What is the No. 1 reason people don't lose all the weight?
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 28 December 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Overcoming Quitting in Weight Loss: Common Pitfalls and Strategies
In this episode of the Chris Terrell Podcast, Chris Terrell discusses the number one reason people fail to complete their weight loss journey: quitting.
Delving into the challenges faced during weight loss, Chris shares his own experiences of losing 125 pounds and the lessons learned from failure. He highlights key factors like burnout from changing too much too quickly, boredom from repetitive routines, discouragement from plateaus, and running out of motivating 'whys.' Additionally, Chris offers insights into the importance of having a supportive community and a clear roadmap for the journey.
Listeners are invited to join his Facebook group and his annual three-day webinar to learn more about sustainable weight loss.
00:00 Introduction to the Chris Terrell Podcast
00:36 Chris Terrell's Weight Loss Journey
01:35 The Number One Reason People Fail
02:12 Join the Community and Upcoming Webinar
02:55 Understanding Why People Quit
03:43 The Dangers of Burnout
09:45 The Marathon in the Middle
14:20 Dealing with Discouragement
16:53 Overcoming Discouragement
17:16 The Sneaky Killer of Weight Loss Journeys
17:52 The Importance of Whys
19:31 Creating New Whys
22:23 The Role of Support Networks
26:49 Navigating the Weight Loss Journey
28:06 Join the Workshop and Guild
30:04 Final Encouragement and Maintenance Program
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the Chris Terrell podcast. |
| 0:14.0 | I am your host, Chris Terrell, and welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. |
| 0:19.5 | How did this last week go for you, champion? |
| 0:21.6 | What new challenges did you encounter? |
| 0:24.2 | But more importantly, what failure did you go through? |
| 0:27.3 | And what lesson did you get from that failure? |
| 0:30.1 | Come on now, don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting your lesson. |
| 0:34.6 | That's your reward for your troubles, by the way. |
| 0:36.8 | Now, if you're new here, |
| 0:37.9 | I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood, chronic yo-yo dieting, up down, up, down |
| 0:45.1 | again before I finally got sick and tired of being sick and tired, and I made some permanent, |
| 0:50.0 | meaningful, and actual changes to my lifestyle, habits, routines, environment, community, |
| 0:55.7 | into my system of belief. |
| 0:57.9 | It was all those things that created the results in my life. |
| 1:00.6 | And if I wanted to get new results, I was going to need to change those things. |
| 1:04.9 | And now I'm here each week to help you get the same results in your life. |
| 1:07.9 | That means if you want to get new results, you too are going to |
| 1:11.1 | have to change your lifestyle, habits, routines, your environment, your community, and your belief |
| 1:17.7 | systems. And it can take some time and it can be challenging to do this. In fact, it's sometimes |
| 1:23.7 | referred to as a journey. Now, I've gone on this journey many times in the past, as I imagine many of you listening either have and you're thinking about starting, ramping up, going to the next level, or some of you listening, I know you're well into the journey. Maybe you're into the weight loss phase, you've made it to the marathon in the middle, or perhaps you've made it all the way to the side I'm on. You've lost all the weight, and now you're doing the big maintenance on the other side. But you want to know the number one reason that people don't lose all the weight and keep it off? Do you want to know the number one reason? Can I tell you what the number one reason is? Because if we can address the number one reason, well, you got a greater chance of hitting success, right? |
| 2:03.8 | I mean, there are other reasons that people don't make it, but there is, in fact, a number one. |
| 2:09.2 | And we should talk about what that number one reason is. |
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