Let's Talk About Motivation
The Dr. Laura Podcast
Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM
4.6 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 16 February 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:26.2 | at Dr.ora.com. We had a call and I got a number of responses of people identifying with the |
| 0:34.0 | situation and I thought it was very important to bring it up to you again, |
| 0:38.2 | because it talks about, to my mind, it talks about motivation and how restraining yourself. |
| 0:47.8 | It's very hard to motivate yourself to restrain yourself, but it is much easier to motivate yourself to grab for something, |
| 0:59.0 | to take control of something, but to keep yourself from something, it's not natural. Okay? |
| 1:11.7 | Yesterday a caller, actually was last week, said she needed to lose 20 pounds in order to cut down her possibility of getting cervical cancer when she's got some weird cells. |
| 1:26.1 | She asked, quote, how do I get the discipline needed to stay on a diet? |
| 1:31.3 | You said, don't diet. Focus on reducing body fat, which increases the estrogen that feeds cancer. |
| 1:43.6 | In other words, don't think linear the diet. Think abstract. |
| 1:47.0 | Build your life around reducing estrogen. With lifestyle changes, the weight is secondary. We're not concerned about the weight per se. We're concerned about minimizing estrogen. |
| 2:00.0 | The caller changed her whole focus. She had about minimizing estrogen. |
| 2:04.7 | The caller changed her whole focus. |
| 2:06.4 | She had never thought of it that way. |
| 2:08.7 | Thinking of a diet is like being punished, |
| 2:11.9 | thinking I'm going to make sure that, |
| 2:16.1 | Godforsaken estrogen is conquered. So Deborah continued, my doctor told me I'm pre-diabetic, needed to reduce my A1C. Then she handed |
| 2:25.5 | me a list of foods. I can and cannot eat. I skimmed it. Then got overwhelmed and sad that I will not be |
| 2:32.8 | able to eat my Ben and Jerry's. |
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