Choose Health: Fail for Success Series, 1
My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Transcend My Shadows, Success, Failure, Epic Struggles, Everyday Actions, Shadow Boxing, Find Your Power, Pleasure Trap, Eat When Hungry, Obesity, Morbid Obesity, Lost Half My Weight, Eat Plants, Avoid Processed Foods, Signature Series, Dr. Doug Lisle, Dr. Tania Lyon, Lifestyle Change, Mindset, Why, Strategies, Humility, Plan, Self-knowledge, All-or-Nothing Thinking, Travel, Choose Health, Fail for Success Tania Lyon My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Transcend My Shadows, Success, Failure, Epic Struggles, Everyday Actions, Shadow Boxing, Find Your Power, Pleasure Trap, Eat When Hungry, Obesity, Morbid Obesity, Lost Half My Weight, Eat Plants, Avoid Processed Foods, Signature Series, Dr. Doug Lisle, Dr. Tania Lyon, Lifestyle Change, Mindset, Why, Strategies, Humility, Plan, Self-knowledge, All-or-Nothing Thinking, Travel, Choose Health, Fail for Success Tania Lyon

Choose Health: Fail for Success Series, 1

SHADOW BOXING

Fighting Myself for Myself: Failing Within Boundaries

I am in the middle of several back-to-back travel experiences that make it difficult to keep a health routine. And, I am in the busy season in a new job that I am still learning. This is a recipe for failing grandly.

I have a history of failing grandly in times like this. The details were different, but the feeling was the same. To stay successful, I have had to let some things go and keep my eye on the big things for long-term success. And, I have fallen off my usual game – within boundaries of short-term failures that make long-term successes possible.

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I Wanted to Change the Trajectory of My Life
My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Transcend My Shadows, Success, Failure, Epic Struggles, Everyday Actions, Shadow Boxing, Find Your Power, Pleasure Trap, Eat When Hungry, Obesity, Morbid Obesity, Lost Half My Weight, Eat Plants, Avoid Processed Foods, Signature Series, Dr. Doug Lisle, Dr. Tania Lyon, Lifestyle Change, Mindset, Why, Strategies, Humility, Plan, Self-knowledge, All-or-Nothing Thinking, Mental Processes, Golden Center, Worry, Freedom Tania Lyon My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Transcend My Shadows, Success, Failure, Epic Struggles, Everyday Actions, Shadow Boxing, Find Your Power, Pleasure Trap, Eat When Hungry, Obesity, Morbid Obesity, Lost Half My Weight, Eat Plants, Avoid Processed Foods, Signature Series, Dr. Doug Lisle, Dr. Tania Lyon, Lifestyle Change, Mindset, Why, Strategies, Humility, Plan, Self-knowledge, All-or-Nothing Thinking, Mental Processes, Golden Center, Worry, Freedom Tania Lyon

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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Eat When Hungry: My Journey into Shadows, Episode 2
My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Transcend My Shadows, Success, Failure, Epic Struggles, Everyday Actions, Shadow Boxing, Find Your Power, Pleasure Trap, Eat When Hungry, Obesity, Morbid Obesity, Lost Half My Weight, Eat Plants, Avoid Processed Foods, Signature Series, Dr. Doug Lisle, Dr. Tania Lyon, Lifestyle Change, Mindset, Why, Strategies, Humility, Plan, Self-knowledge, All-or-Nothing Thinking, Mental Processes Tania Lyon My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Transcend My Shadows, Success, Failure, Epic Struggles, Everyday Actions, Shadow Boxing, Find Your Power, Pleasure Trap, Eat When Hungry, Obesity, Morbid Obesity, Lost Half My Weight, Eat Plants, Avoid Processed Foods, Signature Series, Dr. Doug Lisle, Dr. Tania Lyon, Lifestyle Change, Mindset, Why, Strategies, Humility, Plan, Self-knowledge, All-or-Nothing Thinking, Mental Processes Tania Lyon

Eat When Hungry: My Journey into Shadows, Episode 2

Mindset is everything and nothing.

Mindset and the mental processes around my personal changes are shadows of my transformation.

Mindset plays a starring role in every change I have made. Yet, mindset alone would never be enough to succeed in losing half my weight.

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Change: Just Start Someplace
My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Transcend My Shadows, Success, Failure, Epic Struggles, Everyday Actions, Find Your Power, Shadow Boxing, Getting Started, Going Plant-Based, Making Change, Mindset, Self-Improvement, Start, Act, Reflect, Choose a Path, Learn, Grow, Change Tania Lyon My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Transcend My Shadows, Success, Failure, Epic Struggles, Everyday Actions, Find Your Power, Shadow Boxing, Getting Started, Going Plant-Based, Making Change, Mindset, Self-Improvement, Start, Act, Reflect, Choose a Path, Learn, Grow, Change Tania Lyon

Change: Just Start Someplace

I have lost half my weight and have maintained that weight loss for several years. While I now eat a fully plant-based diet, I ate some animal products for a while when I was first starting out, and I was comfortable doing so.

Entering the plant-based world does not need to be an all-or-nothing decision — especially if it is going to keep you from making healthy changes in your life.

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