Program Yourself Thin Podcast

"Why do I do this?" You've asked it a thousand times, usually right after the fact, usually while beating yourself up. But that question rarely gives you an answer you can use. It mostly just deepens the shame.
In this episode, I explain why "why" is the wrong question, what to ask instead, and how that one shift moves you out of self-blame and into something that actually changes the pattern.
🎧 Download the free "New Thin Me" hypnosis session.

The daily Program Yourself Thin live show with Jim Katsoulis. Today's topic plus live coaching and Q&A with the PYT community.New to PYT? Start with our standalone episodes for the best introduction.
🔥 Get your Free Weight Loss Hypnosis Session
📖 Get Jim's book → The Tao of Living at Your Goal Weight

You've been trying to lose weight the hard way — relying on willpower to fight temptation all day long. And willpower runs out. Every single time.
In this episode, I explain how to stop depending on discipline and start making the good choice the easy choice. When you set things up right, staying on track stops being a battle and starts being the natural path of least resistance.
🎧 Download the free "New Thin Me" hypnosis session.

The daily Program Yourself Thin live show with Jim Katsoulis. Today's topic plus live coaching and Q&A with the PYT community.New to PYT? Start with our standalone episodes for the best introduction.
🔥 Get your Free Weight Loss Hypnosis Session
📖 Get Jim's book → The Tao of Living at Your Goal Weight

Most weight loss advice starts with the food. But there's a step before that almost everyone skips: how you feel. Because when you feel bad — stressed, tired, low, empty — food becomes the fastest way to change that. And when you feel good, the pull just isn't there.
In this episode, I explain why managing how you feel is the real work, how feeling better naturally quiets the urge to overeat, and why this is the piece that makes everything else finally click.
🎧 Download the free "New Thin Me" hypnosis session.

The daily Program Yourself Thin live show with Jim Katsoulis. Today's topic plus live coaching and Q&A with the PYT community.New to PYT? Start with our standalone episodes for the best introduction.
🔥 Get your Free Weight Loss Hypnosis Session
📖 Get Jim's book → The Tao of Living at Your Goal Weight

Losing weight isn't a test of willpower or a measure of how much you want it. It's a skill — a set of things you learn, practice, and slowly get better at, the same way you'd learn anything else.
In this episode, I explain why treating weight loss as a skill takes the shame out of it entirely. You're not failing. You're learning. And every attempt, even the messy ones, is making you better at it.
🎧 Download the free "New Thin Me" hypnosis session.

The daily Program Yourself Thin live show with Jim Katsoulis. Today's topic plus live coaching and Q&A with the PYT community.New to PYT? Start with our standalone episodes for the best introduction.
🔥 Get your Free Weight Loss Hypnosis Session
📖 Get Jim's book → The Tao of Living at Your Goal Weight

Somewhere along the way, this stopped being about you. The number, the dress size, the before-and-after — a lot of it is aimed at other people. What they'll think. What they'll say. Whether they'll finally approve.
In this episode, I explain why chasing weight loss for anyone but yourself quietly sabotages it, and how coming back to your own reasons — the ones that are really yours — makes the whole thing sustainable.
🎧 Download the free "New Thin Me" hypnosis session.

The daily Program Yourself Thin live show with Jim Katsoulis. Today's topic plus live coaching and Q&A with the PYT community.New to PYT? Start with our standalone episodes for the best introduction.
🔥 Get your Free Weight Loss Hypnosis Session
📖 Get Jim's book → The Tao of Living at Your Goal Weight