Why You Keep Regaining the Weight (and What to Do Instead) (205)
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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In this episode of the Becoming Thin Podcast, host Chris Terrell discusses his personal weight loss journey of losing 125 pounds and highlights the importance of making permanent lifestyle changes for long-term success. Chris emphasizes the futility of quick-fix diets and stresses the need to modify habits, routines, environments, and belief systems.
He introduces the concept of weight management versus weight loss and explains the significance of addressing emotional eating as a behavioral issue. Chris also shares insights on building a supportive community, the role of encouragement partners, and the specific challenges faced by members of his Guild of Champions.
He encourages listeners to focus on sustainable, incremental changes and to understand the root causes of their weight issues rather than solely seeking temporary solutions.
00:00 Introduction and Personal Journey
02:24 The Importance of Community and Support
04:12 Guild of Champions and Tough Mudder Event
05:31 Special Guild Member Session
07:50 Weight Management vs. Weight Loss
15:29 Understanding Emotional Eating
31:41 The Role of Food in Weight Loss
32:45 Reflecting on Past Diets
33:30 The Turning Point: A New Approach
35:22 Understanding Hunger and Eating Habits
38:46 Emotional Eating and Behavioral Changes
42:51 The Journey to Sustainable Weight Loss
44:58 The Importance of Lifestyle Changes
01:00:11 Final 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 Terrell, and welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. How did this last week go for you, Champion? |
| 0:22.1 | What new challenges did you encounter? |
| 0:24.3 | But more importantly, what failure did you go through? |
| 0:27.3 | And what lesson did you go and get from that failure? |
| 0:30.1 | Come on now, don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting your lesson. |
| 0:34.7 | That's your reward for your troubles after all. |
| 0:36.6 | Now, if you're new year, I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood of chronic yo-yo dieting. |
| 0:43.5 | Up, down, up, down again, then back up, before I finally got sick and tired of being sick and tired, |
| 0:48.5 | and I made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my lifestyle, habits, routines, |
| 0:52.7 | environment, community, and to my systems of belief. Because it's all of those things that created me and it's all of those things that create you too. And if you want to get results that last and stick forever, you can't just go on a diet. No, no, no. You got to go change all six of those things in some way. I'm telling you, I've done it. I've lost the weight. When I look at my |
| 1:11.5 | life now and I look at my habits, my lifestyle, my routines, they do not match what I used to |
| 1:17.0 | do over six years ago for decades. If you look at my environment, it does not match the environment |
| 1:23.2 | that I lived in for decades. If you look at my community, I do not have the same community, I don't interact with my community |
| 1:30.3 | the same as I used to for many decades. |
| 1:33.3 | And of course my belief systems, the way I look at myself, the way I look at the world, |
| 1:37.3 | what I accept to be true, would I think to be false, that has also changed as well. |
| 1:43.3 | And I changed these things to be in alignment with what I want, with the kind of person I want to be, with the life I want to live and the body that I want to do it in. |
| 1:54.1 | And you can do this too. |
| 1:56.4 | You can do this. |
| 1:58.0 | You can change. |
| 1:59.4 | You can live the life you want to live in the body you want to live, but not without doing the work, not without actually making some changes to your life. |
| 2:10.9 | You cannot just go on a diet and expect this to stick forever if you have been struggling with weight the majority of your life. |
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