The Becoming Thin Podcast

Join the Guild - discount applied www.imnotquitting.com   Use CODE 7years26 at checkout for a discount. (good through the end of the month) Seven years ago Chris started losing weight. 125 pounds down, five years maintained, and now coaching others through the same thing — here are the 10 lessons that actually held up. This episode marks the anniversary of Chris's weight loss journey. No theor...

Join the Guild www.imnotquitting.com   --- Dieting isn't changing. Dieting is a temporary thing you do to make your body smaller. But your body got bigger for a reason — your lifestyle, your habits, your routines, your environment, your community, your belief systems. Change those, and the weight follows. Don't, and you'll lose it and gain it back like you always have. So why don't...

Join the Guild www.imnotquitting.com   You’ve lost the weight before. Maybe more than once. And every time, it comes back. You’ve decided the answer is a better diet, more discipline, or finally finding the right plan. I’m here to tell you it’s none of those things. You’ve been running the wrong number of plans. In this episode, I lay out the core philosophy behind my entire approach to sustainabl...

Join the Guild www.imnotquitting.com   If you added up every pound you've ever lost across every attempt — for most people, the bigger number is still what they weighed at their heaviest. That tells you something. You've actually been pretty good at losing weight. What you've never been good at is stopping the regain. In this episode, Chris breaks down the single biggest mistake people...

Join the Guild www.imnotquitting.com   The same principle that got Chris through 125 pounds of weight loss got him through 31 miles of trail running: you don't run a 50K by thinking about mile 31, you run it by running the mile you're in. Weight loss works the same way. After two weeks off the feed — between running the Ouachita 50K ultramarathon, leading a Tough Mudder workshop in Atlanta...

Join the Guild www.imnotquitting.com   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 po...

Join the Guild www.imnotquitting.com   Weight Loss Won't Fix Everything (But This Will) The scale is not a therapist. Losing weight will make the middle seat more comfortable — but it won't heal the wounds that may have put you there in the first place. This week, Chris continues the Becoming Thin Philosophies series with an honest look at the emotional side of the weight loss journey — th...

Join the Guild www.imnotquitting.com   Most people say they want to lose weight. But if you slow down and really look at it, that’s not the full truth. What you actually want is to feel different, to think differently about yourself, to finally approve of who you are when you look in the mirror. Weight loss is just the vehicle you’ve attached to that deeper desire. And until you’re willing to be h...

Join the Guild www.imnotquitting.com   This episode goes deeper than weight loss. Chris shares the moment everything changed for him, when his father’s passing forced him to confront time, presence, and the reality that life is not waiting. What started as a desire to lose weight became something much bigger. A realization that he wasn’t just chasing a smaller body, he was chasing permission to fe...

Join the Guild www.imnotquitting.com   In this episode, Chris introduces the idea that lasting weight loss requires a shift in philosophy, not just changes in food choices. Drawing from his own journey of losing 125 pounds after years of yo yo dieting, he explains that real transformation came from changing how he viewed his lifestyle, habits, environment, community, and belief systems. When those...

Join the Emotional Eating Program www.imnotquitting.com   In this episode of the Becoming Thin Podcast , Chris explores a powerful question many people overlook when trying to lose weight. Why do we gain the weight in the first place? Instead of focusing only on dieting strategies, he digs into the deeper psychological patterns that often drive emotional eating. Drawing from both research and year...

Join the Guild www.imnotquitting.com   In this episode of the Becoming Thin Podcast  , Chris breaks down the hidden “perfect storm” behind emotional eating: the collision of physical hunger and emotional hunger at the same time. He explains the difference between biological hunger and hedonic or emotional hunger, and why combining the two often leads to overeating, especially at the end of a long,...

Chris Terrell introduces a new episode format by sharing an impromptu hot seat coaching call from his Guild program’s maintenance class. The featured coaching conversation is with Misty (a previous guest) who has lost about 190 pounds and maintained it, but struggles to add exercise consistently. Chris also mentions a free three-week audio weight loss coaching course available at becomingthin.com....

What if exercise isn’t for weight loss? In this episode of Becoming Thin, I sit down with a woman who lost 95 pounds… and didn’t stop there. She went from feeling postpartum, overwhelmed, depressed, and nearly 240 pounds to completing 100-mile ultramarathons. But this is not an episode about running. It’s about identity. We talk about what happens when you stop using exercise to punish your body a...

Join the Guild www.imnotquitting.com   Overcoming Emotional Eating: A Journey of Self-Love and Acceptance In this episode of the Becoming Thin Podcast, host Chris Terrell opens up about his personal weight loss journey, sharing his struggle with yo-yo dieting and emotional eating. Chris provides valuable insights into the importance of self-love, acceptance, and forgiveness, emphasizing that real,...

In this episode of the Becoming Thin Podcast, host Chris Tarroll shares insights from his personal weight-loss journey, losing 125 pounds after years of yo-yo dieting. Chris emphasizes the importance of learning from failures, making permanent lifestyle changes, and understanding the intrinsic link between body and lifestyle. He shares strategies for sustainable weight loss, emphasizing the need f...

Join the Guild www.imnotquitting.com   The Guild of Champions: Three Key Weight Loss Philosophies In this episode of 'Becoming Thin Podcast,' host Chris TaRL discusses the essential components and philosophies for a successful and sustainable weight loss journey. Sharing personal insights from his own 125-pound weight loss, Chris emphasizes the importance of changing lifestyle, habits, rou...

Join the Guild www.imnotquitting.com   In this episode of the 'Becoming Thin Podcast,' host Chris Harold shares his personal weight loss journey and the importance of overcoming the urge to quit. He delves into the reasons why people typically abandon their weight loss efforts, attributing it to the failure of reconditioning the mind's 'automatic pilot.' Chris explains the cons...

Join the Guild www.whydoiquit.com   Most people don’t fail at weight loss because their plan didn’t work. They fail because they quit before the timeline was complete. In this episode, Chris explains why lasting weight loss is more like running a marathon than following a diet. The steps themselves are simple, but the challenge is doing them consistently for a long period of time and staying in th...

Join My Annual Free Workshop www.whydoiquit.com   If you’ve ever started strong with weight loss and then quietly fallen off, this episode explains why. Quitting isn’t a motivation problem. It’s not a discipline problem. And it’s not a character flaw. In this episode, Chris breaks down what’s actually happening when people lose momentum, revert to old habits, and end up back where they started. Th...

Join My Annual Free Workshop www.whydoiquit.com   What if the reason weight loss has always felt so hard is because you were taught to do it in a way that makes you miserable? In this episode, I share a deeply personal story about grief, self trust, and the moment everything shifted for me. Not through discipline. Not through punishment. But through something most people never associate with weigh...

Register for My Free Workshop January 3rd, 4th, and 5th Register at:  https://whydoiquit.com Have you ever felt like your weight loss journey never truly continues… it just keeps restarting? You make progress. You learn things. You even do well for a while. And yet somehow, you find yourself back at the beginning again. In this episode, Chris explores the mental and psychological patterns that cre...

Join The Guild CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE 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...

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 dieti...

Join The Guild CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE 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 prac...