Why You Don’t Know If You’re Hungry Anymore (203)
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
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This week’s episode is all about something most people think they understand—but have actually lost touch with: hunger.
Not cravings.
Not habit eating.
Not snacking just because it’s lunchtime or someone else is eating.
I’m talking about real, physical hunger—and what happens when you stop being able to feel it, recognize it, or trust it.
In this episode, I’ll break down:
- Why so many people lose connection to their hunger signals after years of dieting, emotional eating, and shame
- How your brain’s reticular activating system (RAS) is filtering out the signals your body’s been trying to send you
- What it means to become both the scientist and the test subject in your own transformation
- How to re-learn hunger like a forgotten language—and why it’s the skill you need if you’re serious about becoming thin
If you’ve ever felt confused about your hunger…
If you’ve ever wondered why you eat when you do…
Or if you’ve been trying to follow someone else’s meal plan and it just keeps falling apart…
This episode is going to give you the clarity you’ve been missing.
00:00 Introduction and Host's Weight Loss Journey
01:19 The Key to Lasting Weight Loss
02:44 Understanding True Hunger
04:46 Reconnecting with Your Hunger Signals
05:29 The Reticular Activating System and Hunger
09:43 Becoming a Scientist of Your Own Hunger
17:16 The Hunger Study Guide
20:44 Conclusion 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 Terrell. |
| 0:16.8 | And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. |
| 0:20.8 | How did this last week go for you, champion? |
| 0:22.6 | What new challenges did you encounter? |
| 0:24.7 | But more importantly, what failure did you go through |
| 0:26.8 | and what lesson did you get from that failure? |
| 0:28.9 | Come on now. |
| 0:29.9 | Don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting your lesson. |
| 0:33.4 | That's your reward for your troubles, by the way. |
| 0:35.7 | 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 again. Before I finally got sick and tired of being sick and tired, and it made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my lifestyle, habits, or teens, environment, community, and to my systems of belief. Because it's all six of those things that created the results in my life. And if you want to get new results in your life, you're going to change all six of those things, too. And now I'm here each week to help you get, get whatever the result is in your life that you desire to have. And I think that's to be someone in a thin, healthy, happy, and in-shaped body and mind. And I'd love to help you get there. |
| 1:12.6 | And now, I've been teaching weight loss now for a number of years |
| 1:16.9 | and helping lots of people lose 100 pounds and keep it off. |
| 1:19.4 | And I've noticed there's this one thing, that if a person doesn't work on this one thing, |
| 1:24.2 | if they don't get rid of or deal with, this one thing, |
| 1:30.5 | the weight loss often becomes temporary. |
| 1:37.4 | It becomes something that is elusive. And even if they get it, they find staying thin is not something that's in the cards to them. |
| 1:42.9 | Many of you have lost weight in the past and you did not deal with and address this one thing. |
| 2:20.5 | And of course, what ended up happening is you ended up gaining all your weight back. I did this too. And the number one thing that if you don't do this is going to get you stuck is not being a member of my free Facebook group. Did I mention that? The becoming thin Facebook group? You've got to be a member of the objectively best Facebook group out there for weight loss. I mean, I'm biased, super, super biased about that because it's mine, but I think it's pretty awesome. And if you want to be part of a weight loss community that takes a mindset first approach to becoming thin, healthy, happy, and shape, then go to Facebook, type in Becoming Thin, look for the group section, you'll find it there, or I'll put a link to it in the show notes just to make it easy on you. |
| 2:21.3 | You can find it either place. |
| 2:27.6 | Now, in all seriousness, no, there is actually one thing. |
| 2:32.7 | You know, because most people want a one size, fits all eating plan, you know. |
| 2:37.8 | But that's like walking into a lab and throwing chemicals together and hoping presto look there's there's the cure everything's fine it just |
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