Hello and welcome to the Chris Terrell podcast.

My name is Chris Terrell.

And if you're new here, I myself have lost 125 pounds.

Took me two and a half years to do it.

Did it all natural, no weight loss surgery, no fat diets. I ate all the foods I loved, but I did have to make some changes in my life, but I got to keep the things that were the most important to me. You know, I had done those fat diets like going keto, done one of those starvation diets, you know, where a doctor gives you shakes, tells you your fat and you're going to die. And if you don't change us right away and they give you appetite suppressants and have you eating 800 calories a day, all in the name of making you thin and healthy. Yeah, I did that too. Totally didn't work. Have you done any of those? Have you done any of these fad diets or these quick fix diets? Or you're only trying to lose weight?

Well, after I got my act together, decided I'm sick and tired to be in sick and tired,

and after I decided I just couldn't do this anymore, it started changing.

Slowly, so slowly, so slowly. But it worked.

And here I am, years later, weight is off, kept it off,

and now I'm here to teach you how to get the same results in your life

so that you can attain the body and life of your dreams.

And more importantly, so that you can keep the body and life of your dreams. And more importantly, so that you can keep the body and life

of your dreams. Because there's so many things that you need to go out and accomplish and do

and experience on the other side of this weight loss. So many things you don't even know about

because you would never in your mind let yourself consider it because why could you why would you? You've never got the weight off and kept it off before. So now is the time. The time is now. And this week I want to give you if you're in the starting line, I want to give you 10, 10 things to do to get started on a weight loss journey. If you were at the ground zero, ready to go, Chris, I'm ready to do this. What do I need to do? Where do I need to start? This is the podcast episode for you. If you are already on the journey and if somebody ever comes to you and is like, hey, I'd love to learn a little bit more. Introduce them to this podcast episode. This is a great one to start with. And if you are also further along on the journey, listen to this list. If you've missed any of these 10 steps, circle back around and start working on them, start getting them. So let's start with number one. Now we've got

10. I'm going to have to go through these quickly, but I'm going to get through all 10 of them.

Number one, stop focusing on losing weight and instead start focusing on how to maintain weight.

Now this might seem counterintuitive. And I'm starting with this one right off the bat as number

one, because it is, in fact, the most important thing. Just think about it for a moment. If every time you

stop losing weight, you start gaining, have you actually solved any problems? No, no, you have not.

You've got to have the ability to keep off any weight that you lose.

The body and life of your dreams doesn't mean you go into this endless cycle of gain 10 pounds,

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