From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the Chris Terrell podcast.

And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest.

How did this last week go for you?

What lessons did you learn this last week?

What failures did you experience?

And what lessons did you pull from those experiences?

If you're new here, my name is Chris Terrell,

and I've lost 125 pounds myself, and I have been keeping it off.

Now, unfortunately, it took me a lifetime of chronic yo-yo dieting before I finally got my

act together and decided to make some permanent changes, changing my actual lifestyle, my actual

routines, my actual habits so that weight loss would not only happen, it would remain a lasting result in my life.

And I'm here each week helping people like you get the same results in your life.

Welcome back.

Now, community is a massive part of what shapes us as individuals. Peer pressure is a thing.

You're going to feel the effects of a community on you. It will affect your choices. I guarantee

you it does. If you just look to your life right now, you already can see that that's true.

And so if your community has an impact on you and you're overweight,

is it possible that your community was contributing to that in some way? Was there peer pressure

to eat? And there otherwise didn't need to be peer pressure to eat. You know, this is an example

of something I didn't think about in the

beginning of my journey. I wasn't considering things like community and the role that it had to play

and to learn that later on the journey. And for this week in the podcast, I thought I would

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