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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Start Where I Am Now
Getting Started, Success, Failure, Weight Loss Mindsets, Weight Loss, Improving Health, My Weight Loss Story, Genetics of Weight, Self-talk, Grace and Accountability Tania Lyon Getting Started, Success, Failure, Weight Loss Mindsets, Weight Loss, Improving Health, My Weight Loss Story, Genetics of Weight, Self-talk, Grace and Accountability Tania Lyon

Start Where I Am Now

Starting new things can be challenging. Starting this public writing has been more challenging than I thought it would be. Sharing this video is more challenging than sharing my writing.

None of these challenges come anywhere close to the challenge of making the decision to transform myself, to start a new way of life, to forge a new way of living, to dare to hope.

Still, speaking and writing about my personal shadows around weight and weight loss challenge me — even though I see my story as one of hope, optimism, and possibilities. Several thoughts help me.

When I started preparing to make changes, I included the self-directive: Start where I am now. I continually use this line to focus on the present, to avoid traps of inaction that dwell on the past or future. Start where I am helps me now.

So does knowing that food addiction is more common than I first thought. Many people fight battles with addictive foods, no matter what their weights. The strength of food addiction is not directly proportional to size.

Genetics shape our weights differently — how we store weight, how our bodies handle processed foods, what our set-points are for how much food we eat regularly. Change around individual genetics is difficult but possible.

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