Karl heads into the bowling alley each lane is a diet. He is in the keto lane. Looking over to the left he sees. A new guy with the bumpers up. “Amateur,” thinks keto Karl. Setting up in his Keto lane.
Smash 💥 strike! And again strike!! Keto Karl is doing well in his keto lane. Looking over at the new guy flexible Fred. Who is gently rolling the ball knocking a bunch of pins. On the second turn, He knocked a few more.
🎳Keto Karl sets himself up. He fires the ball down the lane…. Oops Just a little off he misses and the ball goes into the gutter. Ok, second turn… misses again. Ok, ok I’ve got this he thinks.
💥Bang he knocks a few, second turn he misses again. Then he misses again.
“NO No no!” thinks Keto Karl. The floor is slippy, the lights in his eyes, and the ball is off. He moves lane to the juice fast lane. First, go strike. Awesome I’m juicing Karl now. Now a spare, then a miss and another miss. This lane isn’t working either. He moves a few more lanes, the same thing every time.
🤷🏽♂️He complains to the manager. The manager says why don’t you try the Flexiblelanes, with flexible Fred. “WHAT,” says Karl outraged. I’m a professional!
That guy has just started. “Yes.” the manager says “but look at his scorecard. He has beaten you.” He continues to say “Don’t you want results?
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Humbled Karl moves to the Flexible lane, to work on his technique.
Some “diets” will give you a few days or weeks of good results (strikes) but from there, people accumulate more misses than wins.
Bowling 🎳 is like dieting. Each pin is a good meal. You either hit them or miss them. Your first shot is your weekdays. The second shot is your weekend. The second shot is always harder as you’ll normally have one pin at one side of the lane and one other, until you get good.
The bummer allows you flexibility, instead of thinking, of good and bad food. You are thinking of macros only. Yes, some high-calorie snacks aren’t the best choice, but as long as you are within your macros you’ll still make progress. Rather than beating yourself up and throwing the ball in the gutter just because you had one cookie. Set up your diet so you can’t fail.💥
🎳For maximum Flexibility think that as long as you knock down more pins than you don’t. You’ll make progress. Of course, you want fast progress strike after strike, but you are just not that good at the game yet. You should develop lifelong skills. Move your attention not to the missed pins but to how can you knock down the most pins 🎳
🎳Start with aiming to hit your protein per day. Split it in to 3-4 meals. Then aim for having some veg with each of those meals.
Doing just this, will be huge for your success.
After that, you can sort your fats and carbs based on what your macros are.
🎳As you practice you get better and better. Soon, you’ll hit a few strikes. Which is a whole week of near-perfect macros and wholesome food choices. Occasionally you can miss a pin or two. Because: Pizza 🍕
We live in an ultra-processed food environment. We can try to avoid it or we can learn to co-exist with it. A diet with pizza is different from a diet of pizza.
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Pizza is a just a place holder for a food you enjoy that you think is ‘bad’
Thanks for reading Angus 🫶🏼
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