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

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've lost 125 pounds myself 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 it 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 it's the same six things that create the results in yours, too. And if you want to get permanent, meaningful, and lasting changes, you're going to have to go make permanent, meaningful, and lasting changes to those six things in your life too. Your actual habits. You know, how you spend your days every day and not just the habits when you're happy. You gotta work on the habits when you're mad, sad, and otherwise disoriented in some way from your own damn emotions. You gotta change the routines, you gotta change your belief systems, you're gonna have to change the people you hang out with. hang out with. You're going to have to add some to your life or move some from your life. Your environment. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. That's going to have to change. And I don't just mean getting all the tempting, triggering vice foods out of your home. Yes, you need to do that. Your home is your fortress after all. Might as well set your fortress up for success. But you got to go further than that.

Because your environment is the entire world. Your home is your fortress after all. Might as well set your fortress up for success.

But you got to go further than that.

Because your environment is the entire world around you.

But that pesky one, the sixth one, your systems of belief, your thinking, your thoughts,

your subconscious.

You've got to change all that stuff. Look, if you come out the other side of the weight loss journey, think in the your thoughts, your subconscious. You've got to change all that stuff.

Look, if you come out on the other side of the weight loss journey, think in the same thoughts you did when you started it, I want you to know you are more than likely going to become a statistic.

You are more than likely going to gain all your weight back.

Are you going to be the one in however many people that manage to keep it off through white knuckling it and micromanaging every little part of your life? Sure. I see people on Reddit all the time talking about the only way they maintain it is they have to hyper focus and manage every little detail. That's because they did not learn how to do it a different way. But you are learning how to do it a different way, aren't you? You see, I want to help people obtain the body and life of their dreams. And you know, the life of my dreams does not involve me counting my damn calories for the rest of my life. The life of my dreams does not involve me having to give up foods that there's no reason to give up because I don't have a health reason telling me to give them up. And I want that for you too. And I know some of you listening, you're like, no, Chris, if you understood me, if you understood my mind, you would know that I actually have to give up sugar because I'm a sugar addict. I don't think that's true. But sure, if you believe that and you want to go down that rabbit hole and think you're a sugar addict and cut out sugar, go for it. But the moment you start eating sugar anyway, you need to stop asking yourself to do that plan. One of the things I realize it's so helpful is only make changes that you're willing to make for the next 10 years. If you're not willing to make it, go make a different one. But Chris, giving up sugar is going to make everything work better. But you, you ain't going to do it.

And the best plan is the one you'll actually do.

Always remember that.

The best plan is the one you'll actually do for 10 years.

Not the one you'll do right now.

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