Program Yourself Thin Podcast

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 rather than quieter, and the natural way to turn the volume down so eating becomes calm and simple again. 🎧 Download the free "New Thin Me" hypnosis session.

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 aren't relying on willpower at all, what they use instead, and how to build a way of eating that doesn't depend on gritting your teeth every single day. 🎧 Download the free "New Thin Me" hypnosis session.

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 up in a way that lasts — because fast only counts if it stays. When you do it right, quick results and lasting results stop being opposites. 🎧 Download the free "New Thin Me" hypnosis session.

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 than you realize, and how a few small changes to your surroundings do the work that discipline never could. 🎧 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

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 there is, how a settled nervous system quietly changes what and how much you eat, and simple ways to access it when you need it most. 🎧 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  

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 overeat, why it made perfect sense long ago and backfires today, and how understanding it takes the shame out of the struggle — and hands you back some control. 🎧 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 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 willpower or your intentions, and how changing just a few of the right ones quietly shifts your weight without the constant fight. 🎧 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

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 the wrong tool for it, and what to reach for instead that solves the real problem rather than burying 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

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 actually rewires the way you act, why your subconscious can't tell the difference between imagined and real, and how to use this on purpose instead of against yourself. 🎧 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

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 her is the exact wisdom you need today. And the kindness you'd show her is the kindness you're still withholding from yourself. 🎧 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

"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

You had a great time. You ate the food, skipped the routine, enjoyed yourself. Now you're home, the scale's up a few pounds, and that familiar panic is creeping in. Don't let it. In this episode, I explain why the post-vacation bounce isn't what you think, how to slide back into your rhythm without punishing yourself, and why the way you handle these first few days matters more than the whole trip. 🎧 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 do everything right and the scale doesn't move. You have an off week and somehow drop two pounds. It makes no sense — and that unpredictability is what drives so many people to quit. In this episode, I explain why weight loss is never a straight line, what's actually happening beneath the surface when the scale won't cooperate, and how to stay steady through the ups and downs instead of letting them derail you. 🎧 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

Once you slip, something kicks in. "The day's already ruined, might as well keep going." One cookie becomes the whole box. A missed workout becomes a lost week. That's damage mode — and it does far more harm than the original slip ever could. In this episode, I explain what's really happening in that moment, why the all-or-nothing switch is so powerful, and how to shift into minimizing the damage instead of multiplying 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

You'd think losing weight is a logical process — eat less, move more, done. So why doesn't logic work? Because the part of your mind actually running your eating isn't logical at all. It runs on associations, not reason. In this episode, I explain how your brain quietly links food to feelings, places, and moments — and why that illogical wiring is exactly what you have to work with to change your eating for good. 🎧 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  

Fullness isn't about eating more. It's about eating in a way that actually registers with your body — and most people are unknowingly doing the opposite. In this episode, I share the simplest, most reliable way to feel full and stay full for hours. It costs nothing, requires no discipline, and once you know it, you'll wonder why nobody explained this sooner. 🎧 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 treated hunger like an enemy for years — something to ignore, override, or push through. But hunger isn't the problem. It's information. And most of the time, you've been misreading it. In this episode, I explain what your hunger is actually communicating, why so much of what you call hunger isn't hunger at all, and how learning to read those signals correctly changes what you eat without any rules or restriction. 🎧 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

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 taking the hard road for years. The restriction, the willpower, the daily fight with yourself. And you've probably assumed that's just what it takes. It isn't. In this episode, I explain what the easy path actually looks like — not a shortcut or a trick, but an approach that works with your mind instead of against it. When you stop fighting yourself, the whole thing gets lighter. 🎧 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

There's something that happens when you pick fruit yourself — off a tree, off a bush, at a farm stand. You remember what food actually is. Not a package. Not a label. Something alive, that grew, that you're now putting into your body. In this episode, I explain why getting close to real, fresh food changes your relationship with eating on a level that no diet plan can reach. Your body remembers. And once it does, the processed stuff starts losing its hold. 🎧 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 chasing perfect for years. The perfect diet, the perfect week, the perfect version of yourself who never slips. And every time you fall short of it, you quit. Here's the relief you've been needing: perfect was never on the table. In this episode, I explain why perfection is impossible for everyone — including the people who seem to have it figured out — and why letting go of it isn't giving up. It's finally giving yourself a way to win. 🎧 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 think feeling better takes a whole new life — the goal weight, the perfect week, everything finally in order. It doesn't. Sometimes it takes fifteen seconds. In this episode, I show you how quickly you can shift your state, why that tiny shift matters more than you'd expect, and how stringing together small moments of feeling better quietly changes the choices you make all day long. 🎧 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 will have bad days. Everyone does. The difference between people who lose weight and people who quit isn't that one group never slips — it's that one group knows exactly what to do when they do. In this episode, I explain why hoping you won't mess up is not a strategy, and how having a simple plan ready for the bad days keeps one slip from turning into a lost week. 🎧 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