cheat days yo-yo dieting and our inability to have a good relationship with food are
all based on an idea that gets reinforced in jokes movies and even our dietary guidelines
this idea allows us to think things like food is the only pleasure that I have or if I don't eat
fun food I'm depriving myself this idea led to the emotional turmoil that I was living
and whenever I would be upset rather than deal with my issues I would eat chocolate because
it gave me a momentary feeling of positive even though I knew very well that it was the last thing
my body needed and because I knew it was the last thing my body needed when I did eat it I would
overdo it because well in for opinion for a pound if you're doing the wrong thing and you're gonna
feel bad about it anyways might just feel as good as you possibly can so that back and forth that
we live because eating chocolate feels good but then it makes you feel bad because you know you're
harming your health the belief that's causing turmoil in your life is the it doesn't matter
what I eat it doesn't matter what I do mindset the idea that it doesn't matter if I make a mistake or
if I fail there are three huge problems with this mindset that I'm going to point out to
you in the third one is I hope is going to show you why you really need to change this forever
let's start with the fact that of course mistakes will happen but there's a huge difference between
giving your best a attempt at doing something correctly and failing versus planning to fail this
mindset sets us up to go into the story not ever expecting to do the right behavior and by doing
that we are ignoring the fact that failures have repercussions first of all each time that I fail
at the same task I'm telling myself that possibly I can't do this that means that when I go back
into this same task with this understanding that this is too hard for me there's a high possibility
that I don't give as much effort as I might have given one I still thought I had a chance
at passing it at achieving it if you imagine what this means for dieting if I've done a diet but I
didn't lose the weight that I wanted to lose or maybe I lost it and then I put it back on the
second round of doing the same diet a little bit less effort the third round of doing the same diet
a little bit less effort and considering the fact that in diet terms the it doesn't matter usually
goes along with what we're eating all of a sudden there's a huge problem here if I change my diet
of course I'm gonna have renewed Vigor because I'm gonna think this is the diet that's going to work
but if the same thing happens I lose weight and then put it back on or maybe I don't lose the
weight that I wanted to lose eventually my ideas about dieting in general are going to
be dieting doesn't work there's no reason for me to try to control my food fix my food improve my
life through food what's really frustrating about all this is that the diet World takes advantage
of this so I'm talking about the people that sell products related to dieting because they focus on
calories and calories out which because it doesn't work in general we fail at they turn around and
they blame us for the fact that we failed right you just didn't do it right and then knowing that
pretty much these are the only ways that most people are going to try to lose weight they'll
sell us a new product making us think we're on a new diet but that Diet is just a Reincarnation
of calories and calories up and we end up yo-yo dieting another issue here is that in the diet
world so the regular calories and calories out low fat diet world the idea that you need dessert
you need snacks and so we just try to find the right snacks for you is often pushed leading
to you eating the wrong things and not meeting your health and weight loss goals when we have
the it doesn't really matter attitude about the goals we're trying to achieve the other problem
that happens is that we are often not even doing the diet that we say we're doing because this it
doesn't really matter can play into what foods I put on my plate today it doesn't matter if I have
something that's off plan but then tomorrow it might not matter either and if you do that enough
times you're not actually following any specific kind of diet when it comes to a keto lifestyle
being under 20 grams of carbs is more than just about losing weight it's about helping
your body to regulate its insulin production and therefore it's pivotal in your body's ability to
heal itself and it's pivotal in your ability to lose weight if that's one of your goals if
you're not under that 20 grams you're not doing a ketogenic lifestyle and therefore won't get
the benefits that you're trying to achieve this attitude that it doesn't really matter
allows us to not really learn the principles of the diet we're doing so we don't take the
time to figure out for example in a keto diet why does eating 20 grams of carbs impact the insulin
that I'm producing and why does overproducing insulin have a huge negative impact on my health
what foods contribute to how much insulin my body produces when we don't take the time to
understand the diet we're doing and what we're actually trying to achieve by eating these Foods
we only have a surface level understanding of what we're doing and that means we are more likely to
make mistakes and that means we are less likely to achieve our goals the sneakiest problem that
the it doesn't really matter attitude causes and dieting is that one mistake gets multiplied
forward across years of your life if you take the decision that it's okay to have one cheat meal a
week that's 52 cheat meals a year considering that you eat about 1095 meals if you have three meals a
day every year that doesn't actually sound too bad but did you know that if a boat that's traveling
across the ocean is one degree off course after 60 miles it will be one mile off course so if we
apply this analogy to our keto lifestyle one meal per week actually works out to be five percent of
our meals for the year Well five percent when you do the math turns out to be 18 degrees off
course so as you can see if I'm aiming at my healthy weight but I'm 18 degrees off course
I'm not going to hit my mark are we starting to understand why the average person gains about two
pounds a year and that's typically with us working out trying to eat right and fighting to keep
ourselves on track can I just point out that that 18 that I'm talking about I'm not counting the
other fun snacks that you might have during the course of the week outside of that one cheat meal
you have on the weekend the chocolate bar that you grab on the way home or the ice cream that
you have for dessert because the kids are having it or any of the other times that we eat off plan
the truth is everything you do towards your health matters so don't sabotage yourself by
eating Off plan the whole purpose of paying attention to what you eat so having some kind
of diet plan that you're following especially in a keto scenario is to make sure that you are
under 20 grams of carbs each day that's the only way that you can monitor your progress and know
if there are adjustments that need to be made to your diet what if you're planning a meal and you
realize that a vegetable you're choosing would put you over your 20 grams when I first started keto I
wasn't doing keto I thought I was because I took all the rice pasta and potatoes off my plate but
it turned out that the vegetables that I was choosing still ended up pushing me way over
the 20 gram count for the day like really way over but as soon as I started tracking
paying attention to how much of each of these vegetables I was putting on my plate first of
all I was able to get myself at 20 grams or less but second of all I started to understand which
vegetables were towards my weight and health goals versus the vegetables that were truly
not going to help my my progress in any way and I eliminated those from my diet and by doing that I
got myself under 20 grams of carbs in a day and that is what gave me my health back until I had
done that I hadn't seen the progress in my joint pain and as soon as I got those numbers corrected
I started to feel much better I'm always talking about the importance of tracking and I want
to point something out not only did tracking help me to get under 20 and fix my joint pain
it actually helped me to understand that I had such metabolic damage that what I ended up needing
to do was to stay under 18 grams of carbs daily I'm not even able to do the normal 20 I get kicked
out of ketosis and the other thing that I noticed because I was being careful of what I was eating
and which vegetables where I was putting on my plate I learned a second thing by tracking which
was that nightshades so tomatoes eggplant potatoes all the night straight family are vegetables cause
extreme pain in my body I wouldn't have been able to tell if I hadn't been tracking the foods and
figured out that every time I had tomatoes or eggplant on my plate things started to go awry
there are so many people that complain that keto doesn't work but in fact they're allowing these
cheat days and therefore are not getting the benefits of the diet that they could be getting
they're not learning about the foods that are are impacting their health that they could be
learning because they're not taking seriously that everything you eat matters and by allowing
this oh it doesn't matter attitude so that I can sneak in some ice cream or eat some chocolate
Taco is my favorite they are putting their health at risk and not getting the results that they're
looking for wellness word I don't want you to fall into this trap if eating a plate of
spaghetti would have caused you to have immediate pain or immediate diabetes you wouldn't do it
but because it takes years to build up in your system and cause the problem we don't
pay enough attention to it but I'm asking you to pay attention to it because it matters your health
matters I want to hear from you do you give yourself permission to eat off plan or do you
stick to your keto meals all the time and if you do allow yourself to eat off plan
do you feel any repercussions or am I am I blowing this out of proportion this video
on the screen right here is going to give you four practical steps that you can take
to stick to your keto diet click on the link and I'm going to meet you over there