10 Things I Learned After Losing 125 lbs.
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Dieting helps you lose weight. Creating habits helps you keep it off. So if you want to be successful at maintenance, I want you to collect as many habits as you.
You cannot collect too many habits. That's like saying you can invest too much for your future. That means it's like saying you can have too much money for your retirement. What? No. Far too often we confuse dieting as the solution to our problem. The problem is not losing weight. The problem is you don't know how to not gain.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Chris Terrell podcast. |
| 0:12.4 | If you knew here, I've lost 125 pounds myself and I've been keeping the weight off ever since. |
| 0:18.6 | Because my mission wasn't to lose weight. |
| 0:21.5 | My mission was to lose weight and keep it off. |
| 0:25.7 | Forever. |
| 0:27.2 | I did not want to take a round-trip ticket to Thinville. |
| 0:31.1 | I wanted my ticket to be one way. |
| 0:34.4 | One destination. |
| 0:36.0 | I wanted to lose all the weight and leave it behind in the timeline of my life |
| 0:40.2 | forever. Do you? Is that what you're wanting to do? Well, here's what I wanted to do this week. |
| 0:48.6 | This week, I wanted to share with you 10 lessons that I learned that I think would help you. |
| 0:56.6 | 10 things that I've learned not only since losing the weight, but that I've learned since |
| 1:01.5 | keeping it off. |
| 1:03.9 | Now, I want to explain what I mean by maintenance for a moment. |
| 1:07.1 | I reached my dream body goal of 165 pounds. |
| 1:11.6 | The dream of dreams, the number I didn't dare utter in the beginning of my journey, |
| 1:15.6 | the body size and shape I did not dare allow myself to dream about in the beginning. |
| 1:20.6 | That's where I made it. |
| 1:21.6 | Now what I did not do was gain 15 pounds and then crash that 15 pounds off again. |
| 1:26.6 | Gained 10 pounds and then crash that 10 pounds off again. Gain 10 pounds and then crash that 10 |
| 1:28.1 | pounds off again. Gain 20 pounds and crash that off again. That's not maintenance. That's |
| 1:33.5 | yo-yo dieting. I didn't go into this with a yo-yo dieting strategy where I get really good at |
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