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The Burn Stress Lose Weight Podcast

The Burn Stress Lose Weight Podcast

Dr. Priyanka Venugopal 259 Episodes Jul 28, 2026

The Burn Stress Lose Weight Podcast is a weekly audio letter for professional working moms, offering inspiration and education on achieving lasting weight loss. Hosted by Dr. Priyanka Venugopal, a busy physician mom, it shares her personal struggles and solutions for weight management. The podcast emphasizes a science-based and perspective-driven approach, aiming to help listeners feel unstoppable.

Episodes

229: The What If Loop and How Craving Certainty Keeps Overachievers Stuck (plus what to do instead)!
229: The What If Loop and How Craving Certainty Keeps Overachievers Stuck (plus what to do instead)! Jul 28, 2026 10:11 We're wrapping up the six-part summer series with the mindset pattern I see most often in the smartest women I work with: wanting to feel completely certain and in control before you take action. It sounds responsible. It even feels productive. But if you've ever spun through every "what if" scenario, you already know what this really is: a time machine that takes you out of the only moment you ca
228: "I'll Decide Later" is Sabotaging Your Health Goal (and what to do about it)
228: "I'll Decide Later" is Sabotaging Your Health Goal (and what to do about it) Jul 21, 2026 06:14 If you've ever made a plan on Sunday and thought, "But what if I don't feel like eating that way by Thursday?" and then quietly made no plan at all, this one is for you, friend. In Part 5 of the Success Mindset summer series, I dig into the mindset that keeps so many of us overachievers stuck: the fear of feeling boxed in, and the way that fear quietly hands your most important decisions to the mo
227: Win Now by Doing the Hard Thing First
227: Win Now by Doing the Hard Thing First Jul 14, 2026 10:45 If you're the kind of woman who gets a little hit of satisfaction every time you cross something off your list, this one's for you, friend. Because here's what I've noticed after years of chasing those tiny checkboxes: the small, easy tasks we tell ourselves are "productive" are often the exact thing keeping us from the goal that actually matters. I call it procrasto-working, and overachievers are
226: How Overworking is Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Wins
226: How Overworking is Sabotaging Your Weight Loss Wins Jul 7, 2026 10:11 If you're the kind of woman who scans the room to make sure everyone else is comfortable before you even think about yourself, this one is for you. Somewhere along the way, a lot of overachievers picked up a quiet belief: that rest has to be earned. That you can take care of yourself once the to-do list is finally done, once the fires are out, once everyone else is handled. It sounds generous on p
225: Why Choosing Inconvenience Will Create Your Next Weight Loss Win
225: Why Choosing Inconvenience Will Create Your Next Weight Loss Win Jun 30, 2026 10:59 Most overachievers don't fall short of their goals because they lack a plan. They fall short because they're running their life on autopilot — and a goal, by definition, means you want something different than what you have right now. In part two of the Success Mindset series, Priyanka unpacks the sneaky mindset that quietly keeps smart, busy women waiting: the when-then thought. When my calendar
224: Double Your Weight Loss Results This Summer by Letting Go of All-or-Nothing Thinking (mindset series)
224: Double Your Weight Loss Results This Summer by Letting Go of All-or-Nothing Thinking (mindset series) Jun 23, 2026 08:40 If you've ever caught yourself thinking, "If I can't do it perfectly, why even bother?" — this one's for you, friend. Welcome to the very first episode of a brand-new summer series, where I'm sharing shorter, more unfiltered, off-the-cuff thoughts on the mindset of success — the gaps I'm watching come up again and again for the overachieving women I coach every single week. We're kicking it off wi
223: Coaching vs. Therapy, Self-Worth, and Raising Emotionally Aware Kids with Dr. Shivana Naidoo
223: Coaching vs. Therapy, Self-Worth, and Raising Emotionally Aware Kids with Dr. Shivana Naidoo Jun 16, 2026 47:18 If you've ever gotten the A+, the promotion, the passed board exam... and felt good for maybe two days before sprinting toward the next thing, this episode is for you. This week I'm joined by Dr. Shivana Naidoo, a child and adult psychiatrist I met at a women physicians conference, where her talk hit me so squarely in the heart that I tracked her down afterward and asked her to come on the show. W
222: How to Lock In on your Health Goal
222: How to Lock In on your Health Goal Jun 9, 2026 23:47 If you've ever told yourself "I'll get serious about this after summer… after the holidays… in January," this one's for you. There's a quiet thought error running underneath that delay, and once I name it, you won't be able to unsee it. So many of us keep pushing off the best parts of our lives because a primitive part of the brain has decided that losing the weight you want has to feel terrible a
Bonus Episode: Inside The Burn Stress Lose Weight Group Coaching Experience
Bonus Episode: Inside The Burn Stress Lose Weight Group Coaching Experience Jun 4, 2026 17:52 You've done this before. You get a clean plan, the macros mapped out, a tidy calorie budget, and you feel completely ready... and then a busy work week, an on-call shift, or the after-school chaos quietly dismantles it by Wednesday. In this short bonus episode, I'm talking about why a plan on paper almost never survives real life, and what actually does. There's a big difference between having a s
221: The Miserable Middle Maybe
221: The Miserable Middle Maybe Jun 2, 2026 30:56 There's a decision you've been carrying around. Maybe for weeks, maybe months, maybe (if you're honest) years. You've made the pros and cons list more than once and you're still circling. If that's you, friend, nothing is broken, you're not indecisive. You're a smart woman who learned to wait until you feel completely certain before you move. In this episode I name that holding pattern, do the mat
220: How A Busy ObGyn Physician Lost 40 Pounds Without Tracking Calories
220: How A Busy ObGyn Physician Lost 40 Pounds Without Tracking Calories May 26, 2026 40:22 If you've lost weight before only to gain it back, this conversation is for you. I'm bringing Dr. Kara Geoghegan back to the podcast because we're catching her at a part of the journey we rarely talk about — what happens after you hit your goal. Kara is a private practice OBGYN, a mom of four, married to another physician. She had every justification to say she didn't have time. She used to use th
219: 38 Pounds Down with Ashley Conway and taking quitting off the table
219: 38 Pounds Down with Ashley Conway and taking quitting off the table May 19, 2026 37:30 Ashley Conway came to me convinced she'd tried everything. A PA, planner, and overachiever to her core, she'd run the calorie-restriction route, the intense-cardio route, the I-just-need-a-better-spreadsheet route. The morning she called a friend to ask if bariatric surgery was her only option left, she found this podcast. Then she got pregnant — and messaged me asking if it even made sense to joi

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