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The Becoming Thin Podcast

Before You Start a Calorie Deficit, Listen to This (211)

The Becoming Thin Podcast

Chris Terrell

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 564 Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

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You’re not broken. You’re just stuck in a cycle that never worked. In this episode, I’m walking you through how to start a calorie deficit the right way—not the rushed, panicked way most people try when they’re running on fumes and desperation.


Whether you’ve tried calorie tracking before or you’re brand new to it, I break it down into manageable pieces. Because calorie tracking isn’t one thing. It’s a bunch of small behaviors stacked together. And if you can do them one at a time, you can win.


You’ll learn:

• Why you don’t need to track calories to lose weight (but when you should)

• What to do if your deficit isn’t working anymore

• How to break calorie tracking into small, doable pieces

• Why “patience” doesn’t mean “lazy”

• How to stop quitting every time the scale stalls

• A better way to think about your hunger, your routine, and your progress


I also share where I’m currently at in my own journey—yes, even coaches still have to work the process. I just came off a surplus phase, and I’m easing into a new deficit. I’ll tell you what I’m doing and what I’ve learned so you can apply it too.


🎉 BONUS: I’m hosting a free 3-day masterclass called The Mindset of Weight Loss from June 23–25.

This is the same mindset work I used to lose 125 pounds after an entire adulthood of obesity. Come learn how to stop the self-sabotage and take back control.


Register free at 👉 ImNotQuitting.com


00:00 Introduction and Host's Weight Loss Journey

01:22 Breaking the Cycle of Yo-Yo Dieting

02:10 The Importance of Adaptability in Weight Loss

03:24 Understanding Reverse Dieting

03:55 Chris's Personal Bulking and Cutting Experience

05:53 Starting a Caloric Deficit

08:17 Mental Strategies for Weight Loss

11:49 The Role of Time in Weight Loss

13:18 Tracking Calories and Deficit Planning

18:01 Frustration with Weight Loss Progress

18:09 Mocking the Negative Voice

19:09 Mindset of Weight Loss Seminar

20:16 Effective Calorie Tracking Tips

24:47 Portion Control and Hunger Awareness

32:03 Incremental Improvements and Kaizen

32:31 Conclusion and Call to Action

Transcript

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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, 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?

0:22.9

But, more importantly, what failure did you go through?

0:25.9

And what lesson did you get from that failure?

0:28.3

Come on now.

0:29.3

Don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting your lesson.

0:32.6

That's your reward for your troubles.

0:34.6

Now, if you're new here, I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood

0:39.7

of chronic yo-yo dieting, up down, up, down, up again, before I found I got sick and tired

0:44.7

of being sick and tired, and I made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my real-life

0:49.5

lifestyle habits and routines, my environment, to my community, and to my systems of belief. Because it's all of those things that created the results in my life. And if I wanted to get new results, I was going to need to change all those things. And now I'm here each week to help you change those things too, so that you can get new results that actually stay. Because I know you're not looking to book another round trip tick to thin bill, right? You're not looking to lose all the way, get down there, be like, this is great. Get your hopes up thinking this is how going to be your new normal, only to wake up sometime later and realize you gained it all back. You're not looking to do that anymore, right? Like you're done with that lifestyle, that dieting, gaining, dieting, gaining, or let's say how it is, getting excited, dieting, getting frustrated, quitting, gaining, getting frustrated, you know, you just repeat the process over and over and over again. You ready to break that cycle? I think you're ready to break that cycle. If you're here listening to this podcast and you're brand new, hey, let's keep listening. We'll help you break the cycle. If you've been

1:44.3

listening for a while, you're probably already broken and you're on a new path. I love it when I talk to somebody and I can tell that switch is flipped. I don't know how to describe it other than this. They know they're going to be successful and there's no doubt. They're like, yeah, I'm just waiting for time to pass. That's it. I already know I'm going to do it. I've already,

2:02.7

I've already lost 80 like, yeah, I'm just waiting for time to pass. That's it.

2:01.4

I already know I'm going to do it. I've already lost 80 pounds. Like I just got to, I just got to keep doing what I'm doing. Are you doing the same thing? No, no, I've been changing it all the time. One of the things I got to keep doing is changing it all the time. You know, and it's funny because in the past. I always thought when he did, we go up to lose weight, you would pick something.

2:18.8

You would make a certain set of lose weight, you would pick something.

2:18.8

You would make a certain set of changes and then you would just do those changes.

2:23.1

And that's it until you're done.

2:24.6

And then you would do something else on the other side.

2:28.3

But the reality is you make some changes to get weight losses start happening and then eventually those changes run their course. And then you make new changes. L weight loss to start happening, and then eventually those changes run their course,

2:35.2

and then you make new changes.

2:36.9

Lose a little bit more weight, then those changes run their course, and then you make new changes.

2:41.8

And then those changes run their course, and then you make new changes.

2:46.3

You see how this keeps going.

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