Turn Weight Loss Or Recovery Challenges Into Successes

JUST FOR TODAY:  Reflect about your recent successes and challenges.  Consider the opportunities that your challenges are giving you – and note how your challenges can be successes, too!

What are some of your recent successes?  Acknowledge the progress you are making with your weight loss plan or your eating disorder recovery, and in your everyday life.  Next, identify your current challenges.  Sometimes, challenges can be more obvious than successes.  But how can you perceive your challenges differently, and turn them into something positive?  What opportunities are presenting themselves because of your challenges?  Are there new things you have learned about yourself or others?  Is there a new door that is opening for you, or maybe just a window?  What gifts or blessings have unfolded, as a direct result of the experience of your challenge?  Every challenge that you face has the potential to be a success, too!

©2010 by "Dr. Dorie" McCubbrey, M.S.Ed., Ph.D. – Eating Disorder & Obesity Treatment Specialist – Denver, Colorado