Quitters Day

In the very first I² Lab episode, I bring in Lynsey — Lynsey works in the world of adult learning, cognition, brain science, and neuroplasticity, and she brings that lens to everything we unpack. She’s also been on a weight-loss journey for most of her life—like so many of us—having been both near and far from her goal at different points in time. I really wanted her perspective on this because we share the same love of nerdy science, but we come at it very differently—and that contrast makes the conversation richer (and honestly, more fun). Together, we explore what’s really going on in the brain when people quit by Quitter’s Day—habit loops, decision fatigue, stress responses, and all-or-nothing thinking—with one simple goal: help you hear something that makes you go, “Oh… that’s my pattern.”Because spotting the pattern is often the first step to not repeating it this time.