Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

Weight loss is a spiritual process #weightloss #weightlosstips #podcast

5 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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This is a short podcast-style transcript (Josh Trent with another speaker) exploring why food is a uniquely difficult addiction because it is omnipresent, and framing weight loss/behavior change as a spiritual process that transforms identity. Key points: food addiction's pervasiveness; the process of changing habits can feel spiritual and lead to broader life transformation; Viktor Frankl's idea of the "space between stimulus and response" is invoked to highlight moments of choice; clinicians/hosts recommend asking "what am I trying to escape?" to uncover drivers (boredom, stress, reward-seeking); and stopping one habit (e.g., night bingeing) often shifts the underlying pattern onto other behaviors until the root cause is addressed ("peel the onion").

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Food is probably the hardest addiction to break because this thing is omnipresent inside of your life. You can't stop eating food. When you start to get your body in shape, you literally will take the steps to transform your entire life. It becomes a spiritual process that almost.
Tricks you into.
Evolving into that next level person.
There's this split second where we know what we're about to do isn't loving, is it nourishing? But yet we do it anyways. Viktor Frankl calls it the space between stimulus and response. How do you work with that space between stimulus and response?
Question I like to come back to is, what am I trying to escape when I'm doing this thing? I'm feeling bored, I'm feeling stressed, it's been a long day. I want to reward myself. And then you keep on asking yourself, okay, so why, okay.
Why you have.
To peel the onion to get to the core? Let's just say, like, you stopped the habit of binge eating at night. That habit will show up in other ways because you're going to transfer that coat to another thing, and it will still keep on doing that until you fix it.
What is a through line that you see with most clients and most people when it comes specifically to sabotage?