The Secret of Setting New Year’s Resolutions You Can Keep

Do you know the SECRET to keeping your
New Year's Keto or Atkins resolutions?

With January 1st right around the corner, there’s going to be a large group of people starting Keto or Atkins. There will also be those returning for another try after having regained part or all of their weight loss.

Unfortunately, most of these people won’t stick around for very long. They will probably drift away by Valentine’s Day because New Year’s Resolutions, especially resolutions that center around food, are harder to keep than you realize.

If you can see yourself in the above scenario, the low-carb dieting game doesn't have to go the same way this year. You can do something different. This year, you can win the war against body fat.

Want to know HOW?

Why New Year's Resolutions Do Not Work

The truth is, sticking to a diet plan – any diet plan – won’t work very well (and this includes a low-carb diet) if the diet plan is your latest attempt at self-improvement.

That’s right.

Trying to self improve doesn’t work.


Self improvement is negative self-talk that's quite painful, and it's human nature to try and avoid all forms of discomfort. This core value has been programmed into us since we were kids. We are literally programmed to seek after pleasure and avoid all forms of pain.

Don’t believe me?

• WATCH yourself sometime. 
• WATCH your family interact with each other. 
• WATCH your friends
• WATCH people you don’t know.

Just plop yourself down on a bench at the mall or eavesdrop on the couple over at the next table the next time you go out to dinner.

• LISTEN to the people you work with when they talk.
• LISTEN and just WATCH people.

You’ll learn more about your initial childhood programming of seeking pleasure and avoiding pain, and your current conditioning that controls your everyday behavior and reactions to your environment, than you ever wanted know.

Whether you're the type of person who runs from pain or needs a reward to keep plugging along, your motivation for dieting is eventually going to fail if you don't know what's going on.

What Do Most New Year’s Resolutions Focus On? 

I’m willing to bet that self improvement is WHY you're on a low-carb diet.

There’s something about your self that you don’t like, and you believe that getting thin is going to fix the problem.

Regardless of the general low-carb mantra that says:

"It’s not a diet; it’s a lifestyle,”

And regardless of the general low-carb mantra that insists that following a low-carb diet is about regaining health, few of us truly believe that.

It’s taken me literally decades to wrap my brain around the fact that we are hard wired from birth to avoid disturbances. That's what we're working on each and every minute of each and every day.

You aren't going Keto or doing Atkins to improve your health.

You're thinking about doing low carb because you want to fix something you don't like, something about your self that you don't like, something you believe is wrong.

Am I right?

Common New Year’s Resolutions

There’s far more resolutions than I could ever list in a single blog post, but these are just a few:

• weight loss through dieting
• buy a gym membership, or a set of weights
• plan to quit smoking
• try to lessen stress or control anger
• commit to be more organized
• try to make more money
• plan to get out of debt

All of these resolutions are negative things that you don’t like about your self, things that maybe other people have mentioned to you or suggested that you should fix. Health authorities and the media are talented at convincing us to do things we don't really want to do.

Willpower won't get results unless we literally
FORCE ourselves to do what we don't want to do.

This is why only 8 percent of those who ever make a New Year’s Resolution are able to keep them. And it's why less than half of the American population even bother with setting annual goals.

You are programmed to fight against anything that causes:

• restriction
• discomfort
• insecurity
• fear
• and pain

So, you are trained to break resolutions. It's a pattern that we don't seem to be able to break out of.

What’s the Secret? Seeking After Pleasure?

I suppose that we could travel to the other side of the pendulum and seek after things that are pleasurable. You could seek after things that make you happy. A lot of people do decide to do that.

If you couple that decision with a strong feeling, or determination to succeed, the following goals and resolutions would be much easier to keep:

• spend more time with family, rather than yourself
• take a class at your local community college
• read a book you’ve been wanting to read
• plan an exciting vacation or weekend
• start a new hobby or business venture
• take the kids to the park regularly
• go to a movie once a month with your spouse

Depending on your beliefs and attitude, you would be far less likely to break these types of resolutions than you would were they to cause you discomfort.

But unless you remain extremely aware, your negative programming (the suggestions you accepted without checking them out first) could raise its ugly head and ruin it all.

The Secret of the Middle Path

Extremes are never helpful.

Think about a child whose parents give him or her everything they desire. What happens? They turn into:

• a tyrant
• a bully
• a selfish adult

who doesn’t know how to tolerate even a speck of discomfort. This is because a lack of opposition in life can be just as destructive as having too much. 

You need an opposing force. You need something working against you in order to polish away the roughness.

You need life to be just the way it is.

So, perhaps the whole business of setting goals and resolutions is what’s wrong with the process because a goal is always attached to an ideal. And ideals always provide disappointment and frustration when things don’t turn out the way that you hoped.

Perhaps, this is the real reason why you bail on your weight-loss program.

You start off in January with a ton of excitement. You hope that can finally correct what is wrong with yourself, but something goes off course.

A few weeks down the road, you discover that the diet doesn’t work as well as it did for others. Your weight loss is moving along at a crawl, or maybe there is no weight loss at all. Maybe, you’ve even gained a few pounds.

You start to think of your self as a failure.

You feel disappointed because your ideal didn’t bear fruit.

Perhaps, you feel angry and deceived. Maybe, you feel like it’s all your fault that the weight isn't coming off.

You might even encounter stronger forces of opposition because when you're different or when something doesn’t work for you that worked for someone else, it makes you feel uncomfortable. And you gotta ditch the discomfort.

You just have to!

The Key Lies Within Our Subconscious Minds

What is LIFE Trying to Teach You?

THE KEY to making New Year’s Resolutions stick is to first recognize that discomfort is going to surface in your life from time to time. You need to accept this discomfort for what it is, and move on. Put your focus somewhere else.

Because the Truth is this:

Discomfort doesn’t really matter. What matters is that you stop fighting life and begin asking:

• “What is life trying to teach me?”
• “What does life want me to know?”
• "What am I doing that is causing me to forget who and what I am?"
• "What am I doing that is causing me to make carbohydrates so important in my life?"

What you believe is True when coupled with strong emotion is what will always be true for you. This is how powerful your subconscious mind is. It will create events to prove to you that what you want to believe is true.

So the secret to setting New Year’s Resolutions that you can keep isn’t found in fighting against your subconscious mind.

It isn’t found in setting up unrealistic weight-loss goals.

It isn’t found within the various plans for self-improvement or even weight-loss diets that make you all sorts of wild promises that may or may not happen.

The SECRET of getting resolutions to stick is found in reprogramming your self to let go of all of the false beliefs that have brought you to this very moment of existence. 

The SECRET is to let go of whatever you're clinging to, and let LIFE Handle the FLOW . . .