Keto is a powerful key to losing weight. I can’t say enough how it’s transformed my life. Seven months after hitting a weight I’d never thought I’d see, I’m still happily eating #keto. I feel SO MUCH better eating this way, that I see my old way of eating as destructive and harmful. So I don’t want to go back. Keto is my way of life – not a diet.
But we have to talk about shame.
Because shame is the gremlin that’s gonna taunt you. It’s gonna tell you you’re not worth it. It will lie to you and tell you to eat junk to make yourself feel better for a few minutes. It wants you to trade momentary pleasure for long-term satisfaction. It will tell you to eat the easy, fast thing rather than cooking something good and healthy for yourself.
Shame will lie to you and say that you’re not good enough. Not strong enough. Not worth it.
Kick that gremlin to the curb.
But be warned.
It’s a pesky gremlin. It’s relentless, And it will come back in other ways. It will sneak around your brain looking for another way to keep you from reaching your full potential.
I managed to kick it in the teeth when it came to what I eat. I no longer wear my shame on the outside for all to see. It’s an amazing thing. A real victory.
But I’m still fighting it. It just finds a new weak spot. I’ll share more about that new weak spot – because fighting it often means exposing it’s lies.
#keto and losing weight – it’s a mental battle with shame. Yes, what you put in your mouth matters. But the battlefield is your own mind.
But you can win the battle; and the whole dang war. But you have to know you are in a war, before you can win a war. Let’s fight the war. Because that gremlin doesn’t have any power at all – unless you believe him.
Listen to Brene Brown talk about it.
Sarah Jeffrey 