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 underlying systems changed, his results finally changed too. This episode begins a deeper exploration...
Mar 13, 2026•24 min•Season 12Ep. 1
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 years of coaching experience, Chris introduces four common emotional patterns that frequently show up in p...
Mar 06, 2026•30 min•Season 11Ep. 25
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, stressful day. Instead of blaming specific foods, Chris reframes weight gain as a deeper issue rooted ...
Feb 27, 2026•17 min•Season 11Ep. 24
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. In the coaching call, Misty explains her rigid standard that “exercise” must be a 45–60 minute gym ...
Feb 20, 2026•41 min•Season 11Ep. 23
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 and start using it to care for it. We unpack why running alone won’t make you thin, why it often make...
Feb 13, 2026•1 hr 30 min•Season 11Ep. 22
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, lasting change requires overhauling one's lifestyle, habits, environment, community, and belief syste...
Feb 06, 2026•27 min•Season 11Ep. 21
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 for adaptable weight loss methods and effective hunger management. Chris introduces three practical t...
Jan 30, 2026•29 min•Season 11Ep. 20
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, routines, environment, community, and belief systems. He introduces three crucial philosophies: questioning one's...
Jan 23, 2026•26 min•Season 11Ep. 19
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 conscious versus unconscious mind and emphasizes the need for a core-level change in lifestyle and habits for lasting results....
Jan 16, 2026•42 min•Season 11Ep. 18
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 the game when quitting feels tempting. If you’ve ever lost weight, gained it back, and wondered what’s w...
Jan 09, 2026•25 min•Season 11Ep. 17
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. This is not a motivational episode. It’s an explanation of how unconscious patterns take over when atten...
Jan 02, 2026•32 min•Season 11Ep. 16
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 weight loss at all. Fun. I talk about why misery never leads to lasting change, how I finally broke the cyc...
Dec 27, 2025•39 min•Season 11Ep. 15
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 create that experience. Not from a place of failure or lack of effort, but from the way most people unkn...
Dec 19, 2025•35 min•Season 11Ep. 14
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 highlighting different emotional reactions to the scale and emphasizes the importance of focusing on per...
Dec 12, 2025•30 min•Season 11Ep. 13
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. W...
Dec 05, 2025•35 min•Season 11Ep. 12
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 practical advice on weight loss basics, including movement, calorie awareness, and maintaining motivation. Chris...
Nov 28, 2025•50 min•Season 11Ep. 11
Join The Guild CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE 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. Chr...
Nov 21, 2025•47 min•Season 11Ep. 10
Join The Guild CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE 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 ...
Nov 14, 2025•34 min•Season 11Ep. 9
Join The Guild CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE 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, emo...
Nov 07, 2025•29 min•Season 11Ep. 8
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. Join The Guild CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE 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 me...
Oct 31, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Season 11Ep. 7
— - Join The Guild - CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE — 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 t...
Oct 24, 2025•29 min•Season 11Ep. 6
— - Join The Guild - CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE — 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 emot...
Oct 17, 2025•50 min•Season 11Ep. 5
- Join The Guild - CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE — 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 st...
Oct 10, 2025•36 min•Season 11Ep. 4
- Join The Guild - CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE — Most people think weight loss is all about calories, carbs, or exercise. But what if the real reason you keep regaining weight is hiding in your belief system? In this episode of the Becoming Thin Podcast , Chris Terrell digs deep into the psychology of change and reveals why unquestioned assumptions and hidden beliefs are the true roadblocks to lasting weight loss. From the myths about “healthy” food to the lies we tell ourselves about emotional eat...
Oct 03, 2025•34 min•Season 11Ep. 3
- Join The Guild - CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE — Ever feel like you’re doing everything “right,” yet the scale barely moves? You might be turning the difficulty setting up without even realizing it. In this episode, Chris Terrell—who lost 125 pounds after a lifetime of yo-yo dieting—shows you how to stop making the journey harder than it has to be. You’ll discover: Why chasing perfection destroys momentum and how to replace it with true consistency The hidden ways we overcomplicate eating and track...
Sep 26, 2025•38 min•Season 11Ep. 2
— - Join The Guild - CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE — If you swing between restriction and overeating and feel food rules running the show, this episode gives you a calmer path out. We map the binge restrict cycle and the guilt and control loop that keeps it spinning so you can spot exactly where you are in real time and choose the next step on purpose . You will learn a simple two question practice to use at every meal. Ask why am I eating and why am I eating this. Do it for two weeks to build in the...
Sep 19, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Season 11Ep. 1
Most plans obsess over what to eat. This episode flips the lens to who you eat with and the beliefs your circle normalizes. We dig into the six forces that actually drive lasting change lifestyle, habits, routines, environment, community, and belief systems and how one social shift can cascade through all of them. You will hear how holiday traditions, “food vacations,” and friendly pressure quietly script your choices, plus the ice cream with your kid example that exposes a belief you can rewrit...
Sep 12, 2025•49 min•Season 10Ep. 25
Your words are shaping your weight loss journey more than you realize. In this episode, Chris Terrell breaks down five common phrases that quietly disempower you and shows you exactly what to say instead. You’ll hear how “had to,” “I can’t,” “I’m just,” “I’ll never,” and “I’m trying” box in your future self, drain your confidence, and keep you stuck. Chris shares his own story of retraining his language, the surprising power of the pause, and how simple tweaks to self talk can reshape your ident...
Sep 05, 2025•26 min•Season 10Ep. 24
- Join The Guild - CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE — Most people don’t quit diets because the plan failed. They quit because of the conversations happening inside their own head. The way you speak to yourself determines whether you persist through setbacks or spiral into giving up. In this episode, Chris unpacks the role of self-talk in long-term weight loss and identity change. You’ll hear personal stories, lessons from coaching, and practical tools you can begin using right away to change the way you...
Aug 29, 2025•41 min•Season 10Ep. 23
- Join The Guild - CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE — In this week’s episode of The Becoming Thin Podcast , Chris pulls back the curtain on the “secret sauce” to lasting weight loss—and it’s not a fad diet, a magic hack, or some hidden trick. It’s the work. Inspired by a powerful post from a Guild of Champions member, Chris breaks down the real, unglamorous, yet life-changing actions required to reach your goals. You’ll hear why the “secret” isn’t really a secret at all, and how principles like Only Sup...
Aug 15, 2025•25 min•Season 10Ep. 22
