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The Becoming Thin Podcast

Why Some Win at Weight Loss and Others Don’t

The Becoming Thin Podcast

Chris Terrell

Health & Fitness

4.9 • 564 Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Courage to Transform: Permanent Weight Loss and Beyond


In this episode of the Chris Terrell podcast, Chris dives deep into the challenges and failures faced during weight loss journeys, sharing personal insights from his own 125-pound transformation. 


He stresses the importance of permanent lifestyle changes, the power of positive thinking, and rejecting societal conformity. 


Drawing on concepts by Earl Nightingale, Chris defines success as the progressive realization of a worthy ideal and distinguishes courage as acting in the face of fear versus the conformity that holds many back. 


Listeners are encouraged to introspect, set meaningful goals, and prioritize self-love to achieve lasting success in their weight loss and overall life ambitions.


00:00 Introduction and Weekly Check-In

00:37 Chris Terrell's Weight Loss Journey

01:10 The Importance of Permanent Changes

01:42 The Pitfalls of Crash Diets

02:07 Defining Success and Failure

02:48 Join the Community

03:53 Behavior Changes Over Mechanics

09:23 The Role of Courage in Weight Loss

10:54 Conformity vs. Courage

14:25 Breaking Free from Expectations

16:26 Setting Effective Goals

16:52 The Courage to Pursue Big Goals

17:27 Understanding Height to Waist Ratio

18:08 The Importance of Self-Belief

20:14 The Power of Thought

25:31 Loving Yourself for Success


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0:00.0

From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the Chris Terrell podcast, and I am your host, Chris Terrell, and welcome to another week of your weight loss quest.

0:21.0

How did this last week go for you, champion?

0:23.0

What new challenges did you encounter?

0:25.3

But more importantly, what failure did you have last week?

0:28.7

And what I'd love to hear about is that lesson that you got from that failure.

0:32.6

Come on now.

0:33.7

Don't let a perfectly good failure go by without getting a lesson.

0:37.0

Now, if you're new here, I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood of chronic

0:44.2

yo-yo dieting, up, down, up, down again, before I finally got sick and tired of being sick

0:49.8

and tired.

0:51.0

And it made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my real life, my real

0:56.7

life, my lifestyle, my habits, routines, to my environment, to my community, and to my system

1:03.9

of beliefs. Because it's all six of those things that create me. And it's all six of those

1:08.9

things that create you as well. And if you want to

1:11.8

experience a permanent transformation in your life, you are going to have to make permanent

1:18.0

changes. You're going to have to actually crack open the hood of your real life and just start fiddling

1:23.0

this stuff. See what ain't right. Just twist the knob and see what happens. Because if you keep doing the same things, if you keep reacting the same way, if you keep thinking the same thoughts, you know what you're going to get?

1:33.3

You're going to get more of the same.

1:35.3

And if you keep trying those same old diets, you're going to keep getting the same old results of those same old diets always give you.

1:42.3

You ever notice something about those that do a crash diet?

1:45.2

They seem to gain it all back.

1:47.4

Why do you think you are going to somehow be any different than the rest?

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