Are you using your responsibilities as an excuse to avoid facing yourself? - (233)
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
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Episode Description
If you have tried every diet, tracked every calorie, and still find yourself overeating at night or regaining the same weight over and over, this episode is going to hit uncomfortably close to home. Chris pulls back the curtain on five real-life roadblocks that most people never want to say out loud. These are the deeper life choices and dynamics that quietly keep you overweight, out of shape, and exhausted, no matter how badly you say you want to change.
Drawing from his own 125 pound weight loss and years of coaching people through morbid obesity into a thin life, Chris calls out the hard stuff. The job you hate. The kids who take everything out of you. The way you hide in helping everyone else. The spouse you blame or fear. The principles and beliefs you have never updated since your twenties. This is not about shaming you. It is about finally telling the truth about the life you built and how that life is shaping your body.
If you have ever thought “I just do not have time to take care of myself” or “I cannot change this without blowing up my whole life,” this conversation will challenge that story and give you a way to start taking your power back.
In this episode, you will learn
- Why a controlling, draining, or boring job can quietly drive emotional eating and long term weight gain, and what it really means to consider changing it.
- How a lack of boundaries with your kids teaches them that self care is optional and keeps you stuck in chronic self neglect.
- Why constantly helping everyone else first can be a socially acceptable way to avoid facing your own body, habits, and limitations.
- How an overbearing spouse, or the story you tell yourself about your spouse, becomes an excuse that blocks your progress and what you can actually do about it.
- Why outdated principles and unexamined beliefs from your past are running the show and keeping you from becoming the thin, healthy, happy version of you.
This episode is for you if
- You feel trapped by your job, your kids, or your relationship and you keep saying they are the reason you cannot lose weight.
- You are the reliable helper for everyone else, but your own health keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the list.
- You are ready for straight talk, tough love, and real responsibility without shame.
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:16.8 | And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. |
| 0:22.6 | How did this last week go for you, champion? What new challenges did you encounter? |
| 0:24.6 | But more importantly, what failure did you go through and what lesson did you get from that failure? |
| 0:30.6 | Come on now. Don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting your lesson. |
| 0:35.6 | That's your reward for your troubles after all. |
| 0:38.2 | Now I've been new here. I've lost 125 pounds myself. After an entire adulthood of chronic yo-yo |
| 0:43.9 | dieting, up down, up, down, up again, before I finally got sick and tired of being sick and tired |
| 0:49.2 | and fat, and made some permanent meaningful and actual changes to my real life lifestyle, habits, |
| 0:54.3 | routines, environment community, and to my systems of belief. |
| 0:59.4 | Because it's all six of those things that create the results of my life. |
| 1:02.0 | And if I wanted to get new results in my life, I was going to have to go change those |
| 1:05.4 | six things on a real level. |
| 1:08.0 | And now I'm here each week to help you make changes in your life that are going to actually |
| 1:12.7 | stick. Stick forever. Stick for good. I know you don't want to take a round trip ticket to |
| 1:19.5 | Thinville. You want a one-way trip ticket to Thinville. Why? Because you plan to move there. |
| 1:25.5 | Set up shop. Let everything behind you go. But it's scary. |
| 1:30.3 | It's scary to do that. It's scary to set off going, is this the time? Is this the time I do it? |
| 1:35.9 | You see, there's always got to be a first time. And some of y'all, your first time and came way later in life after a whole bunch of failed attempts and that is okay but there's always |
| 1:44.4 | got to be a first time and just because you failed a bunch does not mean this will not be your |
| 1:51.0 | first time but with that being said i have had the privilege of working hand in hand with many, many, many people seeking to lose all their weight |
| 2:06.3 | and go from being morbidly obese to thin and everything in between, even super morbidly |
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