Transforming My Shadows:  My Framework for Making and Sustaining Personal Changes
My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Shadow Selves, Transform Shadows Framework, Personal Change, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Complex and Ongoing Process, Ledge of Safety, Razor's Edge Tania Lyon My Weight Loss Story, Weight Loss, Wellness, Health, Shadow Selves, Transform Shadows Framework, Personal Change, Name My Shadows, Face My Shadows, Fight My Shadows, Understand My Shadows, Reframe My Shadows, Complex and Ongoing Process, Ledge of Safety, Razor's Edge Tania Lyon

Transforming My Shadows:  My Framework for Making and Sustaining Personal Changes

Personal changes are hard to make – especially the changes that run counter to our human tendencies. Making these changes and sustaining them in my life are challenging processes.

When I decided to embark on a serious journey to improve my overall health, I knew I faced a 97% failure and 3% success rate for sustaining long-term weight loss.

I wanted to understand the roots of my failures. I wanted to learn from these failures in ways that led to the long-term successes that had eluded me all my life.

I am still learning to try to maintain long-term success. Doing that means understanding the blurry line between failures and successes where one is always part of the other.

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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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