Over 300 lbs and still holding onto hope (209)
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
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In this episode of the Becoming Thin Podcast, host Chris Terrell welcomes listeners to another week of their weight loss journey.
Speaking directly to those over 300 pounds, Chris discusses the significance of small, sustainable changes over time and warns against the pitfalls of perfectionism and self-doubt.
He parallels his deconstruction from Mormonism with the reconditioning needed for lasting weight loss and stresses the importance of having a supportive community.
Chris concludes with motivational tips to keep moving forward, avoid quitting, and transform not just weight, but overall life habits.
00:00 Introduction and Weekly Reflection
01:30 The Importance of Failure
02:03 Join the Community
02:32 Upcoming Event Announcement
03:28 Addressing the 300+ Pound Audience
07:03 Reconditioning and Personal Transformation
08:07 Deconstructing Mormonism and Obesity
15:12 The Power of Small Changes
20:35 Supportive Community and Progress
21:36 Understanding Internal Resistance
22:08 The Perfectionism Trap
25:30 Combating Perfectionism
28:39 The Voice of Self-Doubt
33:24 Finding Supportive People
36:07 Final Thoughts and Encouragement
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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. |
| 0:16.9 | And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. How did this last week go for you, champion? |
| 0:22.6 | What new challenges did you encounter? |
| 0:24.8 | But more importantly, what failure did you go through |
| 0:27.2 | and what lesson did you get from that failure? |
| 0:29.7 | Come on now. |
| 0:30.7 | Don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting your lesson. |
| 0:34.6 | That's your reward for your troubles after all. |
| 0:37.0 | Now, if you're new here, |
| 0:37.9 | I've lost 125 pounds myself. After an entire adulthood, chronic yo-yo diet, up down, |
| 0:43.6 | up down, up again, before they finally got sick and tired of being sick and tired and fat, |
| 0:49.1 | and it decided to make some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes. To my real-life |
| 0:53.8 | lifestyle, habits, routines, to my environment, to my community, and to my systems of belief. Because it's all of those things that created the results in my life. And if I want to get new results, I'm going to have to go change all those things. And so will you. And I'm here each week to help you get those results. You know, I like to point this out. I start every episode of the podcast. |
| 1:12.5 | It's recorded cold. |
| 1:13.8 | Like I'm literally right now moving this music slider down with my finger. |
| 1:19.3 | I think it's important to use repetition in the beginning of every episode to tell you |
| 1:25.3 | what I truly believe are some of the most important concepts and |
| 1:28.5 | messages that you can hear. One of them being that failure is okay. Failure is not bad. In fact, |
| 1:36.6 | failure is a great opportunity to learn things. The more you fail, the more opportunities there are |
| 1:41.3 | to learn. Failure is a wonderful teacher, and it can be an expensive teacher because failure does not |
| 1:48.7 | often free. |
| 1:50.2 | Sometimes failure has quite a high cost, but the cost is the value of that lesson that you're |
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