The Leaner You Podcast with Daniel Rosenthal and Santo Chiappetta
Sep 28, 2026 · 1 hr 59 min · 11 segments
Daniel was away this week unexpectedly, so we're reposting one of our most popular episodes... -- This is episode 50, and we wanted to do something different. Instead of a narrow topic, we decided…
So coach, what are some of the obvious reasons that a mom over 40 might find it tricky to lose weight? And keep
There's obviously things that moms can only do in terms of, you know, when babies are first born, et cetera.
Like when were people in their 40s born? You know, like late 70s into the 1980s and therefore grew up in the 1990s, the era when diet culture was at its absolute worst.
And that was the era of extremes, of the all or nothing, of just focus on being skinny.
And a lot of the people that we work with still have that kind of mindset because it just became so deeply embedded in their formative years.
And the problem is, that that diet culture, that way of thinking, it lends itself to this extreme all or nothing approach to trying to lose weight, which if you are listening to this, you are either stuck there and can't get results because of that, or maybe you are in the process of working through it and trying to eliminate that old way of thinking.
So doing the extreme things, like 1200 calories, like working out every single day for hours.
If you can be consistent with that, I mean, yeah, you're going to lose weight, but how are you going to maintain that? Like what's the plan for long-term weight maintenance? As you often say, coach, most people don't have a weight loss problem.
an approach where you learn the skills to maintain your weight loss while you are losing weight because they're pretty much the same thing aside from the calorie intake, which we're going to go into soon.
And so the goal of a sustainable approach is to get out of that yo-yo diet mentality, out of that all or nothing mentality into something that you can integrate into day-to-day life.
And there are certain expectations that we have to set with this more sustainable approach.
So coach, what are some of the obvious reasons that a mom over 40 might find it tricky to lose weight? And keep
There's obviously things that moms can only do in terms of, you know, when babies are first born, et cetera.
Like when were people in their 40s born? You know, like late 70s into the 1980s and therefore grew up in the 1990s, the era when diet culture was at its absolute worst.
And that was the era of extremes, of the all or nothing, of just focus on being skinny.
And a lot of the people that we work with still have that kind of mindset because it just became so deeply embedded in their formative years.
And the problem is, that that diet culture, that way of thinking, it lends itself to this extreme all or nothing approach to trying to lose weight, which if you are listening to this, you are either stuck there and can't get results because of that, or maybe you are in the process of working through it and trying to eliminate that old way of thinking.
So doing the extreme things, like 1200 calories, like working out every single day for hours.
If you can be consistent with that, I mean, yeah, you're going to lose weight, but how are you going to maintain that? Like what's the plan for long-term weight maintenance? As you often say, coach, most people don't have a weight loss problem.
an approach where you learn the skills to maintain your weight loss while you are losing weight because they're pretty much the same thing aside from the calorie intake, which we're going to go into soon.
And so the goal of a sustainable approach is to get out of that yo-yo diet mentality, out of that all or nothing mentality into something that you can integrate into day-to-day life.
And there are certain expectations that we have to set with this more sustainable approach.
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