I am a compulsive overeater!! Where do I start? - (245)
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
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Overcoming Emotional Eating: A Journey of Self-Love and Acceptance
In this episode of the Becoming Thin Podcast, host Chris Terrell opens up about his personal weight loss journey, sharing his struggle with yo-yo dieting and emotional eating. Chris provides valuable insights into the importance of self-love, acceptance, and forgiveness, emphasizing that real, lasting change requires overhauling one's lifestyle, habits, environment, community, and belief systems. He answers a poignant email from a listener named Ursula, offering her practical advice on how to start addressing emotional eating by fostering gratitude for her body, seeking therapy, and surrounding herself with supportive people. Chris also recommends the book 'Eight Keys to End Emotional Eating' by Dr. Howard Farkas and highlights the significance of understanding one's emotions and developing healthy ways to express them.
00:00 Introduction and Host's Weight Loss Journey
01:31 The Importance of Self-Love and Acceptance
04:38 A Listener's Struggle with Compulsive Eating
07:08 Chris Terrell's Personal Background
10:31 Foundations for Overcoming Emotional Eating
16:36 Practical Steps and Tools for Managing Emotional Eating
24:08 Building a Supportive Community
26:10 Conclusion and Encouragement
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the Becoming Thin podcast, and I'm your host, Chris Terrell. |
| 0:17.2 | And welcome to another week of your way lost quest. |
| 0:21.1 | How did this last week go for you, champ? |
| 0:23.3 | What new challenges did you encounter? |
| 0:25.6 | But more importantly, what failure did you go through |
| 0:28.7 | and what lesson did you get from that failure? |
| 0:31.5 | Come on now, don't let a perfectly good failure go by |
| 0:34.5 | without you getting your lesson. |
| 0:36.3 | That's your reward for your troubles after all. Now if you're new here, I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood |
| 0:44.5 | of chronic yo-yo dieting. Up down, up, down, up again. Before I finally got sick and tired |
| 0:49.5 | to being sick and tired and fat. It made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my real life lifestyle, |
| 0:54.9 | habits, or teens, environment, community, and to my systems of belief. Because it's all six |
| 1:00.4 | of those things that created the results in my life. And if you want to get new results in your |
| 1:04.4 | life, you're going to have to go change those same six things to in a permanent, meaningful, |
| 1:09.2 | and actual way. You're going to have to actually work on your |
| 1:11.7 | actual life. You know, when I tried to lose weight in the past and the before times, I would try |
| 1:18.6 | to leave my life by and large intact. Didn't want to touch my job, didn't want to touch my relationships, |
| 1:23.3 | didn't want to touch my money, didn't want to touch really kind of anything other than maybe |
| 1:27.0 | what food should I eat. And I just wanted to figure if I could just get thin, things would be |
| 1:31.5 | better. If I could just get over whatever it was, I could be better. But if I'm being honest, all I really |
| 1:36.7 | wanted, I just wanted to feel better. And I wanted to love myself. I just wanted to love myself. |
| 1:43.6 | I wanted to be happy with who I was. |
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