Shut Up And Choose - STOP DIETING. START CHOOSING.
The weight loss industry hopes you never find this podcast. Welcome to Shut Up and Choose, the no-nonsense weight loss podcast for busy professionals who are done with diets, gimmicks, and false promises. I’m Jonathan Ressler — Amazon bestselling author of Shut Up and Choose, keynote speaker, and former 411-pound chronic dieter who lost over 140 pounds without dieting, without the gym, and without giving up the foods I love. This show isn’t about restriction or willpower. It’s about sustainable weight loss, fat loss without diets, and creating real lifestyle change through small, smart, daily choices. Here, you’ll learn how to: ✔️ Lose weight without tracking calories or starving yourself ✔️ Build healthy habits that last — even with a busy schedule ✔️ Stop the yo-yo dieting cycle once and for all ✔️ Shift your mindset and take back control of your health ✔️ Achieve lasting weight loss results through choice, not deprivation No detoxes. No diets. No discipline contests. Just real talk, simple strategies, and a proven system that helps high performers lose weight and keep it off — in real life, with real food, and without giving up the things they love. Because transformation doesn’t start with willpower — it starts with choice. If you’re a leader, executive, or high achiever who’s ready to stop dieting and start living, this podcast is for you. 🎧 Subscribe to Shut Up and Choose with Jonathan Ressler, your no-nonsense transformation guide for sustainable weight loss, mindset mastery, and real-world health success. STOP DIETING. START CHOOSING.
Episodes
Resolutions feel powerful because they sound serious, but they cost nothing—and that’s the problem. I break down why January didn’t fail you, why dates don’t act, and how outcomes are nothing more than receipts for choices made under pressure. If you’ve been stuck in the start-stop cycle—big promises, clean slates, then quiet retreats when life gets loud—this straight talk shows where the loop begins and exactly how t...
Tired of doing “everything right” and seeing nothing change? Let’s rip the mask off fake healthy foods and show how the health halo keeps your calories high and your progress flat. We dig into why granola, smoothies, protein bars, acai bowls, and organic snacks feel responsible yet act like junk, and how slick labels trick your identity while bypassing the only metric that matters for fat loss: intake.
I shar...
Stop giving your excuses a microphone. We dig into the real reason weight stays stuck and show how a single language shift pulls you out of the loop: replace every “I can’t” with “I choose,” then back it with simple structures that make action automatic. No diets. No gym contract. No motivation theater. Just ownership, clarity, and boring wins that compound.
We start by tearing down the most common cover stor...
New year, same traps—just shinier packaging. We kick off 2026 by dragging eight hot trends that promise control and deliver collapse: fasting worship 2.0, protein desserts in wellness costumes, AI diet plans that outsource your agency, hormone fixes that sell panic, punishment challenges that build shame, gut reset kits masquerading as science, magic food lists that ignore behavior, and mindful eating theater that tur...
The calendar doesn’t change your body—your choices do. We dive straight into the uncomfortable truth the diet industry won’t touch: rigid rules feel like discipline until real life shows up. Then they snap, and you blame yourself. We break that cycle and show you how to build control that actually survives stress, travel, late nights, holidays, and all the messy parts of a real schedule.
I lay out why diets f...
Let's Not Bullshit Each Other - You’re Not Starting This Week. So Here’s What You Need for Next Year
Stop pretending the last week of December doesn’t count. We cut through the holiday fog and the “January will fix me” myth to show how small, steady choices right now create a January that feels possible instead of punishing. No gimmicks. No miracle plans. Just blunt truth and five practical strategies you can carry into the new year without burning out by the second week.
We start by dismantling the fake fre...
The fastest way to change your body is to stop acting like a bystander in your own life. Today we pull the curtain on the stories that keep people stuck—why “I barely eat,” “I’m just big and happy,” and “this plan failed me” feel comforting, yet block real progress. I share why I named the book and show “Shut Up and Choose,” how dropping 140 pounds came from decisions that fit my messy, real schedule, and why anyone c...
Ever notice how the calendar gets credit for changes your choices never made? We pull apart the January myth and show why momentum—not a date—creates real, lasting weight loss for people with jobs, families, and zero interest in living at the gym. December doesn’t doom you; it reveals you. Parties, travel, stress, and a kitchen full of “just because it’s there” snacks are not traps set by fate. They’re moments to prac...
Ready for a hard reset on everything you’ve been told about weight loss? Jonathan pulls no punches as he explains why you don’t fail diets—diets fail you—and how the cycle of rigidity, restriction, and unreality keeps you stuck in guilt instead of building real momentum. Rather than hand you another plan, he shows you how to take back the steering wheel and create choices that actually fit your life.
We dig i...
Stop Dieting. Start Choosing.
I’m Jonathan Ressler, Transformation Guide and author of Shut Up and Choose. I lost 140 pounds and built a movement the diet industry hopes you never find. No starvation. No obsession. No gym marathons. Real transformation starts when you stop outsourcing discipline and start leading yourself.
The truth is simple: weight loss isn’t about willpower—it’s about integrity. Every time you...
Shock value makes great TV, but it makes terrible health. We dig into the Netflix documentary on The Biggest Loser and trace the fallout of extreme weight loss: starvation-level calories, dehydration before weigh-ins, and punishing workouts that tanked metabolism and broke trust. The headline the show never printed is simple: you can’t out-train bad choices, and you can’t bully biology. When intensity replaces consist...
The extra 25 pounds you call “no big deal” might be costing you far more than you realize. We get brutally honest about how weight can quietly shrink your world—tugging at your confidence, narrowing your relationships, draining your energy, and numbing your joy—long before it shows up on a medical bill. No scare tactics, no gimmicks, just a clear path out: one small, smart choice at a time that rebuilds integrity and ...
What if the loudest promise in wellness—make it easy—was the most expensive lie you’ve ever bought? We pull back the curtain on the weight loss industry’s subscription model, from big-box pharmacy counters to glossy “doctor-approved” plans, and show how the business thrives on keeping you almost there. No miracle shot, cleanse, or app can sell you the only tool that actually creates lasting change: ownership.
Candy doesn’t control you—rigid rules do. We break the holiday panic cycle and show how Halloween can prove you’re in charge by trading restriction for intention. Jonathan unpacks why willpower collapses under real-life stress and how a choice-based mindset lets you enjoy the candy without the guilt, the spiral, or the Monday reset. This is about presence over perfection, awareness over autopilot, and ownership over a...
A hospital wristband, a bag of orange pill bottles, and a photo so jarring it broke years of denial—this is the moment the story turns. I walked to the edge of the “easy way” with bariatric surgery and GLP-1 drugs and realized every shortcut still demanded the same hard truth: I had to choose. Not once, not perfectly, but daily, in boring, unglamorous ways that rebuild trust from the ground up.
I share how I ...
The loudest voices in weight loss profit from confusion, shame, and false certainty—so we turn down the noise and hand you the controls. We break apart the biggest myth of all, that “calories don’t matter,” and rebuild from first principles: energy balance, metabolic adaptation, and small, smart choices that actually stick. No whiteboard lecture, no guru vibes—just plain-English science and pragmatic steps you can use...
Some truths sting because they pull the mask off. The $70B diet machine thrives on your “failure,” selling restriction and then blaming your willpower when real life shreds the rules. We take a flamethrower to that narrative and replace it with something durable: design over discipline. When your environment and systems do the heavy lifting, healthy choices stop being a daily fight and start becoming your default.
Tired of being told what you can’t eat and when you’re allowed to eat it? We go straight at diet dogma—carb curfews, salad halos, cheat-day chaos—and show why rigid rules keep you stuck in guilt and rebound binges. Instead of another plan that collapses when life gets messy, we make the case for a smarter operating system built on small, repeatable choices that flex with your day and still move the needle.
We...
Ever caught yourself thinking "I'll get serious about my health in January" or "I need to get beach-ready by June"? That seasonal mindset is exactly what keeps you trapped in the frustrating cycle of weight gain and panic dieting year after year.
The hard truth? The diet industry has masterfully conditioned us to think health has a season. They don't make billions from people who...
Ready for some raw, unfiltered truth about weight loss? In this hard-hitting episode, we tackle Southwest Airlines' customer size policy head-on and flip the script on the outrage. Far from discrimination, requiring passengers who can't fit in one seat to purchase another might be the wake-up call you never knew you needed.
Drawing from personal experience of losing 140 pounds, I share why shame nev...
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