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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

In this episode, we go deep into the real reason emotional eating keeps showing up in your life and what you can do about it.

If you’ve ever wondered why you repeat the same patterns, self-sabotage after progress, or feel stuck in a loop of guilt, shame, and overeating, this episode brings clarity.

I’m sharing the self-healing steps that transformed my own life after decades of chronic yo-yo dieting and emotional pain. These are the same tools I teach inside the Guild and my coaching programs. When you start applying them, the urge to emotionally eat begins to lose its power and the journey of becoming thin becomes possible in a new way.

We’re talking about:

• Understanding emotional eating as a symptom, not a failure

• Why accepting your past frees your future

• The role of self-ownership in stopping repeated patterns

• How self-forgiveness breaks the emotional cycle that keeps you stuck

• What happens when you put your goals and desires first

• How investing in yourself changes your relationship with your mind

• Why creating boundaries stops others from taking advantage of you

• The moment your origin story begins and the hero steps forward

This isn’t about willpower or perfection. This is about learning to work with your emotions, reconnecting with who you are, and creating the internal shifts that make lasting weight loss possible.

Because when you heal yourself, your relationship with food changes. Your relationship with your body changes. Your relationship with your entire life changes.

If that’s what you want, you’re in the right place.

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Chris Terrell, host of the 'Becoming Thin Podcast', shares insights from his personal journey of losing 125 pounds. Emphasizing the importance of lifestyle, habits, routines, environment, community, and belief systems, Chris encourages listeners to focus on long-term changes rather than short-term fixes. He dispels myths about diets and provides practical advice on weight loss basics, including movement, calorie awareness, and maintaining motivation. Chris invites listeners to join the 'Guild of Champions' for further support and resources, stressing that sustainable change takes time and persistence.

00:00 Introduction and Host's Weight Loss Journey

01:16 Understanding the Goal: Becoming Thin vs. Losing Weight

02:02 The Role of Lifestyle in Weight Management

03:08 Weight Loss Basics and New Year's Resolutions

05:26 The Importance of Taking Responsibility

18:50 The Secret to Weight Loss: Time and Patience

26:58 Unintentional Weight Gain

27:40 Finding Motivation Beyond Weight Loss

30:03 The Reality of Sustainable Weight Loss

32:49 Common Weight Loss Questions Answered

33:06 Join the Guild: Exclusive Offer

35:21 Should You Track Calories?

38:39 How Often to Weigh In

41:01 Tracking Macros: Is It Necessary?

42:43 Carbs: To Cut or Not to Cut?

44:41 The Best Exercise for Weight Loss

45:31 Final Thoughts and Encouragement

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In this episode of the Becoming Thin Podcast, Chris takes you deep into the mental lens you’ve been using without realizing it. If you’ve been stuck in a cycle of stress, shame, emotional eating, and self-criticism, this conversation will hit home in the best way possible.

Most people try to lose weight by forcing discipline or chasing the perfect plan. What they don’t realize is that their inner lens is the real reason they feel overwhelmed and stuck. Chris breaks down how compassionate thinking works, why the judgmental lens always leads to emotional turmoil, and how your focus becomes the fuel of your emotional life. You’ll hear a real story from Chris’s week that illustrates this shift in action, and you’ll learn how to apply the same process in your own life.

By the end, you’ll see why being hard on yourself has never made you stronger, and how letting go of that habit opens the door to calmer days, better choices, and easier weight loss.

What You’ll Learn Today

Why your mind jumps to the worst-case scenario

You’ll understand how your brain fills in the gaps with negative stories and how that keeps you anxious, overwhelmed, and reactive.

How your focus fuels your emotional state

Chris explains why attention acts like gasoline on a fire and what happens when you redirect it on purpose.

What a compassionate lens actually looks like

Not fluffy positivity, but a clearer, calmer way of viewing yourself and others that reduces internal chaos.

The surprising truth about judgmental thinking

You’ll see how self-judgment shapes your emotional patterns and why it makes weight loss harder than it needs to be.

Why compassion leads to better long-term results

This episode shows you how treating yourself with understanding naturally reduces emotional eating and helps you make better choices without force.

How to practice compassionate thinking in real life

Chris gives practical, simple ways to get daily reps so this becomes your new default way of thinking.

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Episode Description

If you have tried every diet, tracked every calorie, and still find yourself overeating at night or regaining the same weight over and over, this episode is going to hit uncomfortably close to home. Chris pulls back the curtain on five real-life roadblocks that most people never want to say out loud. These are the deeper life choices and dynamics that quietly keep you overweight, out of shape, and exhausted, no matter how badly you say you want to change.

Drawing from his own 125 pound weight loss and years of coaching people through morbid obesity into a thin life, Chris calls out the hard stuff. The job you hate. The kids who take everything out of you. The way you hide in helping everyone else. The spouse you blame or fear. The principles and beliefs you have never updated since your twenties. This is not about shaming you. It is about finally telling the truth about the life you built and how that life is shaping your body.

If you have ever thought “I just do not have time to take care of myself” or “I cannot change this without blowing up my whole life,” this conversation will challenge that story and give you a way to start taking your power back.

In this episode, you will learn

1. Why a controlling, draining, or boring job can quietly drive emotional eating and long term weight gain, and what it really means to consider changing it.
2. How a lack of boundaries with your kids teaches them that self care is optional and keeps you stuck in chronic self neglect.
3. Why constantly helping everyone else first can be a socially acceptable way to avoid facing your own body, habits, and limitations.
4. How an overbearing spouse, or the story you tell yourself about your spouse, becomes an excuse that blocks your progress and what you can actually do about it.
5. Why outdated principles and unexamined beliefs from your past are running the show and keeping you from becoming the thin, healthy, happy version of you.

This episode is for you if

1. You feel trapped by your job, your kids, or your relationship and you keep saying they are the reason you cannot lose weight.
2. You are the reliable helper for everyone else, but your own health keeps getting pushed to the bottom of the list.
3. You are ready for straight talk, tough love, and real responsibility without shame.

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This episode answers questions submitted inside the Becoming Thin Facebook group. Chris breaks down why so many people believe they are starting over every time they fall down. He shows how that story is a lie that destroys momentum and confidence. You will learn a new frame for consistency that feels possible in the real world and you will hear powerful examples of how tiny adjustments compound into becoming thin.

Chris also addresses body acceptance, emotional eating, Netflix routines, motivation, and why failure is not a problem if you use it correctly.

Major Topics Covered

• the unseen identity trap behind “starting over”
• how to accept your body at any size without settling
• consistency as getting back up not perfection
• momentum and why missing twice is where danger lives
• how emotional eating reveals itself during stress
• motivation vs micro actions
• the difference between intentional enjoyment and escaping feelings

What You Will Learn

• how to neutralize the voice that says you failed again
• how to measure progress in real life not fantasy perfection
• how to switch your focus from removing negatives to adding positives
• how to use the next tiny action to activate motivation
• how to stress test your personal strategy instead of judging yourself

Ever notice you only feel safe when you’re in total control? In this episode, Chris explains how control is really about self-trust—and how to finally find peace without perfection.

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Episode Summary

Do you only see results when you’re hyper-controlling everything—tracking every bite, counting every step, micromanaging every habit—and yet still fear losing control the moment you ease up? This week, Chris Terrell unpacks why that happens and what it really means. You’ll learn how control often hides self-distrust, how to recondition your subconscious to support your goals, and how to build trust in yourself so you can stop living in constant tension around food, the scale, and your habits.

If you’ve ever felt like peace only exists when you’re perfect, this episode will help you shift from control to confidence.

In This Episode

• Why control is often a symptom of self-distrust
• How hyper-managing your weight loss actually prevents maintenance
• The power of subconscious reconditioning in long-term change
• Why mastering the basics beats chasing perfection
• How to make maintenance feel like victory
• Emotional eating, explained as a spectrum—not a failure
• Real tools for moving from “trying to lose weight” to “learning to stay thin”

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What If You’re Not Stuck… You’re Just Afraid to Move On?

You’re not broken. You’re not trapped. You’re just standing at the edge of change — and fear is whispering that you’re not ready.

In this episode, Chris breaks down why so many people mistake fear for stuckness and how that illusion keeps them clinging to the very things holding them back. You’ll learn how to recognize when fear is trying to protect you, how to move through it, and why real transformation always begins the moment you let go.

In this episode:

• Why fear disguises itself as “stuck”

• The difference between restriction and release

• How to find freedom on the other side of fear

• Practical steps to start letting go — for real

If you’ve ever said “I just can’t move forward,” this episode will help you see the truth behind that feeling and finally start walking toward the life you want.

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Understanding Emotional Eating: Key Insights and Strategies for Lasting Weight Loss

In this episode of the Becoming Them Podcast, host Chris Terrell shares his journey of losing 125 pounds and breaks down the key elements that lead to permanent, meaningful, and lasting changes in weight loss. Chris emphasizes the importance of modifying habits, routines, belief systems, community, and environment, and delves into the often overlooked aspect of emotional eating. He explains psychological reactance and how perceptions of control impact our eating behaviors. He also discusses the significance of understanding emotional cues and countering them with mindful practices. Chris shares insights from the book 'Eight Keys to Ending Emotional Eating' and announces plans for an intensive one-on-one coaching program. This episode is a deep dive into the underlying causes of emotional eating and offers practical strategies for achieving sustainable weight loss.

00:00 Welcome to the Becoming Them Podcast

00:38 The Six Pillars of Lasting Change

03:37 The Reality of Emotional Eating

05:32 The Basics of Weight Management

06:50 Understanding Emotional Eating

09:20 Join the Live Streams and Community

11:59 The Power of Books in Weight Loss

21:47 Psychological Reactance and Food

27:27 Understanding Psychological Reactance

28:58 Personal Experience with Reactance

32:10 The Forbidden Fruit and Emotional Eating

35:35 Defiance and Control in Everyday Life

38:49 The Flaws of Traditional Dieting

44:30 Introducing the Guaranteed Success Plan

48:12 Final Thoughts and Encouragement

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You say you want freedom — peace with food, confidence in your body, consistency in your habits — but somehow, every time you get close, you find yourself back in the same loop: overthinking, overeating, and starting over again.

In this episode, Chris Terrell breaks down why you keep doing that.

You’ll learn how the mind becomes addicted to struggle — not because it’s good, but because it’s known. And how that “familiar captivity” convinces you to stay stuck in patterns that quietly destroy your self-trust.

This isn’t about food or fitness plans. It’s about freedom — real freedom — and what it takes to walk away from the version of yourself that’s still chained to comfort, control, and shame.

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In this episode:

• Why your brain prefers familiar misery over unfamiliar freedom

• The subtle ways you recreate struggle in your life (and call it “normal”)

• How to recognize when comfort has turned into captivity

• What really happens when you stop believing your excuses

• How to rebuild trust with yourself one decision at a time

• Why failure isn’t bad — and how it’s the key to finally being free

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Key Takeaways

1. Familiar pain feels safer than unknown peace. Your brain equates predictability with safety — even when that predictability hurts.

2. You’re not broken. You’re conditioned. And conditioning can be unlearned.

3. Freedom feels unfamiliar at first. It’s supposed to. That discomfort is growth.

4. Self-trust is rebuilt through action, not perfection. Every time you follow through — even a little — you’re rewiring who you believe yourself to be.

5. The cage isn’t locked. You’re holding the key. You just have to decide to turn it.

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Listen if you’ve ever said:

• “I know what to do, I just can’t seem to do it.”

• “Every time things start going well, I mess it up.”

• “I feel like I’m addicted to struggle.”

• “I don’t trust myself anymore.”