Because you lose weight twice as fast on 1500 calories of protein and fat, compared to 1500 calories of
carbohydrate, the key to efficient weight loss is not to cheat on your low carbohydrate diet. To help keep you
from cheating, there are a number of variations of Implosion, Metaphor and Reframing that you can use. For
Implosion, any negative imagery that you associate with whatever carbohydrate food you are craving can work.
You can imagine ice cream covered in worms or maggots or vomit. You can see yourself eating ice cream and
then throwing up. You can see yourself buying ice cream, opening the container, and finding it full of maggots.
Use your imagination, come up with repulsive images, and associate them with whatever carbohydrate food your
are craving. For Metaphor, imagine a giant chocolate chip cookie chained to your leg, or imagine yourself
drowing in a giant pile of chocolate chip cookies, or imagine yourself walking down the street lugging a 100
pound box of chocolate chip cookies. Focus on this imagery in your mind’s eye, until it becomes real for you.
See yourself cutting the chain of the giant cookie chained to your leg, or see yourself dropping the 100 pound
box of cookies and moving the down the street lighter and free-er. You don’t have to carry 100 pounds of
cookies for the rest of your life. For Reframing, think about your chocolate chip cookie cravings. Realize that
your cookie cravings are spontaneous and beyond your control. You can’t control your cookie cravings. What
you can control is not putting cookies in your mouth. Give yourself permission to have cookie cravings, which
you can’t control anyways, and not put cookies in your mouth.