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The Becoming Thin Podcast

How to stop regretting the past

The Becoming Thin Podcast

Chris Terrell

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 564 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Embracing the Weight Loss Quest: Living with Purpose and Mindfulness


In this episode of the Chris Terrell Podcast, host Chris Terrell reflects on his own 125-pound weight loss journey and the profound lifestyle changes that led to his success. Terrell urges listeners to learn from their failures and embrace the concept of a weight loss 'quest' rather than a journey, emphasizing the importance of tackling challenges and making meaningful lifestyle adjustments. He shares insights from Steve Jobs' commencement speech about living each day as if it's your last, and recounts his personal transformation by focusing on having good days through mindful, present living. He discusses overcoming various life struggles, managing time effectively, and the significance of confronting uncomfortable situations to break impasses in life. Terrell concludes by encouraging listeners to join the Guild of Champions for supportive community and deeper immersion in their weight loss quests.


00:00 Introduction and Weekly Check-In

00:38 Chris Terrell's Weight Loss Journey

01:58 The Concept of a Weight Loss Quest

03:43 Embracing Change and Overcoming Challenges

04:11 Living Each Day to the Fullest

05:29 Facing Mortality and Making Life Changes

10:34 Transforming Daily Life

13:59 The Power of Being Present

15:12 Practical Time Management Tips

28:04 Final Thoughts and Encouragement


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0:00.0

From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the Chris Terrell podcast, and I am your host, Chris Terrell, and welcome to another week of your weight loss quest.

0:21.9

How did this last week go for you, champion?

0:23.9

What new challenges that you encounter?

0:26.2

But more importantly, what failure did you go through and tell me about the lesson you got from that failure?

0:31.4

Don't you dare let a perfectly good failure go by without getting your lesson.

0:36.4

That's your reward for your troubles.

0:38.4

Now if you're new here, I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood of chronic

0:44.4

yo-yo dieting up, down, up, down again before I finally got sick and tired of being sick

0:50.4

and tired and I made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my lifestyle,

0:55.4

habits, routines, to my environment, community, and to my system of beliefs. Because all of

1:01.1

those created me, and because I wanted permanent and lasting changes, that meant I was going to

1:06.1

have to change all of those things so that I would change. And that's what I want to teach you how to do

1:12.7

each and every single week here on the Chris Terrell podcast. And if you enjoy the podcast,

1:17.6

I want to invite you to join my free Facebook group. You can find a link to that but going to

1:20.8

Chris Terrellcoaching.com. You'll find a link there or in the show notes as well in the show

1:25.9

notes of this podcast. If you are a Spotify listener,

1:45.0

I would love to hear from you. There's a field down there where you are able to leave a comment, leave feedback, and I greatly enjoy receiving them, reading them, and I publish them. I have no way to respond, but I do have a way to read them. And I'd love it if you'd send me a message. And if you're on the Apple podcast platform,

1:45.0

would you consider giving me a five. And if you're on the Apple podcast platform,

1:50.0

would you consider giving me a five-star rating and a review, but only if I have earned it.

1:55.1

Please give me a handful of episodes of listening to see if I earned that review. And if I did,

2:03.3

I'd love it if you'd leave me a review. Welcome back to the next week of your quest. You know, a lot of people call it a weight loss journey and I do believe that to be an accurate and good way to describe it.

2:11.9

But I now, as someone on the other side and several years into the other side,

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