Lessons I learned after 5 years of "weight loss"
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Lessons Learned on a Lifelong Weight Management Journey
In this episode of the Chris Terrell podcast, host Chris Terrell shares insights and lessons from his personal weight loss journey, where he successfully lost 125 pounds and transitioned to a lifelong weight management journey.
Chris discusses topics like overcoming yo-yo dieting, the importance of learning from failures, the impact of community on weight loss choices, and the significance of maintaining muscle mass and emotional wellness. He also invites listeners to his free upcoming webinar designed to help them achieve their goals.
Chris emphasizes the continuous nature of weight management and the necessity to adapt and learn throughout the process.
00:00 Introduction and Host's Weight Loss Journey
01:13 Invitation to Join the Community
01:48 The Importance of Active Weight Management
02:52 Reflecting on the Weight Loss Journey
05:10 Setting New Goals Beyond Weight Loss
07:52 Understanding Self-Sabotage and the Ego
09:53 The Role of the Subconscious Mind
16:40 The Role of Community in Weight Maintenance
18:11 Peer Pressure and Food Choices
21:41 Intentionality in Social Eating
22:12 Free Webinar Announcement
23:33 The Challenges of Losing Weight
24:26 Managing Emotional Eating and Stress
30:22 The Importance of Muscle Mass
32:26 Maintaining Exercise Habits
34:25 Final Thoughts and Webinar Invitation
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:16.8 | And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. |
| 0:21.3 | How does this last week go for you, champion? |
| 0:23.4 | What new challenges did you encounter? |
| 0:26.2 | But more importantly, I want to know about the failure you went through in the lesson, |
| 0:30.0 | but you got out of that failure. Come on now. |
| 0:32.4 | Don't let a perfectly good failure go by without getting a lesson. |
| 0:35.8 | That's your reward for your troubles. |
| 0:38.3 | Now, if you're new here, |
| 0:47.3 | I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood of chronic yo-yo dieting. Up, down, up, down again before I finally got sick and tired of being sick and tired and I made some permanent, |
| 0:53.3 | meaningful, and actual changes |
| 0:55.5 | for my lifestyle habits or teams to my environment, community, to my systems of belief. |
| 1:01.0 | It's all of those things that made up the old me and it's a whole different set that makes up the current me. |
| 1:08.0 | Now I'm here each week to help people like you get the same results in your life. |
| 1:13.4 | Now, I want to invite you if you have not done so already, to join my free Facebook group. |
| 1:18.4 | You can find a link to that by going to christero coaching.com. |
| 1:22.3 | And you can find a link to it in the show notes of the podcast. |
| 1:25.3 | And if you have not yet done so, I would love to invite you to leave a rating and a review on your podcasting platform. I'd like to ask for a five-star review, but I want to earn it first. So please, if you're new here, give me a few episodes to earn that five-star review. And if you feel that I have earned it, I'd love to have you leave that. |
| 1:46.4 | It helps get the podcast in front of more people. |
| 1:54.5 | I have been in the weight management game for five years. |
| 2:03.9 | For five years, I have been actively managing my weight. |
| 2:11.0 | This is the longest stretch of actively managing my weight by a lot. |
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