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The Becoming Thin Podcast

What to Do When You Want to Say ‘F It’

The Becoming Thin Podcast

Chris Terrell

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 564 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

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Building Resilience: Embracing Failure, Patience, and the Journey to Sustainable Weight Loss


In this episode of the Chris Terrell podcast, Chris reflects on his own 125-pound weight loss journey, emphasizing the importance of learning from failures and making lasting lifestyle changes. 


He discusses the significance of patience and consistency over perfection in the weight loss process, likening it to building a muscle or managing a budget for financial freedom. 


Chris also addresses common frustrations, such as the burden of tracking food and the 'fuck it' mindset, offering practical advice on overcoming these challenges. 


He highlights the value of journaling, the necessity of occasional forced effort, and the balance between pushing through discomfort and avoiding burnout. 


Chris invites listeners to join the Guild of Champions, where they can receive further guidance and support on their weight loss journey.


00:00 Introduction and Personal Journey

01:16 Podcast Milestones and Listener Appreciation

02:29 The Importance of Journaling

04:22 OnRamp Program Overview

05:45 Q&A: Developing Patience

10:00 Q&A: Estimating Calories

14:19 Q&A: Dealing with Frustration

21:26 Q&A: Forcing It and Burnout

28:51 Conclusion and Final Thoughts



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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.

0:20.0

How did this last week go for you, champion?

0:22.6

What new challenges did you encounter?

0:24.6

But more importantly, what failure did you go through and what lesson did you get from that failure?

0:30.6

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

0:35.6

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

0:43.3

yo-yo dieting.

0:44.7

Up, down, up, down again.

0:47.2

Before I finally got sick and tired to being sick and tired, and I made some permanent, meaningful,

0:51.2

and actual changes to my real- lifestyle, habits, routines, environment,

0:55.4

community, and to my systems of belief. Because it's all of those things that create me,

1:00.4

and it's all of those things that create you too. And if you want to get meaningful results at

1:04.0

last, you're going to have to go all the way to the source and change all six of those things.

1:08.9

And now I'm here each week to help you get similar results in your life, the body and life

1:13.2

of your dreams.

1:14.6

I've been doing this now for a few years.

1:16.7

The podcast is crossing some fun thresholds.

1:19.6

I'm about to hit 200 episodes.

1:21.3

What?

1:22.0

What?

1:22.3

200 episodes of helping people lose weight in a slow, very slow, but sustainable way.

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