Keto Diet for Beginners – Complete Guide
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By: Alison Moodie
It seems like everyone is talking about the keto diet — the high-fat, low-carb eating plan that promises to turn your body into a fat-burning machine. For that reason, keto has surged in popularity over the past year as a lose-weight-fast strategy. Thank Hollywood A-listers and professional athletes like Halle Berry, Adriana Lima, and Tim Tebow who’ve publicly touted the diet’s benefits, from shedding weight to slowing down aging. Here’s everything you need to know about going keto.
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The keto diet changes the way your body converts food into energy. Eating a lot of fat and very few carbs puts you in ketosis, a metabolic state where your body burns fat instead of carbs for fuel. When your body is unable to get glucose from carbs, your liver converts fatty acids from your diet into ketones, an alternative source of energy. Burning ketones in place of glucose reduces inflammation and spurs weight loss.[1]
The keto diet isn’t new, and it’s been around for nearly a century. It was originally developed to treat people with epilepsy. In the 1920s, researchers found that raised levels of ketones in the blood led to fewer epileptic seizures in patients. The keto diet is still used today to treat children with epilepsy who don’t respond well to anti-epileptic drugs.[2]
Related: Health Benefits of the Keto Diet
The keto diet is made up of mostly fats (75 percent of your daily calories), some protein (20 percent) and a small amount of carbs (5 percent). Choose low-carb foods such as meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, and good fats. Check out this detailed keto food list and browse these keto recipes to get started.
Standard keto diet: You eat very low carb (less than 50 grams of net carbs a day), all the time. Some keto followers eat as few as 20 grams per day. Here’s how to find your ideal carb intake.
Cyclical keto diet: The Bulletproof Diet falls into this category. You eat high fat, low carb (less than 50 grams of net carbs a day) five to six days of the week. On day seven, you up your carb intake to roughly 150 grams, during what’s called a carb refeed day. Carb cycling this way helps you avoid the negative effects some people experience when they restrict carbs long term, like thyroid issues, fatigue and dry eyes.[9][10] Learn more here about how carb cycling works.
Targeted keto diet: You follow the standard keto diet, but eat extra carbs right before (30 minutes to an hour) a high-intensity workout. The glucose is meant to boost performance, although no scientific studies have linked low blood glucose to reduced weight-lifting performance.
Dirty keto diet: Dirty keto follows the same ratio of fats, proteins, and carbs as the regular keto diet but with a twist: it doesn’t matter where those macronutrients come from. So dinner could be a bunless Big Mac with a Diet Pepsi. Learn more about the dirty keto diet and how it works.
You’re in ketosis when your ketone levels measure 0.8 (that’s millimoles per liter). You can test your levels using urine sticks, blood sticks, or a blood meter. You can also test for acetone levels in your breath using a breath analyzer.[11]
However, just tracking how your body feels is a simple way to know whether you’ve hit that ketosis sweet spot. Here are signs you’re probably in ketosis:
Read Next: What to Eat on Keto: Your Complete Keto Diet Food List
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About Alison Moodie
Alison Moodie is a health reporter based in Los Angeles. She has written for numerous outlets including Newsweek, Agence France-Presse, The Daily Mail and HuffPost. For years she covered sustainable business for The Guardian. She holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she majored in TV news. When she’s not working she’s doting on her two kids and whipping up Bulletproof-inspired dishes in her kitchen.
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