:01 - 33 minutes - 27.6 MBSocial constructs, and barriers, and milestones, oh my! We put a lot of pressure on ourselves to accomplish weight-loss goals by a certain age or for a certain event and ...
Episode 31 – Sowing the Seeds of Grub
August 13, 2018 04:01 - 33 minutes - 27.3 MBAre you a weight-loss farmer or a weight-loss hunter? Can’t decide? That’s probably because we just made up those things. However, if you listen to this episode, the choice will ...
Episode 30 – We Only LOOK Thin After Dark
August 06, 2018 04:34 - 30 minutes - 25.2 MBThis episode is about what happens after the sun goes down. Whether you are alone or with that special someone, things can get wild in the dark. Spoiler alert, Catherine ...