If you’ve ever looked at someone else’s progress and thought, “Why can’t I do that?” or brushed off your own wins with, “Yeah, but it’s not that good…” this episode is for you.

In this episode of The Weight Loss Podcast, we dive into self-doubt – the quiet voice that tells you you’re not good enough, not ready, or too far gone to change.

We unpack:

1. Why comparison is a completely rigged game (and how to stop playing it)

1. How constantly minimising your achievements keeps you stuck

1. The loop of negative thoughts → negative actions → more negative thoughts

1. Simple ways to start collecting evidence that you can do hard things

1. How wins in one area of life can build belief in every other area

1. Why taking action while you’re scared is the fastest way to grow confidence

If you’re great at cheering on everyone else but brutal with yourself, this conversation will help you start building the one skill every transformation needs: belief that you are capable and worth the effort.

🎧 Hit play to stop self-sabotage at the source and start backing yourself like you mean it.

How we can help you -

• Calories Not Included – 87 fast, flexible and family-friendly recipes for people who are sick of weighing their lettuce.

These recipes have been hand-picked by us out of our coaching program for busy people who want to look, feel and function better...without living by a set of rules and without the diet drama.

You receive the book via instant digital download/email, and the book itself is ready to be printed for those who prefer their copies physical!

• The Weight Loss Podcast Classroom – Our structured, affordable 12-week introductory education and support program proven to help busy people like you know exactly where to start, how to get on track and stay on track.

Get started on a proven step-by-step path to taking control over your emotional eating, building healthy and sustainable habits that give you energy every day, improve your strength, fitness, body shape and confidence — without counting calories, following some silly unsustainable diet, dodgy supplements, expensive medications or feeling like you have to exercise for 300 hours per week.

You will learn more in 12 weeks than you have the past 5-10 years when it comes to exercise, nutrition, habits and real, sustainable healthy change. That's our promise to you. This program is perfect for absolute beginners and/or people on a super tight budget. Please note it is not a coaching program.

• The Weight Loss Podcast Academy – If you need personalised support as well as accountability, education, structure and direction from Matt and Courtney themselves, then get all the details on The Weight Loss Podcast Academy here.

This is our coaching program where we teach you everything you need to know and we do it right there with you via coaching, accountability, support and guidance from us personally. We accept clients via application only and work with people for a minimum of 12+ months (most stay for 2-3 years).

NOTE - we accept roughly 4% of applications we receive. What we do isn't for everyone and we are very selective as to who we invest our own time, energy and expertise into. Results guaranteed if you are accepted. This is best-in-industry education, coaching and accountability. It is not cheap.

Type “weight loss plan” into Google and you get 312,000 results.

Somehow…they all claim to be the one.

In this episode of The Weight Loss Podcast, we cut through the noise and show you how to spot a bad weight loss plan before it wastes your time, money and sanity.

We dig into:

1. The biggest red flags to watch for in any program or challenge
2. Why anything that demonises entire food groups (carbs, fat, sugar, whatever’s trendy this week) is a problem
3. Plans that put one food, one exercise, one supplement on a pedestal as “the secret”
4. How extreme rules and “drop 10kg in 4 weeks” promises quietly guarantee you’ll regain it all
5. Why sustainability beats shock-and-awe every single time

If you’re tired of feeling confused, burned by past programs, or scared to trust anyone again, this episode will give you a calmer, common-sense way to judge what’s in front of you.

By the end, you’ll know exactly what to walk away from, what questions to ask, and what to look for instead if you actually want results that last longer than 12 weeks.

🎧 Hit play before you sign up for the next “miracle” plan.

How we can help you -

• Calories Not Included – 87 fast, flexible and family-friendly recipes for people who are sick of weighing their lettuce.

These recipes have been hand-picked by us out of our coaching program for busy people who want to look, feel and function better...without living by a set of rules and without the diet drama.

You receive the book via instant digital download/email, and the book itself is ready to be printed for those who prefer their copies physical!

• The Weight Loss Podcast Classroom – Our structured, affordable 12-week introductory education and support program proven to help busy people like you know exactly where to start, how to get on track and stay on track.

Get started on a proven step-by-step path to taking control over your emotional eating, building healthy and sustainable habits that give you energy every day, improve your strength, fitness, body shape and confidence — without counting calories, following some silly unsustainable diet, dodgy supplements, expensive medications or feeling like you have to exercise for 300 hours per week.

You will learn more in 12 weeks than you have the past 5-10 years when it comes to exercise, nutrition, habits and real, sustainable healthy change. That's our promise to you. This program is perfect for absolute beginners and/or people on a super tight budget. Please note it is not a coaching program.

• The Weight Loss Podcast Academy – If you need personalised support as well as accountability, education, structure and direction from Matt and Courtney themselves, then get all the details on The Weight Loss Podcast Academy here.

This is our coaching program where we teach you everything you need to know and we do it right there with you via coaching, accountability, support and guidance from us personally. We accept clients via application only and work with people for a minimum of 12+ months (most stay for 2-3 years).

NOTE - we accept roughly 4% of applications we receive. What we do isn't for everyone and we are very selective as to who we invest our own time, energy and expertise into. Results guaranteed if you are accepted. This is best-in-industry education, coaching and accountability. It is not cheap.

“I know what to do…I just can’t seem to do it.”

If that feels uncomfortably familiar, this episode is for you.

In this episode of The Weight Loss Podcast, Matt and Courtney break down what no one tells you about motivation: it’s moody, unreliable, and absolutely not the thing that keeps you going for months and years.

You’ll hear:

1. Why waiting to “feel motivated” is quietly killing your progress

1. The real difference between motivation vs commitment (and why you’re not broken if you don’t feel fired up every day)

1. What to do when you hit a plateau and your brain screams, “What’s the point?”

1. How Matt and Courtney lost a combined 100kg without being “on” all the time

1. How to build a simple, boring, powerful level of consistency that survives bad days, long weeks and zero mojo

If you’ve ever looked at your plan and thought, “I just don’t have it in me today,” this episode will show you exactly what to do next—without needing hype, willpower or a perfectly motivated version of you.

🎧 Hit play to learn how to keep moving forward…especially on the days you really don’t feel like it.

How we can help you -

• Calories Not Included – 87 fast, flexible and family-friendly recipes for people who are sick of weighing their lettuce.

These recipes have been hand-picked by us out of our coaching program for busy people who want to look, feel and function better...without living by a set of rules and without the diet drama.

You receive the book via instant digital download/email, and the book itself is ready to be printed for those who prefer their copies physical!

• The Weight Loss Podcast Classroom – Our structured, affordable 12-week introductory education and support program proven to help busy people like you know exactly where to start, how to get on track and stay on track.

Get started on a proven step-by-step path to taking control over your emotional eating, building healthy and sustainable habits that give you energy every day, improve your strength, fitness, body shape and confidence — without counting calories, following some silly unsustainable diet, dodgy supplements, expensive medications or feeling like you have to exercise for 300 hours per week.

You will learn more in 12 weeks than you have the past 5-10 years when it comes to exercise, nutrition, habits and real, sustainable healthy change. That's our promise to you. This program is perfect for absolute beginners and/or people on a super tight budget. Please note it is not a coaching program.

• The Weight Loss Podcast Academy – If you need personalised support as well as accountability, education, structure and direction from Matt and Courtney themselves, then get all the details on The Weight Loss Podcast Academy here.

This is our coaching program where we teach you everything you need to know and we do it right there with you via coaching, accountability, support and guidance from us personally. We accept clients via application only and work with people for a minimum of 12+ months (most stay for 2-3 years).

NOTE - we accept roughly 4% of applications we receive. What we do isn't for everyone and we are very selective as to who we invest our own time, energy and expertise into. Results guaranteed if you are accepted. This is best-in-industry education, coaching and accountability. It is not cheap.