‘The achievement of failure’ sounds like a bit of an oxymoron. How on earth can it be an achievement if you have failed? 

Often on your weight loss journey, you will have points in time where you believe that you have failed. You’ll feel terrible when something doesn’t go to plan and things are not working out for you as you hoped that they would.

Failure is an expected part of the journey. It could be a one-off, or it could last for a week or even longer if the domino effect takes hold. Weight loss is not linear and weight gain or plateaus are very typical. The most important thing is that you are eventually able to understand what happened, why it happened, and what learnings you can take from it. 

In this podcast episode, Keri talks us through:

• the change process and why we need to remain realistic
• how to navigate our new identity against our old identity
• why failure is actually an achievement
• practical tips that you can do when you are in a moment of failure

So if you’re currently facing a challenge in life that’s making it difficult to achieve your goals, this episode is not one to miss.

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Quotes

3:39 - “When life happens and something starts to get in the way of us continuing that level of success, we feel like we have failed.

06:33 - “We've been lulled into this false sense of security that things are working, we're on the right track, and then life happens. We haven't figured out how to operate at this same level in the context of this life situation.”

10:59 - “The true terrible failure is if you don't even try to start with because nothing changes then.”

11:04 - “You have achieved this failure. You have got a new understanding and a new perspective that is coming through. You've learned something about yourself, and if you find the gold in that, you can take that forward so that every time these situations come up again, you can act in a very different way.”

Audio Stamps

1:03 - Keri introduces some of the ways we may believe that we have ‘failed’

2: 00 -  Keri discusses the label of ‘failure’ and why women often experience this in a weight loss journey

04:34 - Keri talks us through the change process and why we need to remain realistic

7:16 -  We learn how to navigate our new identity against our old identity

10:18 - We discover why failure is an achievement

11:47 - Keri gives us practical tips that you can do when you are in a moment of failure

16:43   - We understand how to identify lessons learned and what you would do differently next time