Hello and welcome to the Chris Terrell podcast. I am Chris Terrell.

It has been a minute since I've recorded a podcast. That is for sure.

And I'm really excited to be getting to do this again and to have the time to devote

to releasing podcasts again regularly I've got some excited exciting stuff for you all I've even

got a few podcasts recorded it was just a matter of finding the time to be able to work on them.

So for me in my life, the reason why the podcast slipped behind is because, honestly, I

put my life into a period of transition. This weight loss journey has impacted me personally

in ways that I never imagined was going to be possible.

I'm not saying this is going to happen to everybody.

In fact, I don't necessarily think it will.

But I do know for some of you listening, this weight loss journey is going to impact you in so much more than just dropping the number on that scale for you.

You know, as you're going along your journey, as you're losing your weight,

you're going to learn things about yourself that you didn't know.

One of the things that I experienced on my journey was being okay to dream.

And it took time to get comfortable to be comfortable dreaming.

It took time to even give myself permission to dream,

to dream about what I could be, to dream about what life could be,

to dream about what I could do.

And in many ways, I needed to experience the weight loss to give me the confidence to be able to dream.

I was one of those people that quite honestly, I was always more worried about disappointing other people than I was pleasing myself.

I was more worried than I might let somebody else down than making sure that I got all of my needs meant that I was doing exactly what I wanted. And it often felt easier to just change what I wanted rather than run the risk of letting somebody else down. And let me tell you, that is a major thing

that contributed to my weight gain because I was constantly sacrificing myself.

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