Fitness and health are metaphors for life--and like in the rest of your life, when you make a mistake or fall of the wagon, you have to dust yourself off and seize the opportunity to learn from your screw ups. The key to overcoming failure is to use it as an entry point for learning. Here's how to do it.
You will fail sometimes. Period. It is a forgone conclusion if you are really living, really reaching, and really risking. I have yet to meet one person that has had an easy straight one-way journey with weight loss. Often it is five steps forward three steps back, but in the steps back you are getting valuable pieces of information about who you are and how you tick. There is a hidden meaning in all the events of your life, especially the struggles and it is this meaning that can serve your evolution most... if you choose to let it.
Failure is an integral part of success because it's how we learn about our issues and grow as people. Interpret setbacks as guides for growth as opposed to letting them defeat you. Ask yourself why you fell off the wagon? Do you need to work on your communication skills with co-workers, family or friends who push food on you? Did you binge because you were stuffing down emotional issues that you haven't resolved? Ask yourself what is motivating your behavior, then create recovery behaviors that set you up for success. For example: Put a friend on speed dial and call them for emotional support instead of bingeing or start a journal.
Don't give up. Keep learning and growing and know that if you aren't failing once in while you weren't trying hard enough! And there is nothing you can't accomplish with knowledge, patience, and love.
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