7 Brutal Ways Low-Carb Dieters Torture Themselves

7 Brutal Ways Low-Carb Dieters Torture Themselves

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7 Brutal Ways Low-Carb Dieters Torture Themselves

What's up with low-carb dieters these days?

I really need someone to explain it to me. I'm at a total loss to understand.

I realize that dieting is difficult, that it requires you to give up a lot of your favorite foods, revamp your lifestyle, and substitute those old food habits with healthier alternatives, but c'mon.

• I mean, do you really expect to drop 15 pounds in only a couple of weeks?
• Do you enjoy all of the pain and misery you are bringing upon yourself due to these false expectations and fantasies?
• Did someone, somewhere, tell you that low-carb diets are a quick weight-loss scheme?

Or what?

Where did that idea actually come from?

Why are so many people coming here to this blog with the idea that if they don't shed some water weight and perhaps a little muscle tissue during the first week or two, then low carb isn't worth the effort?

This self-torture doesn't make sense to me.

Whether its 3 days, 8 days, 2 weeks, or a month, choosing to torture yourself about what your body is or isn't doing won't make the body fat come off any faster.

Low carb diets are not crash diets!

The only way you “might” lose 15 pounds in 2 weeks is if you're seriously obese and have never gone on a diet before in your entire life. While some people do experience those types of results, they are the exception to the rule. They are not the norm.

So how about you?

• Are you torturing yourself by being miserable because you don't like what your bathroom scale is saying today?
• Are you letting that number on the scale control how you feel and act?
• Is that number so important to you that you're allowing it to determine your self worth?

This isn't something that just popped up this week. It's been going on for a while now, but I'm really struggling to understand where your head is at, so please help me:

Here are 7 brutal ways that low carbers have been torturing themselves lately. See if you can recognize yourself doing any of these things. If so, please tell me why living in the misery of self-pity just for the sake of weight loss is so appealing to you.

I really want to understand what's going on here.

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What Halloween Traditions Can Teach Us About Dieting

What Halloween Traditions Can Teach Us About Dieting

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What Can Halloween Traditions
Teach Us About Ourselves?

Halloween traditions have disintegrated for us. 

Since we live in a basement apartment right now, we no longer have kids knocking on our front door, yelling, “Trick or Treat.”

There's just silence.

Up to this point in our lives, hubby would purchase enough Halloween candy to over-spill a huge popcorn bowl, kick back in his hefty easy chair, watch the History channel, and eagerly listen for the tiny patter of footsteps and chatter to make its way to the front porch and ring the doorbell.

Each year, however, that pattering and chatter has grown more distant, until last year – when Halloween totally evaporated into the nothing.

Now, instead of a dozen kids bringing a smile to hubby's face on Halloween night, there is just us. October 31st will be like any other night now.

Halloween traditions will probably be rekindled once we move to Texas, where our granddaughter lives, but for right now, they are simmering on the back burner. These annual traditions are history for us, but not forgotten.

When you decide to enter a carbohydrate-restricted lifestyle, your old way of doing things disintegrates. The ideals, if you care to create them, change in substance, but not necessarily in purpose.

Purpose rarely changes unless you reach a point in life's journey where you are ready to look at the real motivations for what you do and re-evaluate those motivations. What people call purpose, such as going on a diet, is simply an ideal they have set up to wear over the top of their purpose like a Halloween costume.

That costume's purpose might be to help us look different to others, and possibly even different to ourselves, but wearing a mask doesn't change what we are.

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Make 2016 the Best Low-Carb Thanksgiving Ever

Make 2016 the Best Low-Carb Thanksgiving Ever

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Make 2016 the Best Low-Carb Thanksgiving Ever

Celebrations and food go hand in hand.

Whether it's a:

• graduation party
• special anniversary
• birthday
• or holiday

There always seems to be plenty of carby desserts, potatoes, pastry, and chocolate goodies around to try and coax you into going off plan.

Over the centuries, human nature has turned a vital fuel source into a culturally-endorsed feast of gluttony, but if you keep your wits about you and stay mindful of your aims and true desires, you can still make a low-carb diet work, even in difficult circumstances.

All you need are these tips, tricks, and keto-friendly recipes to help you make 2016 the best low-carb Thanksgiving ever. With the right attitude, focus, and purpose, you can make the holiday fun and memorable, even without the carbs.

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How to Lose Weight Faster on Your Low-Carb Diet

How to Lose Weight Faster on Your Low-Carb Diet

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How to Lose Weight Faster on Your Low-Carb Diet

Are you looking for the secret to losing weight faster on your low-carb diet?

Yes, there's a way.

But first:

In general, a low-carb diet doesn't cause you to lose weight any faster than a low-calorie diet does, unless you have a lot of body fat to get rid of.

People who fall into the obese category can lose a bucket-load of body fat during the first few months, on any diet, but there is a biological reason for that. For most folks, the body limits the amount of body fat it is willing to take out of storage because it doesn't know how long your dietary restriction is going to last.

If you have a 100 pounds, or more, to lose, the body will be more willing to give up a large portion of its fat stores than if you only need to shed 20 or 30 pounds. People lose weight at various rates, even on low carb.

Sound disappointing?

It doesn't have to be. 

Not if you're willing to do whatever it takes to speed things up.

While some people won't be willing to incorporate the following tips and tricks for faster weight loss into their diet plan, if you have only been losing a half a pound of body fat per week, you might be feeling frustrated and totally lost by now.

I know, I was.

After the first 4 weeks on the Atkins Diet in January of 2007, I had lost only 2 pounds. 

That's it! 

And, the same thing happened again the following month. In fact, by the end of the first 6 months, I was only down a mere 30 pounds total.

I knew that 30 pounds was a lot of body fat to shed, but when I looked at how far I still had to go, I also knew that losing only 2 pounds a month, on average, wasn't going to give me enough motivation to stick it out long-term.

That's when I decided to go on a research mission to see why there was so much variability within the low-carb community. 

What made the difference? 

Was the speed at which you drop the weight only about individual metabolism, or was there a secret to shedding the pounds that no one wanted to talk about?

Here's what I found out:

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Still Hungry on Low Carb? Top 10 Reasons Why Hunger Hangs Around

Still Hungry on Low Carb? Top 10 Reasons Why Hunger Hangs Around

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Low-Carb is Good Eating,
So Why Are You
Still Hungry?

One of the major benefits of choosing a low-carb lifestyle is the way that restricting carbohydrates dramatically curtails your hunger pangs.

Instead of:

• being obsessed with food
• plotting out your next meal
• fighting with your sweet tooth
• and white knuckling your way through the afternoon munchies

most people who lower their carbohydrate load find themselves with a dwindling desire to eat. Hunger on a low-carb diet is relatively rare.

If you've never experienced being too busy to stop for lunch or forgetting to eat, a low-carb diet can introduce you to that pleasurable phenomenon. Many, many people report that they lose all interest in food once they enter into the state of ketosis.

But what if that doesn't happen?

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