Hello and welcome to the Chris Terrell podcast.

My name is Chris Terrell.

And if you're new here, I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood of constant yo-yo dieting, up down,

up down, got my act together, decided to make some meaningful lasting changes and started

dealing with why I gained the weight in the first place.

And I also started making actual changes to my actual lifestyle that I was willing to commit to forever.

Actual change is designed to improve my body, to improve my mind, to improve my relationship with myself.

And more importantly, to help me keep the weight off that I'm working, I had worked so hard to get off.

To get off of my body.

I didn't want to gain it back.

Do you?

No, of course not.

I know you don't want to gain it back anymore than I do.

But when I set out to lose weight this time, the last time, I had to have some honest conversations with myself.

There's one conversation in particular that I want to talk about.

I want to tell you a little bit about.

It was the conversation where I had to recognize and acknowledge that I don't know what I'm

talking about.

That I don't know what I'm doing. You know, if somebody was around me and they would have talked about losing weight, I would say, well, you know, I've done this, this, and this, and this. And in my own head, I'd walk around telling myself, I know how to lose weight. I've done it before. I could do this any time I wanted. Bullshit. That's what I was spouting. My mouth was

moving. It was all just a bunch of lies. I was trying to trick myself. I was trying to convince

myself in the past. I didn't want to acknowledge the reality, which is I didn't know what I was

doing. The reason why I hadn't lost weight and kept it off is because I didn't know how.

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