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What happens when you’ve done the work, changed your life, and your body still reminds you that you were never completely in control?

In this deeply personal episode of The Daily Momentum, Robert Coles shares his journey from weighing 490 pounds to losing over 300 pounds—and how his understanding of health changed again when a surgical complication led to septic shock and organ failure.

It’s a conversation about accountability without cruelty, the limits of control, and what recovery looks like when you can’t simply work harder or discipline your way to the outcome you want.

Robert explores a different way of thinking about health: health isn’t something you win. It’s a relationship you keep showing up for. You can acknowledge the choices you wish you’d made differently without turning those choices into a judgment about your worth. And when circumstances are beyond your control, you can still decide where to put your energy.

Recovery doesn’t always mean getting back to who you were before. Sometimes it means learning to live well with the body, circumstances, and limitations you have today.

Start here. Do what you can today. And tomorrow, do it again. That’s momentum.

Thanks for spending part of your day with The Daily Momentum. Keep the conversation going, dive deeper into each episode, connect with the show, and discover more ways to turn small steps into meaningful progress. And if today’s message helped you, share it with someone who could use a little momentum of their own.