Hello and welcome to the Chris Terrell podcast, where we share stories, tips, tricks, provide motivation for those of you on a weight loss journey.

Quite honestly, on any personal

journey of change, a lot of the principles that I talk about here are transferable to other parts

of your life. For those of you that don't know who I am, I lost 125 pounds after a lifetime

of dieting. I know a lot of people are discovering the podcast recently,

and you may not have gone all the way back to the beginning

and heard episode one where I tell a little bit more about my story.

So feel free to go check that one out, to go into more detail.

But to paraphrase, I yo-yo dieted up and down, up and down, up and down.

But always with a little bit more weight than I started with.

And it's just, finally, I had some things happen in my life that resulted in me choosing to

lose weight.

And again, go back to episode one to catch all the stories about that.

But the short version came on the heels of my dad passing.

But the mental work of weight loss is so crucial, and it's something that seems to be coming

up a lot lately, at least in my sphere of influence and the people that I talk with.

It seems to be a very common thing.

But the influencer that got me motivated to lose my

weight, a guy by the name of Ben from a YouTube channel called Fire Meets Fat, he was the guy that

motivated me and he had been gone off social media for many years and it turns out he,

well, he had some mental and emotional things creep up into his life and he

regained the weight and uh i'm you know my my my all my support goes out to this guy um you know he'll

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