Becoming Thin Philosophy: Who are you? - (251)
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
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This episode goes deeper than weight loss. Chris shares the moment everything changed for him, when his father’s passing forced him to confront time, presence, and the reality that life is not waiting. What started as a desire to lose weight became something much bigger. A realization that he wasn’t just chasing a smaller body, he was chasing permission to feel differently about himself and his life.
Through personal reflection, Chris walks you through the turning point that shifted his entire identity. He explores how so many of us spend years waiting to finally feel confident, happy, or proud, believing those feelings come after weight loss. But what if that’s backwards? What if the only thing standing in the way of those feelings is the belief that you’re not allowed to have them yet? This episode challenges that belief at its core.
You’ll also be introduced to a powerful perspective shift that can change how you see yourself and your struggles. If you are not your body, your thoughts, or your emotions, then who are you? And more importantly, what does that mean for the urges, patterns, and habits that have kept you stuck? This episode invites you to stop waiting, start questioning, and begin discovering who you really are underneath it all.
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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. |
| 0:16.1 | And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. |
| 0:20.2 | How did this last week go for you, champion? |
| 0:22.2 | What new challenges did you encounter? |
| 0:24.6 | But more importantly, what failure did you go through |
| 0:27.3 | and what lesson did you get from that failure? |
| 0:30.0 | Come on now, don't let a perfectly good failure go by |
| 0:32.9 | without you getting your lesson. |
| 0:34.5 | That's your reward for your troubles after all. |
| 0:36.7 | Now if you knew here, |
| 0:37.9 | I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood of chronic yo-yo dieting. Up down, |
| 0:44.0 | up, down, up again. Before I finally got sick and tired of being sick and tired and fat, |
| 0:48.6 | and made some permanent meaningful and actual changes to my real life lifestyle, habits, or teens, |
| 0:53.3 | environment, community, and to my systems of |
| 0:55.9 | belief because it's all of those things that created the results of my life and if i wanted to get new |
| 1:00.1 | results i was going to have to go change those same very six things and now i'm here each week to |
| 1:05.0 | help you get the results in your life that you want hopefully it's the same ones that i got myself |
| 1:10.4 | which is to become |
| 1:11.6 | thin, healthy, happy, and in shape. Not one of them, not two of them, not three of them, but all four. |
| 1:16.8 | Thin, healthy, happy, and in shape. Now, if you are looking to get started on your weight loss |
| 1:22.8 | journey, I have prepared a free weight loss course that you can join by going to Becomingthin.com. It's a daily listening program where I'll coach you in the morning and I'll coach you in the evening and I'll take you for a few weeks. And if you like that program and you find you want to continue it on, we'll give you an invite on how to continue that program on in the guild. If you want to go ahead and just join the Guild of Champions directly, you can still take the free course, even if you want to join the guild. You can join that by going to I'm not |
| 1:48.7 | quitting.com. And you can join my community and coaching program. I'm going to get that out of the way |
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