What are your favourite podcasts for weight loss, healthy lifestyle or plain old entertainment?

NRTL
NRTL Posts: 16 Member
edited November 19 in Health and Weight Loss
Hey all, I love a good podcast and am wondering what recommendations the MFP community have. My favourites (non-health and fitness related) are Criminal; Baggage Reclaim Sessions and The Untold, but I don't yet know of any good health/weight-loss/fitness related ones. What are your favourites, of any genre?
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  • Old_Cat_Lady
    Old_Cat_Lady Posts: 1,193 Member
    edited June 2017
    Dr. Fuhrman on PBS. One hour show. My go to video when I can't fall asleep. Better than melatonin. Or My 600 lbs life old shows on youtube.
  • junodog1
    junodog1 Posts: 4,792 Member
    If you want positive messages and to hear peoples stories look up Half Size Me
  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
    Brad Shoenfeld
  • inertiastrength
    inertiastrength Posts: 2,343 Member
    edited June 2017
    Still waiting for Alan Aragon to make that appearance on Joe Rogan Experience, but no, he went Gary Taubes smh

    when your fav podcaster goes full potato :9
  • NRTL
    NRTL Posts: 16 Member
    mrsnattybulking wrote: »
    Still waiting for Alan Aragon to make that appearance on Joe Rogan Experience, but no, he went Gary Taubes smh

    when your fav podcaster goes full potato :9

    Or rather, no potato if GT has got anything to do with it!
  • NRTL
    NRTL Posts: 16 Member
    Thanks everyone, subscribed to all and will be taking them to the gym with me!
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    For entertainment:
    My Brother, My Brother and Me
    Sawbones
    Judge John Hodgman
    How Did This Get Made
    Spontaneanation
    Stuff You Missed In History Class
    Welcome to Nightvale
    Craig's List
    WTF with Marc Maron
    Wait Wait Don't Tell Me
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Sigma Nutrition is a good one.

    Fitcast is more exercise focused, but has a ton of episodes and introduced me to lots of good people.
  • NRTL
    NRTL Posts: 16 Member
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    For entertainment:
    My Brother, My Brother and Me
    Sawbones
    Judge John Hodgman
    How Did This Get Made
    Spontaneanation
    Stuff You Missed In History Class
    Welcome to Nightvale
    Craig's List
    WTF with Marc Maron
    Wait Wait Don't Tell Me

    I haven't listened to any of these - perfect! Thanks so much for the recommendations.
  • Momepro
    Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
    edited June 2017
    Welcome to Night Vale. A radio broadcast from a small town trapped in a Lovecraftian horror pocket of reality. It's weird and fun.

    And Thrilling Adventure Hour, an old timey styled radio theater show. This has several different series based on different styles of old shows. Most of them pretty funny. My favorites are Beyond Belief, about a happily married couple of very wealthy, occult fighting alcoholics. Sparks Nevada, Martial from Mars (mi inlaws live in Sparks, lol), and Captain Lazerbeam a Superhero.

    Also started on The Orbiting Human Circus of the Air, which is done bybthe Night Vale people. It's....odd, but interesting. I've only just started though, so we'll see where it goes.
  • NRTL
    NRTL Posts: 16 Member
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Sigma Nutrition is a good one.

    Fitcast is more exercise focused, but has a ton of episodes and introduced me to lots of good people.

    Adding these to the list - thank you!
  • Penthesilea514
    Penthesilea514 Posts: 1,189 Member
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    For entertainment:
    My Brother, My Brother and Me
    Sawbones
    Judge John Hodgman
    How Did This Get Made
    Spontaneanation
    Stuff You Missed In History Class
    Welcome to Nightvale
    Craig's List
    WTF with Marc Maron
    Wait Wait Don't Tell Me

    Wait...I think this is pretty much literally my podcast list.
  • NRTL
    NRTL Posts: 16 Member
    grmrsan wrote: »
    Welcome to Night Vale. A radio broadcast from a small town trapped in a Lovecraftian horror pocket of reality. It's weird and fun.

    And Thrilling Adventure Hour, an old timey styled radio theater show. This has several different series based on different styles of old shows. Most of them pretty funny. My favorites are Beyond Belief, about a happily married couple of very wealthy, occult fighting alcoholics. Sparks Nevada, Martial from Mars (mi inlaws live in Sparks, lol), and Captain Lazerbeam a Superhero.

    Also started on The Orbiting Human Circus of the Air, which is done bybthe Night Vale people. It's....odd, but interesting. I've only just started though, so we'll see where it goes.

    Do you like all the Minnow Beats Whale podcasts - Tanis, Rabbits and The Black Tapes? I always feel overwhelmed by how many Night Vales there are, but I'm going to give them a try, thanks!
  • JetJaguar
    JetJaguar Posts: 801 Member
    If anyone remembers the old late-night call in radio show Loveline with Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew Pinsky, it's spirit lives on in the Adam and Dr. Drew podcast.
  • Momepro
    Momepro Posts: 1,509 Member
    NRTL wrote: »
    grmrsan wrote: »
    Welcome to Night Vale. A radio broadcast from a small town trapped in a Lovecraftian horror pocket of reality. It's weird and fun.

    And Thrilling Adventure Hour, an old timey styled radio theater show. This has several different series based on different styles of old shows. Most of them pretty funny. My favorites are Beyond Belief, about a happily married couple of very wealthy, occult fighting alcoholics. Sparks Nevada, Martial from Mars (mi inlaws live in Sparks, lol), and Captain Lazerbeam a Superhero.

    Also started on The Orbiting Human Circus of the Air, which is done bybthe Night Vale people. It's....odd, but interesting. I've only just started though, so we'll see where it goes.

    Do you like all the Minnow Beats Whale podcasts - Tanis, Rabbits and The Black Tapes? I always feel overwhelmed by how many Night Vales there are, but I'm going to give them a try, thanks!

    Never heard of those? I'll look them up. If you do Night Vale, go in order. Each season has it's own storyline, and they get more involved as time goes on. And each season refers to events in previous seasons.
  • Lounmoun
    Lounmoun Posts: 8,423 Member
    Penthesilea514 wrote: »
    Lounmoun wrote: »
    For entertainment:
    My Brother, My Brother and Me
    Sawbones
    Judge John Hodgman
    How Did This Get Made
    Spontaneanation
    Stuff You Missed In History Class
    Welcome to Nightvale
    Craig's List
    WTF with Marc Maron
    Wait Wait Don't Tell Me

    Wait...I think this is pretty much literally my podcast list.

    B)
  • NRTL
    NRTL Posts: 16 Member
    wish:command :)http://blog.myfitnesspal.com/4-ways-podcasts-can-improve-daily-walk/
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,230 Member
    Non-health related - I love the Morbid Curiosity podcasts. Really informative and factual podcasts about a variety of topics about which people have morbid curiosity. Everything from the Bermuda Triangle to head shrinking, medieval torture to Lizzy Borden, urban legends and ghost and ghoul stories and the facts behind them. It's very cool.
  • NRTL
    NRTL Posts: 16 Member
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    Non-health related - I love the Morbid Curiosity podcasts. Really informative and factual podcasts about a variety of topics about which people have morbid curiosity. Everything from the Bermuda Triangle to head shrinking, medieval torture to Lizzy Borden, urban legends and ghost and ghoul stories and the facts behind them. It's very cool.

    Sounds great! A bit like Lore, if you know that one? My podcast list is looking pretty epic :)
  • displaced1
    displaced1 Posts: 73 Member
    Happier podcast is about creating habits and making life easier in general. It's not exercise/diet focused per se, but many subjects and recommendations can be used for weight loss. I was listening to podcast 2, and she was discussing people who have to abstain from an activity vs those who moderate their activities and how we're all different. I used to feel I could eat something in moderation, but it's actually easier to just abstain from having it. I have more difficulty stopping after a portion or two and prefer to just not have it at all. They were not talking about dieting but I'm applying it to that. She discusses lots of topics.
  • beesareyellow
    beesareyellow Posts: 335 Member
    Not really a podcast, but I love to run while listening to Zombies, Run! The story lines are really fun and intense. Also, like many others, I love Welcome to Nightvale.
  • PaigeInTechnicolor
    PaigeInTechnicolor Posts: 164 Member
    edited July 2017
    Orbiting Human Circus is my favorite podcast (and possibly my favorite thing, period.) I saw the live show and it was so, so good. Possibly life changing good.

    Aside from the ones mentioned,

    For stand alone dramas
    Bbc drama of the week
    The Truth
    Getting on with James Urbaniak


    Continual series (I tend to love horror, btw)
    Spines
    Archive 81
    Darkest Night
    Mabel
    Homecoming
    The Bright Sessions

    Stand alone stories:
    The Moth
    The New Yorker Fiction Podcast
    Strangers
    Short Cuts
    This American Life
    Knifpoint Horror

    For people telling me stuff:
    The Singing Bones
    Myths and Legends
    Invisabilia
    Hidden Brain
    Radiolab

    Also love the Classic Tales Podcast, which is really just audiobooks.

    ETA: Beware of the Minnow Beats Whale ones. They are really captivating at first, but lead pretty much nowhere. If you are tempted, I would say the first two seasons of Tanis close nicely, but then they just kept making seasons...
  • Dnarules
    Dnarules Posts: 2,081 Member
    Entertainment:. We're Alive

    Science:. This week in virology, this week in microbiology, and this week in parasitism (my favorite; has a case study).
  • cavia
    cavia Posts: 457 Member
    Serial
    The Infinite Monkey Cage
    True Crime Brewery
    Death, Sex and Money
  • NRTL
    NRTL Posts: 16 Member
    PaigeInTechnicolor wrote: »

    ETA: Beware of the Minnow Beats Whale ones. They are really captivating at first, but lead pretty much nowhere. If you are tempted, I would say the first two seasons of Tanis close nicely, but then they just kept making seasons...

    I admit I also gave up Tanis and Black Books after the first two seasons, but I did really enjoyed those first two... Shame they didn't wrap them up before they started rambling...
  • NRTL
    NRTL Posts: 16 Member
    displaced1 wrote: »
    Happier podcast is about creating habits and making life easier in general. It's not exercise/diet focused per se, but many subjects and recommendations can be used for weight loss. I was listening to podcast 2, and she was discussing people who have to abstain from an activity vs those who moderate their activities and how we're all different. I used to feel I could eat something in moderation, but it's actually easier to just abstain from having it. I have more difficulty stopping after a portion or two and prefer to just not have it at all. They were not talking about dieting but I'm applying it to that. She discusses lots of topics.

    I'm so an abstainer! Love GR...
  • Kimblesnbits13
    Kimblesnbits13 Posts: 369 Member
    NRTL wrote: »
    Alatariel75 wrote: »
    Non-health related - I love the Morbid Curiosity podcasts. Really informative and factual podcasts about a variety of topics about which people have morbid curiosity. Everything from the Bermuda Triangle to head shrinking, medieval torture to Lizzy Borden, urban legends and ghost and ghoul stories and the facts behind them. It's very cool.

    Sounds great! A bit like Lore, if you know that one? My podcast list is looking pretty epic :)

    This sounds amazing! I'll definitely check it out!
  • TorStar80
    TorStar80 Posts: 252 Member
    Grown Ups Read Things They Wrote as Kids - they are each about a half hour, and I die laughing through every one. It's not artsy like some of these :) But if you want a really good laugh, I recommend it. I also like Stuff You Should Know, the topics are always random and the hosts are engaging and down to earth.
  • MidModJenn
    MidModJenn Posts: 216 Member
    My Favorite Murder
    Song Exploder
    Jarnsaxa Rising
    99% Invisible
    Strangers
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