I very much like Keep Calm and Keto on. In the very beginning, I found myself telling myself at least 8 times a day, “Relax, you’ve barely just begun.” I’d say this whenever I got to worked up in any direction: excited, bummed, confident, doubtful. It was really useful.
I’m still saying it, but it doesn’t have the same power it used to.
What do you find yourself telling yourself? For reference, I’m a little over a month in (2 months if you count the transition in).
Fung’s trinity
Eat when hungry
Eat till full
DON’T eat when not hungry
KCKO
KCFO
I just watched another video by Dr Phinney, I may adopt this.
“When you have success, don’t argue with it.” Dr. Stephen Phinney.
I’m doing this right now.
I have to tell myself:
Accept the lack of hunger, accept that you have conquered the cravings, accept that you have released yourself from food slavery. Accept that you can be what you’ve always wanted to be.
“You are what you eat”, Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, in 1826.
“You are what you save from what you eat”, Drs S. Phinney & J. Volek.
I’m ok with KCKO but it never really inspired me much. I got more in the beginning when transitioning to adaption with SSKO (Stay Strong Keto On) and I still seem to carry it with me still today. SSKO
Even after having lost around 120 lbs, I’m still only halfway there. It’s been long and painfully slow. I had to stop putting life on hold until I had “reached goal”. So, here is my mantra to remind myself:
Enjoy the journey.
I have this on my desktop so I can see it every day, stay calm and push through when my (far away) goals threaten to overwhelm me, and just focus on eating right for now:
Actually, I have a folder full of these kinds of motivational memes. I find them helpful for getting my head back in the game when I’m struggling.
These are all really great, thank you! It would be fun to make a shared Google Doc of some sort with pages of quotes and mantras.
Aimee, this really resonated with me. The lack of hunger has been hard for me to accept. The times I’m most tempted to diverge or overeat are the times when my hunger is totally gone. Your words here help me see how this is a form of self-sabotage. Sadly, we get attached to unhealthy behaviors partly because they hold us back. The whole “fear of success” idea, maybe? Thanks for writing it.
My internal dialog…
I’ve got this, I know what to do, I like this path, it makes me feel good, I don’t care what others think, no one else lives in my body, I can fuel it however I see fit, I have this down, I see results, it’s easier everyday, I like knowing that I’m no longer actively killing myself with crap, I’m much happier now that my body feels better, lather, rinse, repeat. 
I don’t have diabetes, but things like “I am not a diabetic, I am a healthy person experiencing the symptoms of diabetes” “I am not fat, I am a healthy person experiencing being overweight at the moment”. Work well to combat the negative “I am” statements that we all tell ourselves.
None of us ARE any of those things. “I am depressed” implies that you are made of depression. That is who you are. So anytime you say “I AM ugly, fat, diabetic, insulin resistant” means you are accepting that as your natural state. Even if it’s true that you are having issues with your insulin, it’s better to word it as such instead of in the I AM ______ .
Love the ketone, be one with the ketone
Carb-free at last! Carb-free at last! Lord have mercy, carb-free at last!
Everything’s better with butter
Praise the lard!
What a friend we have in cheeses
Mama don’t want no peas, no rice, but give her the coconut oil, if you know what’s good for you!
ETA: Fat to satiety
I feel a little weird borrowing this from Act-Up, the AIDS activist organization, but their slogan is just as true in the keto world; even if death from bad nutrition comes a little more slowly than death from AIDS:
Ignorance = Fear, Silence = Death, Action = Life
