How To Lose Weight and Keep It Off

How To! with Mike Pesca

Peach Fish Projects

Education, How To

4.3 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

John needs to shed 15-20 pounds. At age 72, on the cusp of retirement, he wants to reduce his blood pressure medication and have more energy to travel. John knows how to lose weight—at an earlier point in his life he lost more than 50 pounds! But now he's gained much of it back, and with his wife baking him more sweets during the pandemic, he can't motivate himself to keep the weight off. In this episode of How To!, we bring on Katy Milkman, a behavioral economist at the University of Pennsylvania to help John try some new mental tricks to achieve his goals. Start by reengineering your environment, Katy says, then create a concrete plan with loved ones who can hold you accountable. John can use a turning point, like his impending retirement, to kickstart a new weight-loss regimen that sticks.

If you liked this episode, check out "How To Lose 155 Pounds Happily."

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0:30.3	How do you feel when you get on that scale these days?
0:36.8	Frustrated.
0:52.1	I've lost from, say, 220 down to 206, and I'm just losing a steady pound a week. I feel good about it. I'm successful. All of those cues should keep me motivated. And they do. And then it's just just I lose it.
0:55.6	Welcome to how to.
0:56.8	I'm Charles Duh.
1:04.8	I am pretty certain that almost everyone listening to this at some point has struggled a little bit to lose weight.
1:06.6	I know that I certainly have.
1:10.7	And the frustrating thing about this is that there's a pretty simple equation, right? You eat fewer calories and you drink water instead of soda, etc., etc.
1:15.6	But of course, the real hurdle is the one that's inside your head.
1:18.6	Finding the motivation to stick with your plan, even when it gets boring and tedious, and the weight loss seems so slow.
1:25.6	For this week's listener, finding the motivation to not only lose weight but to keep it off,
1:32.0	that's the hardest part.
1:33.7	My name is John.
1:36.1	I am living in Oklahoma.
1:39.2	I'm 72 years old.
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