What happens when you hand us a pile of your questions and say, “Go for it”?

In this episode of The Weight Loss Podcast, we’re back with another no-notes, no-BS Q&A – answering questions from YouTube, Spotify, our Facebook group and email.

We dig into things like:

Body composition scales – useful tool or just another way to obsess over numbers?

Whether you should train when you’re exhausted or skip the workout and rest.

Our take on fat burners, creatine and other “helpful” supplements – what’s worth it and what’s marketing.

How to handle snacking between meals when the urge hits hard.

What to do when your gym only lets you increase weights in big jumps.

Night shift survival: managing sleep debt, junk food at work and zombie-day cravings.

Plant-based eating, metabolism myths, and what actually speeds things up (or slows them down).

How to structure weights and cardio across a week so your body can recover.

Quitting smoking during a weight loss journey without derailing your progress.

The mental side: breaking the stop–start cycle and dealing with that point months in where your head is screaming, “You’re going backwards.”

If you’ve ever wished you could just throw your real-life questions at someone who actually gets it, this one’s for you. 🎧

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...

What happens when we let you run the show?

In this episode of The Weight Loss Podcast, we answer a stack of questions from YouTube, Spotify, our Facebook group and email – no prep, no scripts, just honest answers to the stuff that’s really on your mind.

We dive into things like:

Our thoughts on medical help with weight loss like Duromine, Ozempic and similar meds.

What to do if you’ve lost weight, regained it all, and are trying (again) to get back to your goal.

Fasted training – helpful, harmful, or just overhyped?

An 18-year-old listener struggling with binge–purge patterns and wanting to lose weight and heal their relationship with food.

How to handle injuries, setbacks, sickness and training when your body doesn’t cooperate.

Escaping the “fuck it, I don’t care” spiral, the guilt after overeating, and the shame of “falling off” your plan…over and over.

How to know if you’re eating enough, what to expect when you start lifting, and why rest days actually matter.

And yes, a very important question for Matt: favourite Super Nintendo game and why.

If you’ve ever wished you could sit us down and just fire questions at us, this episode is exactly that. 🎧

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,...

At 8 years old, Ricci was put on diet pills.

By 29, she’d spent her entire twenties feeling ashamed of her body, convinced that if she wasn’t suffering…she wasn’t really trying.

In this interview, Ricci sits down with us to share how she went from:

- Growing up with a “starve yourself” mentality and early diet trauma

- ADHD, impatience, all-or-nothing thinking and constant self-criticism

- The fear of never having set foot in a gym

…to over 2.5 years of growing consistency, lifting regularly, fuelling her body, and becoming woman and mother she wants her kids to see.

We talk about:

- The moment she realised: “Nobody is coming to save me.”

- How she stopped equating “progress” with misery and hunger

- What actually changed when she got outside accountability and a long-term plan

- Learning to give herself credit instead of moving the goalposts every time she achieved something

- Why buying “temporary” clothes for her changing body became a powerful act of self-respect

If you grew up around diet culture, feel broken by years of quick fixes, or secretly wonder if you’ll ever “get it together”…Ricci’s story will hit hard—in the best way.

🎧 Press play to hear what’s possible when you stop chasing 12-week miracles and start backing yourself for the long haul.

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...

Every time you start “for real” something happens – sick kid, work crisis, no sleep, family drama – and suddenly your perfect plan is in the bin…again. Then it’s back to, “I’ll start properly when life calms down.”

Here’s the truth: life isn’t going to calm down. So this episode is about learning how to stay consistent while it’s punching you in the face.

In this episode of The Weight Loss Podcast we break down...

- What consistency really is in the real world (hint: it’s not 100% perfect forever).

- How to work with your current life season instead of pretending you’re living in a fantasy one.

- How to build a realistic “floor, not ceiling” – bare minimums you can hit even on awful days.

- How to create your own “punch in the face plan” so when shit happens, you already know your next move.

- Why trying to do this as a solo hero is keeping you stuck, and how to start getting actual support.

If you’ve been stuck in the loop of “on/off, good/bad, perfect/faceplant”, this episode will help you swap guilt and drama for a calmer, more grown-up version of consistency that fits your messy, real life – not someone else’s highlight reel.

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.

You’ve tried so many plans it’s hard to even remember them all. It feels like you've done everything.

Each one starts the same: new plan, new me.…until life happens, the scale bounces, and you quietly decide, “This isn’t working, I need a different plan.”

In this episode of The Weight Loss Podcast we’re talking about 5 questions to ask before you change your plan – so you stop starting over every few weeks and months and finally give yourself a fair chance to succeed.

We dive into...

- How to know if your plan is actually “broken”…or if you’re just not following it often enough to judge it.

- What “enough time” really looks like for results (hint: it’s not 10 days of being perfect).

- How unrealistic expectations are secretly wrecking your motivation.

- Why your sleep, stress and environment matter just as much as your food and training.

- When you truly do need to tweak the plan…and when you actually need support, not another set of rules.

If you’re sick of feeling like a “plan-hopper” who never sticks to anything, this episode will give you a calm, practical way to decide what to do next...without burning more time, money and energy on yet another restart.

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...

How many times have you lost the weight…only to watch it slowly creep back on again?

If you feel like you’ve “tried everything” and still end up back where you started, this episode is for you.

In this episode of The Weight Loss Podcast, we unpack why people can’t keep it off – even when they’re actually pretty good at losing it in the first place.

We dive into...

- Why chasing short-term goals (weddings, summers, events) quietly sets you up to regain.

- How extreme, unsustainable programs teach you a shitload about dieting…but nothing about maintaining.

- The sneaky way compliments and early progress make you take your foot off the pedal.

- The deeper reasons the weight went on in the first place – habits, history, and the stories you picked up when you were younger.

- How warped expectations (“this should be easy and linear”) stop you building the resilience you actually need.

You’ll walk away with practical ways to...

- Shift from “12-week fix” to “years and decades”.

- Use your past yo-yo attempts as data, not evidence you’re broken.

- Start addressing the real reasons you struggle to keep it off.

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...

Walking toward the gym doors with a knot in your stomach?

Already imagining everyone staring while you try to work out which machine does what?

You’re not broken, you’re normal. And this episode will give you a clear, no-drama way to get started.

In Gym Anxiety 101 we break down...

- What anxiety in the gym really is, and why most people are too busy to judge you.

- Exactly what to ignore: physiques, outfits, “perfect form” police and the influencer circus workouts.

- What to actually do the moment you walk in so you feel prepared, not lost.

- A simple 2-day starter program using basic machines so you can walk in, follow the plan, and walk out confident.

If you’ve been stuck in “I’ll start Monday” because the gym feels intimidating, this conversation will help you trade panic for a clear plan and a couple of small wins every time you show up.

And if you’d like support building this into your real life—not some fantasy schedule, we’ll show you how we do that with clients inside The Weight Loss Podcast Academy.

If you'd like to get your hands on the starter plan we walk you through in this episode, email us at podcast@theweightlosspodcast.com

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...

Every morning you step on the scales and in two seconds you’ve decided if today is “good” or “bad”.

Up = panic. Down = relief. Either way, that little number owns your mood.

In this episode of The Weight Loss Podcast we show you 3 better ways to track progress so you can stop obsessing over your weight and finally see what’s actually improving.

We’ll cover:

Progress photos – how to take and compare them so you can see changes the scales miss.

Strength levels – why getting stronger is a huge green flag and how to track your lifts without overthinking it.

Day-to-day energy – a simple way to log how you feel so you can connect your habits to your focus, mood and patience.

This one’s for you if the scales control your headspace, you’ve had “F**k it” days after a bad weigh-in, and you’re tired of feeling like nothing is working.

By the end you’ll know exactly what to track, how to track it, and how to build a progress dashboard that keeps you going...even when the scales bounce around.

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.