The Integrity Diet—how To Lose The Dead Weight In Your Life

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Article Title: The Integrity Diet—how To Lose The Dead Weight

In Your Life

Author: Jim

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Everywhere I turn, people are on some kind of a diet. Whether

it’s Atkins or South Beach, people are obsessed with the right

mix in their food choices to reach their ultimate weight. Of

course, the most popular diets involve carbohydrates and

proteins. The idea behind these diets is that foods are divided

more or less into three categories:

Proteins—Chicken breasts and salmon (all good)

Good Carbs—Whole grains and leafy vegetables (necessary, but in

moderation)

Bad Carbs—Breads, pizza crusts, and pastas (avoid these unless

you want to stay overweight).

It’s a structure that also applies pretty well to the people

that surround us.

People Proteins

We all know our proteins. These are the people who bring out

the best in us and give us energy and support, reinforce our

drive to achieve, and help us grow personally and

professionally. These can include our mentors, our most

unconditionally supportive or inspirational friends, our

spouses and partners, and our children.

Good Carb People

The good carbs may be the trickiest to identify. These can be

friends and associates who are generally good influences, and

provide useful help, but may be best experienced in small

doses. Maybe these are loyal colleagues who provide useful

support at work but maybe they lack the same drive we do. Or

they can be good friends who care about us and are always there

to lend an ear or can always be counted on the make us laugh,

but may have a few bad habits we don’t want to rub off on us.

You can’t and shouldn’t get rid of good carbs, since they do

provide some value in your life, but you have to be careful not

to spend too much time with them or rely on them too heavily.

Bad Carb People

Of course, you can easily recognize the bad carbs in your life.

These are the toxic people who waste our time, drain our energy,

dampen our self-esteem or try to influence us in the wrong

direction.

These are the “friends” who envy everything we achieve and

posses, and try to undermine us, usually just at the moments

when we are feeling good about what is going on in our lives.

Have you ever heard a “friend” downplay a promotion (“Well, you

must not have had much competition”) or try to make us insecure

about our appearance (“So, you wore that to the interview and

they still gave you the job?”) Too often, the underminers in

our lives are old friends who we have tolerated out of a

misplaced—and unreciprocated—sense of loyalty. And sadly,

sometimes they are family members. If you want to investigate

this further, check out the new book The The Underminer: The

Best Friend Who Casually Destroys Your Life by Mike Albo and

Virginia Heffernan.

Other “bad carbs” include toxic co-workers. You know these

people, the ones who never have a kind word to say about

anyone, especially if they are in management, and spend more

time complaining about work that actually working. These are

the people leaning against your office door, looking to waste

time and gossip when you want to hit an important deadline.

These are the peers who only call you when they have a problem,

and take up long lunches talking only of themselves and their

woes. These are the unhappy, self-absorbed, tiresome people

that we always wonder why we tolerate. When was the last time

one of your bad carb friends asked about you and actually

listened to the answer?

How to Lose Dead Weight—The Integrity Diet

If you can go on a low-carb diet to lose weight, why not do the

same with the people you surround yourself with? Go on an

“integrity diet” and rid yourself of the bad carbs in your

life. It isn’t easy to give up pizza, pasta and doughnuts. And

it isn’t easy to look a longtime “friend” in the eye and say

you do not want them to be a part of your life any longer. But

the best part is, while you might miss pizza, you will never

miss a “toxic” friend.

To get you started on your Integrity Diet, try the following:

Make a list of the important people in your lives.

Divide them into proteins, good and bad carbs.

Make an effort to strengthen your relationship with the

proteins—the people who inspire you, energize you and make you

happy.

Enjoy the good carbs in moderation.

Minimize your time with the bad carbs.

Remember to pay special attention to the bad carbs. Eliminating

them will not be easy or pleasant, but the positive results in

your emotional and professional lives will appear as fast as

the pounds shed when you say goodbye to white bread, French

fries and cupcakes.

You can eat all the protein in the world, but if you keep

taking in the bad carbs, you won’t get the results you

ultimately want.

And be sure to let us know how much “dead weight” you lose in

the next thirty days!

About The Author: Jim President and Chief Inspiration

Officer With more than twenty years of corporate experience and

coaching success, Jim is following his destiny: to

inspire others to live up to their full potential. In doing

so, he has worked with many businesses and individuals in

achieving and sustaining success. Jim works with clients to

help them determine their goals...what and who they want to be.

Whether it's working with entire companies, organizational teams

or individuals, Jim's goal is to have clients refocus and

experience new ways of seeing, thinking and doing. His mission

is to help clients achieve long-term success in today’s

volatile marketplace.

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