Click here to listen to the show on YouTube and click here for the podcast on iTunes Here are three more thinking errors (the first three are here) that keep us stuck from making real change in our lives. Your mind will use these distortions to make you feel bad and helpless and hopeless unless they are caught and replaced with more accurate thoughts. The first one in this episode is jumping to conclusions. We take a single fact--positive or negative--and imagine it will cont

Click here to listen to the show In order to create lasting change in your fitness, understanding the psychology of weight loss is crucial. This is the first of a two-parter on cognitive distortions, which I call by the more user-friendly term thinking errors, which is a concept from cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). All of us are born with thinking errors, and understanding them is essential to having a full-life. The three cognitive distortions mentioned in this episode

Click here to listen to this episode Measuring weight is easy. Measuring body fat not so much.... So David hopped into an egg-shaped device called the Bod Pod to get a more precise measure of his body fat. Ready for this egg to hatch! I sat down with the CEO of Fitnescity, Laila Zemrani to talk about how to measure body fat without being immersed in water. After our meeting I realized I was wearing another shirt that needed to be donated to charity. It seems that even though

Click here to listen This episode covers two weeks so there's lots of weigh-ins and numbers in this week's show. So here are a few screen shots for those of you into that sort of thing :) Here are graphs of my weigh-ins for both the weeks this episode covers. As you can see, I had plenty to be delighted with as my weight started dropping on May 17th. I was shocked, and you can hear it in the episode, on the 19th when I was hoping for 215 (best case) and instead wound up at 21

Click here to hear it! The first week of May was the first chance since all this had started that I could deal with my "normal" seventy hour a week schedule, sans guests or moving all my belongings from Uptown to Downtown. I happily settled back into Midtown Manhattan living (I had lived there once before) and walked all over enjoying the sun and the towers that dominate that neighborhood. It was cool for May (climate change is real dear readers) but I wore as little as I cou

Click here to hear it! In this episode (which covers April 17 to April 30th), your eternally optimistic host quickly realizes something he keeps forgetting--I am not a robot. I cannot do everything I want to do, regardless of how hard I try. Part of my daily commute, Grand Central either early in the morning or late in the evening... The practice I am the CEO of, Darien Wellness, was booming and my work with my private coaching clients had maxed out as well. Add to that the g

The plan is to eat more food to lose weight. Yes it's true, sometimes eating more food is part of the method to make your weigh-ins more successful. David and his coach, Ryan L'Ecuyer talk about the not-so-magical process of making numbers go up to make them fall down. Listen to Episode Two Week One, April 2nd to April 9th involves me "feeding up." One the last night I went out with a few friends and had a burger, heard some music and had my third alcoholic drink of 2018. I w

Listen to this episode In this first episode, life coach and therapist David Ezell talks about the process and some of the techniques he used to lose and keep off 81 pounds with journalist Steve Calechman (stevecalechman.com). And here is the transcript to the episode: The Weighting Episode Zero [Theme music up] My name is David Ezell. I'm a cognitive behavioral coach and therapist. Three years ago it dawned on me that I was a fat hypocrite. I was helping other people get wha