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Low carb diet?

healthymom76
healthymom76 Posts: 99 Member
edited December 2024 in Health and Weight Loss
How low in carbs do you have to go to be considered a low carb diet? I do around 50- 100 a day. Mostly because things that have carbs or more correctly, starches, seem to bother my stomach. Fruits and veggies don't bother me, but bread, potatoes, rice and pasta do. I was wondering how much lower I have to go on carbs per day to be low carb. Thanks.

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  • eduardoschoen
    eduardoschoen Posts: 56
    My nutritionist has me on no more than 12g per meal/snack for the first four weeks of my 12-week program. It has worked so far as I am in ketosis (verified by test strips) and I have lost 17lbs and at least two inches off my waist. We will adjust the nutrition plan after the first four weeks.
  • healthymom76
    healthymom76 Posts: 99 Member
    How long does it take for your body to get in to ketosis?
  • SmartWhatever
    SmartWhatever Posts: 718 Member
    if you're trying to get into ketosis, you should buy keto strips. That way you can tell for sure.
    Everyone is different. Some people can do it in a few days, some people take longer.
    Some people can eat higher numbers of carbs than others and stay in ketosis.
    I myself, started about 8 months ago at under 20gs of carbs a day.
    I now eat about 35gs a day and have maintained ketosis the wholw time.
  • sharleengc
    sharleengc Posts: 792 Member
    I'm not sure what the official number is but I know when I was doing Atkins (like over 10 years ago), the recommendation was 20grams of carbs a day. I don't know if that's just according to that diet, where they got that number or what...
  • emstethem
    emstethem Posts: 263 Member
    About 3-4 days of eating low carb to achieve ketotis .
  • emstethem
    emstethem Posts: 263 Member
    20 g of carbs per day was the weight loss phase of Atkins then you moved on to eating more carbs for maintenance for life. :)
  • eduardoschoen
    eduardoschoen Posts: 56
    As others have said each person is different. I am able to achieve ketosis (testing results are very dark red) with around 50g per day. My nutritionist is very happy with that and doesn't recommend I go any lower on carbs because of the amount of exercise I do.

    Good luck meeting your goals. :)
  • str0ngest
    str0ngest Posts: 2
    ive been living keto for about 3 months love it cuz i do ckd so on the weekends i carb up. mon - friday under 20g of carbs with 150g fat and 180g protein, plateued for a while but am shaking it by macro managing better, my buddy has been doing keto 3 weeks and has dropped 15 pounds! reddit .com/r/keto is a good place for tips
  • healthymom76
    healthymom76 Posts: 99 Member
    Thanks so much for all the help! I do have strips from when I was pregnant I had GD and they were so concerned about me going into ketosis, was that just because I was pregnant? ar is ketosis bad somehow for your body?
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    Thanks so much for all the help! I do have strips from when I was pregnant I had GD and they were so concerned about me going into ketosis, was that just because I was pregnant? ar is ketosis bad somehow for your body?
    That would be diabetic ketoacidosis which requires high blood sugar, high ketones and low pH. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diabetic_ketoacidosis

    It's a completely different thing to nutritional ketosis, which is a perfectly natural state when fasted - low blood sugar, elevated ketones, normal blood pH
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