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. It took me two and a half years to do it,

and I have been successfully keeping that weight off ever since.

This has not been by accident.

This has been with a plan.

And the mechanics of it actually were pretty easy.

You know, the actual to-do list, the things I had to do. No one thing was very hard.

The hard part I discovered, what makes weight loss a challenge, is I had to actually change.

I had to actually like become different.

That's part a lot of people don't talk about with weight loss.

It's just how much change is required if you want it to be sustainable.

Anytime in the past, I had always just set out to lose weight with the sole intention of just losing weight.

That was goal.

Goal one and two and three was lose weight.

Become thinner.

That's what I wanted to be.

I wanted to no longer be fat.

That was it. So it didn't really That's what I wanted to be. I wanted to no longer be fat. That was it.

So it didn't really matter how I got there to me.

I just wanted to get there in fact as easily as I could.

That's what I wanted to do.

Lose weight.

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