Charlotte Skanes
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Weight loss talk without the self-punishment spiral.
Disrupting Obesity treats weight loss as both a mechanical problem and an emotional one. Charlotte Skanes works through calorie tracking, eating windows, accuracy issues, burnout, and maintenance with bluntness that still leaves room for grace.
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Disrupting Obesity is a plainspoken weight-loss show built around honesty, repetition, and next steps. Charlotte Skanes says she lost over 200 pounds without surgery or fads, and the show uses that experience as a working reference point rather than a shiny before-and-after story. It is not gentle in the sense of avoiding hard truths. It is gentle in the sense that it refuses to make self-punishment the strategy. Episodes often start with a listener question, a difficult claim, or a common belief about weight loss, then keep turning it until the practical issue and the emotional issue are both visible. Calorie deficits matter here. So do burnout, secrecy, chronic pain, parenting stress, food used for comfort, and the exhausting feeling of wanting the long-term goal less loudly than the snack in front of someone. The show has a strong Q&A spine, especially through Weight Loss Wednesday and later Weight Loss Q&A episodes. Those installments answer specific problems such as eating too little, calculating TDEE, intermittent fasting windows, tracking while overshooting calories, and trying to lose weight around young children. The solo episodes stretch out more. They can become part confession, part correction, part practical inventory of what happens when environment, timing, people, and habits collide. Skanes is especially interested in maintenance, not just loss. She frames regain and recidivism as failures of preparation, not proof that the person trying has no discipline. That makes the show useful for people who have already heard the usual slogans and need something more durable. It talks about action without pretending emotion is a nuisance. It talks about grace without letting avoidance take over. The result is weight-loss audio for people who can tolerate being told the truth, as long as the truth comes with somewhere concrete to put their feet next.
Made for: For people pursuing significant weight loss who want direct, emotionally literate guidance on tracking, eating habits, maintenance, and self-sabotage. It especially fits listeners who need practical structure without diet-industry theatrics.
What sets it apart: The show stands out by pairing calorie-level practicality with blunt attention to the emotional reactions that can derail action. Its Q&A format and personal examples make the advice feel specific, not prefab.
The Disrupting Obesity podcast is for anyone who’s looking to lose an extreme amount of weight and change their relationship with food so they can keep the pounds off. If you’re tired of feeling judged for being fat, of excluding yourself or being left out, and using food to comfort, reward, and cope with your emotions and the day to day, don’t waste time beating yourself up. You absolutely have what it takes to lose a significant amount of weight naturally in a way that you can sustain and that will ensure you keep the weight off too. H...
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Charlotte Skanes makes weight-loss maintenance legible by connecting food choices to emotion, environment, self-talk, and the practical pressures of daily life.
Disrupting Obesity treats weight loss as a problem of patterns, environments, and emotional responses as much as food itself. Charlotte Skanes draws on losing more than 200 pounds, regaining a substantial portion, and losing it again while raising young children.
A drive-thru can feel like a hiding place; Charlotte Skanes asks what that does to your choices.
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A blunt, practical reset on maintenance, emotion, and why losing weight is only part of the job.
Episode 175 starts by resetting the conversation around weight loss and what comes after it. Charlotte cares less about hard talk than about the work of keeping the weight off, and she points out a plain gap in how people are taught: they get plenty of advice on losing weight,…
A blunt, humane Q&A about weight loss, parenting chaos, chronic pain, and keeping going.
Weight Loss Q&A 29 keeps its focus on the small, stubborn gap between wanting to lose weight and trying to do it inside a crowded life. It moves from the question of losing weight with young children into chronic pain and recovery, then into the plain, everyday ways body changes…
Plainspoken guidance on why weight loss is hard and how changing your relationship with food can help.
Charlotte Skanes spends this episode on a simple but stubborn problem: weight loss stays hard because food is not the only thing in play. The practical examples land best, especially the ones about car eating, drive-thrus, meal timing, snacks, fasting windows, shift work, and…
Nine practical holiday reminders that favor preparation over panic.
The episode argues that the last quarter should be treated as a real season, not a waiting room for January. It ties those months to the tone of the year ahead, noting how self-talk changes and how the usual weight-loss pressure can give way to planning, anticipation, and a bit…
Eat enough. Lift well. Stop shrinking.
Eat smarter, stay full, change habits.
Weight loss, after the headline moment.
This episode is a Q&A session where the host answers audience questions about weight loss, starting with a personal story about her calorie limits and body transformation.
Charlotte opens by saying this episode may land a little more aggressively than usual.
The host answers listener questions about weight loss, focusing on sustainable methods and emotional eating.
The host opens Weight Loss Wednesday's Q&A by welcoming repeat questions and keeping the door wide open.
The host answers listener questions about weight loss, specifically addressing whether eating too few calories can hinder weight loss.
Charlotte Skanes opens by saying she lost over 200 pounds without surgery, fads, or hating herself.
The host answers listener questions about weight loss struggles, focusing on the conflict between wanting to lose weight and the desire for immediate food gratification.
This episode continues a series examining controversial weight loss truths, focusing on four related topics that sparked strong reactions from listeners.
The host answers a listener's question about intermittent fasting windows, sharing her personal experience and advocating for a flexible eating window approach.
The host discusses diet culture, yo-yo dieting, and metabolic changes, offering advice for sustainable weight loss.
The host provides tips for getting through the holidays while losing weight and warns against New Year's resolutions.
The host discusses whether to try losing weight in December, using ChatGPT-generated questions to address common holiday weight loss concerns.
This episode focuses on nine ways to get through the holidays.
The host answers listener questions about dealing with judgment from others during weight loss and offers encouragement to stay focused.
The host addresses a listener's question about coping with shame from tracking calories after overeating, emphasizing the importance of viewing tracking as neutral information.