Why You Still Feel Big After Losing Weight (And What to Do About It)(213)
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
- Join The Guild -
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In this community Q&A episode, Chris answers real listener questions from the Becoming Thin Facebook group. If you’ve ever caught yourself overeating at parties, crashing after a big milestone, or still seeing your “before” body in the mirror—this one is for you.
🔍 In This Episode:
• Why you still feel big even after losing 75+ pounds
• What sweet cravings after a “perfect” meal really mean
• How to stop autopilot eating at social events
• The truth about burnout, rest days, and regaining momentum
• Why scale obsession is sabotaging your long-term results
• How to stay motivated after your big goal (like a vacation) is over
• The psychology of identity lag and how to update your self-image
Resources Mentioned:
🧠 Free Workshop: The Mindset of Weight Loss
June 23–25 | 7–9 PM CST | Register at imnotquitting.com
📘 Free Hunger Study Guide
Learn to understand your true hunger signals at BecomingThin.com
👥 Join the Becoming Thin Facebook Group
Get your questions answered & connect with others on the same journey
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Host's Weight Loss Journey
01:05 Philosophy and Approach to Weight Loss
03:39 Community Q&A: Emotional Eating and Burnout
06:04 First Community Question: Social Eating Challenges
13:16 Second Community Question: Craving Sweets After Meals
23:10 Third Community Question: Overcoming Weight Loss Burnout
29:14 Navigating Weight Fluctuations
29:48 The Dangers of Micromanaging Weight Loss
31:52 Sustainable Weight Loss Strategies
37:22 Post-Vacation Motivation Challenges
39:00 Lifestyle Change vs. Short-Term Goals
43:41 Personal Journey and Mindset Shift
52:27 Overcoming Body Dysmorphia After Weight Loss
56:35 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. |
| 0:13.9 | And I am your host, Chris Terrell. |
| 0:15.9 | And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. |
| 0:19.7 | How did this last week go for you, what your challenges did you encounter? |
| 0:22.6 | But more importantly, what failure did you go through |
| 0:25.6 | and what lesson did you get from that failure? |
| 0:28.6 | Come on now, don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting your lesson. |
| 0:32.6 | That's your reward for your troubles, after all. |
| 0:35.6 | Now if you're new here, I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood of chronic |
| 0:41.7 | yo-yo dieting. |
| 0:42.8 | Up, down, up, down, up again. |
| 0:45.6 | Before I finally got sick and tired, to be in sick and tired and fat. |
| 0:49.1 | And it made some permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my real life, lifestyle, habits, |
| 0:53.8 | for teens, environment, community, into my my systems I believe. Because it's all six of those things that created the results of my life, and if I wanted to get new results, I was going to have to go change those six things, and you will too. And I'm here each week to help you change those six things so that you can get the results in your life that you preserve, which is the body of life of your dreams. You know, for a long time, I didn't believe that it was possible |
| 1:15.7 | that I could lose all the weight. Sunday in just a couple of days from now is when I was given |
| 1:23.8 | the challenge to change my life. |
| 1:30.1 | To move for three times a week for 20 minutes. |
| 1:33.3 | The thing that kickstarted all of this that has led me here six years later making this podcast episode, this is a really cool episode to be making right now. |
| 1:38.5 | Because I'm really, I'm doing what I didn't think was possible. |
| 1:42.7 | I'm doing the undoable. |
| 1:45.0 | I had the audacity to lose all the weight to actually change. |
| 1:48.8 | And when I got over here, it's like I followed a trail of breadcrumbs that was left before me, |
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