My Vacation Break-Up with Mangoes and Pecans
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My Vacation Break-Up with Mangoes and Pecans

Inviting Failure Foods into My Life

As I said in my Facebook and Instagram post, dried mangoes and pecans caused too much drama this week. I need to cut these ties for awhile.

To be fair, this drama is caused by my own design. Of course, I have a success plan. But, an important part of my success plan is that I also have a failure plan.

Part of how I succeed is that I always have failure foods at home. These are my off-ramp foods—foods good enough to go off-track with but mild enough to make getting back on-track possible.

Keeping failure foods on-hand is counter-intuitive and may go against the advice of experts. But, this journey is an individual one, and this is my journey.

I live in a house full of food triggers that I no longer eat. And, if I did eat them, I would have skyrocketing failure — a degree of failure with which I have a lifetime of experiences. This is a way of life I no longer want.

My failure foods have kept me in check so far. Without salt, oil, and sugar in my life, I live an all-or-nothing life.

Failure foods help me avoid the all-or-nothing mindset that comes with this all-or-nothing life. This is important for my success.

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Keeping My Footing in the Seas of Change
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, Food Addiction, Trigger Foods, Salt, Oil, Sugar, Processed Foods, Failure, Success, Recover from Failure in a Timely Way, Ongoing Learning, Travel 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, Food Addiction, Trigger Foods, Salt, Oil, Sugar, Processed Foods, Failure, Success, Recover from Failure in a Timely Way, Ongoing Learning, Travel Tania Lyon

Keeping My Footing in the Seas of Change

The more things change, the more things stay the same.

I am in the midst of change right now. A lot of it.

Since I last blogged, I retired from one career, traveled several places, and am on the edge of starting a new career. All of this is good.

Changes, even good ones, can be unsettling and upset the balance in my routines, in my life. These changes turned my foundation into a slippery slope – more than I expected.

To keep my footing, I have had to catch my balance several times in the past weeks. Catching my balance always means failure in some way.

I enjoy the beach much more at half my size. I feel younger, better, and more energetic than I ever have in my life, even though my age now gets me some senior discounts.

And, I have failed. More I than planned, and more than I would like to admit. Failure works that way.

But, failures are a natural part of the self-improvement process, the ongoing process of being me, of facing myself, of understanding the shadows that shape my life.

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Real-time Failure: Taking Action to Move Back into Success
My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Plant-Based Eating, Failure, Recover from Failure in a Timely Way, Real-time Failure, Getting Back on Track, Success, Success Plan, Failure Plan, Self-talk Tania Lyon My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Plant-Based Eating, Failure, Recover from Failure in a Timely Way, Real-time Failure, Getting Back on Track, Success, Success Plan, Failure Plan, Self-talk Tania Lyon

Real-time Failure: Taking Action to Move Back into Success

Speaking about my hunger drive is a new world to me, and so is blogging. I am learning about both as I do these simultaneously. 

I have learned that I should never title my blog posts in multiple parts.

Last week, I thought there would be nothing that I would like more than to write Part 2 about discovering my trigger foods. This week, the moment is all wrong. 

Writing about my trigger foods from a place of understanding and confidence is not currently where my mind lives right now.

What I need to do today, at this moment, is refocus myself. To that end, I center one of my favorite truths.

There are no magic answers, but the answers feel like magic.

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