Can You Really Trust Yourself Around Food Again? - (217)
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
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Emotional Eating: How to Heal and Move Forward
In this episode of the Becoming Thin Podcast, host Chris Terrell dives deep into the complex issues surrounding emotional eating.
Sharing his personal journey of losing 125 pounds, Chris explores the impact of emotional eating, its role as a coping mechanism, and the critical need to confront and manage emotions without turning to food.
The episode addresses listener questions from the Becoming Thin Facebook group, offering insights on how to differentiate between treats and emotional eating, strategies for curbing emotional urges, the difference between binge eating and emotional eating, and the overall emotional journey of letting go of food as a comfort tool.
Chris emphasizes the importance of awareness, creating friction, and building new coping strategies, all while providing encouragement and support to those on their own weight loss journeys.
00:00 Introduction and Host's Weight Loss Journey
01:15 Balancing Information Density in the Podcast
02:02 Emotional Eating Series Introduction
02:31 The Turning Point in Emotional Eating
06:37 Facing Emotional Eating Without Food
12:07 Listener Questions on Emotional Eating
13:45 Difference Between Treats and Emotional Eating
17:28 Coping Strategies and Baby Steps
23:52 Listener Question: Coping Mechanisms and Food Availability
29:07 Understanding Healthy Eating and Weight Loss
29:29 Addressing Emotional Eating
31:01 Exposure and Friction Techniques
32:38 Distinguishing Binge Eating from Emotional Eating
34:45 Balancing Emotional Eating and Weight Loss
35:11 The Importance of Healing Your Relationship with Food
38:50 The Role of Awareness in Emotional Eating
41:07 The Illusion of Control in Emotional Eating
45:24 Moving Beyond Emotional Eating
48:49 Listener Questions and Insights
59:34 Final Thoughts and Encouragement
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:16.7 | And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. |
| 0:22.6 | How did this last week go for you, champion? What you challenge is did you encounter? |
| 0:24.6 | But more importantly, what failure did you go through? |
| 0:27.6 | What lesson did you get from that failure? |
| 0:30.6 | Come on now. |
| 0:31.6 | Don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting your lesson. |
| 0:34.6 | That's your reward for your troubles, after all. |
| 0:43.9 | Now if you're new here, I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood of chronic yo-yo dieting. |
| 0:45.2 | Up, down, up, down, up again, before I finally got sick and tired of being sick and tired. |
| 0:51.4 | And it made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my real life lifestyle, |
| 0:56.0 | habits, routines, environment, community, and to my systems of belief. Because it's all six |
| 1:01.6 | of those things that created the results of my life. If I wanted to get new results, I was going to have |
| 1:05.6 | to go change those same six things. And now I'm here each week to help you get the results in your life of losing |
| 1:12.3 | weight and keeping it off forever. It's been an absolute joy and privilege to be doing this. |
| 1:18.6 | And I have been really enjoying the new podcast format of taking questions, doing some breaks in |
| 1:24.4 | there. It allows me to cover more topics in the course of an hour. |
| 1:28.3 | I've been hearing your feedback. |
| 1:29.4 | Many of you are liking some of the insights. |
| 1:32.0 | Now, full disclosure, I am seeking to find the balance of information density and time. |
| 1:38.6 | I'm usually with my style of talking and conveying information. |
| 1:43.3 | I tend to jam a lot of information in. And so I |
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