Reconditioning your mind for permanent weight loss - (242)
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
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In this episode of the 'Becoming Thin Podcast,' host Chris Harold shares his personal weight loss journey and the importance of overcoming the urge to quit. He delves into the reasons why people typically abandon their weight loss efforts, attributing it to the failure of reconditioning the mind's 'automatic pilot.' Chris explains the conscious versus unconscious mind and emphasizes the need for a core-level change in lifestyle and habits for lasting results. He introduces five key steps to recondition the subconscious mind: repetition of ideas, activating the body, discussing ideas with supportive people, journaling, and modifying the environment. Chris also elaborates on the importance of community support and the Guild of Champions, a community designed to help individuals recondition their automatic pilot and achieve their weight loss goals sustainably. He concludes by urging listeners to be mindful of their automatic behaviors in daily life.
00:00 Introduction and Host's Weight Loss Journey
01:12 The Reality of Temporary Changes
01:59 Understanding Quitting and Its Triggers
04:21 The Role of the Conscious and Unconscious Mind
12:51 Reconditioning Your Automatic Pilot
18:00 Learning Impulse Control
18:44 The Importance of Supportive People
20:24 The Power of Journaling
21:59 Modifying Your Environment
24:12 Challenges of Intuitive Eating
29:54 The Final Stages of Weight Loss
35:01 Introducing The Guild of Champions
39:28 Final Thoughts and Call to Action
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the becoming thin podcast. |
| 0:15.3 | And I am your host, Chris Terrell. |
| 0:17.2 | And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. |
| 0:22.7 | How did this last week go for you, |
| 0:29.1 | champion? What new challenges did you encounter? But more importantly, what failure did you go through and what lesson did you get from that failure? Come on now, don't let a perfectly good |
| 0:34.2 | failure go by without you getting your lesson. That's your reward for your troubles after all. Now if you're new here, lost 125 pounds myself after an entire |
| 0:43.0 | adulthood of chronic yo-yo diet. Up, down, up, down. Up again. Before I finally got sick and tired |
| 0:49.2 | to being sick and tired and fat and made some permanent meaningful and actual changes. To my real life lifestyle, habits, or |
| 0:55.2 | teens, environment community, and to my systems of belief. Because it's all those things that |
| 1:00.4 | created the results of my life. And if I wanted to get permanent results, I was going to have to |
| 1:04.3 | go change those things at the core level. When I say the core level, I'm talking like how you live |
| 1:09.0 | your regular old, everyday life. You know, I know a lot of people listen to right now. Life's in a good spot. Holidays have died down. Works not too nuts. So, it's like, it's a good time to lose weight. It's a good time to lose weight. And so you're like, yeah, let's go create all these temporary changes in our life, right? Let's go do all these things. |
| 1:27.9 | I mean, you don't say they're temporary. You say you're going to keep doing them. |
| 1:30.6 | But we both know here in about three, four months, life's going to get busy again as it does every year. |
| 1:35.6 | And you know what's going to happen? This whole plan that you made is going to fall apart. |
| 1:40.5 | You're going to do something. You're, you're, |
| 1:44.3 | you're going to quit. I don't want you to quit, but you're, that's, that's where you quit. |
| 1:53.4 | And, I mean, there's a, there's a reason people quit. I mean, we're not, I mean, we're going to |
| 2:00.6 | talk about weight loss, but it's not just weight loss. |
| 2:03.6 | It's really, though, anything that asks you to change who you are. |
| 2:08.1 | And in today's podcast, I want to talk about quitting. |
| 2:13.4 | I just did a workshop a few weeks ago. |
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