Hello, everybody.

Welcome to the podcast today.

I am going to talk today about a topic that comes up a lot with my client. It comes up with

everybody. It came up with me a lot on my weight loss journey, especially as I tried to venture

away from keto. And it's generally around the thought, I think I need to start a diet again.

I need to get back to being keto. I need to make things

strict for a while. And normally this kind of thinking is in a reaction to feeling a little bit out

of control, feeling like you're struggling with following your food plan, feeling like there's a lot

of overeating happening, feeling like maybe you went off the rails

for a couple weeks on vacation. And I'm going to always be speaking in terms of like starting a

diet versus the things that I teach. And I notice a lot in clients when they're starting to feel

like a little wobbly with the process, their brain immediately is like, I feel like I need to start a

diet. So we're going to talk today about why that's a bad idea and just about the natural thinking

pattern that comes up when we begin to get frustrated because I do believe that's what it comes from.

We're just frustrated in our body. We're frustrated with our lack of progress. Maybe we're

frustrated with the scale going up. And our brain just naturally is like,

easy, easy fix. You get back on a diet. You need to get back to keto. You need to get rid of the

sugar. You need to whatever your go to is. And you're going to know what your go to is, whether you did

Octavia or you low carb or whatever fucking macros, whatever it is. You know what your, what I like to refer to as escape boat is.

Like, oh, if all sales, I'll just go back to that thing that worked in the past, major, major air quotes

on that. Okay. And what's fast, the most fascinating thing to me that's been coming up in a lot of

coaching calls lately is the way that our brain will like present information as a

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