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The Becoming Thin Podcast

Weight Loss Surgery. Should I Get it?

The Becoming Thin Podcast

Chris Terrell

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 564 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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The Weight Loss Surgery Dilemma: A Comprehensive Talk


Chris Terrell, host of the podcast, discusses the difficult decision of considering weight loss surgery. 


Offering his own personal perspective, Terrell presents key questions and considerations that individuals must reflect upon before making a decision. 


These include evaluating every possible weight-loss method one might not have attempted yet, understanding when it's too late to try a new method and medical intervention becomes a necessity, considering the potential failure of the surgery and how it could impact their life, and weighing the 'real' costs involved, not just in terms of money but also time and quality of life. 


Lastly, based on his personal experience and success without surgery, he encourages listeners to consider slow, sustained lifestyle changes as a method of weight loss before opting for surgical intervention.


00:00 Introduction and Personal Weight Loss Journey

01:18 The Fear of Discussing Weight Loss Surgery

01:31 Invitation to Join the Facebook Group and Feedback Request

02:39 Addressing a Weight Loss Query from the Facebook Group

04:46 Personal Reflections on Considering Weight Loss Surgery

07:06 The Importance of Making an Informed Decision

10:08 Four Areas of Consideration for Weight Loss Surgery

12:33 The Reality of Aging and Weight Loss

13:41 Understanding the Seriousness of Weight Loss Surgery

15:15 The Struggle with Impatience in Weight Loss

15:52 The Challenge of Slow Weight Loss

18:03 The Real Cost of Weight Loss Surgery

19:42 The Risk of Regaining Weight After Surgery

20:06 The Alternative: Slow, Sustainable Weight Loss

22:03 The Importance of Lifestyle Changes

26:19 The Power of Community Support

28:56 Final Thoughts on Weight Loss Surgery


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0:00.0

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

0:15.7

And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. How did this last week pan out for you, champion?

0:21.7

What new challenges did you encounter?

0:24.0

What failures did you go through?

0:25.6

But more importantly, what lessons did you get from that failure?

0:29.2

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

0:34.3

It was hard won, after all.

0:36.0

Now, if you're new here, I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood of chronic

0:41.5

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

0:46.7

to being sick and tired.

0:47.6

And I made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my lifestyle, habits, routines,

0:53.8

to my community, to my environment,

0:56.8

and to my systems of beliefs, all of which changing me.

1:02.1

And if you change those six things in your life, you too will change because it is those

1:06.4

six things after all that created the weight that you find on your body.

1:28.1

It is not just your fault that you gain the weight. That is an interesting thing. I can't wait to tell you all about that more or later. But today, we've got a very interesting topic that I'm all to be perfectly honest. I'm terrified to talk about. It's a topic I've only spoken about a couple of times.

1:29.6

You saw the title of the podcast.

1:30.4

You already know what it is.

1:31.2

It's weight loss surgery.

1:37.6

And I'm always hesitant to talk about this of people because, well, in a soundbite world, sometimes I get a little nervous about things that I say.

1:41.3

But before I get into it, I need to first invite you to come join my free Facebook

1:46.4

group. You can find a link to that by going to chrishtarrelcoaching.com and you'll find a link

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