New to keto- right for me?

LadyBoss_1989

I have not officially started yet, as I wanted to do more research.
I'm interested in Keto for fat loss and insulin resistant purposes. I have been eating very poorly and VERY high carb for over 10yrs.
While I did lose weight (went from 156 to 115) with just cutting calories, ive never cut carbs. I do not get energy from them either.
Only a mental satisfaction and my cravings for carbs and sugar can be intense at times.
After a high carb meal, I feel very lazy, tired and still wanting to eat some kind of snack afterwards. I exercise atleast 5 days a week
(light to moderate in the gym) and fasted. I drink either a pre workout or zero carb redbull.
For weightloss, I leaned out very nicely in the arms, but Im still carrying alot of fat in my belly and legs.
I'am only 4"11 and a apple shape, so i don't expect a completely fat stomach but the fat i'm carrying in my stomach is
more than any fat on my body, its uncomfortable and looks werid, because I'am much smaller everywhere else.
While I gained some muscle in my arms and thighs, I still have high body fat. Wondering if Keto is right for me?
I also only work out in the morning (7am) so also curious how I can do CKD.

wabmester

It would be a radical change for you. Maybe too radical.

The studies seem to suggest a couple of things you may be interested in:

1) There is a correlation between higher carb intake and abdominal fat.

2) Lowering carb intake seems to help in a lot of ways, even if you don't get into ketosis.

I used to have that same carb-related crash you do. I haven't experienced it since I've cut my carb intake down to 100g/d or so. Nowhere near ketosis, but I feel a LOT better and my cravings are gone.

Alliwan

I agree that lowering carbs is a huge benefit to Insulin Resistance. But there is a HUGE range of low carb. You can go from 100g to almost 0 and anywhere in between. Even a little bit of lowering your carbs can help IR, you might not have to go into ketosis for it to help even a little.

You can always start by lowering your carbs to 100g a day and upping your fats accordingly and see how you feel and how it works for you. you can always adjust down from there.

You may also find that you feel awesome and love eating full fat cheese, butter, eggs, bacon, etc and decide to go Keto, but you can always start slow.

Sugarbeat

I also recommend slowly transitioning to keto. I think a lot of people who try it and say they hate it jump from candy and pizza everyday to 20 grams of carbs a day. Not saying you eat candy everyday, I'm just trying to show both ends of the spectrum. I've also heard that slowly lowering carbs can help reduce "carb flu."

Mistizoom

Sugarbeat wrote: »

I also recommend slowly transitioning to keto. I think a lot of people who try it and say they hate it jump from candy and pizza everyday to 20 grams of carbs a day. Not saying you eat candy everyday, I'm just trying to show both ends of the spectrum. I've also heard that slowly lowering carbs can help reduce "carb flu."

Yes, you can definitely back into keto. I didn't do induction and really didn't experience low carb flu when I first started but it worked anyway. I did get low carb flu when jumping back in after going on a cruise and eating more carbs than I had planned to that week (and gaining like 10 lbs. of water weight). Worst headache I ever had hit me in the middle of a business meeting.