Hello and welcome to the Chris Terrell podcast. I am your host, Chris Terrell. So glad you're here.

How's your weight loss journey going? Some of you were new here. Welcome. So glad to have you being a part of the podcast and being part of the group. Some of you are, you've been on your journey for a little bit. You've lost a bunch of weight. Some of you all send me messages and I love getting them. I apologize that I am not able to respond to everybody. I wish I could. I wish I had the time. I really do. But I want you to know, I do read almost every comment. I think I actually do read them all and I do read

every DM and every email that I receive. I just don't have enough hours in the day to respond

to them all as much as I wish I could. But thank you for sending them to me. I am so appreciative of

it. And to those of you that have been leaving reviews of the podcast on Spotify and Apple

podcast, thank you so much.

It means the world to me that you would take a moment out of your day, give the podcast a

rating and review, and help others find it and see, like, you know, maybe I will give

this a listen.

That's got a bunch of good reviews.

And to those of you that share the podcast, thank you.

Putting this in front of more people's ears helps me achieve my mission, which is to help as

many people as possible experience the joy of weight loss like I have been able to. It has changed

my life in all the best ways to lose the weight. And not because I lost the weight. It's because of what I had to do to lose the weight. It's because of whom I had to become. It is because of how I had to change my life. You see, before I lost my weight, I was always going for prescriptive style weight loss. Prescriptive style weight loss, as I call it, that is where you say, tell me what I got to eat, tell me how I got to move, or more importantly, tell me what I'm not allowed to eat, and I will follow the rules that you have made up for me, and I shall lose the weight. And of course, that never works ever. What I've now learned is it was my lifestyle habits and routines and my systems of belief that made me gain my weight and keep it on and made sure that I couldn't get it off.

And it was only once I changed my lifestyle habits and beliefs that I was able to get the weight off.

Understand, no matter what diet you follow, unless you change your lifestyle habits and beliefs,

you will not get the weight off and keep

it off. And I say that with boldness because I know it with certainty. Now, there's something I want to

get into, though, because lifestyle habits and routines are great, but those are created through

three other elements, your system of belief, your social and cultural setting, and your environment.

And today, on this week's episode, we are going to talk about your social and cultural setting

because these play an impact on your journey in ways that you may never have even considered.

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