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| This Number 1 Enemy of Keto Dieters Will Cause You to Quit Faster than Any of the Others |
Keto dieters come up with all sorts of enemies.
One of these enemies is carbs, of course.
Carbs can be simple like sugar or high-fructose corn syrup, or they can be more complex like starchy potatoes and rice. Either way, they are both converted into glucose by the body, so you'll want to avoid most of them throughout the weight-loss phase.
This causes many low carbers to see insulin as the bad guy.
There's also pre-diabetes, diabetes, PCOS, thyroid abnormalities, and plenty of other health conditions that make it difficult to ditch the pounds. For example, most people who have celiac disease are in starvation mode at the time of diagnosis.
Medications for some of these conditions can work against fat loss, so for those who struggle with health issues, it can feel like your health is an enemy fighting against you.
Then, there are temptations and holiday goodies and social functions to attend and deal with. There are family and friends who don't understand the low-carb way of life and become combative, for your own good, of course.
Some people will also deliberately try to tempt you into cheating. The workplace is definitely one of those places.
There's the medical community, the media, and all the stress that goes with listening to the so-called experts who say that low carb is dangerous and should be avoided.
Keto will give you a heart attack or wreck your kidneys or it won't work very well because you'll gain the weight back as soon as you eat normally again.
Rarely does just one thing work to trip you up.
Life comes with plenty of challenges that can get in the way of reaching your weight-loss goals.
And while that shouldn't be a complete surprise, due to the nature of life, struggling to keep your head above the carbs often feels like there is always something around the next corner ready to pounce on your good intentions and bring you to your high-carb knees.
You can never just relax and enjoy the journey.
There is one single enemy that trips up almost everyone who starts a low-carb diet. One single enemy that will get you to quit low carb faster than any of the others.
Do you know what that number 1 enemy of a Keto Diet is?
The Number One Enemy of a Keto Diet Is . . .
If you are serious about making Keto your lifestyle, you need to know where the greatest danger is, so here's a hint:
- It's not temptation.
- It's not your love affair with carby foods.
- It's not those who don't believe in low carb.
- It's not your doctor or family or friends.
- It's not even your health condition.
Nope. There's something far more subtle and deadly that you need to be aware of, and that enemy is:
TIME!
Are you surprised?
Time fueled by impatience and unrealistic expectations and ideals is the number 1 enemy of a low-carb diet.
It is the strongest resistance to weight loss that you will have to deal with.
Because if you let time defeat you, if you let impatience have its way with you, if you let your negative emotional state control what you do, or don't do, then you don't have a chance in hell of ever reaching your weight-loss goals.
That's the cold, honest, truth.
It is only when you can greet time as a loving, caring friend that you can gain the strength, courage, and self-discipline to see this weight-loss path through to its ultimate completion.
If you can't greet time as a friend, then you'll mark it as your enemy, and it will bring you nothing but misery, struggle, and inner conflict.
This is due to the way you choose to handle the challenges that arise in your life. Your thought process, perspective, attitude, and especially your beliefs control how you behave.
It's fairly automatic.
Unless you deliberately choose to do something and fuel that something with strong emotion, you'll be running on autopilot most of the time, going into repetitive patterns of reaction when a particular button gets pushed.
This is due to your habitual nature but also due to the number one value that you have unconsciously set up for yourself. This isn't a guess.
We do what we value.
And if the number one value in your life was being consciously implemented, you wouldn't be struggling to stick with your Keto Diet.
Living Keto would be second nature.
Why Have You Made Time the Enemy?
Most people who start Keto are fueled with an intense desire for success.
The excitement allows you to sail on by the initial temptations without a lot of thought.
When you're dropping water and glycogen weight on Atkins Induction, for example, the chocolate cake doesn't look as good as the number on the scale does.
However, that same high-intense desire also pokes you in the ribs when things don't go as fast as you would like them to.
Not everyone loses a ton of weight during the first month of a Keto Diet and if you're functioning on autopilot, as most of the world is, and using a frame of reference you're totally unaware of, you'll probably be tempted to compare yourself to someone else.
Dieting becomes difficult when you fall short of your expectations.
You don't want to wait for anything to happen. If you want results right now, and feel entitled to get those results right away, you won't have the discipline to wait until tomorrow.
Or next week.
Or even a couple of months down the road.
You'll skip over the four essential steps required to create a new and better life and charge straight ahead into the darkness, demanding the pleasurable rewards of dieting and doing everything in your power to avoid the pain of not immediately losing the weight.
There's no reason to waste time with any of that uncomfortable stuff, the emotions say. Let's just let that old-time low-carb magic whittle away at the rolls of lard and do its thing. You'll be thin in no time at all.
I see this attitude over and over and over again. Day in and day out. And it's the main reason why people within the low-carb community tend to come and go.
They can't stand to wait.
They can't stand not having instant gratification for the small amount of effort they have put in so far. They feel entitled to instant gratification and want huge results while they are still trapped in the depths of inertia.
Impatience is the real reason why the low carb success rate is so low.
It's not because the diet plan doesn't work.
Keto works.
But when you make the results you desire so important to your happiness that your impatience turns time into an enemy, instead of a friend, all you're going to get in return for using that method is lots of resistance and conflict from the universe.
Huge changes take huge efforts.
You can't just cut a few carbs and expect the universe to bend to your will.
It doesn't work that way.
Your whole mind, your entire range of emotions, and your attitude have to permanently change for the better.
To reap success on a low-carb diet, you have to literally evolve past where you are right now.
Keto is Like Planting Seeds
Time is not resistance, but you can turn time into resistance by wrapping it up in a pretty bow of impatience.
You can literally turn time into a problem that didn't exist before going low carb because when you fight with time, you put yourself into a state where it's easy to be controlled and misled by your emotions.
Your emotional state drives you to do what you do.
Something inside your mind says this has to get done right now, or else, and since you've made it important, you've now invited tons of anxiety to come and stay for awhile.
Maybe, a long while if you continue to try and force your will on the body.
Impatience creates anxiety because impatience doesn't want to give things room to grow. Impatience can't stand to sit around waiting for something to grow. It has to start messing with things and blaming itself or the diet or what have you. It can't just let it be. It can't give the process time to work.
A Keto Diet is like planting a seed in a bit of fertile soil.
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| You have to give a low-carb diet time to grow |
The soil brings nutrients, moisture, and warmth from the sun to soften the hard seed enough that it will crack and allow the germ within to sneak past the hard, outer shell.
The sun also provides energy and loving kindness for growth, which the new sprout desperately needs.
With the sun's energy in hand, the sprout has to fight a bit. It has to put forth a lot of effort to climb upward toward the sun and break through the soil's crust. It can then receive a greater portion of the sun's warmth, energy, and love than it had before.
But this doesn't happen in a day or two. Or even a week, in most cases. It takes several weeks of struggle and patience for a new seedling to get results.
It's the same with us.
You don't plant the seed of a low-carb diet one day and harvest a bountiful crop the next.
There is a time element that must be respected as part of the natural process of change, growth, and evolution. Efficiency and perfection take time to come about, and getting upset with the nature of things won't change how the process works.
Growing is a Process of Evolution
Growing works by way of an aim, and not an end-goal.
A goal is when you set up exactly how you want things to be at the end of the process, at the end of your low-carb diet, and then you make that end-result extremely important to achieve right now.
This goal-making process sets you up to receive a lot of resistance from the universe and a lot of anxiety along the way because life might have something totally different in mind for you that you can't currently see from where you are right now.
Right now, you might desire weight loss for a superficial reason, while next year, you might desire weight loss for a totally different reason. A more mature reason. A reason that is more in keeping with the nature of life. A reason that is more inclusive than just me, me, me.
This is why evolution requires us to evolve only one step at a time.
Growing doesn't mean we can see where we're going.
It simply means we are moving in a given direction, like the seedling that is pushing itself upward through the dirt. It doesn't know what it will find once it reaches the top.
It will deal with that new world once it gets there.
For now, the growing is what's important. The growing is what's real.
Likewise, you go through Atkins Induction, with full-purpose of heart, and then you move on to the next phase only after you get there. Same for Keto. You have accomplish phase 1 before you start to consider phase 4.
While you're in the midst of Phase 1, while your body is new to ketosis and struggling to become fat adapted, you don't focus on and worry about Phase 4, the end result, because you have no idea what you will be like by then or what you'll even want by the time you reach that point in the evolutionary process.
Phase 4 is too far off in the distance for any kind of accurate guessing to go on right now. This is why most of your weight-loss struggles are only a figment of the mind. An illusion, they are not real.
If you don't resist the time it's taking to shed your excess pounds, don't come into conflict with what you don't like about the process right now, and don't struggle against how your body is choosing to adapt to a low-carb lifestyle, then the entire problem of time dissolves.
Time is only a problem if you make it so.
As time moves forward, the body gets better and better at oxidizing fats for fuel, which means you'll feel better, have more energy to do things, and will ultimately reap some degree of success.
It just might not be what you're expecting right now or the pounds might not come off as quickly as you want them to.
No diet comes with any guarantee due to the way the body struggles to regain energy balance, so in essence, you are your own N=1 experiment.
You are a unique reflection and manifestation of life.
While you can evaluate what's going on after a few months, tweak things or upset the energy equation to achieve certain results, there's nothing to compare yourself to right now.
No one else is exactly like you, so sit back, take a breath, and do a reality check.
Anxiety clouds the mind and prevents you from seeing things as they really are. Stabilizing blood sugar and normalizing hormones is a big deal, and that big deal takes time.
If you can see this for what it is, and understand what I'm trying to share, you can choose to stop fighting against time.
If so, you'll have a much more pleasant ride as the process continues to help you evolve into a new and better you.
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