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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Eat When Hungry: Discovering My Golden Circle
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, Ledge of Safety, Razor's Edge, Eat When Hungry, Hunger Drive, Food Addiction, Anorexia, Disordered Eating Patterns 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, Ledge of Safety, Razor's Edge, Eat When Hungry, Hunger Drive, Food Addiction, Anorexia, Disordered Eating Patterns Tania Lyon

Eat When Hungry: Discovering My Golden Circle

Discovering My Trigger Foods, Part II

A couple years into my weight loss, all looked well from the outside. I had lost half my weight; I stabilized at a healthy weight; and I radiated improved wellness.

On paper, my numbers looked comfortable, controlled, and predictable. The patterns looked like successful maintenance.

I had even started to get a few comments about my success in maintaining my weight loss. These unsettled me. I felt like a fraud.

Inwardly, I was flailing on the razor’s edge, about to tumble off into a chasm all too eager to devour me back into the 97% failure rate.

I knew this space intimately. Looming failure always won. I clung to the sharp edge of success, barely making it day-by-day. I was missing something, but I did not know what.

Then, I came into a direct standoff with what I did not yet understand: Eat When Hungry.

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