Episode 384 – Overthinkers Anonymous

We Only LOOK Thin

Catherine and Donald Wygal

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Self-improvement, Education

5 • 741 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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You’ve got to have the perfect plan, right? The one with the best tools, the optimal routine, and maximum efficiency. It has to be out there and you just know you can find it. You can plan your way into it. However, there’s a point at which all of the planning stops being productive and just becomes information overload. You’re not really doing anything, you’re just thinking about doing things. This week, Catherine and Donald go through the “5 Mistakes People Make When Trying to Create Perfect Plans” by Dr. Alice Boyes Ph.D and give you tips on how not to get stuck in the “Overthinkers Paradox”. Learn how to stop thinking and start moving towards your goals. Plus, Catherine wants to know what to put before what, Donald accepts the uselessness of side mirrors, and what MVP really stands for will shock you.
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5 Mistakes People Make When Trying to Create Perfect Plans by Dr. Alice Boyes Ph.D.
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Related Episodes of We Only Look Thin:
Episode 367 – Rigidity Rebellion
https://www.weonlylookthin.com/episode-367-rigidity-rebellion/
Episode 368 – Adaption, ation, ation
https://www.weonlylookthin.com/episode-368-adaption-ation-ation/
Episode 362 – Perfection Paralysis
https://www.weonlylookthin.com/episode-362-perfection-paralysis/

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another getting nowhere fast episode of We Only Look Thin.
0:24.6	I am Catherine Weigel.
0:25.8	I'm one of your hosts.
0:27.1	I'm a Tiny Habit Certified Coach.
0:28.9	Yeah.
0:28.9	Thrive Global Certified Coach.
0:30.6	I've lost over 100 pounds and kept it off for over seven years.
0:34.7	And with me today is Donald Weigel and I am a host of this show. I have lost about
0:42.3	100 pounds. I've kept it off also for about seven years and we're here to talk about it. We are
0:48.5	here to talk about it and we spent many years going nowhere fast and being really annoyed by it.
0:57.8	Yeah.
0:58.2	And I think that, you know, I still fall into this trap, so to speak, of I will, like, before I start something new.
1:09.8	Yes.
1:10.3	I'll really try and, like, figure out exactly the absolute
1:14.4	best way to do it before I start doing it.
1:17.8	Well, and I think, too, as a you recognize, I don't know, you got a rep or recognize, man.
1:24.7	I don't know where that came from.
1:26.7	Sorry.
1:28.5	You got a. You best recognize. You best recognize, home slice. Yes, we're at... Oh, no.
1:34.9	Okay, this went sideways. I'm sorry. Speaking of going nowhere fast. So, you in the Gretchen Rubin world of sort of
1:43.3	understanding how the world goes, you see yourself
1:47.6	as a questioner, someone who really wants to research, make sure you understand all of the
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