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.

How did this last week go for you, champion?

What challenges did you overcome?

What failures did you experience?

But more importantly, what lessons did you get from that failure?

Come on now.

Don't let the failure happen without getting the reward

for your troubles. Go find what it is you needed to learn and go keep your mistakes original.

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

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

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

routines. I made some changes to my social setting, my cultural setting, my environment, and my

system of beliefs. And now I'm here each week, helping the good people like you get the same results in your life.

Look, losing weight didn't transform my life.

I transformed my life and then I lost weight.

See, I always had it backwards.

I always thought I had to lose the weight first.

And then my, all the things that I thought were amazing about life.

We're going to come on the other side of that.

And here's a, can I let you in a little secret about what happened to me in my past?

I remember one time I went on a shakes diet where the doctor put me on a bunch of tests and scared me

...