We Only LOOK Thin

Those 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 turned out to be great! Now, we run down the second half of the ten habits: that’s nearly 5! Catherine and Donald take you through the weight loss, fitness, and mental health benefits of cutting p

What 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, what if we told you that we were only going to tell you about five of them this week? Based on an article on thegirlfriend.com from the AARP by Katie Smith, Catherine and Donald dive into habits that you might want to adopt to ac

This 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 the boss you are battling is in fact, yourself! Dun, dun, dun! If you’ve ever hit a goal weight or wished to hit a goal weight or wished that you wanted to hit a goal weight, this episode is for you. It’s time for maintenance, so

If 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. This week, Donald and Catherine guide you through one of the higher levels; when you’re in range of your goal weight. You’re tracking, meeting calorie and activity goals, working on your emotional iss

In 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 “detectivating” is a real word. At this stage, you know mindset is important, you’re tracking consistently, developing a healthy relationship with the scale, and getting in consistent movement. No

This 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 pyramid. Catherine and Donald ask you to start looking at your past plans, letting go of the idea of “one weird trick”, setting a realistic weight goal, and how to set a calorie goal. This is where results get real

As 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 the twist; it’s metaphorical and it’s based on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. You didn’t see that coming, did you? In part 2 of their spectacular, multi-p

When 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 you know you should stay away from. If you’re Catherine and Donald, you think about all of thsoe things, but you also think about Maslow’s hierachy of needs. We Only Look Thin has taken the theory from psy

Wait, 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 fact, there are so many ways to sabotage yourself that you could write a book about it. Alice Boyes, PhD DID write a book about it and your chums at We Only Look Thin are here to talk some more about it. This week,

Is 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 about patterns of self-sabotage and how we trip ourselves up by following one extreme way of thinking or another. This week, Catherine and Donald break down three of them and make them a