My First Public Interview
Getting Started, Success, Improving Health, My Weight Loss Story, Reasons to Change, Weight Loss, Failure, Food Addiction, Self-Reflection, Start Where I Am Now, Speaking Up, Personal Truths, Personal Empowerment, Media, Interview, Blog, Website Tania Lyon Getting Started, Success, Improving Health, My Weight Loss Story, Reasons to Change, Weight Loss, Failure, Food Addiction, Self-Reflection, Start Where I Am Now, Speaking Up, Personal Truths, Personal Empowerment, Media, Interview, Blog, Website Tania Lyon

My First Public Interview

Yesterday, I had the privilege of talking to co-anchors Lisa Cownie and Kelsey Barchenger at our local news station KEYC. I learned much watching these wonderful women in action as they handle all aspects of their content. I love the title they gave the segment: Lyon’s share: Bringing health & wellness to the internet. Check it out!

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Treat Myself like a Food Addict Every Day
Getting Started, Success, Improving Health, My Weight Loss Story, Reasons to Change, Weight Loss, Failure, Food Addiction, Self-Reflection, Start Where I Am Now, Speaking Up, Personal Truths, Personal Empowerment, Finding Allies, Help Others Help You Tania Lyon Getting Started, Success, Improving Health, My Weight Loss Story, Reasons to Change, Weight Loss, Failure, Food Addiction, Self-Reflection, Start Where I Am Now, Speaking Up, Personal Truths, Personal Empowerment, Finding Allies, Help Others Help You Tania Lyon

Treat Myself like a Food Addict Every Day

I love my smile in this video clip. More specifically, I love the fact that I can say “I treat myself as a food addict every day” with a matter-of-fact, pleasant smile on face.

Being a food addict is who I am and how I live my life. I can deny that truth, but I live with food addiction at this weight, at twice my size, or at any other weight.

My addiction will be in the center of my life one way or another. I will be in control of my addiction, or my addiction will control me.

There is no middle ground for me. I wish there was. But, goodness and hope in my life have emerged from knowing this about myself, and I feel incredible — better than ever.

To name myself as a food addict conveys a newfound self-acceptance around my lifelong shadows of weight. This self-acceptance started with silently speaking and believing that reality.

At first, the admission was harder than it needed to be. I gave too much importance to addiction as a personal shortcoming of willpower and mind and not enough to my genetic realities.

Most importantly, I did not understand my hunger drive. I would lose half my weight before I felt my hunger drive. It took even longer to understand.

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