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The Becoming Thin Podcast

Unpacking the Complexity of Weight Loss

The Becoming Thin Podcast

Chris Terrell

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 564 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In this episode of the Chris Terrell Podcast, host Chris Terrell delves deep into the weight loss journey, sharing personal insights from losing 125 pounds after years of yo-yo dieting. Chris emphasizes the importance of learning from failures and transforming lifestyle habits, environment, and belief systems for sustainable change. He recognizes the diverse stages of listeners' weight loss journeys, from beginners to those maintaining their weight loss, and stresses the significance of remembering the challenges to prevent relapse. Chris shares his realization that weight loss extends beyond simple solutions like diet and exercise, exploring the mental and emotional facets of making lasting changes. He introduces the concept of 'mindfulness' as a powerful tool for self-awareness and control over one's thoughts and actions, highlighting its role in his own transformation and maintenance of weight loss. Through anecdotes and metaphors, such as the grains of sand analogy, Chris illuminates the incremental nature of progress and the collective impact of small, mindful actions on achieving and sustaining weight loss goals.


00:00 Welcome to the Weight Loss Quest: A Personal Journey

00:37 The Transformation: From Yo-Yo Dieting to Sustainable Change

01:45 The Diverse Weight Loss Community: From Veterans to Newcomers

04:31 The Power of Persistence: Lessons from the Weight Loss Battle

05:33 Unpacking the Complexity of Weight Loss

09:33 The Small Changes That Make a Big Difference

12:51 Mindfulness: The Key to Understanding and Changing Habits

19:07 Pursuing Better: The Journey Beyond Weight Loss


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0:00.0

From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the Chris Terrell podcast.

0:16.1

And I'm your host, Chris Terrell, and welcome to another week of your weight loss quest.

0:22.3

How did this last week go for you?

0:24.0

What new challenges did you encounter?

0:26.1

And what failure did you go through?

0:28.4

But what I'm more interested in is what lesson did you get from that failure?

0:32.1

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

0:36.3

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

0:43.9

chronic yo-yo dieting, up down, up, down again before I finally got sick and tired of being

0:49.4

sick and tired, and I made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my lifestyle

0:54.0

habits and routines, to my lifestyle habits and routines,

0:55.4

to my community, my environment, and to my system of beliefs.

0:59.8

Because all of those things are what make me.

1:03.6

And as I changed those things, I got different results in my life.

1:07.9

One of those of many results was I began to become thinner. I know that's the thing

1:12.5

that many of you are working on yourself. I know you're there listening. Some of y'all right now,

1:19.6

you're well on your journey. You've got a lot of pounds behind you that you've peeled off.

1:25.2

There may be quite a few left and you're still out there working each week.

1:30.1

Reset in your mind, getting your mind oriented in the right direction, keeping yourself present to your own journey, keeping yourself aware of your own goals.

1:40.4

I see you out there.

1:41.3

I know you're there.

1:42.3

I don't hear from most of you, but I know you're there.

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