Jim KatsoulisJim AI — Your Personal Guide to Living at Your Goal Weight

motivate yourself with pet food #programyourselfthin

12 Jul 2026 · 0 min

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In this short motivational segment, Jim Katsoulis addresses the subtle, incremental nature of weight gain, noting that people often become accustomed to gaining a pound at a time without noticing its cumulative effect. To counter this, he proposes a tangible visual and physical cue: when shopping for pet food, select a bag of dog food that matches the total weight you aim to lose. By holding the bag for a minute or two, you can physically feel the effort required to carry that weight daily, thereby internalizing the energy cost of the excess weight and reinforcing motivation to lose it.

My pet food motivation trick. One of the challenges of weight is that it comes on a pound at a time, so you habituate to it in real time and you don't realize the full impact it's having on you. So one way to adjust for this is the next time you go to a grocery store or pet food store is go pick up a bag of dog food that's the same weight as the amount of weight that you want to lose. Hold it in your arms for a minute or two and internalize how much energy this is taking to carry this around day in and day out.