From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the Chris Terrell podcast. I am your host, Chris Terrell. And if you're new here, I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood of yo-yo dieting,

constantly going up and down and up and down again, before I finally got sick and tired of that

and decided to make some permanent changes to my baseline permanent all the time lifestyle,

so that I could not only lose weight, but more importantly, keep it off. Because I don't know about you. I don't want to gain weight back. I don't want to go through all of that trouble, make all of those changes to my life, say no all those times of food only to gain the way back. I don't want to do that. I've done that before. You know how I feel after I do that? Like crap. I don't like how that feels. And I'll bet you don't either.

Now also, if you're new here, you need to know something. If you're looking for weight loss advice that you just learn out of a book from somebody that's never done this stuff, somebody that's always been thinning in shape their entire life and never had to lose

more than about five or ten pounds, you are in the wrong place. Here you're only going to learn

common sense, practical, realistic, and applicable weight loss advice from a daily practitioner

of this stuff, from someone that actually lives this day in, day out, and I have been doing

it for years. Because you know something? I am in this for life. That means I'm only considering changes to my life that I'm willing to do for 10 years. I ain't given up carbs for 10 years. Why? Because carbs are delicious. And you know what? There's a lot of thin people in this world that eat carbs and stay thin. So I'm willing to bet that that means that carbs are not the problem. Because if it were, everybody that ate carbs would be fat. and everybody that eat carbs and stay thin. So I'm willing to bet that means that carbs are not the problem. Because if

it were, everybody that ate carbs would be fat and everybody that eat carbs is not fat. You see,

that right there, that was a question I needed to understand. Did you catch the question? I didn't

say it outright. It's the implied question. The question of why and how did I gain weight. Isn't that really what we mean when we say

we're going to cut our carbs? We're cutting out carbs because we believe carbs are the cause.

We believe they are the root cause of the weight gain that's on our body. But correlation does

not equal causation. And many of us have fallen victim to listening

to somebody convince us that carbs are the problem because they were losing weight while they were

not eating carbs. That's because neither they nor I understood what was actually happening.

The reason why you, me, or anyone loses weight comes down to one simple thing.

Your incaloric deficit, you're taking in less energy than your body needs on a consistent

basis and for a prolonged period of time.

That's it.

Everything else is just an obstacle preventing you from getting that done if you wish to lose

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