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Video | Low Carb vs. Keto | Ultra-Processed Foods | Food Choices | Ketones without Keto
A keto diet is a very low carb diet. The purpose of a keto diet is to encourage your body to produce ketones, which are breakdown products of fat metabolism. Ketones can be measured, and if your body is producing them – you are burning fat.
In other words, a keto diet is an effective fat-loss diet. But what if it is too extreme for you? Restricting your carb intake to around 20 or 30 grams per day cuts out a lot of favorite foods and limits fruit and other plant-based foods.
So what do you do if keto feels out of reach? You can get fat loss results by simply reducing your carb intake and making better carb choices. This blog post explains the difference and how you can enhance this less extreme strategy to make fast, healthy progress.
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Video | Limit Calories | Limit Certain Foods | Limit Eating Hours
Unlike our ancestors, we have 24/7 access to food. Many of the foods available to us have been altered from their natural state to increase their shelf life and crave factor. Our bodies digest and absorb these refined foods quickly, creating a spike in the fat-storing hormone, insulin.
These processed and refined foods are also calorie-dense, which helps explain why the average person’s daily calorie consumption has increased by 24% since the 1960s (1).
In other words, we’ve gained weight because of abundance and excess. To lose weight, some restrictions must occur. What you choose to cut back on is up to you.
Read More “There are ONLY 3 Ways to Lose Weight: Which One Will You Do?”
Download | Video | Eat Regularly | Eat Occasionally | Eat Less Often | Eat Rarely
We are all familiar with the USDA Food Pyramid. It was an easy-to-understand visual display that promised that if you ate mainly from the food choices at the bottom of the pyramid, you’d achieve a healthy, balanced diet. Unfortunately, since that advice came out, obesity and diabetes rates have skyrocketed, indicating that it wasn’t the cure-all we’d hoped it would be.
I liked the clarity of the pyramid graphic, so I thought, “Why not use it to simplify low carb and keto snacking?” Let’s take a look at where your favorite snacks line up on the low carb and keto snack pyramid.
Read More “Low Carb and Keto Snack Pyramid (Eat From the Bottom Up)”
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