What to Expect if You Cheat On Your Low-Carb Diet

What to Expect if You Cheat On Your Low-Carb Diet

Low Carb Diet

I've been digging into the archives here at Kickin' Carb Clutter and came across this old blog post about the various consequences you can expect to experience if you cheat on your low-carb diet.

I don't really like the word cheat.

If low carb is truly your way of life, if you have actually committed to a low-carb lifestyle, there really isn't any cheating going on. You might have days where you eat more carbohydrates than you planned, but plans are like that.

No matter how structured or detailed your low-carb intentions are, resistance of some kind is going to rise up to oppose what you really want to do. If you're like most folks, the pleasure of the moment often supersedes your long-term target.

Success on any low-carb plan is tightly connected to how well you follow the program. While that might sound obvious, it's much more difficult to pull off, so take a few minutes and think about that.

Success isn't about setting goals or having lots of willpower to push through temptation.

Nope.

Success is a mindset you develop over time.

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9 Creative Ways to Make Your Low-Carb Diet More Fun (and Less Boring!)

9 Creative Ways to Make Your Low-Carb Diet More Fun (and Less Boring!)

Low Carb Styles The Brutal Way

How to Make Your Low-Carb Diet
More Fun and exciting!

Bacon and eggs, meat, salad, and veggies – day after day.

Sounds boring, doesn't it?

Whether you're just cutting carbohydrates or keeping tract of those calories too, eating a low-carb diet can really feel restricting if you're the only one you know eating that way. Low-carb rules make your so-called healthy lifestyle feel like you're on a diet, no matter how many times you try to tell yourself it's not.

When you're starring down at another baked chicken leg or piece of fish, some mushy green beans or broccoli, and a pile of lettuce, thinking about eating this way for the rest of your life can feel depressing. If you allow yourself to get bored with the menu, your emotions will go in search of comfort and tasty treats.

Not good, especially if you're new to this way of eating or don't feel creative in the kitchen because an up-kick in emotions almost always means an increase in emotional hunger and cravings. Limited food choices gets boring fast, but it doesn't have to. There is no reason why you can't make your low-carb diet fun, day after day.

Boredom is rarely about the food. It's more about your attitude and perspective on life, so here are 9 creative ways to make your low-carb diet more fun and exciting.

But before we do that, let's first take a look at the excuses that keep us from being creative in the kitchen and examine why people really get bored with food:

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