From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the becoming bin podcast, and I am your host, Chris Terrell.

And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest.

How did this last week go for you, Champion? What new challenges did you encounter?

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

Come on now, don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting your lesson from that.

That's your reward for your troubles after all. Now if you're new here, I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood, chronic

yo-yo day. Up, down, up, down, up again, before I found I got sick and tired of being sick

and tired and fat. And I decided to make some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my real-life lifestyle, habits, and routines. But I didn't stop there. I also went on to change my environment, my community, into my systems of belief. Because it's all six of those things that create the results in my life. And if you want to get the same results in your life, you're going to have to go change those six things too. And now I'm here each week to help you get the results in your life of becoming thin, healthy,

happy, and in shape. And I know it's a long journey. I'm not it's going to take time. I've done it

myself. It took 26 months to lose 125 pounds. 26 months. Now, in the, look, I'll be honest. In the very beginning of that, I had no idea how long it was going to take. If somebody said it was going to take 26 months, I'm actually not sure how to react it. I could see a world where I would have reacted like, oh, two years. I could do that. I've done things for two years before. But I could also hear myself being like two years.

That's like forever away. I want to be thin now. Like I'm not sure how I would have responded. Maybe a

little bit of both. Maybe that's why I'm not sure. Maybe I would have responded both ways.

But I was asked on a podcast episode just recently if I could talk about the beginning of my weight loss journey.

I believe the user's name was no.

I don't I don't have it in front of me right now.

I was asking about the beginning.

You know, how did I, how did I decide what to do next after my initial challenge to move?

And I haven't talked about that story in a bit and might be good talk about it again.

As well as I liked the question that the person asked, how did I decide what to do after I did my first thing?

Because I didn't follow a plan.

I didn't go to the internet and get some plan and follow that plan.

I didn't do that.

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