5 Reasons You Might Want To Try Keto

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I want to talk about 5 reasons why you might want to consider the ketogenic diet.

Now if you’ve been following me for a few weeks now, whether my facebook or instagram, I had completed about 4 weeks of living a keto lifestyle. Incase you're not familiar with what Keto is, it’s basically eating a very high fat diet with little to no carbs.

And in effort to reduce inflammation, reduce fat on your body and take control of your eating habits by changing your macro nutrient intake, by basically eating high fat, moderate protein and low carb.

The reason why I did this was #1 to explore different diets out there. It wasn't for me to go on another diet because I had a very long history of going on fat diets and losing weight, gaining weight, losing weight, gaining weight and I was so tired of this up and down rollercoaster.

But rather I wanted to do the keto diet because I wanted to explore what my body would do when I took out a lot of inflammatory foods. The reason why people might want to go on keto is because it reduces or eliminates a lot of food that cause digestive issues or inflammation in the body.

Inflammation also meaning “weight gain”.

And so I wanted to see what my body would do if I took this out and basically eat a majority of fat and very little carbs. And incase you’re wondering, my results is amazing! It was awesome! I was able to eat all these healthy foods that were high in fat and I was able to reduce a lot of my bloat, my inflammation in my stomach.

I was able to control my eating habits and specially my appetite. I would constantly eat every 2 to 3 hours but when I was on keto, I was able to reduce my eating window to about 6 to 8 hours a day, and I was able to do kind of like an intermittent fast for the rest of those hours outside of my eating window and I wasn't hungry one bit.

I was actually fully satiated, I was never like ravenous, I was never starving, I just felt like this consistent energy throughout the whole day and it was awesome.

Now you might been hearing keto in the newsfeeds or you’ve read like a blog post that talks about keto and you’re just like “should I try this fat diet out there?”. Like is this another diet that I need to do and you’re not really sure and so I wanna lay out some 5 key ideas in this blog on whether or not you should consider keto.

#1 If you have trouble losing fat.

There’s a lot of people who are just in a plateau or you might be in a plateau right now and you’re doing, you’re trying so hard working out, you know hours at a time, every single day. You’re eating super, super clean but the weight on the scale is not budging.

Now a lot of the times, you might be eating foods that cause inflammation and with keto, it takes out a lot of the things that do cause inflammation like dairy, grains, some inflammatory vegetables that might be causing inflammation.

So it allows you to reduce that inflammation and in turn, instead of using glucose or carbs as your energy, you are using your second primary source of fuel which is the fat on your body. So because you’re not eating a lot of carbs at all, you’re body can't use it’s primary fuel source which is usually the food you actually consume that day.

So instead of using that it’s gonna use the second source of fuel which is the actual fat on your body. So you essentially become a fat burning machine when your in keto. So if you’re having trouble losing fat, maybe you might want to consider keto.

#2 If your bloated all the time or have digestive issues

or you can’t go to the bathroom or you just constantly have this like bloat on in your stomach every time you eat and it’s just like so uncomfortable or you constantly have stomach aches after eating certain foods and you just don't know what’s causing those stomach aches.

If you have any sign of inflammation or digestive issues, you might want to consider keto because again, it eliminates a lot of inflammatory foods that you might be eating and you have no idea what causing that inflammation unless you take it out. It’s also known as the elimination diet.

It eliminates of the things that cause leaky gut, thyroid issues, immunity or hormonal issues and keto allows us to take those out, will still not having to starve ourselves to do it and eat amazing foods and then when you incorporate those foods back into your diet after keto, you’re able to have a better awareness of what foods affect your body. Okay? So if you have digestive issues that might be a consideration.

#3 You wanna take control of your eating.

I don’t know if you’re like me but I am a huge mindless eater, I am a boredom eater, so whenever I have nothing to do or I’m watching tv I always wanna munch on something. And I’m sure you feel the same way. Because you’re eating so much high fat on keto, you are able to satiate your body, with less food, and with lesser volume of food.

So you’re eating tons of high fats like nuts, almond, avocados, grass fed beef, eggs, seeds, olive oil, there’s so many different meals that you can prepare on keto m that will keep you super, super full. Unlike fruit and maybe a protein bar, you might feel hungry in the next 2 to 3 hours. But when you eat a big keto meal, you can stay full for 5 to 6 hours.

When I was on my keto journey, I was able to fast or not eat for over 20 hours. There was one day, where I was just so busy and I didn't even eat and I didn’t even think about it, which is crazy to me. So if you wanna take control of your eating habits that might be something you want to consider.

#4 If you have like a foggy brain

and you just aren’t clear with your thinking, you always feel fuzzy, whether it’s in a morning or lunchtime or afternoon, you just like don’t feel present.

You don’t have this clarity. You might want to consider keto, just because when your brain is on keytones you are able to optimize your brain almost, you know I don't really know the exact signs behind it, you can definitely google it. But when I was on keto, I was able to have this like consistent mental clarity.

I didn’t have any sort of crash, after let’s say eating a dessert, which is high in sugar. I didn’t have this sort of crash near around 2 or 3pm after a big lunch so it allows you to eat foods that will help you to stay focused all day long and have that mental clarity all day.

#5 If you’re tired of counting calories

you might want to consider keto because you don’t feel like you're on a diet. I mean I was able to eat amazing foods like cinnamon butter cookies, and like these amazing paleo keto burgers and this meatballs with turmeric.

In fact, I’ve compiled all of my incredible keto recipes in a free downloadable ebook. Click here to get it!

I mean like everything is so flavorful because you get to season it with like unsalted grassfed butter and ghee and it’s just makes your food so delicious. So if you’re tired of counting calories and you just wanna eat freely and have that like sense of freedom with your eating habits, then you might want to consider keto.

So I just wanted to lay those out there because I know there’s a lot of articles that are promoting instant fat loss and mental clarity and sustained appetite control. And wherever articles out there I just wanted to give you guys my personal experience since I explored keto for 4 weeks.

In that process I was able to discover and create keto friendly recipes that I absolutely love to this day and I still eat those recipes because they’re not only filled with healthy fats but they are filled with nutrients, they’ll keep you full for 46 hours at least and they are super good for you. So incase you want my keto recipes, I put them all together in an Ebook.

And I also put there in the Ebook some of my favorite resources for keto friendly products, in case you don't wanna make all of your foods at home, there are some awesome products and brands out there that um align with the keto diet and same with the paleo diet as well.

Let me know if you do decide to go on keto and feel free to message me if you need more advice or resources.