A Step-by-Step Guide to Sabotaging Yourself
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Becoming Thin Podcast, I flip the script on weight loss advice. Instead of telling you how to succeed, I walk you through exactly how to fail—on purpose.
If you’ve ever caught yourself repeating the same frustrating patterns, this episode will hit hard. I cover 10 common (and sneaky) self-sabotaging habits that make weight loss miserable, unsustainable, or straight-up impossible.
This episode is part mindset wake-up call, part reverse psychology, and 100% real talk. By the end, you’ll know whether you’re unknowingly setting yourself up to struggle—and what to do instead.
Why extreme restriction sounds smart—but backfires fast
How your self-talk is either sabotaging or saving you
Why “fast results” is the wrong goal (and what to chase instead)
The hidden danger of talking to the wrong people about your journey
What happens when you assume you’re broken—and how to break that belief
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| 0:00.0 | From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the Becoming Thin podcast, and I am your host, Chris Terrell. |
| 0:16.7 | Welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. How did this last week go for you, champion? |
| 0:22.4 | What new challenges did you encounter? |
| 0:24.4 | But more importantly, what failure did you go through? |
| 0:26.8 | And what lesson did you get from that failure? |
| 0:28.9 | Come on now. |
| 0:29.8 | Don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting your lesson. |
| 0:33.0 | That's your reward for your troubles, after all. |
| 0:35.1 | Now, if you're new here, I've lost 125 pounds myself after an |
| 0:39.3 | entire adulthood of chronic yo-yo dieting. Up down, up down, up again. Before I finally got |
| 0:44.6 | sick and tired to be in sick and tired. And I made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to |
| 0:49.1 | my real-life lifestyle, habits, teens, environment, community, and to my systems of belief. |
| 0:54.9 | Because it's all of those things that created the results of my life now. It's all the things that created the results |
| 0:58.7 | of my life then. And if you want to get new results, you're going to have to change them. And I want |
| 1:02.1 | to help you change the results in your life too. And now I'm here each week to help you do just that. |
| 1:08.6 | So I'd like to welcome you to one more week of your journey. Now, have you ever |
| 1:15.1 | had something that you did? You thought, wow, this is really great. I'm super excited about this. |
| 1:19.8 | This turned out awesome. And then you stop and you look down and you realize your microphone |
| 1:23.0 | was turned off and your redundant microphone picked it up, but your redundant microphone isn't |
| 1:26.4 | really there for anything other than transcripts. Yep, that happened to me. So I've recorded an entire |
| 1:30.8 | episode of the podcast, didn't realize my mic wasn't working. And normally that means I get nothing, |
| 1:35.6 | but for whatever reason I had a redundant mic going. And so I had a judgment call to make. I could |
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