The Weigh Out (formerly Weight Loss Mindset)

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:The absurdity we've normalized in the name of "health"How desperation replaces wisdom and why the diet industry counts on itThe difference between "Does this make sense?" and "Will this finally work?"Why every failure pushed you further from your own judgmentThe 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:The Willpower Gap: Why you are working twice as hard for half the results compared to ten years ago.The Hunger Highway: How neuroplasticity physically rewires your brain to become efficient at being hungry.Red State vs. Blue State: Understanding why your brain interprets a calorie deficit as a survival threat.The Binge Logic: Why bingeing is not a failure of discipline, but a successful biological rescue mission.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:What if I do the body scan and feel absolutely nothing?Why does it feel like I’m hungry every waking hour?Do I have to delete MyFitnessPal to learn intuitive eating?How do I find the "stop" signal when I’m used to cleaning my plate?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.

The Somatic Signature of Hunger: Why You Can't Tell When You're Actually HungryEpisode Summary: You’ve been told to "listen to your body" and "eat when you're hungry." But what if you’ve been listening for years and hear absolutely nothing until you’re starving? In this episode, we dismantle the myth of Intuitive Eating for chronic dieters. We explore the neuroscience of interoception, your body’s internal dashboard, and how years of restriction have effectively cut the wire between your gut and your brain.If you feel like you're flying blind without a calorie tracker, this episode explains why and how to turn the lights back on.Important points:The "Deafness" of Dieting: How ignoring hunger signals for years has trained your brain to treat biological cues as background noise.Interoception 101: Understanding the "8th sense" and the role of the Insula in regulating your weight.The Intuitive Eating Trap: Why standard advice to "trust your gut" backfires for dieters who have lost their somatic connection.High & Buzzy vs. Low & Hollow: A practical tool to distinguish between anxiety (nervous system activation) and true biological hunger.Rebuilding the Hardware: Why you need "physical therapy" for your interoception before you can successfully eat intuitively.Action Step: Practice the Non-Food Body Scan three times a day. Stop for 30 seconds and locate a sensation (temperature, pressure, heartbeat) that has nothing to do with food. You are retraining your brain to receive data from the body again.

In this Q&A, we go deeper into the concept of Identity vs. Discipline. We tackle the specific, messy roadblocks that popped up after Monday’s episode—specifically the fear that identity work is just "delusional" and the exhaustion of the evening binge.Questions Answered:The Evening Crash: Why you have zero discipline after 5:00 PM (and why it’s not your fault).Imposter Syndrome: Is "acting" like a healthy person just lying to yourself?Identity Grief: What happens when your whole personality is tied to being the "funny fat friend"?When It "Fails": I asked the identity question and still ate the cookie. Now what?Starting Small: How to shift identity when you have 100+ lbs to lose.Key Takeaway: Transformation is a grieving process. You have to be willing to "kill" the old version of yourself to give birth to the new one. This isn't just about calories; it's about who you are in the world.