I hear this all the time. “I can’t eat keto because. . . ”
What is your excuse?
I am amazed at how tightly people cling to these excuses. They are just that excuses. In the 16 years I’ve been training people how to use these diets to treat disease, I have yet to find one that is not just an excuse that covers up the real reason . . .
Check out my video on this:
Sitting around the dinner table this evening we began discussing personality types. As a fun exercise, we each took the Jung Typology Test based on Jung and Myers-Briggs findings about personality. If you haven’t taken this personality test, you might find it quite interesting and the topic of hours of conversation around the dinner table . . . as we did this evening. The test is free on-line and takes about 10 minutes.
The actual Myers-Briggs Type Indicator costs about $50.00 and includes an interpretation by someone trained in giving the test. It differs slightly in its questions and the way the testing is interpreted.
Both tests provide an interesting insight into your individual psychological preferences regarding four categories. According to Carl G. Jung’s theory of psychological types published in 1971, people can be characterized, first, by their preference or general attitude about the source of and how they express their energy:
The second preference is one of the two functions of perception, or related to how they perceive information coming from either the external or internal world:
and the third preference relates to how one processes the information that they have received, acting as one of the two functions of thought or judgement:
Isabel Briggs Myers, a researcher and practitioner of Jung’s theory, proposed that the fourth preference related to how one applies or implements the information that he or she processed above. She proposed a judging-perceiving relationship as the fourth dichotomy influencing personality type in 1980:
Each of these dichotomies represents an opposite pole of preference and each of us have a dominant pole toward which we gravitate.
Based upon your dominant traits, a personality type index is assigned.
Kim and Lee studied these personality preferences and how they relate to diet, health and propensity toward obesity. Their findings were interesting in that expression, perception and judgement did not seem to have any bearing on health or obesity. However, the application of judgement vs perception did play a role in health. Judging (J) means that a person organizes all of his or her life events and, as a rule, sticks to those plans. Perceiving (P) means that he or she is inclined to improvise and explore alternative options.
Significantly better dietary and health behaviors were identified in those preferring Judging (J) versus those preferring Perceiving (P) traits. Those preferring the Judging (J) behaviors included eating breakfast, regularly eating three meals a day, smoking less, exercising more and having a lower tendency to nocturnal eating.
The findings show that the use of Jung Type or Myers-Briggs Type Indicator may be helpful in identifying and index those with a Perceiving (P) trait that would benefit from dietary and exercise education, nutritional counseling and/or behavior modification programs.
It has been my experience that those with a “P” type dichotomy preference would benefit greatly from daily food planning and journaling.
So, what is your Jung/Myers-Briggs type?
Just for fun, and because my kids were very curious about what each personality type would appear as in character, I’ve included the Jung/Myers-Briggs Disney typing.
I’m an ENFJ, just in case you’re curious.
References:
Over the years, I have collected quotes, bits of wisdom, quips of life and principles of living. I have taken them from a number of sources, friends, family and thoughts that have just come to me while reading, pondering or out riding my horse with my family. I have made a point to try to write these down and I thought that I would share them with you today. Some of them apply to health, obesity, weight and others just apply to being a gentleman. Some of these I struggle with and maybe you do too. Some of them I am good at, and some of them I need to work on. Let me know what you think:
