Weight Loss Mindset
Episodes
142 episodes
Ep Q3: Can You Lose Weight by Mindful Eating? How?
A listener named Diane writes in with the question everyone eventually asks: can mindful eating actually help you lose weight, or is it just another gimmick dressed up in calm language? Rick answers yes, then spends the episode expl...
Your Brain Doesn't Know Who You Are - It's Watching You To Find Out
In 1966, researchers went door to door in Palo Alto asking people to put a badly hand-painted billboard on their front lawn. On one street 17% said yes. On another, 76%. Same billboard, same man, same script. The only difference was a th...
Ep Q2: What Is The Best Way To Stop A Craving?
Renata from Denver opens her desk drawer at 3:15 every afternoon, eats three pieces of chocolate she can't taste, and wants to know how to stop the craving itself. Not manage it. Stop it.Most advice tells you to out-muscle the thing. Wai...
Willpower Runs Out on Everyone - Identity Doesn't!
Willpower isn't a character trait. It's a battery, and every diet you've ever tried asked you to run on one that was never built to last. In this episode, Rick breaks down why every failed diet was never a discipline problem....
Ep Q1: How Do I Know If I'm Emotionally Eating?
Danielle wrote in from Halifax asking how to tell if her 9pm pantry habit is emotional eating or just a normal snack. Rick walks through exactly how to read the difference between physical and emotional hunger, and reframes the whole thi...
Weight Loss Mindset for Beginners: First Steps, Programs & Realistic Expectations
Most beginners think the first step is finding the right program. It isn't. This episode breaks down the Right Program Myth, the lie that the perfect plan is out there waiting to be found, and walks through the real first move: decid...
Intermittent Fasting vs. Mindful Eating for Sustainable Fat Loss
The diet world just picked another champion. This time it's intermittent fasting. The case for it is real, and so is the 38% dropout rate. This episode looks at what the data shows about both approaches, what the neuroscience says ab...
Why Feeling Better Often Makes You Eat Worse
There's a pattern almost everyone working on their relationship with food hits eventually. You start to feel better, the noise quiets, the fighting stops, and then something snaps. The story you tell yourself is that you destroyed yo...
Why Your Brain Fights You Harder the Closer You Get to Your Goal
Most people assume the hardest part of any change is the beginning. The first week. The cold start. But that's not when the brain launches its real attack.In this episode, we name this pattern the Proximity Trap, explain the biologic...
Nobody Taught You to Soothe Yourself. So Your Brain Found Food.
Most people treat emotional eating as a discipline problem. It isn’t. It’s a nervous system that learned to do what it was never properly taught. This episode breaks down why food became your go-to when pressure builds, why that m...
7 Mistakes People Make Trying to Think Their Way Out of a Food Spiral (And the One Shift That Works Instead)
You know exactly what you’re doing when the spiral starts. You can narrate it in real time. You understand every consequence. And you do it anyway.That gap between knowing and doing isn’t a character flaw. It isn’t weak willpower or a la...
You Didn't Choose This Identity - A Scared Child Did
Before you had language, before you could question anything, a part of you made a decision about food. About hunger. About what it means to feel safe.That decision is still running your life.This episode is personal. Rick shares...
The Wanting vs. Liking Split: The Neuroscience Reason You Can't Stop Craving Food That Never Even Satisfies You
You've lived this moment. The craving hits, specific and insistent, and no matter what you do it just gets louder. So you give in. You eat it. And then... nothing. Flatness. No satisfaction. Just the quiet, maddening question: why did I even wa...
7 Mental Traits of People Who Never Obsess Over Food (And How to Rewire Your Brain to Think the Same Way)
You've sat across from someone who eats two bites of dessert, puts the fork down, and moves on — no guilt, no quiet negotiation, no 'I'll start again Monday.' And part of you has always assumed they're just built differently.They're not...
5 Reasons Self-Compassion Without Identity Change Keeps You Trapped in the Binge-Forgive-Repeat Cycle
The wellness world handed you a powerful tool and told you it was the whole answer. It wasn't.Self-compassion is real, and the research behind it is solid. But for a lot of people over 40, practicing self-compassion after a rough moment...
The Hidden Narrative Running Your Eating Habits — And How to Rewrite It Before It Costs You Another Decade
You've heard it a thousand times. That voice that shows up the morning after a rough night with food.There I go again. I always do this. This is just who I am.Most people think that voice is telling the truth. It isn't. It's run...
5 Reasons Self-Criticism Is Destroying Your Weight Loss Results And Why People Over 40 Who Quit Beating Themselves Up Lose More Weight
You beat yourself up after every slip. You call it accountability. The diet industry calls it discipline. Your body calls it cortisol.In this episode, Rick Taylar breaks down the 5 specific ways self-criticism is working against your we...
4 Neuroscience Lessons That Explain Why Willpower Destroys Your Body's Trust (And What Rebuilds It)
Your body has been watching you diet for years. And it made a decision: you are not safe to follow.That's not a character flaw. That's a rational, biological response to everything you've put it through. In this episode, I break down fo...
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3 Brain Hijacks That Send You Reaching for Food 12 Minutes Before You Consciously Feel Stressed, And How to Rewire Each One
You've done it a hundred times. You're sitting at your desk, everything's fine, and then your hand is reaching for the snacks before you even realize something's wrong. The stress doesn't hit for another ten minutes. But your body is already ea...
11 Mental Traits of Naturally Lean People Over 40 That Have Nothing to Do With Discipline And Everything to Do With Identity
You know that person who eats half the dessert, pushes the plate away, and keeps talking, no guilt, no negotiation, no mental war?They don’t have more willpower than you. They’re running different mental software.In this episode, ...
The Binge Begins 20 Minutes Before You Touch Food: 5 Neuroscience Secrets That Explain Why Willpower Never Stood a Chance
There’s a feeling most people won’t admit to. A kind of anticipation before a binge—not dread, but something closer to relief. Like a pressure valve about to release.That feeling isn’t weakness. It’s your brain celebrating that a decisio...
The Death Of Common Sense | Part 10: Welcome to the Other Side
Let me tell you who you’re not.You’re not weak. You’re not broken. You’re not a failed dieter. You’re not the number on the scale or the size on the tag.You’re not what the diet industry told you that you are.In this final ...
The Death Of Common Sense | Part 9: The Question They Don't Want You to Ask
After every failed diet, every extreme measure, there’s a question running underneath everything. You’ve probably asked it a thousand times without realizing it.“What should I try next?”That question is the trap.In this epi...
The Death Of Common Sense | Part 8: Simple, Not Easy
After seven episodes exposing the lies, the traps, and the industry designed to keep you failing, what’s actually left?The answer is almost disappointingly simple. And that’s exactly why it works.In this episode, I’m laying out wh...
The Death Of Common Sense | Part 7: The Enemy Has a Name
How did common sense die?It didn’t die on its own. It was murdered. Slowly. Deliberately. Profitably.The killer has a name: the diet industry. And its weapon was a single lie, repeated so often we stopped recognizing it as a lie a...
