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
47 minutes ago
Finding Gratitude In The Hard Stuff
47 minutes ago
47 minutes 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.
47 minutes ago
1 hr 12 min
2 days ago
The Wrong Weight Loss Question
2 days ago
2 days ago
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.
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2 days ago
18 min
4 days ago
Anxiety And Gratitude Can’t Share A Room
4 days ago
4 days ago
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.
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4 days ago
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Oct 26, 2026
1 hr 6 min
Oct 22, 2026
Feel It Before You Get There
Oct 22, 2026
Oct 22, 2026
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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Oct 22, 2026
58 min
Oct 21, 2026
The Six Seconds After The Last Bite
Oct 21, 2026
Oct 21, 2026
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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Oct 21, 2026
1 hr 3 min
Oct 20, 2026
The Two Things Motivation Runs On
Oct 20, 2026
Oct 20, 2026
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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Oct 20, 2026
1 hr 24 min




