From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the Becoming Thin podcast, and I am your host, Chris Terrell.

Welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. How did this last week go for you,

champion? What your challenges did you encounter? But more importantly, what failure did you go

through and what lesson did you get from that failure? Come on now, don't let a perfectly good

failure go by without you getting your lesson. That's your reward for your troubles after all.

Now if you're new here, I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood chronic yo-yo dieting.

Up, down, up, down, up again, before I finally got sick and tired to be in sick and tired.

In fact, I made some permanent meaningful and actual changes to my real life lifestyle, habits, or teens, environment, community,

and to my systems of belief.

Because it's all those things that create the results of my life.

If wanted to get new results of my life, I was going to have to go change those six things.

My lifestyle, habits, routines, environment, community, and belief systems.

If you want to get new results, you're going to have to go change. Yours too. Now, change is not easy. You know, people ask me all the time, like, how do you lose weight? And, you know, like, well, eat less than you need. It's the answer. A lot of people say, well, how do you do that? Right? It seems really hard. And I'm like, well, I mean,

mechanically, weight loss is actually pretty easy. And then of course, but people are always like,

yeah, I don't know, it sure seems hard when I'd do it. Well, because we're not focusing on the right thing.

We're not, when we say the hard thing, weight loss, mechanically, is really not that complicated.

It's actually pretty easy.

The challenge comes in, it's how do we get ourselves to do it.

Right?

And one of the things I thought I could do today that might be fun is I could, I got five prepared for you. I have five ways that you might be making weight loss harder. Now, you might not be doing all five of these. You might not be doing any of them. But these are some of the most common that I see. I'm not going to say they're the most common. They're just among the most common. There's more. But I think these five are pretty good. And so as I go through this list, I just want you to

ask yourself, as you go through this, is, am I doing this? Am I making my weight loss harder than it needs to be?

I thought of my weight loss journey like a quest, like a video game.

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