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Monday Morning Re-Induction

Sometimes it just seems impossible to resist temptation. You work so hard all week to eat clean, drink your water, and lose weight. Then the weekend comes and many find themselves planning a Monday Morning Re-Induction before the cheats even touch their lips.

Falling off the Low Carb wagon is a bad idea, but it’s a human experience. Stop beating yourself up. It happens to most of us now and then. The trick to limiting the damages cause by indulgence is to limit the time you spend off the wagon (seriously) and become a master at induction.

Mastering Induction

Most people have a difficult time with the concept of a Low Carb Lifestyle. For that reason, many still think about Low Carb as a diet rather than a Way of Life or Way of Eating. Unfortunately, the short-term thinking associated with a Low Carb Diet approach traps many in an endless cycle of sacrifice and reward that does nothing but ADD POUNDS.

But what if you changed your idea of a Low Carb Lifestyle?

Clear your mind of any thoughts that a ‘Lifestyle’ means lifetime of eating perfection. That sounds a lot like a prison sentence. Instead, think of your Low Carb Lifestyle as a healthy path you follow. Like any path, you can step off from time to time. The key to reaching your destination is always getting back on the path.

You know yourself better than anyone. If your experience leads you to believe that strict adherence to a Low Carb Diet for the rest of your life just won’t work, throw the whole idea away. Prepare yourself for the inevitable slips by becoming a master at induction.

Use the guidelines provided in your Low Carb program’s reference book along with the Induction Survival Tips on this site. Keep your Low Carb diet journal and refer to it often for personalized tips on how to get yourself back on track. Be reasonable in your expectations of yourself and prepare for your own human flaws.

That said, it is important, particularly for weight loss, that you don’t make a career of jumping on and off the low carb path. Induction can take time before it leads to weight loss. You won’t lose much week if you’re endlessly switching your metabolism from carb burning to fat burning, and back again.

Also, when you do step off the path, don’t stray for too long. It’s easy to get lost in the high-carb jungle. It’s often difficult to find the path again when you’ve completely lost sight of it.