125 Pounds Down: Chris Terrell's Weight Loss Story
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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My Weight Loss Journey: Overcoming Trials and Transforming My Life
In this episode of the Chris Terrell podcast, Chris shares his personal weight loss journey and the significant life changes he made to lose 125 pounds over 26 months. Chris recounts the challenges he faced, the strategies he used, and the lessons he learned along the way. From initial skepticism and early motivation to confronting his personal and professional life crises, Chris emphasizes the importance of mindset and resilience. He underscores the value of small, consistent efforts and the need to adapt to life's trials without losing sight of weight loss goals. The episode also touches on the support available through his podcast, YouTube channel, and coaching programs. Ultimately, Chris encourages listeners to believe in themselves and continuously strive to improve their lives.
00:00 Introduction and Weekly Check-In
00:36 Chris Terrell's Weight Loss Journey
01:14 New Year Weight Loss Challenges
02:07 Motivation and Resources
02:49 Reflecting on 200 Episodes
03:53 Revisiting the Beginning of My Journey
07:36 The Turning Point: My Father's Illness
11:45 Starting Small: First Steps to Change
15:16 Focusing on Maintenance and Long-Term Success
17:12 Celebrating Small Wins
17:42 Facing Harsh Realities
18:51 Taking Tiny Steps Forward
19:40 Overcoming Trials
20:38 Holiday Season Challenge
22:33 Embracing Calorie Tracking
24:22 Navigating Major Life Changes
26:25 Pandemic and Isolation
30:35 Final Push to Goal Weight
33:44 Reflecting on the Journey
35:39 Encouragement and Resources
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the Chris Terrell podcast, and I am your host, Chris Terrell. |
| 0:15.4 | And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. |
| 0:19.7 | How did this last week go for you, champion? What new |
| 0:22.1 | challenges to do encounter? But more importantly, what failure did you go through and what lesson |
| 0:27.7 | did you get from that failure? Come on now. Don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you |
| 0:33.6 | getting your lesson. That's your reward for your troubles. Now if you're new here, |
| 0:37.6 | I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood of chronic yo-yo dieting. Up, down, |
| 0:44.7 | up, down again before I finally got sick and tired of being sick and tired. And I made some |
| 0:50.6 | permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my real life, lifestyle, habits, |
| 0:54.9 | routines, environment, community, and to my systems of belief. |
| 0:59.3 | Because it's all of those things that create the results in my life. |
| 1:02.5 | And if I wanted to get new results, I was going to have to change those six things. |
| 1:06.1 | And now I'm here each week to help you change those things in your life so that you can get the results |
| 1:11.7 | that you want. Welcome to 2025. We are solidly into the year nearing the end of January, and this is |
| 1:23.3 | an interesting time of year for those people that are on a weight loss quest. Some of you that just, you know, I'm speaking to those of you that started it at the beginning |
| 1:31.6 | of the year, I know there are many of you that did. |
| 1:35.2 | It's a time where a lot of people are beginning to tap out. |
| 1:37.8 | Life is starting to get difficult. |
| 1:39.2 | It's starting to become a struggle. |
| 1:40.7 | Or maybe they're finding the grind of weight loss is beginning to set in. They're beginning to realize that, huh, this is actually work. Oh, yeah. It's not like all exciting all the time. I'm doing all these things and I'm not actually losing weight all the time. And you're finding that, you know, you're starting to wrap your head around what it is that you're signing up for so to you keep going hang |
| 2:03.2 | in there don't quit don't give up don't stop don't stop if you need some help getting some |
| 2:08.6 | additional motivation what i'd like to do of course keep listening to other episodes of the podcast |
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