The Obesity Guide with Matthea Rentea MD
Matthea Rentea MD leads discussions on obesity and chronic weight management. Her guests range from experts in the fields that intersect with obesity and wellness, to individuals successful in their weight journey. She is a Board certified Internal Medicine and Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine and founder of the Rentea Metabolic Clinic, a Telehealth clinic for residents of the state of Indiana and Illinois that helps comprehensively with weight management. This podcast is for information and education purposes only. No medical advice is being given. Please talk to your physician for what is right for you.
The Obesity Guide with Matthea Rentea MD
Your Friday Fave: The One Question That Changes Everything
This week’s Your Friday Five centers around a single question—one that has the power to shift your mindset, your habits, and the way you evaluate progress. I came across it in a video from Jamie Seltzer (linked below), and it stopped me in my tracks:
“If every week was like last week, would I be closer to my goal?”
In this episode, I break down why this question works, how it cuts through perfectionism, and why zooming out to that 30,000-foot view gives you more clarity than obsessing over small slip-ups. We talk about what to do if your answer is “yes,” what to do if your answer is “no,” and why understanding why you had an off week is more important than beating yourself up for it.
You’ll also hear a simple way to build this question into your weekly routine—whether that’s a Friday afternoon alarm, a sticky note, or a reminder tucked into your planner—so it becomes a guide instead of a forgotten moment of inspiration.
This episode is your permission to release perfection, get honest without judgment, and steer yourself gently back on track.
Links:
→ Watch Jamie Seltzer’s original video
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Welcome back to another, your Friday, five. I was watching a video a few weeks ago it was with Jamie Seltzer. He was on the podcast before. I really love his inspirational message and he just has such good mindset. and so he said, there's this one question you should be asking whenever someone says, I'm like, what is it? And it's, it's good guys. I'm gonna link his video down below this in the show notes. Okay? So if you're not following him on social, I don't know what you're doing. Okay? Because if anyone is going to cheer, lead you and give you perspective and knows what it's like, it's him. And I don't say that lightly. You guys know that I'm not often mentioning channels. This is what he said. You need to be asking. If every week was like, last week, would I be closer to my goal? That's so powerful. If every week was like, last week, would I be closer to my goal? Too often I see people that beat themselves up for the smallest indiscretions. The they exercised only three instead of four times they got sick and couldn't exercise. But when you look at the past week, collectively, people generally have a sense. If you really zoom out that 30,000 view and you looked at all of it. Do you think you were giving it your all? Were you in the game at all? Were you totally checked out? You can get a sense of that. Basically he goes on to say, look, if you, if you say yes, then you're good. Keep going that's just you're on the path. And if not, then what's something you're, that you're gonna change? My question would be, if you say, no, I would not be reaching my goals. I wanna know why the past week had that happen. You need to ask why, because we always have the same problems pop up again and again and again in life, and we have to start to create some systems to solve it. So you keep thinking it's every single time it happens, it's a catastrophe. Most people, these situations repeat themselves. It might not be that often, but it definitely repeats itself. This is how you get a really clear perspective of, I don't need to be perfect, but roughly I need to be headed in the right direction. I hope that his question gives you a little bit to think about. That's all I have for today, I think is a really powerful question to think about on this Friday as you're entering the weekend, or frankly whatever time you hear this, and this could be something where, you know how I would use this. This is actually what I'm gonna do. I'm literally, as I'm recording this, I'm gonna do this. I would take a sentence like that and I would make an alarm in my phone to go off maybe Friday at 4:45 PM at the end of my workday, I typically like 15 minutes at the end of the day to wrap up. I try to end by five. This does not always happen. This's a whole nother conversation that we won't get into right now, but I really am trying to work on boundaries and ending the day and not letting the to-do list dictate it. But I would put this question at that time so that each week I'm reminded about it because you know, when you hear this question right now, it's powerful. You know, you wanna remember it, put it on a sticky note, put in the bathroom mirror, put it on top of the chips and the pantry. I don't care where you put it or what you do, but you have to remember these things. Seed this question in next week's planner pages for you, whatever you have to do so that you remember it. But I hope that you can reflect on this a little bit, that this was helpful, and I'll see you on Monday. I.