Hello and welcome to the Chris Terrell podcast.

I want to tell you a little bit about my story.

My little bit about the beginning,

what I thought before, I lost the weight.

Let's be real, losing weight is hard.

Like it's not easy.

It's not.

A lifetime of persistent dieting left some serious scars on my heart and soul and mind.

Each failed diet left deeper wounds, making it harder to start every time.

You know, there's so many struggles with weight loss that it often felt like being asked to slay a dragon arm

with only a pencil and cardboard body armor.

You know, like you've got to climb a 20,000 foot mountain

and a single step.

Honestly, if I had to summarize how it felt in the beginning

before I started, I could summarize it in one single word.

Overwhelming.

In my own life, I've done the up and down thing many, many, many times. It was a predictable

pattern. I would gain weight, reach a point where I couldn't take it anymore and go on some

miserable diet until I lost some weight,

then I would stop the miserable diet and slowly gain the weight back.

However, to add insult to injury, each time I gained the weight back I'd gain just a little bit more.

I think that somewhere in the back of my mind, I equated losing weight with failure and

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