Why the Scale Can Ruin Your Day in Two Seconds - (237)
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
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In this episode of the Becoming Thin Podcast, host Chris Terrell delves into the psychological impact of the scale on a weight loss journey. He shares his personal experiences and offers insights into changing one's relationship with the scale by separating the numerical data from the emotional stories we tell ourselves.
Chris recounts various scenarios highlighting different emotional reactions to the scale and emphasizes the importance of focusing on personal effort and progress rather than merely the number. Additionally, Chris encourages listeners to join his free Facebook group and leave reviews on podcast platforms. He concludes with tips on setting the right mindset before weighing in and announces an upcoming free workshop at the beginning of the year.
00:00 Introduction and Host's Weight Loss Journey
01:21 The Importance of Personal Growth
01:56 Your Relationship with the Scale
06:32 Stories We Tell Ourselves About the Scale
10:24 The Scale as a Data Point
18:02 Setting Intentions and Breaking Patterns
24:52 Upcoming Workshop and Final Thoughts
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is the Becoming Thin podcast, and I'm your host, Chris Terrell. |
| 0:16.8 | And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. |
| 0:22.6 | How did this last week go for you, champion? What new challenges did you encounter? |
| 0:25.6 | But more importantly, what failure did you go through? |
| 0:28.6 | And what lesson did you get from that failure? |
| 0:30.6 | Come on now. |
| 0:31.6 | Don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting your lesson. |
| 0:35.6 | That's your reward for your troubles after all. |
| 0:38.3 | Now if you're new here, I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adult of chronic yo-yo dieting. |
| 0:44.7 | Up down, up, down, up again. Before I finally got sick and tired of being sick and tired, in fat, |
| 0:50.1 | and made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my real life lifestyle, habits, |
| 0:54.9 | routines, environment, community, and to my systems of belief. |
| 0:59.5 | Because it's all six of those things that created the results in my life, and if you want |
| 1:03.4 | to get those new results in your life, you're going to have to go change those same six things. |
| 1:08.0 | And now I'm here each week to help you do just that. Change the results in your life |
| 1:14.3 | in a permanent, meaningful, an actual way. Change them into what you want them to be. You know, |
| 1:21.9 | I think that's one of the important things to always remember when you're getting started on |
| 1:26.2 | personal growth and development is you should not |
| 1:29.5 | be changing into something that isn't what you want. Many times we think when we're going to change, |
| 1:35.7 | we operate from an assumption that whatever we're changing, it's going to get replaced by |
| 1:39.3 | something that is worse. Well, that's not always true, actually. A lot of times you replace things with something |
| 1:45.6 | that is better. And you have the power to do that. You can make sure that whatever you're replacing |
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