Why Do I Feel Like I’m Always Restarting? (238)
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
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Have you ever felt like your weight loss journey never truly continues… it just keeps restarting?
You make progress.
You learn things.
You even do well for a while.
And yet somehow, you find yourself back at the beginning again.
In this episode, Chris explores the mental and psychological patterns that create that experience. Not from a place of failure or lack of effort, but from the way most people unknowingly approach long-term change.
This is a deep, honest conversation about clarity, internal conflict, language, fear, endurance, and why progress can feel fragile even when you’re doing “everything right.”
If you’ve ever felt like you’re constantly starting over instead of building forward, this episode will help you understand why—and what’s really been happening beneath the surface.
Why progress can feel temporary even when effort is real
How vague goals and fuzzy language quietly create instability
The difference between movement and direction
Why fear doesn’t disappear when you move forward—and why that’s okay
How internal negotiation drains energy over time
Why long-term transformation requires an endurance mindset, not intensity
What it actually takes to make it to the end of a weight loss journey
This episode is for you if:
You’ve lost weight before but never finished the journey
You feel mentally exhausted by starting over again and again
You know what to do, but something keeps pulling you backward
Progress never quite feels secure
You want lasting change, not another short-term push
Chris also shares details about an upcoming free multi-day workshop where he’ll go much deeper into the psychology of stopping, restarting, and how to finally make it to the end of your weight loss journey.
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This episode isn’t about motivation.
It’s about understanding why progress hasn’t been sticking—and what changes when clarity replaces internal conflict.
If this conversation resonates with you, you’re not broken.
You’re closer than you think.
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| 0:00.0 | From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the Becoming Thin podcast, and I am your host, Chris Turrell. |
| 0:17.1 | And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. |
| 0:22.5 | How did this last week go for you, champion? |
| 0:28.2 | 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 |
| 0:34.0 | you getting your lesson from it. That's your reward for your troubles after all. |
| 0:38.0 | Now if you knew here, I lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood of chronic |
| 0:42.8 | yo-yo-diving. Up, down, up, down, up again. Before I finally got sick and tired, being sick and |
| 0:48.8 | tired doing that yo-yo dieting shit, and I made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes |
| 0:53.2 | to my real-life lifestyle, to my real-life habits with teens, meaningful and actual changes to my real life lifestyle, |
| 0:55.1 | for my real life habits with teens, environment community, and to my systems of belief. |
| 1:00.0 | Because it's all of those things that create the results in my life and if I wanted to get |
| 1:02.9 | new results, I was going to have to go change those six things. Now I'm here each week |
| 1:07.6 | to help you change those things in your life as well, to bring them |
| 1:12.7 | into alignment to the life that you want to live. |
| 1:17.6 | I'm here to help you accomplish four things, four missions, four distinct and separate goals. |
| 1:23.9 | In fact, I call them the core four goals as a part of who I approach weight loss. |
| 1:28.5 | It is I want to help you become thin, healthy, happy, and in shape. Not one of these, not two of these, |
| 1:37.2 | not three of these, but in fact, all four. Thin, healthy, happy, and in shape. That was a big thing for me. You know, I'd never tried to pursue all of those at the same time before. |
| 1:48.0 | I would, I was like, I'm on a health journey. |
| 1:52.0 | Was it clear? |
| 1:54.0 | It was vague and fuzzy. |
| 1:57.0 | The other thing that I would do is I would be incredibly cavalier with my language, incredibly dismissive of how I talked about myself, because that's how I just lived my life. And I didn't change that. And none of the diets I was going on was telling me anything about that. Like, hey, man, maybe part of the reason why you're not succeeding is because if you ever stop and think about how you talk about yourself to yourself, it's not very kind, not very encouraging, not very compassionate, not very supportive. |
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