Category: Keto lifestyle
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Do you need to count calories on keto?
Losing weight is essentially an energy shift in your body, instead of consuming more calories than your body is burning, you are shifting this to burning more calories than you are consuming. But on a ketogenic or general lowcarb diet counting carbs isn’t that much recommended. Let’s find out why! When on a lowcarb diet…
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Is keto dangerous for kids?
There is not much scinece-based knowledge on children following a ketogenic diet, most physicians would not want children on such a restrictive diet to prevent them from eating disorders. But this doesn’t mean that the diet doesn’t work as good for children as it does for adults. From experiences from James SIdbury Jr’s work in…
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Is salt really our enemy?
It’s quite common to hear about electrolytes and adding salt to your keto or lowcarb diet. How can it be that this is recommended a lot but when you’re following the normalized “western-diet” or the diet recommended by the authoroties salt is seen as an enemy? It all starts with your blood pressure, this is…
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Must read keto books
The case for keto- Gary Taubes A book based on research and lots of interviews with practising physicians who embrace a ketogenic lifestyle. Taubes reveals why the guidelines to eating healthy might bet he wrong approach to weigtloss for most people and how ketogenic diets can help many people achieve a healthy weight for the…
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Keto diet VS Mediterranean diet
When looking for ways to lose weight there are many diets to follow and try out to see which one fits you and your lifestyle. The keto diet is one to quickly lose a lot of weight but requires quite a dedication to it, on the other hand the mediterranean diet is easier to maintain…
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Facts every keto-dieter should know
When following a keto diet people start asking questions and maybe doubting your way of eating and living. Atleast this is what I experience on a daily base. Here are some keto-myths debunked to stay educated and help others: “Your body needs carbs“Our body’s can get all of our functional nutrient needs from a diet…
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Beginners guide to lowcarb & keto
When you first start out with a low carb or maybe even ketogenic diet, lowering your carb intake doesn’t mean immediatly leaving out all carbs, you can slowly adjust your body by doing these things: Stop consuming sugarCheck food labels for added sugars and stop drinking soda and fruit juices, they contain lots of (sometimes…
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How to Ketoflex
Ketoflex stands for keto flexibility, this specific type of keto diet allows you to change your metabolic state in and out of ketosis. Your body shifts from sugar and carb burning to fat burning and back again, making you more adaptable to different energy sources. This is mostly done by people who have already reached…
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What happened to my body on OMAD KETO
After following the keto diet for more than one year I started developing a snacking habit which led to me eating 6 times a day (including 2 sometimes 3 snacks). This did lead to weightloss and reaching my goal-weight and even losing some extra weight too, but the amount of eating could be less in…
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Understanding blood sugar levels
Blood sugar (glucose) is the main sugar found in your blood. This comes from the food we consume each day. This source of energy provides nutrients for organs, muscles and the nervous system. Complex processes of production of insulin are completed by the small intestine, liver and pancreas. After consuming carbohydrates the endocrine system helps…