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

And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest.

How did this last week go for you, champion?

What new 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, under all.

Now I've been new here.

I lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood of chronic yo-yo dieting. Up, down, up, down, up again. Before I finally got sick and tired to be in sick and tired and fat, and made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my real-life lifestyle, habits, routines, environment, community, and to my systems of belief.

Because it's all of those things that created the results of my life. And if I wanted to get new results, I was going to have to go change those six things. Now I'm here each week to help you make the same changes in your life. Slowly and over time, which we're going to talk about in depth here in a second. But before we jump into the topic of the podcast, if you have not yet done so and you're looking to get started on your weight loss journey, I'd love to invite you to take my free, yes, totally free weight loss course. It is a three-week program. Starts with five days and then we'll roll you into the next two right after that. And you can join that. Register for it for free at Becomingthin.com. That's becoming thin.com. And if you'd like to go ahead and start working with me

right away, you can also learn more about my program at I'm Not Quitting.com. And if you've enjoyed the

podcast, we'd like to invite you to leave a rating and a review, but only if I've earned it, give me a few listens. And if I've earned it, I would love to get that rating and review. And if you're on Apple Podcasts, a written review, means a lot to me. All right. We've been sticking with these Becoming Thin Philosophies, and today is going to be no different. Sort of taking the breaks off myself, so to speak, and talking about things that honestly make me a little nervous to talk about.

But it's some areas that I've wanted to talk about for a long time.

You know, for years in the past, I sought to lose weight, actually decades.

And I would try diet after diet after diet. And when each one

didn't work, I would go back to trying one of the old ones again often. And I always assumed that the

problem was me in truth. I assumed there was something wrong with me. I'm the broken one because whenever

I wasn't dieting, I was gaining weight. No matter what I do, I gain weight and I couldn't stick to these diets. So therefore, the price of weight loss was

something I, it just wasn't one I could pay. I would think to myself, well, I'm not disciplined.

You know, I'd think that I'm lazy. How come all these other people can stick to a plan and I can't? It must be easier for them. This is really hard for me. This isn't fair, I'd often think. It's not fair that I was born into a body that isn't naturally fit. It's not fair that I was born into a body that doesn't like all sorts of food. It's not fair that I was born with a mind that is lazy and gets distracted.

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