Your Beliefs Aren't Yours — They're Borrowed
The Becoming Thin Podcast
Chris Terrell
4.9 • 564 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Join the Guild
Your thoughts aren't just yours. Some of them belong to the room you've been sitting in.
In this episode, Chris digs into one of the most overlooked drivers of long-term weight loss: the people you surround yourself with. Not as a feel-good motivational concept — but as a real mechanism that shapes the beliefs you hold about yourself and what's possible.
In this episode, you'll hear:
- Why the phrase "I've tried everything" is a borrowed belief — and who you borrowed it from
- How belief systems inside a social group coalesce and reinforce each other (and how that works against you without you realizing it)
- The difference between accountability partners and what you actually need: encouragement partners
- Why identity change — not food rules — is the real engine of permanent weight loss
- How Chris built a community-forward coaching model after realizing how hard it was to coach people who were isolated
- The one belief Chris wants you to borrow if you don't have it yet
Key Idea from This Episode:
Just because you have to do the work yourself doesn't mean you have to be alone while you do it. Chris uses the analogy of running an ultra marathon — every step is yours, but having people alongside you changes everything.
Resources Mentioned:
- Free Kickstart Course → becomingthin.com
- Join The Guild of Champions → imnotquitting.com
About the Becoming Thin Podcast
Hosted by Chris Terrell, who lost 125 lbs and has kept it off. The show focuses on the mindset, habits, and identity shifts that create lasting change — not quick fixes or food rules.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | From the headquarters of the Guild of Champions, this is a Becomington podcast, and I am your host, Chris Terrell. |
| 0:16.4 | And welcome to another week of your weight loss quest. |
| 0:20.5 | How did this last week go for you, Champion? |
| 0:22.6 | What new challenges did you encounter? |
| 0:24.6 | But more importantly, what failure did you go through? |
| 0:27.6 | What lesson did you get from that failure? |
| 0:30.6 | Come on now, don't let a perfectly good failure go by without you getting your lesson. |
| 0:34.6 | That's your reward for your troubles after all. |
| 0:36.6 | Now if you're new here, |
| 0:38.3 | I've lost 125 pounds myself after an entire adulthood of chronic yo-yo dieting. Up down, |
| 0:44.8 | up, down, up again. Before I finally got sick and tired, to being sick and tired, then I made some |
| 0:49.8 | permanent, meaningful, and actual changes to my real life, lifestyle, habits, routines, environment, community, |
| 0:55.6 | and to my systems of belief. |
| 0:57.5 | Because it's all six of those things that created the results of my life, and if you want to get |
| 1:00.7 | new results, you're going to have to go change those same very six things. |
| 1:04.9 | And now I'm here for another week to help you on your journey to becoming thin, healthy, |
| 1:09.9 | happy, and in shape. |
| 1:12.4 | Now, in these most recent episodes, we've been talking about some of the deeper |
| 1:16.0 | philosophies that I've had around becoming thin, about this journey that we're on. |
| 1:21.5 | And we're going to continue with that this week. |
| 1:24.0 | We're going to continue on with that. |
| 1:25.4 | Now, if you're looking to get started on your weight loss journey, if you're looking to jumpstart things, so to speak, you can head on over to BecomingThin.com, and you can take my kickstart program, which is my free weight loss course designed to get you up and going from nothing. Don't worry, at the end of that course, I'll tell you what the next steps are, where you can take the next free course that comes right after that. So I got you covered for a few weeks. If you want to get a sense of what it's like |
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