How To Start Keto

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Why Dieting Doesn't Work

None of us want to spend life endlessly thinking about the next meal. Counting calories is exhausting and it never works in the long term. Dieting becomes a burden instead of a tool to help us get healthier. We lose focus on things that really matter to us, and diets end up dictating how to live our lives. That’s not just wrong—it’s unsustainable.

The truth is that calorie-restricted diets are only short-term fixes and they are impossible to follow in the long term. The solution to this madness is simple: Find a way to eat to live—not the other way around.

What is the Ketogenic Diet?

In simple terms, when you follow a keto diet—low in carbs, moderate in protein, and high in fat—your blood sugar and insulin levels will stabilize. As a result, you will feel less hungry and naturally eat less. That’s why low-carb eating is unlike any other dietary approach.

On a keto diet, your body switches from glucose to fat as fuel, you essentially become a fat burner. The main advantage of following a keto diet is that there is no calorie counting. Dieters can eat to satiety and easily maintain a healthy weight.

What is Ketosis?

Ketosis is a metabolic state achieved by following a ketogenic diet. Ketosis occurs after you significantly reduce your carbohydrate intake to 20 to 25 grams of daily net carbs (that is, your total carbohydrate intake minus fiber), or even less.

The exact amount of carbohydrates required to enter ketosis is different for each person, but the presence of ketones in your body, which shows that your body is burning fat for fuel, typically takes 1 to 3 days.