The Psychology of Sustained Weight Loss and Overcoming Lifelong Food Addiction with "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll – E117
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🗓️ 28 April 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Learn the secrets to radically improving your health from “The Weight Loss Champion” Chuck Carroll, who lost 265 pounds and kept it off!
At Chuck's heaviest, he weighed 420 pounds and had amassed a 66-inch waist while requiring a size 6xl shirt.
Fearing that his life was spiraling out of control and nearing an end, he opted to undergo weight loss surgery. Prior to the procedure he was convinced that the drastic measure would become like all the other failed attempts to lose weight. At least, he thought, he could go to his grave confident that he tried everything.
Chuck was just 27 years old at the time and didn’t think he would live to see 30. But then the unexpected happened. He woke up from the surgery and never looked back. Although a critical component, the surgery proved only to be the first step in his journey. In fact, he only attributes 10 percent of his weight loss success to the procedure.
In just over a year, Chuck shed 265 pounds by conquering food addiction and devoting himself to a healthier lifestyle. He’s now maintaining weight loss by eating a plant-based diet. Going plant-based once seemed unthinkable to Chuck, but now it’s going back to eating processed meat and dairy that would be inconceivable.
The confidence he gained from the weight loss enabled him to pursue his dream of becoming a sports reporter. He has hosted a number of radio shows with NFL players. One of the players gave him the nickname “The Weight Loss Champion” after news of his transformation spread through the locker room.
In this episode, we chat with Chuck about:
- Breaking food addiction
- Sustaining weight loss
- His eating habits growing up
- His failed diet attempts
- When he realized he was addicted to food
- His emotional experiences of being 420 pounds
- The secret to keeping the weight off
- Where a lot of people go wrong when trying to lose weight
- and much more
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| 0:00.0 | when I had reached what the surgeon said was my goal weight, which ironically still made me obese, but he looked at me that day and he said, Chuck, you've done really good. |
| 0:10.8 | Now you need to eat a hamburger so you can stop losing weight. |
| 0:16.3 | And I was like, bro, I was like, there's no way because you have just told a crack addict |
| 0:24.1 | who has successfully stopped smoking crack that it's time to start again. |
| 0:29.7 | To go smoke some more crack. |
| 0:31.1 | Right. |
| 0:32.0 | And I was like, that does not make a lick of sense to me at all. |
| 0:52.1 | Welcome to the Mastering Diabetes Audio Experience, where we teach you how to sit in the driver's seat of your diabetes health for the rest of your life. |
| 0:58.0 | We'll teach you how to reverse insulin resistance, achieve your ideal body weight, gain energy, and get your best A1C following more than 85 years of evidence-based research in the mastering diabetes program. |
| 1:12.4 | Our program teaches you how to reverse pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes, and how to simplify |
| 1:18.8 | your life with type 1 diabetes by maximizing your insulin sensitivity using food as medicine. |
| 1:25.9 | We're on a bold mission to reverse insulin resistance in one million people. |
| 1:30.3 | We're glad to have you joining us. |
| 1:37.3 | Welcome back in today's episode. |
| 1:41.3 | We are going to be talking with none other than the man, the myth, the legend, |
| 1:46.8 | Chuck Carroll. Now, Chuck Carroll is the host of the exam room podcast, which is a podcast hosted |
| 1:53.9 | by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, otherwise known as PCRM based out of Washington, |
| 1:58.7 | D.C., which is headed up by Dr. Neil Barnard himself. |
| 2:02.4 | Now, this podcast is actually one of the most popular health podcasts in the world today, and it has |
| 2:07.6 | been for a very long time. So if you haven't had a chance to actually listen to Chuck on his |
| 2:11.8 | actual podcast, the exam room, then please go to your favorite podcast app and subscribe and become a super groupie just like me. |
| 2:19.1 | The reason why Chuck is such an important character in the world of health and nutrition |
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