Low carb diet?
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healthymom76
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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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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.0
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How long does it take for your body to get in to ketosis?0
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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.0 -
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...0
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About 3-4 days of eating low carb to achieve ketotis .0
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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.0
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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.0 -
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 tips0
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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?0
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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?
It's a completely different thing to nutritional ketosis, which is a perfectly natural state when fasted - low blood sugar, elevated ketones, normal blood pH0
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