Why does your brain say EAT when you're hungry? (219)
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
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The Role of Emotional Eating in Weight Loss and Self-Acceptance
In this episode of Becoming Thin Podcast, host Chris TaRL shares his personal weight loss journey, having shed 125 pounds after years of yo-yo dieting. Chris emphasizes the importance of addressing emotional eating to achieve long-term weight loss success. He advises listeners to learn from their failures and to embrace their emotions rather than using food as a coping mechanism. By exploring the concept of self-pity versus self-ownership, Chris offers strategies to handle emotional eating and to foster self-compassion. He also discusses listener questions from the Becoming Thin Facebook group, delving into the psychological aspects of eating habits and offering practical advice for managing emotional triggers. Chris stresses the importance of self-acceptance and shares his own experiences with overcoming negative self-perceptions. The episode concludes with a call to action, encouraging listeners to focus on personal growth and to set aside time for self-reflection.
00:00 Introduction and Personal Journey
01:22 Podcast Changes and Listener Engagement
03:07 Understanding Emotional Eating
06:47 The Impact of Emotions on Perception
12:40 Listener Question: Coping with Emotional Eating
18:42 Exploring Self-Pity and Self-Compassion
35:14 Embracing Your Emotions
36:19 Personal Struggles with Fear and Self-Doubt
39:01 The Journey of Self-Acceptance
39:40 The Impact of Emotional Eating
41:12 Listener Interaction and Feedback
42:31 Addressing Listener Questions
43:13 Old Chris vs. New Chris
46:22 Developing New Strategies for Handling Criticism
56:16 The Importance of Self-Worth
01:06:39 Concluding Thoughts and Encouragement
Transcript
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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. |
| 0:16.8 | And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. |
| 0:22.3 | How did this last week go for you, champion? |
| 0:24.5 | What new challenges did you encounter? |
| 0:29.8 | But more importantly, what failure did you go through and what lesson did you get from that failure? |
| 0:30.7 | Come on now. |
| 0:31.7 | Don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting your lesson. |
| 0:35.3 | That's your reward for your troubles after all. |
| 0:37.9 | Now if you're new here, I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adult. Chronic yo-yo dieting. Up down, |
| 0:45.4 | up, down, up again, before I finally got sick and tired of being sick and tired and fat, |
| 0:50.4 | and it made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my real life lifestyle, habits, routines, |
| 0:55.6 | environment, community, and to my systems of belief. |
| 0:58.9 | Because it's all six of those things that dictate the results and trajectory of my life. |
| 1:02.6 | And if I wanted to get a new results and a new trajectory, I was going to have to go change |
| 1:06.0 | all six of those things. |
| 1:07.7 | Now I'm here each week to help you make those same changes in your life so that you |
| 1:13.2 | can get the body and life of your dreams exactly how you want it to be. Not how I think you should |
| 1:19.2 | have it, but how you do. So I've been making some changes to the podcast, as you know, over the |
| 1:26.2 | last several weeks where I'm doing more where I'm having |
| 1:29.7 | segments, doing more where I'm taking listener questions, and I've been really enjoying it. It's been |
| 1:34.7 | fun to produce the show a little heavier, going beyond just like producing a monologue heavily. |
| 1:42.3 | I do a lot of that already, and I like the creative challenge that the podcast poses for me. |
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