Positive Thinking on Your Low Carb Lifestyle

Today is Positive Thinking Day and it got me thinking about keeping a good attitude on your low carb diet. Everybody I know who is successful on the low carb lifestyle not only improved their health and well-being, they improved their outlook on life and starting treating everything in their world in a new and positive way. These are the people that stay positive and stay focused on their low carb diet no matter what life (or their negative friends and relatives) throws their way.

The Power of Positive Thinking and the Low Carb Lifestyle

Over the years, we have published a ton of articles about positive thinking, avoiding negative energy, and being a long-term success on your low carb lifestyle. Here are some of the best from the last 13 years.

• Having a Positive Attitude on Your Low Carb Diet by Amy Dungan – I’ve been thinking a lot about how our state of mind affects our progress. As a general rule, I’m a pretty positive person. I try to see the silver lining in every cloud, or anxiously wait for the rainbow after each storm. But something has happened…
• Are We There Yet? by Kathleen Lunson – Now it is obviously perfectly easy to tell when we have and have not achieved our goal when the goal is to pull into grandmother’s driveway. But what about our weight loss goals? Are we there yet? To answer that question, of course, we all have to decide for ourselves where “there” is.
• Attitude Is Everything – Planning For Success on the Low Carb Lifestyle by Amy Dungan – We really need to mentally prepare for all the life-changing decisions we are making in effort to lose, and maintain, weight-loss. If your head isn’t in the game, it simply won’t be a long term solution. (Sadly, I’m speaking from experience.)
• Make New Habits Instead of Resolutions by Amy Dungan – I’m not the biggest fan of resolutions, simply because they generally tend to end in guilt and self-defeating attitudes. I propose we do away with resolutions for 2012. Instead, let’s just work on changing habits, one step at a time. No deadlines, no pressure.
• Winning the Attitude Game on the Road to Low Carb Weight Loss Success By Susie T. Gibbs – Old habits die hard. But newsflash – we have food issues, we kinda get that it’s tough changing lifetime habits.
• New Year’s Resolutions: There’s Always A Fresh Start If You’re Willing To Take It by Di Bauer – Introspection is a dying skill in today’s instant gratification society. Many of us would rather have someone else do our thinking for us. We want people to tell us what to do rather than make the sometimes painful effort to establish our goals for ourselves. But if we want to better ourselves and achieve our goals, honest introspection is necessary. No one can do that for us, because no one knows us as well as we know ourselves.
• Are you ready to change your life? by Cecilia Savela – I know this will sound strange, but maybe you’re not ready to make a change. I know that personally, I needed to be “not dieting” for 10 years and have a 70-lb weight gain before I was ready to change my life. In 12-step groups they call it “bottoming out.”

How have you applied Positive Thinking to ensure your success on the low carb lifestyle? Have you been able to overcome the nay-sayers with positive thinking?