Becoming Thin Philosophy: Living in the Present - (250)
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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In this episode, Chris introduces the idea that lasting weight loss requires a shift in philosophy, not just changes in food choices. Drawing from his own journey of losing 125 pounds after years of yo yo dieting, he explains that real transformation came from changing how he viewed his lifestyle, habits, environment, community, and belief systems. When those underlying systems changed, his results finally changed too. This episode begins a deeper exploration of the philosophies behind becoming thin, healthy, happy, and in shape.
Chris dives into the role emotional eating plays in weight gain and why so many people find themselves eating when they are not actually hungry. Emotional eating does not always look like binge eating. It often shows up as boredom eating, mindless snacking, or recreational eating that slowly adds up over time. One of the biggest drivers of emotional eating is uncertainty and the feeling of being powerless over situations in life. When people feel anxious, stressed, or helpless, the mind looks for relief, and food often becomes the easiest outlet.
The key skill Chris introduces is learning to sit with emotions instead of trying to escape them. Many people try to distract themselves from uncomfortable feelings, but that only postpones the problem. Instead, Chris explores the philosophy of being present in the moment and separating yourself from the thoughts that create emotional distress. By learning to observe your thoughts rather than automatically reacting to them, you can reduce the urge to emotionally eat and begin building a healthier relationship with food and with yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the Becoming Thin podcast, and I'm your host, Chris Terrell. |
| 0:16.3 | And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. How did this last week go for you, champion? |
| 0:21.6 | What new challenges did you encounter? |
| 0:23.6 | But more importantly, what failure did you go through and what lesson did you get from that failure? |
| 0:28.6 | Come on now, don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting your lesson. |
| 0:32.6 | That's your reward for your troubles after all. |
| 0:34.6 | Now if you're new here, I've lost 125 pounds myself, |
| 0:38.3 | after an entire adulthood of chronic yo-yo dieting. Up, down, up, down, up again, before I finally |
| 0:44.7 | got sick and tired to being sick and tired of fat, and made some permanent, meaningful, and actual |
| 0:48.9 | changes. To my real-life, lifestyle, habits, or teens, environment, community, and to my |
| 0:53.4 | systems of belief. Because it's all six of those things that created the results in my life. And if I wanted to get new results, I was going to have to go change those six things in a real way. And you are too. But you see, that's going to mean, you're going to have to go, let me give you the punchline. Because right now everything I'm doing in the guild is all centered around emotional eating. |
| 1:11.6 | The punchline is, if you want to lose weight and keep it off for good, you're going to have to go solve the weight gaining problem. |
| 1:17.6 | And more than likely, the reason why you gained weight is because you've been eating when you weren't hungry. |
| 1:21.6 | And more than likely, the reasons why you weren't, why you were eating when you weren't hungry is because of emotional eating. Emotional eating. Now, not all emotional eating is bad and problematic. Sometimes people think it's like binge eating and sure, that definitely falls on the spectrum. But there's other forms of emotional eating, like boredom eating. Bortem eating is in fact emotional eating. There's a reason you're doing it. Mindless eating, that's another form of emotional eating. It's not like a super gargantuan problem, but it can certainly contribute. And there's so many other things like that. If you want to lose weight and keep it off, you're going to have to master the skill of eating when you're hungry. It doesn't mean you only eat when you're hungry, you're just going to have to stop regularly eating when you're not. It's all that recreational eating. |
| 2:01.2 | That's what gets you. |
| 2:01.8 | But it doesn't stop there. It's also the recreational sitting. Many of us, the reason why we gained weight is because we lived that chair to chair to chair, to chair, to chair. Lifestyle, I woke up and relocated from one chair to the next chair to the next chair to the next chair. It's going to have to break that. It's going to have to change the pattern if I wanted to get new results in my life that would actually stick. It would |
| 2:21.2 | actually stick. Welcome, welcome. It's a new season of the podcast, I believe. I believe this is, |
| 2:27.8 | I need to double check actually, because it just dawned me right as I hit record. Let's look, |
| 2:32.4 | but I'm pretty sure we are in the next season. |
| 2:35.8 | I arbitrarily break them into 25 episode seasons because why not? Yeah, last week was episode 25, |
| 2:42.1 | a season 11. We are now in season 12, episode one. And every journey, every 25 episodes, |
| 2:48.0 | I learn things about myself. I learn things about the podcast. I change |
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