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Logical Weight Loss Podcast

by David Jackson

A No nonsense approach to weight loss. Dave Jackson brings his entertaining look at fitness gadgets, motivational stories, books, and articles as he continues on his path to better health. He's not a Doctor, or a trainer, just someone like you trying to lose some weight.

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Episodes

  1. Lack of Direction

    Do I REALLY Want to lose weight

  2. The Power of Groupthink

    Being around people who don't support, or share your passion for being healthy can lead you down the wrong path according to the book Atomic Habits.

  3. Stacking Habits: Piggybacking Your Way to Success

    Right now as I look at my progress, I want to quit eating all food, go on a liquid diet, run a marathon, and dump a ton of weight by 6:30. We want the weight off. We want it off yesterday. Meanwhile back, in reality, a better strategy is to set up some habits to do the right things on a…

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  4. Is Weight Loss Obsession Hurting Your Efforts?

    If stress inhibits weight loss, what about the stress caused when you watch every calorie, use trackers and app to obsess over every little details.

  5. He Lost 70lbs and Has Kept if Off For Four Years

    Danyon Tongia Check out his YouTube Chanel His article with all of his tips is at http://www.healthvi.org/guides/fat-loss/ His email is [email protected] Join the Logical Losers at www.logicallosers.com

  6. The Poison of Perfection

    Trying to be perfect is impossible. We put off until tomorrow thinking we are going to take a running start, but we never start because we want to be perfect.

  7. The Psychology of Weight Loss With Karina Melvin

    I brought in an expert in the psychology of weight loss to help us understand how our thoughts affect our weight loss efforts.

  8. I'm So Glad I Didn't Quit

    Special thanks to Nick Florido for the $30 Today I share how I was doing everything I was supposed to do I: Drink 60-80 oz of water Get seven hours of sleep a night Eat less than 2000 calories Get 60 minutes of exercise or 10,000 steps and yet the scale didn't move. In fact, in some days the…

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  9. Seeing is Believing

    Go with me for a moment. Most of your friends come from your job. You are all close in age, you spend 40 hours together and often go to lunch together. In some cases, you even hang out after hours. Then you hire a new person. They are also similar to your age. Then you notice some…

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  10. A Wake Up Call From Fank Payne of My Big fat Body

    I watched the documentary My Big fat Body by Frank Payne on Amazon Prime (it was included with the Prime membership). The movie shows Frank going through the process of losing 60 lbs. It was impressive. I wanted to see how Frank was doing now. The problem is he died at the age of 49 in 2012. So…

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  11. More Harsh Facts About Soda

    Everybody I know that is losing weight seems to always seem to say the same phrase: ..and I quit drinking (insert soft drink name). For me I've been stuck on Mountain Dew since I met a girl in my teens who drank it like water (and her ENTIRE family did as well). I go on and off the "Dew Wagon."...

  12. The 20/20 Diet - Insights in to Dr. Phil's New Book

    Today I share some insights from the new Dr. Phil book which starts of saying how bad the diet industry is and how every book states how their book is the truth and the rest are all lies. None of them work, and its a sham. He then states (and I'm paraphrasing), the diet industry is bad and every...

  13. Maybe its NOT Food or Exercise?

    Maybe its NOT Food or Exercise?

  14. Operating Out of Fear or Love?

    For more information go to www.logicalloss.com/255

  15. Practicing Not Quitting - Other People's Opinions Are Non Of Your Business

    I turned 50 today. It's scary. 30 was 20 years ago, and 70 is 20 years from today. I know aging 30 to 50 went FAST. Its kind of spooky to think how fast 50-70 will be. I was listening to Michael Hyatt's podcast and he was talking about always finishing the race. It really inspired me he talked...

  16. Power Pressure Cooker Vs Power Pressure Cooker XL

    I've always said, "it's the food" when it comes to why I'm not losing weight. So this year I'm attacking the food. I'm finding ways to make better food at home. I'm trying to avoid getting my meals through the window of my car. I've purchased a Ninja Pro blender, and this weekend after much video...

  17. The Power of Belief - Finding Time To Walk - Ninja Pro

    In the past I had a juiceman juicer and I loved making Apple Carrot juice, but it was an absolute PAIN to clean. I used it a few times, but the pain of cleaning out weighed the joy of the juice. recently I kept hearing about Ninja Pro blender to making smoothies. I went and purchased one and it...

  18. How To Make Sure You Don't Push To Hard

    For most healthy adults, the Department of Health and Human Services recommends these exercise guidelines: Aerobic activity. Get at least 150 minutes a week of moderate aerobic activity — such as brisk walking, swimming or mowing the lawn — or 75 minutes a week of vigorous aerobic activity — such...

  19. S.M.A.R.T Resolutions

    We have a long road ahead. We need to go into this with both eyes open. One of the ways we will dodge failure is by setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals S = SpecificM = MeasurableA = AttainableR = RealisticT = Timely Let’s look at those a little more specifically. A poor goal is “I want to lose weight.” Then...

  20. It Starts with Your Brain

    With the year sailing off into the past, we can panic when we thnk about all the things we need to do to get our weight under control. In the end it boils down to Attitude Calories Sleep Activity Water Today we are going to focus on our attitude and more specifically negative self talk. Negative...

  21. Cookies and Stress A Terrible Combination

    A recent article from Jillian Michaels pointed out that when we have a very stressful situation we go into "Fight or flight" and the hormones released stop us from feeling hungry (which makes sense) but the problem is this happens even when we are not being chased by a bear. According to her...

  22. Test Drive Your Post Weight Loss Surgery Lifestyle

    I have a friend of mine who is planning on having weight loss surgery. It doesn't matter what kind, but in the end it is probably not going to work. Why? Because her weight is not the problem. It is a symptom. Numerous people have had surgery and found ways around the shrunken stomachs to eat...

  23. Discipline or Disappointment - Your Choice

    To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. -Budda Discipline is the bridge...

  24. Apple Health App and two others Reviewed

    Apple Health App Apple products are known for their ease of use. That was before the Health app from apple. I spent a lot of time just trying to input my age, sex, weight, etc. The other thing that seems really stupid is you input different ingrediants and minerals, etc individually. So have fun...

  25. Sodas Are the New Cigarettes

    Today I share some insights into the movie Fed Up from the people of an unconventional truth and has Katie Couric. It is a straight shooting video that points out that we are just being lied to through the media as the food industries continues to feed us information through the media that is…

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  26. 7 Habits of Effective People

    Today I'm wrapping up some of my thoughts on the book IMPOSSIBLE: How I Lost Nearly 400 Pounds Without Surgery I really like a segment on the 7 habits of healthy people . These inlcude: Healthy people eat all the time (don't let yourself run on empty) Healthy people are prepared (and don't get…

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  27. Television Challenge - Own Your Actions

    Today I talk about a challenge that if you are watching TV you need to be moving!. Also I talk about spoiled athletes who never have to own their actions.

  28. Focusing on What's Important

    I went to a conference and one of the keynote speakers mentioned that we should schedule our lives to be run at 40%. Why? Because life happens, and that gets moved up to 80%. The problem is we schedule ourselves to be run at 100% (I know I did the last few weeks and a 3 lb increase was the…

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  29. Take Notice of TV Commercials

    Today its a quick show but I noticed something. When I'm in the car I hear tons of advertisements for cars. Why? Because there are a ton of people who listen to the radio in their cars. Hence it makes sense for car dealers to advertise on the radio. It is where their target market is. Makes…

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  30. What if You Were Healthy

    Today I'm out with my portable recorder and taking you along as I walk to find some food. I'm still reading the book Impossible and the last chapter he asked, "What would you do if you were healthy?" Maybe its something like: Sit in any chair, Shop in the "normal" section Smile standing in front…

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  31. Is Facebook Making You Fat

    Why Diet's Are Doomed I was at a Casting Crowns concert and Mark Hall the lead singer made a great point. You start a diet when you are full and feel awful. You are inspired by the way you feel. You jump into everything you see. You buy P90X, and schedule time to jog every day after you do the…

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  32. The Motivational Power of Tough Love

    Today I talk about some reviews we've received in iTunes. Sometimes its hard to hear negative things about you, but you need to stop and ask if there is any validity to comments. In some cases, there are. Here is the one that really got me. It was from Ellen. by EllenHenderson from USA on…

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  33. Don't Settle For an Unhealthy Lifestyle

    If you want to lose weight you need to make your own food, and measure everything you eat. You eyes deceive you. One trick you can do is eat on smaller plates. It sounds silly, but you eyes think its a lot of food when its not as much. Why is it that we won't settle for some things, but we lay…

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  34. What if a doctor told you to stop?

    Today I'm still sharing from the book IMPOSSIBLE: How I Lost Nearly 400 Pounds Without Surgery and I'm finding it amazing. He talks about forcefeeders, and on Memorial Day I was faced with quite a few. Now, let me stop right there. Nobody put a gun to my head. My response is my responsibility.…

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  35. 4 Steps to Lasting Weight Loss - No More Victim Mentality

    Today we again look at the book Impossible: How I lost 400 lbs. It's a great book and today is based on the chapter about taking steps for lasting weight loss. I think the part that jumped out at me is that we have to be honest with ourselves. We have to track what we put in out mouths, and we…

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  36. Are You Ready To Lose Weight?

    Today I share some insights I'm getting from a great book called IMPOSSIBLE: How I Lost Nearly 400 Pounds Without Surgery . We had the author Bryan Ganey on a few episodes ago, and I'm just now getting around to reading his book. WOW IS IT AWESOME. It's filled with tons of just "Yeah, that makes...

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

A No nonsense approach to weight loss. Dave Jackson brings his entertaining look at fitness gadgets, motivational stories, books, and articles as he continues on his path to better health. He's not a Doctor, or a trainer, just someone like you trying to lose some weight.

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A No nonsense approach to weight loss. Dave Jackson brings his entertaining look at fitness gadgets, motivational stories, books, and articles as he continues on his path to better health. He's not a Doctor, or a trainer, just someone like you trying to lose some weight.

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