From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the Becoming Thin podcast, and I'm your host, Chris Turrell.

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.

That's your reward for your troubles after all.

Now if you're new here, I lost

125 pounds of self after an entire adulthood of chronic yo-yo dieting. Up,

down, up, down, up again. Before I finally got sick and tired to being sick and tired

and fat, and made some permanent meaningful and actual changes to my real-life

lifestyle, habits, routines, environment, community, and to my

systems of belief. Because it's all six of those things that create the results in my life,

and if I want to get new results, I'm going to have to go change those six things and sustain

those changes that I made. And now I'm here each week to help people like you make the same

permanent, meaningful, and lasting changes in your life

so that you can get the results of becoming thin and staying thin.

I don't want you to take a round trip ticket to Thinville.

I want you to take a one-way trip ticket.

I want you to pack your bags, move there, stay there, and not find your way back.

I've done that before.

I've lost the weight, stopped, got frustrated, and gained it back. And you know, it's funny, whenever I did that, I never said like I was successful. I very much felt like I failed, even though I felt like I was successful when I was thin, but then I felt like I failed. Because the goal was never to lose weight. Even though I wouldn't say that, the goal was never to lose weight. The goal actually was to become thin, which is why the name of the podcast is the becoming

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