Big Rocks and LIttle Rocks: Navigating Terrain Shifts
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, Failure, Success, Ongoing Learning, Travel, Shadow Boxing, Live in Color, Eat in Color, Priorities, Action over Inaction, Gratitude, Routine, Balance, Eat Plants, Unprocessed Plants 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, Failure, Success, Ongoing Learning, Travel, Shadow Boxing, Live in Color, Eat in Color, Priorities, Action over Inaction, Gratitude, Routine, Balance, Eat Plants, Unprocessed Plants Tania Lyon

Big Rocks and LIttle Rocks: Navigating Terrain Shifts

Since I last wrote, a lot has changed in my life – as I anticipated it would. The changes are good, and I am grateful for that.

I have now started my new job, which has come with a lot of apprehensive excitement. A steep learning curve usurped my capacities for routine and for writing.

But, I am finding my way back, learning how to live my new life, facing myself over and over again in a whole new world.

I am starting to sleep just a little better as I am adjusting to everything. Sleep helps everything.

I am now pausing, taking stock in what it means to navigate my health and wellness through a major turning point in my life.

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Begin with the End in Mind
Getting Started, Success, Improving Health, My Weight Loss Story, Wellness, Food, Exercise, Reasons to Change, Holidays, Weight Loss Tania Lyon Getting Started, Success, Improving Health, My Weight Loss Story, Wellness, Food, Exercise, Reasons to Change, Holidays, Weight Loss Tania Lyon

Begin with the End in Mind

Three years ago, Thanksgiving weekend marks the time when I started thinking about making transformative change in deep, substantive ways.

I enjoyed the family holiday gatherings, but I felt terrible from the food. Food and leftovers tormented me for days before and after the holiday. This happened every year.

I was fed up – literally and figuratively. And, being fed up went far beyond the food.

All the lifestyle diseases that stem from obesity were becoming inevitable realities in my life. I felt heavy, achy, tired, and older than my years. This was not how I wanted to live.

To live, I needed new solutions to the lifelong struggles that plagued me around weight, health, and wellness. I had to face my shadows in new ways if I wanted to transform them.

The food turbulence of that holiday season made getting successful traction less likely for myself. I gave myself a few weeks to reflect, plan, and learn before starting.

I knew I had to begin with the end in mind. I started asking myself: Why do I want to change? How do I want to live? What do I want to do?

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