S13 EP22: Seven things making your life harder.
The Thick Thighs Save Lives Podcast
Constantly Varied Gear
4.9 • 724 Ratings
🗓️ 14 April 2026
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Thick Thighs Saves Lives Podcast, we’re calling out seven habits that may feel productive… but are secretly holding you back. We’re talking about the ones that drain your energy, kill your consistency, and keep you spinning your wheels.
From decision fatigue and doom scrolling to over-customizing your routine, we’re breaking down why these patterns backfire and what to do instead.
Because the goal isn’t to do more.
It’s to stop sabotaging yourself.
If any of these habits have your name on them, let’s call them out for what they are. Then you decide. Keep them. Toss them. Or maybe just switch them up a bit.
(00:01:00) Welcome to the TTSL Podcast
(00:05:02) Why you can’t blindly trust Ai
(00:09:41) Things making your life harder (that you think help)(00:16:52) Too many options becomes decision fatigue
(00:24:00) Looking at screens is not rest or recovery
(00:31:55) Over-customizing is keeping you from starting
(00:35:50) Why you shouldn’t eliminate stress altogether
(00:43:16) “Saving” calories is hurting your metabolism
(00:48:29) Saying yes to everything
(00:49:49) Overtraining
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| 0:00.0 | Black and white thinking is the killer of creativity and is the killer of your ultimate self. |
| 0:06.0 | All of these rules are gone and I'm going to figure out like what feels good and right for me. |
| 0:13.0 | It was the most liberating experience of my life. |
| 0:15.0 | We think we need the perfect program that's like specifically made for us when all we actually, we just needed to go. |
| 0:24.5 | We just needed to pick the weights up, put the weights down. |
| 0:27.2 | We are scrolling through several different emotions, storylines, and new information within 15 to 20 seconds each. |
| 0:35.9 | And we think that we're resting. |
| 0:38.5 | Your brain is working. |
| 0:41.1 | I'm here to give everybody the A-OK that your purpose on the planet is actually not just to be helpful all the time. |
| 0:58.3 | Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the Thick Thigh Save Lives podcast. |
| 0:59.1 | I'm Kelsey. |
| 1:00.8 | Hi guys. I'm Rachel. |
| 1:11.9 | We're just before you got here, Bestie, we were just discussing whether you had, do you, did you say you have individual grays? |
| 1:13.9 | Yeah, I have. |
| 1:18.7 | Just so, so it's just like one, like rogue. |
| 1:21.2 | And you're like, nope, not you. |
| 1:22.8 | Don't pluck them out, but. |
| 1:24.5 | Oh, you don't pluck them out? |
| 1:26.1 | I do pluck them out. |
| 1:29.4 | But they say don't pluck them out because they grow back twice as much. |
| 1:32.0 | Honestly, I feel like some of these things are wives tales. |
| 1:39.4 | I'm not sure that these are like based in reality and they're just like something that like took shape and like continued on. |
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