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Program Yourself Thin Podcast
by Jim Katsoulis
Tired of diets? Obsessed with your weight, but not losing any? Confused about what to do next? 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 25 years).➜ FREE Custom Weight Loss Hypnosis Session 👇https://ProgramYourselfThin.com/hypno
Episodes
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Feel It Before You Get There
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…
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The Six Seconds After The Last Bite
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…
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The Two Things Motivation Runs On
“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...
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Why Your Motivation Keeps Running Out
You start the week fired up. By Thursday, a stressful day and a full pantry win again. It’s tempting to decide you don’t want it badly enough. The real problem is that your reasons are too close to the surface. Fitting into the jeans or hitting a number can get you started. They rarely have…
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Turn Your Experience Into Wisdom
You probably look back at your weight history as a long list of failures. The diet that fell apart in week three. The pounds that came back after the wedding. Every attempt filed away as proof that something is wrong with you. Look again. That history holds more useful information about how you...
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Feeling Good On Purpose
After a hard day, the cookie buys you ten minutes of relief. That need is real. The trouble is that food is the only tool most people have for meeting it, so they reach for it again and again. In this episode, I explain why so much stress eating is really a search for a good feeling, and how to...
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Threat Or Challenge? Responding To Stress
The same stressful moment can land in your body in two very different ways. One leaves you drained, scattered, and reaching for the pantry. The other carries you through with a clear head. The event is identical. What changes is how you respond in the first few seconds. In this episode, I explain...
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Reacting Vs. Responding To Food
Something sets you off. A stressful email, a tired evening, a plate of cookies on the counter at work. Before you've had a single conscious thought, you're already eating. That's a reaction. It happens fast, and it happens on autopilot. A response is different. It has a small gap in it, a moment...
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Calm Keeps The Weight Off
You can lose weight while you're stressed. Plenty of people do it on pure grit, gritting their teeth through every meal. The trouble shows up later. Grit runs out, life gets loud again, and the weight finds its way back. In this episode, I explain why staying at your goal weight depends on calm…
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Expanding Your Weight Loss Time Frame
Most people give themselves twelve weeks. Maybe a month. When the scale hasn't moved enough by then, they decide it didn't work and walk away. The plan was fine. The window was too small. In this episode, I explain what happens when you stretch that window out. The pressure drops. A slow week…
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Your Real Weight Loss Goal
Here's a question almost nobody asks at the start: what will you do the day after you hit your number? Most people have no answer. That blank space is exactly where the regain begins. Reaching your goal weight is an event. Living there is who you become. In this episode, I explain why the habits...
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You Don't Have To Give Up Sweet To Lose Weight
Every diet you've tried asked for the same sacrifice. Cut the sugar. Skip dessert. And every time, the craving came back louder than before. In this episode, I explain why giving up sweet things almost always backfires, and how to keep sweetness in your life while you move toward your goal…
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Your Body Isn't Hungry For Calories
You finish a big meal and twenty minutes later you're back in the pantry. Your stomach is full. So what is it you're actually hungry for? In this episode, I explain what your body is really asking for when the cravings won't quit, and why more calories never seem to answer it. Once you understand...
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What's The Best Part Of Living At Your Goal Weight?
Ask people who've made it and you'd expect them to talk about the clothes. The compliments. The number on the scale. Most of them don't. When they answer honestly, what they describe is something much quieter, and it catches them off guard. In this episode, I share what people tell me is the best...
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The Peace Of Living At Your Goal Weight
Picture a morning where food isn't the first thing on your mind. You get dressed without bracing yourself. You eat breakfast and then you forget about it, because there's nothing left to negotiate. In this episode, I talk about the part of living at your goal weight that nobody puts on a...
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Four Ways To Quiet Food Noise Naturally
It starts the moment you wake up. What will I eat today? Should I have that? How many hours until lunch? By dinner you're worn out, and you haven't done anything yet except think about food. In this episode, I share four natural ways to turn that volume down. No pills, no strict rules, and none…
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Little Things That Help You Lose Weight
You keep waiting for the big breakthrough. The perfect plan. The Monday that finally sticks. Meanwhile, the things that actually move the scale are small enough to walk right past. In this episode, I share a handful of quiet, almost boring habits that add up to real results over time. None of…
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The Easiest Way To Lose Weight
Most people start with the hardest possible version. The strictest diet, the most punishing rules, the plan that demands the most from them right out of the gate. Then they wonder why they burn out in two weeks. In this episode, I explain why you should look for the easiest path from the very...
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Thinking Of Yourself As A Thin, Healthy Person
You've spent years thinking of yourself as someone who struggles with weight. Someone who's always fighting it. And whatever you believe about who you are, your actions line up to match. That's the real reason nothing sticks. In this episode, I explain why lasting change starts with identity, not...
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Using Your Strengths To Lose Weight
You've done hard things. Raised kids, held down demanding work, carried people through their worst moments. Real strengths, proven over decades. And somehow when it comes to food, you've convinced yourself none of that counts. In this episode, I explain how to take the strengths you already have...
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The 3 Best Emotions You'll Feel At Your Goal Weight
You think about the number. The dress size. The photo. But that's not what you're really after. What you actually want is a feeling, and you can start naming it right now. In this episode, I walk through three of the best emotions waiting for you at your goal weight. Not the smaller gifts like...
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How To Choose Your Perfect Weight
Most people pick a number and then feel like a failure for not reaching it. They grab it from an old photo, a chart at the doctor's office, someone else's body. No wonder it never feels right. In this episode, I explain how to choose a weight that actually fits your life, your age, and how you…
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Motivating Yourself To Lose Weight With Pleasure
Almost everyone tries to push toward their goal weight with pressure. Guilt, fear, the threat of what happens if they don't. It works for a day or two, then it wears you down. There's a completely different fuel available, and it lasts. In this episode, I explain how to motivate yourself through...
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A Painful Way To Motivate Yourself
Most motivation lives way out in the future. The reunion, the summer, the person you'll be someday. It's too far off to move you right now. But there's a kind of pain that shows up almost immediately after you eat badly, and you've been ignoring it. In this episode, I explain how to use that...
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Motivating Yourself To Lose Weight
You keep waiting for motivation to show up. That surge of energy that finally makes you do the thing. So you wait. And when it doesn't come, or fades by Wednesday, you call yourself lazy. In this episode, I explain why waiting for motivation keeps you stuck. Real drive doesn't arrive on its own.…
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Rest To Lose Weight
You've been told losing weight takes more. More effort, more discipline, more pushing. Here's what almost nobody tells you: sometimes it takes less. Sometimes what your body actually needs is rest. In this episode, I explain how being run-down and sleep-deprived quietly drives overeating, why…
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Imagining You're At Your Goal Weight
You spend a lot of time imagining the worst. The slip, the regain, the disappointment you can already see coming. What if you turned that same power in the other direction and pictured yourself already there? In this episode, I explain why vividly imagining life at your goal weight isn't wishful...
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Developing Your Weight Loss Skills
Nobody hands you these skills at birth. Naturally thin people learned theirs so long ago they've forgotten they ever learned anything at all. It looks like luck from the outside. It isn't. In this episode, I explain why losing weight is a set of skills you build over time, the same way you'd…
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Reflecting And Planning On 2026
We're deep into the year now. This is the moment most people quietly stop paying attention to the goals they set back in January. It's actually the perfect time to do the opposite. Look honestly at what's been working. Keep it. Then take an equally honest look at what hasn't, and let it go. In…
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The Natural Way To Quiet Food Noise
That constant chatter about food — what to eat, what not to eat, when you can have it, whether you should. For a lot of people it never stops. It's exhausting, and it makes every meal a negotiation. In this episode, I explain where food noise actually comes from, why willpower makes it louder...
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Weight Loss Without Willpower
You've been told that losing weight comes down to discipline — that if you just wanted it badly enough, you'd push through. So every time willpower runs out, you blame yourself. But willpower was never meant to carry this. In this episode, I explain why the people who lose weight and keep it off...
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How To Lose Weight Fast
Everyone wants it fast. And there's nothing wrong with wanting results quickly — the problem is how most people go after them. They slash calories, white-knuckle through the hunger, and end up right back where they started a few weeks later. In this episode, I explain how to actually speed things...
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You Eat What You See
The candy dish on the counter. The chips in the pantry at eye level. The bread basket on the table. You'd like to believe your eating comes down to willpower — but so much of it comes down to what's simply in front of you. In this episode, I explain why what you see drives what you eat far more...
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Program Yourself Thin Live 8-31-26
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...
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Using Calm To Lose Weight
So much overeating comes from the opposite of calm — the stress, the rush, the low-grade anxiety humming under your day. You reach for food to take the edge off. What if you could take the edge off without it? In this episode, I explain why calm is one of the most underrated weight loss tools…
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Program Yourself Thin Live 8-28-26
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
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Why Your Brain Wants You To Overeat
It can feel like your own mind is working against you. You want to eat less, and yet the pull toward more feels almost impossible to resist. Here's the thing: your brain isn't broken. It's doing exactly what it was designed to do. In this episode, I explain the ancient wiring that drives you to...
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Program Yourself Thin Live 8-27-26
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...
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Your Habits Control Your Weight
You like to think your weight comes down to the big decisions — the diet you pick, the plan you commit to. But it doesn't. It comes down to the small things you do without thinking, over and over, every single day. In this episode, I explain why your automatic habits matter far more than your...
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Program Yourself Thin Live 8-26-26
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...
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The Answer To Stress Eating
When life gets hard, food is right there. Fast, reliable, always available. It works for a few minutes — and then leaves you feeling worse, and further from your goal weight than before. In this episode, I explain what's actually happening when stress sends you to the kitchen, why willpower is…
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Program Yourself Thin Live 8-25-26
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...
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Imagine Things Going Exactly Right
You're an expert at imagining things going wrong. The slip, the regain, the failure you can already picture in detail. But that same imagination, pointed in the other direction, is one of the most powerful tools you have. In this episode, I explain how vividly picturing things going exactly right...
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Program Yourself Thin Live 8-24-26
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...
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What Would You Tell Your Younger Self?
If you could sit down with the younger you — the one just starting the long fight with food and weight — what would you say? Probably something gentler than anything you tell yourself now. In this episode, I explain why that question is more than a nice thought exercise. The wisdom you'd offer…
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Program Yourself Thin Live 8-21-26
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...
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Stop Asking Why You Overeat
"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…
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Program Yourself Thin Live 8-20-26
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...
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Easy Weight Loss
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...
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Program Yourself Thin Live 8-19-26
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...
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Tired of diets? Obsessed with your weight, but not losing any? Confused about what to do next? 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 25 years).➜ FREE Custom Weight Loss Hypnosis Session 👇https://ProgramYourselfThin.com/hypno
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Jim Katsoulis
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