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The Becoming Thin Podcast

The Emotional Letter I Wrote My Father Before He Died

The Becoming Thin Podcast

Chris Terrell

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 564 Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Embracing Change and Creating the Life of Your Dreams


In this lovely episode of the Chris Terrell Podcast, Chris opens up about the huge impact of his father's passing five years ago. 


This sad feeling loss led to some big changes in his life, and it really made him think about the things in life that really matter. He even wrote a really touching letter to his dad, and he'll be sharing that with you here. Plus, Chris is going to talk about all the lessons he learned from his dad and the amazing moments from his own journey of self-discovery and personal growth since he passed away 5 years ago. 


In this inspiring episode, Chris emphasizes the importance of setting clear goals, maintaining relentless forward progress, and fostering a positive mindset. He offers invaluable insights and actionable advice for listeners on their own transformative journeys towards living life to the fullest!


00:00 Introduction and Weekly Check-In

00:37 Personal Weight Loss Journey

01:14 Reflecting on Father's Passing

02:12 Writing the Final Letter

06:10 Reading the Letter to Father

13:08 Post-Funeral Reflections

23:13 Lessons Learned Over Five Years

33:42 Reflecting on Personal Growth

33:58 The Power of Externalizing Thoughts

35:56 Trusting Yourself and Your Intentions

38:16 Managing Expectations

41:21 Embracing Emotions

44:03 Relentless Forward Progress

48:35 The Impact of Thoughts

53:04 Creating the Life of Your Dreams

59:23 Conclusion and Final Thoughts


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0:00.0

From the headquarters at 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.

0:21.4

How did this last week go for you, champion?

0:23.5

What new challenges do you encounter?

0:25.4

What failure did you go through?

0:27.2

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

0:30.4

Come on now.

0:31.4

Don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting your lesson out of it.

0:35.8

That's a reward for your troubles.

0:37.6

Now for new year, I've lost 125 pounds myself.

0:41.1

After an entire adulthood of chronic yo-yo dieting, up, down, up, down again,

0:47.4

before I got sick and tired of being sick and tired and fat and overweight and stuck in my body.

0:53.7

And I made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my lifestyle, habits, routines,

0:59.1

to my environment, to my community, and to my system of beliefs.

1:03.1

Because it's all six of those that create the body that you're trying to get away from.

1:07.5

And you're going to have to change all six of them to create your new reality that you're

1:12.2

going to step your way into.

1:14.5

Now this time of year, I'm approaching a real interesting point in my life.

1:20.9

You see, five years ago today, five years ago today, I didn't know, but a version of me was about to die.

1:36.7

I had no way of knowing.

1:39.5

I had no way of knowing.

1:42.8

You see, I knew my dad was about to die.

1:45.0

I just didn't know he was about to die in three days.

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