The Secret To Losing Weight Forever Is Not What You Think (239)
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
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What if the reason weight loss has always felt so hard is because you were taught to do it in a way that makes you miserable?
In this episode, I share a deeply personal story about grief, self trust, and the moment everything shifted for me. Not through discipline. Not through punishment. But through something most people never associate with weight loss at all.
Fun.
I talk about why misery never leads to lasting change, how I finally broke the cycle of losing and regaining weight, and what it actually takes to create a life you want to show up for.
This is not about hacks or shortcuts.
This is about changing the relationship you have with yourself.
If you have ever felt stuck, exhausted, or tired of starting over, this episode is for you.
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In this episode, you will hear about
• Why weight loss built on suffering never lasts
• The moment I realized I was solving the wrong problem
• How doing the opposite created real momentum
• Why self love has to come before transformation
• The role of community when motivation disappears
• How to stop waiting to be happy and start living now
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is a Becomington podcast. |
| 0:15.1 | And I'm your host, Chris Terrell, and welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. |
| 0:22.4 | How did this last week go for you, champion? |
| 0:27.6 | What new challenges did you encounter? But more importantly, what failure did you go through? |
| 0:32.3 | And what lesson did you get from that failure? Come on now. Don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you picking up and getting your lesson from it because that is your |
| 0:36.5 | reward for all the trouble. |
| 0:38.2 | Now, if you're new here, I've lost 125 pounds myself. |
| 0:41.4 | After an entire adulthood of chronic yo-yo dieting, up, down, up, down, up again. |
| 0:46.7 | Before I finally got sick and tired to being sick and tired and fat, |
| 0:49.6 | and made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my real life lifestyle, habits, routines, environment, community, |
| 0:56.4 | and to my systems of belief. |
| 0:58.5 | I get all six of those things that create the results in my life. |
| 1:01.2 | And if I wanted to get new results, |
| 1:02.9 | I was going to have to go change those same very six things. |
| 1:06.9 | And I'm here each week to help you make the changes in your life |
| 1:10.1 | that will take you a little bit closer to where you want to go in life. |
| 1:15.3 | To where you want to go in life. |
| 1:17.5 | Can I tell you something I do? |
| 1:19.4 | I just recorded a whole dang episode and deleted it. |
| 1:23.3 | Many of y'all won't know this. |
| 1:26.1 | Many of y'all won't know this. |
| 1:27.3 | I don't... Sometimes I just get stumped. And I'm like, I don't, I don't know what to say. So just turn on the microphone and start talking. And I did. And I didn't like it. So then I stopped it. And I did it again. I found a thread. |
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