Program Yourself Thin Podcast
Tired of diets? Obsessed with your weight, but not losing any? Let me show you how to transform your body by transforming your mind. This is an ”inside-out” approach to mastering your weight and health for the rest of your life. My name is Jim Katsoulis. I’m a Master Hypnotist, Neuro-Linguistic Programming Trainer and Creator of the Program Yourself Method, which I used to drop 50 pounds (and keep off for 29 years). ➜ FREE Custom Weight Loss Hypnosis Session 👇 https://ProgramYourselfThin.com/hypno
Tired of diets? Obsessed with your weight, but not losing any? Let me show you how to transform your body by transforming your mind. This is an ”inside-out” approach to mastering your weight and health for the rest of your life. My name is Jim Katsoulis. I’m a Master Hypnotist, Neuro-Linguistic Programming Trainer and Creator of the Program Yourself Method, which I used to drop 50 pounds (and keep off for 29 years). ➜ FREE Custom Weight Loss Hypnosis Session 👇 https://ProgramYourselfThin.com/hypno
Episodes
59 minutes ago
Your Body Is Completely Dependent On You
59 minutes ago
59 minutes ago
46 min
Your body didn’t pick last night’s dinner. It didn’t decide what time you went to bed. Whatever it got today, it got from you. And yet it keeps showing up, digesting, recovering, and carrying you through the next morning without complaint.
In this episode, I explain what it means that your body has no voice of its own, only signals it hopes you’ll notice. Once that really lands, eating well stops feeling like a diet rule and starts feeling like taking care of someone who’s counting on you. I’ll leave you with one question to carry through your day.
🎧 Download the free “New Thin Me” hypnosis session.
59 minutes ago
46 min
24 hours ago
Let Your Body Tell You What Works
24 hours ago
24 hours ago
50 min
Your body reports back on every meal, every walk, every night of sleep. Most people only listen when the news is bad. The good signals slip by unnoticed, like the steady energy after a real lunch or the morning you wake up rested.
When you miss those signals, taking care of yourself feels like a chore. In this episode, I explain how to start catching them, and I’ll give you a simple one-week experiment that shows you exactly which choices make you feel good. Once you can feel what works, you stop needing discipline to repeat it. You’ll want to.
🎧 Download the free “New Thin Me” hypnosis session.
24 hours ago
50 min
3 days ago
The Love You’ve Been Saving For Later
3 days ago
3 days ago
35 min
“I’ll feel good about my body when...” You probably have the end of that sentence ready. A number on the scale. A certain dress size. It’s a deal a lot of us make, and the love stays on hold until the goal weight shows up.
That deal almost never pays off. In this episode, I explain why the waiting itself is what keeps so many people stuck, and why some reach the number and still don’t feel it. Then I’ll show you how flipping the order changes everything, and give you one condition to drop this month.
🎧 Download the free “New Thin Me” hypnosis session.
3 days ago
35 min
7 days ago
Finding Gratitude In The Hard Stuff
7 days ago
7 days ago
1 hr 12 min
Being grateful for a sunny morning or a good meal comes naturally. Finding something to be grateful for inside the things that hurt is a different skill altogether. It’s harder, and it changes far more.
In this episode, I share how I learned to ask that question about the biggest loss of my childhood, and what I found when I finally did. Then we bring it to your struggle with food and weight. All those years of effort may have been building something in you that you haven’t noticed yet. I’ll also tell you when to try this, and when to wait.
🎧 Download the free “New Thin Me” hypnosis session.
7 days ago
1 hr 12 min
Nov 5, 2026
The Wrong Weight Loss Question
Nov 5, 2026
Nov 5, 2026
18 min
For years, you’ve probably been asking the same question every time you start again. You’ve asked doctors, searched online, read the books. And the answers never quite stuck, because the question itself was pointing you in the wrong direction.
In this episode, I explain why the question most people ask about weight loss keeps them circling, and the better question that changes what you look for, what you notice, and what you do next. Ask it once and you’ll hear the difference right away.
🎧 Download the free “New Thin Me” hypnosis session.
Nov 5, 2026
18 min
Nov 2, 2026
Anxiety And Gratitude Can’t Share A Room
Nov 2, 2026
Nov 2, 2026
1 hr 8 min
Late-night worrying. A week of stressful news. A phone call that leaves your stomach in knots. More often than not, these moments end in the kitchen, because food is the fastest way most of us know to settle down.
There’s another way, and you can carry it with you anywhere. In this episode, I explain why anxiety and gratitude pull your mind in opposite directions, and I’ll walk you through a short exercise, live, that lets you feel the shift happen in your own body. Practice it often enough and the calm starts showing up on its own.
🎧 Download the free “New Thin Me” hypnosis session.
Nov 2, 2026
1 hr 8 min
Oct 30, 2026
Are You Hungry Or Thirsty?
Oct 30, 2026
Oct 30, 2026
1 hr 25 sec
It’s late afternoon. Your energy dips, and suddenly the fun-size bars in the break room look very good. It feels like hunger. A lot of the time, it’s thirst sending a very similar signal.
In this episode, I explain why your brain mixes up hunger and thirst so often, and give you a ten-minute experiment to try this weekend that tells you which one you’re feeling. I’ll also share a simple plan for Halloween night that helps whether you eat any candy or none at all.
🎧 Download the free “New Thin Me” hypnosis session.
Oct 30, 2026
1 hr 25 sec
Oct 29, 2026
The Scariest Story Ever Told
Oct 29, 2026
Oct 29, 2026
57 min
There are no ghosts in this one. No haunted houses. It’s a story about you, ten years from now, and it starts in a week a lot like this one. Most people never let themselves hear how it ends.
In this episode, I tell that story honestly and briefly, then hand you the pen to write a very different one. You’ll learn why the next few days quietly set the tone for the whole holiday season, and the one small decision that changes which story you end up living.
🎧 Download the free “New Thin Me” hypnosis session.
Oct 29, 2026
57 min
Oct 28, 2026
The Best Costume This Halloween
Oct 28, 2026
Oct 28, 2026
1 hr 10 min
Forget the witch hat and the ghost sheet. There’s a costume you can wear this week that changes how you walk into every party, every office candy dish, every trick-or-treat bowl by the front door. And you might decide to keep it on long after the season ends.
In this episode, I explain how to put on that costume on purpose, what it reaches for when the candy comes out, and why wearing it for a few days does more than any diet rule ever could. Every time you step into it, it fits a little more naturally.
🎧 Download the free “New Thin Me” hypnosis session.
Oct 28, 2026
1 hr 10 min
Oct 26, 2026
Oct 26, 2026
1 hr 6 min
For me it was peanut butter cups. The commercials, the pillowcase full of loot after trick-or-treating, the way I’d save them for last. When I picture one, I’m not seeing candy. I’m seeing a memory, polished by years of advertising.
That’s the version your cravings are chasing. In this episode, I set it side by side with the real thing by reading the wrapper out loud, every ingredient, slowly. The gap between the two is bigger than you’d guess. Once you’ve seen it, the pull starts to loosen, and I’ll give you a simple way to try it yourself this Halloween.
🎧 Download the free “New Thin Me” hypnosis session.
Oct 26, 2026
1 hr 6 min




