I Wanted to Change the Trajectory of My Life
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I Wanted to Change the Trajectory of My Life

Finding My Golden Center

People often ask why I made the decision to lose weight. At the golden center of it was my health and wellness. For years, I knew what I should be doing, but I didn’t know how to do it and sustain it. Because this is such a hard process, people need to find a why, a golden center for making the change.

My golden center comes into focus most profoundly between 10:00 pm and 6:00 am, when I no longer live in fear about what my choices were doing to me, when I feel freedom from a lifelong conflict around food. I knew nutrition and health facts as well as anyone, if not better than most. But, I could not find a way to act on what I knew.

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The Weight of Weight: A Journey of Epic Proportions
My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Personal Change, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Transcend My Shadows, Maintenance, Freedom, Weight of Weight, Psychological Heaviness, Ongoing Journey, Shadow Selves, Complex and Ongoing Process, Battles and Victories, Success, Failure, Epic Struggles, Everyday Actions, Agency, Be the Hero of Your Journey, Find Your Power, Shadow Boxing Tania Lyon My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Personal Change, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Transcend My Shadows, Maintenance, Freedom, Weight of Weight, Psychological Heaviness, Ongoing Journey, Shadow Selves, Complex and Ongoing Process, Battles and Victories, Success, Failure, Epic Struggles, Everyday Actions, Agency, Be the Hero of Your Journey, Find Your Power, Shadow Boxing Tania Lyon

The Weight of Weight: A Journey of Epic Proportions

Many times, people think my health, wellness, and weight loss journey has been a one-and-done action. That is far from the case because this is a complex journey.

While I have lost half my weight and kept it off for more than three years, the process of maintenance is an ongoing journey, full of mental and physical actions that look and feel similar to the ones I used when losing weight.

Of course, I am thrilled to have lost half my weight. When I eat right, I have emerged from physical and psychological heaviness, which is the weight of weight.

The weight of weight is one of the most important reasons I decided to lose weight. My physical health weighed heavily on my mind, not just on my body.

I knew I was not acting in my own best interests. I knew that there were too many contradictions between healthy foods and the foods I was eating.

The unhealthy choices were having profound ramifications on my mind and my body. I wanted freedom from the mental and physical traps of my weight.

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