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
46 minutes ago
The Candy You Remember Vs. The Candy You’re Eating
46 minutes ago
46 minutes ago
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.
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46 minutes ago
1 hr 6 min
5 days ago
Feel It Before You Get There
5 days ago
5 days ago
58 min
Most people plan to feel good once they reach their goal weight. Until then, it’s willpower and dragging themselves uphill. That’s backwards. The feeling you’re waiting for is the very thing that would get you there.
In this episode, I explain why pleasure pulls you forward far longer than pressure ever pushes, and how to start feeling life at your goal weight right now, in vivid detail. Then I’ll show you how to bring that feeling into the moment you’re standing in front of the fridge, so it quietly starts making your choices for you.
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5 days ago
58 min
6 days ago
The Six Seconds After The Last Bite
6 days ago
6 days ago
1 hr 3 min
When you’re tempted, you think about how the food will taste. Almost nobody thinks about how they’ll feel once it’s gone. Your brain quietly skips that part, and that’s exactly why the same choice keeps repeating.
In this episode, I share a simple pause you can take before you eat that brings that after-feeling to the front, where it can finally help you. I’ll also explain the important difference between using that feeling with clarity and using it with shame, because one quietly frees you and the other sends you back to the pantry. Try it on one food this week and see what changes.
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6 days ago
1 hr 3 min
7 days ago
The Two Things Motivation Runs On
7 days ago
7 days ago
1 hr 24 min
“I’m not happy with how I look.” It’s true, and it’s been true for years. So why hasn’t it ever been enough? Because mild discomfort loses to a warm cookie every single time.
All motivation runs on two forces, and most people only feel a faint trace of each. That’s why they stay stuck. In this episode, I explain what those two forces are, why you need both working together, and how to turn up the feeling behind your reasons until they’re strong enough to carry you through the hard evenings. The deeper you feel it, the farther it takes you.
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7 days ago
1 hr 24 min
Oct 19, 2026
Why Your Motivation Keeps Running Out
Oct 19, 2026
Oct 19, 2026
1 hr 17 min
You start the week fired up. By Thursday, a stressful day and a full pantry win again. It’s tempting to decide you don’t want it badly enough. The real problem is that your reasons are too close to the surface.
Fitting into the jeans or hitting a number can get you started. They rarely have enough feeling behind them to carry you through a hard evening. In this episode, I share a simple technique for digging down to the reason that actually moves you, the one sitting a few layers below the answer you’ve given a hundred times. Grab a pen. You’ll want to try this one today.
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Oct 19, 2026
1 hr 17 min
Oct 16, 2026
Turn Your Experience Into Wisdom
Oct 16, 2026
Oct 16, 2026
1 hr 3 min
You probably look back at your weight history as a long list of failures. The diet that fell apart in week three. The pounds that came back after the wedding. Every attempt filed away as proof that something is wrong with you.
Look again. That history holds more useful information about how you actually work than any book or plan ever could. In this episode, I explain how to stop fighting your past and start learning from it on purpose, plus a simple nightly practice that turns each day’s experience into tomorrow’s wisdom. You’ve already paid for these lessons. It’s time to use them.
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Oct 16, 2026
1 hr 3 min
Oct 15, 2026
Feeling Good On Purpose
Oct 15, 2026
Oct 15, 2026
1 hr 5 min
After a hard day, the cookie buys you ten minutes of relief. That need is real. The trouble is that food is the only tool most people have for meeting it, so they reach for it again and again.
In this episode, I explain why so much stress eating is really a search for a good feeling, and how to build a short list of other ways to get there that have nothing to do with food. Once you have them ready, food loses its job. And I’ll give you a small challenge to try before the day is over.
🎧 Download the free “New Thin Me” hypnosis session.
Oct 15, 2026
1 hr 5 min
Oct 14, 2026
Threat Or Challenge? Responding To Stress
Oct 14, 2026
Oct 14, 2026
1 hr 4 min
The same stressful moment can land in your body in two very different ways. One leaves you drained, scattered, and reaching for the pantry. The other carries you through with a clear head. The event is identical. What changes is how you respond in the first few seconds.
In this episode, I explain what happens inside you when stress registers as danger, how to shift into a calmer and more capable response instead, and a few simple words that help you make that switch. You'll also get an easy way to practice it this week on the small stuff, so it's ready when something bigger shows up.
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Oct 14, 2026
1 hr 4 min
Oct 13, 2026
Reacting Vs. Responding To Food
Oct 13, 2026
Oct 13, 2026
51 min
Something sets you off. A stressful email, a tired evening, a plate of cookies on the counter at work. Before you've had a single conscious thought, you're already eating. That's a reaction. It happens fast, and it happens on autopilot.
A response is different. It has a small gap in it, a moment where you notice what's happening and get to choose. In this episode, I explain how to find that gap and slowly widen it, so the old automatic patterns lose their grip and your choices around food start belonging to you again.
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Oct 13, 2026
51 min
Oct 9, 2026
Calm Keeps The Weight Off
Oct 9, 2026
Oct 9, 2026
17 min
You can lose weight while you're stressed. Plenty of people do it on pure grit, gritting their teeth through every meal. The trouble shows up later. Grit runs out, life gets loud again, and the weight finds its way back.
In this episode, I explain why staying at your goal weight depends on calm far more than effort, and how a settled mind quietly changes what you reach for when life gets hard. Living at your goal weight should feel peaceful. That peace is what holds it in place.
🎧 Download the free "New Thin Me" hypnosis session.
Oct 9, 2026
17 min




