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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Let's Talk About Motivation

The Dr. Laura Podcast

Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM

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4.66.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2026

⏱️ 5 minutes

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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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