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The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Your words are shaping your weight loss journey more than you realize. In this episode, Chris Terrell breaks down five common phrases that quietly disempower you and shows you exactly what to say instead. You’ll hear how “had to,” “I can’t,” “I’m just,” “I’ll never,” and “I’m trying” box in your future self, drain your confidence, and keep you stuck.
Chris shares his own story of retraining his language, the surprising power of the pause, and how simple tweaks to self talk can reshape your identity. By the end of this episode, you’ll know how to rewrite your words so they start pulling you toward weight loss instead of away from it.
If you’ve been skeptical about whether self talk matters, this is your practical on-ramp. No fluff—just tools you can use today.
You’ll Learn
The five phrases that quietly sabotage weight loss
Why silence is better than filler words
How to leave “wiggle room” in your future with empowering language
The shift from “I’m trying” to “I am losing weight”
Why changing your words is changing your code
Resources & Mentions
Join the free Facebook community: search Becoming Thin on Facebook
Subscribe on YouTube for weekly Monday livestreams and replays
Stay tuned for the upcoming Calorie Tracking Introduction Workshop
Call to Action
Listen in, then audit your language for 24 hours. Catch yourself when you say one of the five sabotaging phrases, pause, and reframe it. Come share your experience in the Facebook group—you might be surprised at the shift it creates.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the Becoming Thin podcast, and I am your host, Chris Terrell. |
| 0:17.4 | And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. |
| 0:21.3 | How did this last week go for you, champion? |
| 0:23.4 | What new challenges did you encounter? |
| 0:25.9 | But more importantly, what failure did you go through? |
| 0:29.1 | And what lesson did you get from that failure? |
| 0:31.4 | Come on, how? |
| 0:32.5 | Don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting a good lesson. |
| 0:36.2 | That's your reward for your troubles after all. |
| 0:38.3 | Now if you're new here, I lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adult chronic yo-yo dieting. |
| 0:44.5 | Up down, up down, up again. Before I finally got sick and tired, being sick and tired, fat. |
| 0:50.5 | And I made some permanent meaningful and actual changes to my real life lifestyle habits or |
| 0:55.1 | teens environment community into my systems of belief because it's all of those things that create |
| 1:00.6 | the results in my life and if you want to get new results in your life you're going to have to |
| 1:03.8 | go change those same very six things your lifestyle your habits your teens your environment |
| 1:09.7 | your community belief your belief systems. |
| 1:11.8 | But there's one other thing you're going to need to change. If you haven't already started working |
| 1:15.1 | on it, you're going to need to start. And that is your language. I touched on this in the last |
| 1:21.4 | week's episode of the podcast. We have to work on our speech. And I told you about how I started making changes and they gave you some tangible and actual things you could do to start working on it in your own life. So if you've been wanting to work on yourself, talk. You might go give the last episode a listen. But you don't need to go listen to that one first for this one. Each one of these will stand alone. But if you've liked this episode, definitely check out the last one. And if you like the last one, you'll like this one because it's a continuation. But before I do that, I want to invite you to come join my free Facebook group, which you can find by searching for Becoming Thin on Facebook. As well as, I would like to invite you to follow me on YouTube where you can subscribe to |
| 2:02.7 | the Becoming Thin YouTube channel and I go live there every Monday morning at 9 a.m. |
| 2:07.2 | Which is left available for replay whenever you would like. |
| 2:10.9 | You can come watch that whenever you want and there's lots of them there ready for you |
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