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Weight Loss

How to Stick to Your Diet
When All Hell Breaks Lose

December 2, 2020

Knobology is the ability to turn the knobs of your own behavior in real time, in response to changing life circumstances. It’s the opposite of rigid adherence to a prescribed plan with no freedom to deviate.

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How to Eat Less During a Pandemic: PYP 402

May 6, 2020
Lots of us are moving less during this stay-at-home time. But we’re often eating just as much, or more, or more frequently, or worse. It’s easy to say, “Just eat less,” but it’s not that easy to do. In this short episode, I share three strategies for reducing caloric intake without feeling deprived. Read More

How Not to Diet with Michael Greger, MD: PYP 362

January 28, 2020
Michael Greger’s latest book, How Not to Diet, is just stunning.  It’s a love song to science: its potential, its process, even its limitations.  There has never been a more comprehensive, accessible, and evidence-based look at our current knowledge of how to get to and achieve a healthy weight. Read More

Getting Healthy and Giving Back with Brittany Sade: PYP 350

November 19, 2019
Brittany Sade is a vegan entrepreneur and health coach. Her company, Prosperiteez Clothing, devotes part of its profits to combatting food insecurity in impoverished communities. Brittany wasn’t always a paragon of healthy living. Thanks to meat three times a day, along with a serious cheese addiction, she suffered from skin problems, arterial blockages, and overweight. … Read More

Healing Asthma with a Plant-Based Diet with Margot Freitag: PYP 347

November 4, 2019
Margot Freitag is a coach who helps people transition to a plant-based diet successfully and sustainably. Growing up in Northwest Ontario (cue “Helpless” by Neil Young), she suffered from asthma, and made constant trips to the ER throughout her childhood. As a teen, she became a yoyo dieter, trying every variation she stumbled across in… Read More

Reconnecting with the Healing Power of Plants with Joe Cross: PYP 334

August 6, 2019
Joe Cross was, in the words of his first film, “Fat, Sick, & Nearly Dead” when he embarked on a 60-day experiment to escape the pain and discomfort of a lifestyle-induced auto-immune disease. His transformation story, chronicled in that 2010 documentary, has inspired millions of people to start juicing, and to add more plants to… Read More

Honoring Tradition While Charting a New Course with Ramona and Dustin Lajaunie: PYP 325

June 4, 2019
Ramona and Dustin LaJaunie are part of a family that has lost over a thousand pounds through plants and running. The mother and brother, respectively, of Josh LaJaunie, Mona and Dustin are now the cooks in the family.  And one of their biggest challenges was abandoning all the classic southern recipes that they loved and… Read More

Ketogenic Smoke and Mirrors with Robyn Chuter: PYP 289

September 24, 2018
There’s so much buzz about keto these days, there must be something to it, right? I mean, if it didn’t work to help people lose weight and feel better, they wouldn’t be doing it. I admit, despite my years of research and practice; despite having co-written three books on nutrition; despite seeing the positive effects… Read More

Brian Wansink on Tricking Ourselves into Eating Better: PYP 288

September 18, 2018
Brian Wansink is hiding behind a tiny plate for a very good reason. He’s the researcher behind some of the most surprising findings in recent behavioral science, the most famous of these involving the interaction between plates and bowls and eating behavior. Read More

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Hi, I’m Howard Jacobson, host of the Plant Yourself Podcast, co-author of Sick to Fit, and co-founder of WellStart Health Coach Academy and WellStart Health.

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