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 what common sense actually looks like when you strip away the complexity. No protocols. No tracking. No punishment disguised as discipline.

Just the basics that got buried under forty years of diet culture noise.

Warning: this will ask something of you. Not another diet. Something harder. The willingness to trust yourself again.

In this episode:

* The difference between “simple” and “easy” and why it matters

* Reconnecting with hunger and satisfaction signals you’ve learned to ignore

* Why movement became punishment and how to reclaim it

* The question the diet industry will never ask you

* Ending the war with your body

* Identity: the piece that makes everything else work

If this resonates:

Share it with someone who’s tried everything and is ready to try less.

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 at all. “Eat less and move more.”

In this episode, I’m naming the enemy explicitly. The $250 billion machine that profits from your failure. The gaslighting disguised as advice. The system designed to keep you trapped.

In this episode:

* The lie that broke us: “Eat less and move more”

* How a $250 billion industry profits from your failure

* The escalation funnel: diets → pills → injections → surgery

* Why they keep you focused on food so you never examine your mind

* The Willpower Trap—and how it holds you

If this resonates:

This is the episode that changes how you see everything. Share it widely.

We have more nutritional information than any generation in human history. More apps. More trackers. More studies, podcasts, and expert opinions.

And we’re more confused, anxious, and disordered than ever.

Our grandparents didn’t know what a macronutrient was. They just ate. Now we’re weighing chicken breast to the gram and scanning barcodes like our lives depend on it.

In this episode, I’m talking about how information became a prison—and how tracking taught you to distrust yourself.

In this episode:

* How tracking became obsession

* The “hostage situation” of constant calculation

* Why experts can’t agree—and why that’s making you crazy

* Orthorexia: disorder disguised as optimization

* The truth: you already know how to eat

If this resonates:

If you’ve ever felt enslaved by your food tracking app, this is your episode. Share it with someone drowning in data.

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We mock the Victorians for their corsets. The fainting. The deformed ribs. The compressed organs.

How barbaric, we think. Thank God we’ve evolved.

And then we strap on a waist trainer and call it “shaping.”

In this episode, I’m walking through the modern torture devices—the wraps, the trainers, the vibration plates, and yes, the surgeries that remove organs rather than examine thoughts. Nothing has changed. We just have better marketing.

In this episode:

* Waist trainers: corsets with Instagram accounts

* Body wraps and the lie of “melting inches”

* Vibration plates: the $500 illusion of effort

* Gastric surgery: when we’d rather remove organs than examine beliefs

* Why surgery doesn’t reset the thermostat either

If this resonates:

If you’ve ever considered an extreme intervention, this episode might save you from a painful mistake. Share it with someone who needs perspective.

Fat burners. Detox teas. Appetite suppressants. And at the dark end of the spectrum—industrial chemicals that cook people from the inside.

Welcome to the chemical casino. Everyone’s gambling. Nobody’s reading the fine print.

In this episode, I’m taking you through the unregulated back alley of weight loss—the supplements, the laxatives disguised as “cleanses,” and the terrifying lengths desperate people will go to. Not to scare you. To show you the logical endpoint of the path the diet industry put you on.

The casino always wins. The only winning move is to stop playing.

In this episode:

* What’s actually in “fat burners” (and what they do to your heart)

* The truth about detox teas: laxatives with better branding

* DNP: the industrial chemical people are still dying from

* The escalation ladder: diets → supplements → pharmaceuticals → black market

* Why the only winning move is to walk away

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If you’ve ever been tempted by a “quick fix” supplement, you need to hear this. Share it.

500-calorie diets. Extended fasts. Keto extremism. Carnivore. Juice cleanses.

We’ve gotten remarkably sophisticated at starving ourselves. We just gave it scientific-sounding names.

Here’s what nobody tells you: every one of these approaches pulls back a slingshot. Biological tension. Psychological tension. And eventually, always eventually, your grip slips. The snapback isn’t a character flaw. It’s physics.

In this episode, I’m walking through the museum of modern restriction and showing you exactly why the binge isn’t a failure. It’s a predictable outcome of an unsustainable approach.

In this episode:

* The 500-calorie diet and the lie of “detox headaches”

* Extended fasting: ancestral wisdom or manufactured starvation?

* How keto became a religion and why people are afraid of carrots

* The slingshot effect: why restriction guarantees snapback

* Why the diet industry is counting on your “failure”

If this resonates:

If you’ve ever blamed yourself for a binge, this episode is your permission slip to stop. Share it with someone who needs to hear it.

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Ozempic. Wegovy. Mounjaro. A few years ago, these were diabetes medications. Today, they’re the hottest weight loss trend on the planet.

I understand the pull. After decades of failed diets and shame spirals, someone hands you a needle and says, “This will finally work.” Of course you’re tempted.

But what happens when you stop? What message does it send about your body? And why does the weight almost always come back?

In this episode, I’m breaking down the injection epidemic—not to shame anyone, but to ask the question nobody’s asking: If the thermostat never changes, what exactly did the needle fix?

In this episode:

* Why people are fighting for weight loss prescriptions

* The side effects nobody talks about

* The message the needle sends: “Your body is broken”

* Why weight returns when the injections stop

* The thermostat metaphor—and why chemistry can’t override identity

Injecting diabetes drugs to lose weight. Surviving on 800 calories. Wrapping ourselves in plastic. Fasting for days and calling it a "protocol."

When did this become normal?

In this episode, I'm asking the question nobody wants to ask anymore: Does any of this actually make sense?

The answer is no. And that's not an accident.

The diet industry didn't just fail us. It broke us. It manufactured our desperation, and then sold us increasingly extreme "solutions" that were never designed to work long-term. They were designed to keep us coming back.

Today, we start at the beginning. How we got here. Why we stopped trusting ourselves. And what it's going to take to reclaim the common sense that was stolen from us.

In this episode:

1. The absurdity we've normalized in the name of "health"
2. How desperation replaces wisdom and why the diet industry counts on it
3. The difference between "Does this make sense?" and "Will this finally work?"
4. Why every failure pushed you further from your own judgment
5. The rigged game and how to stop playing

We treat dieting like a reset button.

We assume we can wipe the slate clean with a new plan and fresh discipline. But the brain keeps a record.

In this episode, we explore the neuroscience of the "Diet Trap" and how chronic restriction creates a "Hunger Highway" that makes food noise louder and willpower weaker.

We stop blaming your character and start looking at the engine—specifically, how to shift from a "Red State" of threat to a "Blue State" of safety to finally turn down the noise.

Important points discussed:

1. The Willpower Gap: Why you are working twice as hard for half the results compared to ten years ago.
2. The Hunger Highway: How neuroplasticity physically rewires your brain to become efficient at being hungry.
3. Red State vs. Blue State: Understanding why your brain interprets a calorie deficit as a survival threat.
4. The Binge Logic: Why bingeing is not a failure of discipline, but a successful biological rescue mission.
5. Radical Maintenance: The counter-intuitive protocol required to heal the metabolic damage and shut off the alarm bells.

Action Step: Stop the deficit. This week, your goal is "Radical Maintenance." Feed your body consistently to convince your brain the famine is over. You cannot rehabilitate a damaged organ while you are still attacking it.

In this follow-up to our deep dive on Interoception, we tackle the real-world struggles of reconnecting with your body.

We discuss why you might feel "numb" when you try to scan your body, why some people feel hungry 24/7 (and what it really means), and whether you can heal your relationship with food while still tracking calories.

Key Questions Answered:

1. What if I do the body scan and feel absolutely nothing?
2. Why does it feel like I’m hungry every waking hour?
3. Do I have to delete MyFitnessPal to learn intuitive eating?
4. How do I find the "stop" signal when I’m used to cleaning my plate?
5. I know it’s anxiety, not hunger—but I still want to eat. Now what?

Action Step: Try the "Halftime Pause". At your next meal, stop eating when your food is half gone. Put the fork down for two minutes. Don’t look at your phone. Just sit. Give your satiety signal time to travel from your gut to your brain.