Key to Success

  1. Drink water and replace salt.

  2. Practice behaviours to support circadian rhythm.

  3. Address stress management strategies and aim to improve stress resilience. Check out our Relaxation Tools for ideas.

  4. Address micro-nutritional deficiencies.

  5. Eat minimally processed, real food. Stick to the GREEN vs RED vs ORANGE lists to decide what foods are safe in our “What is therapeutic carbohydrate restriction?” article. Make sure there is protein and a healthy fat in every meal.

  6. Practice intuitive eating. Consider motivations to eat. Are you hungry? Or are there other motivators driving you to eat, such as an appetite for something sweet, or grazing due to boredom, eating mindlessly, comfort or stress eating, or misinterpreting thirsty as hunger. If not hungry, then don’t eat. Drink a glass of water.

  7. Don’t ignore hunger. Eat a meal if hungry, but don’t snack. A LCWF diet combined with intuitive eating leads us effortlessly to intermittent fasting, which allows for the magic of autophagy can begin.

  8. Make sure changes are realistic and sustainable.