1.Get a coach.

Clarify what’s going on and come up with strategies. Learn more about yourself and how to deal with others. That’s a win-win. Don’t leave any situation without learning from it.

2.The company culture.

If norm is hostility and incompetence, you won’t be changing it, and you can count on it getting worse. Should your particular manager leave, another one similar will be hired.

3.Everything else is excellent.

If there’s something important or meaningful you’re getting out of job, stay, but don’t get lulled in to staying forever. It will get worse, not better, and eventually balance will tip, so be prepared.

4.Your outlook

Your attitude can always improve a situation. Work with your coach, and surround yourself with positive people. Jobs and managers come and go. The only disastrous outcome would be for you to become cynical and pessimistic about yourself, life, or people in general.

5.Are you in loop?

There’s power in numbers. Sometimes your colleagues can make up for a bad manager.

6.Age and career potential of manager.

The premise of Atkins or any low carbohydrate diet is that carbohydrates are source of all our weight loss woes. There is some real substance to argument in that we Americans have been eating excessive amounts of refined carbohydrates which have caused many of us to become insulin resistant as body continues to wage war against repeated blood sugar spikes brought on by our poor eating habits.

The Atkins diet and other very low carbohydrate diets take your body out of a sugar burning state by practically eliminating all carbs for an induction period that can last two weeks or more. The body will continue to burn sugar as it primary energy source until it essentially runs dry and then converts to burning fat. During conversion, dieter can feel tired, irritable, have headaches or get dizzy. Once you get past this incredibly tough period, you are allowed to eat a few carbs, but generally not more than 60 grams a day. That’s like eating one bagel a day and then stopping. This is a difficult road to follow for a liftetime.

In fact, a recent study showed that most adults who start a low carbohydrate diet quit diet within a year. Admittedly, there is great progress by Atkins and other food manufacturers to dramatically reduce amount of effective carbs in some food offerings that could be classified as comfort foods (e.g., muffins, brownies, yogurt and more). This helps but you cannot have much if you want to stay within diet guidelines.

In addition to loss of almost all traditional comfort foods, by cutting out carbohydrates, diet is also cutting out a lot of foods that are good for us. Fruits and vegetables have fiber, vitamins and phytonutrients that help keep us healthy. Limiting fiber while consuming a lot of saturated fat, is not most heart healthy diet.