Apologies in advance if this is a controversial topic! I've learned relatively recently that I likely have a medical condition that includes insulin resistance, and it appears as though trying to limit carbs as much as possible is probably a good option. The problem is that I'm also a vegetarian, and I'm not sure if it's even really possible to follow a keto diet as a vegetarian, is it?

Currently my diet consists mainly of lots of vegetables, fruits in moderation, and I make sure I get enough protein through things like tofu, tempeh, tofurky type "fake meat" products, eggs, cheese (lots of cottage cheese), yogurt, beans and lentils, nuts and seeds, and I do eat a little bit of fish sometimes. Obviously I need to find a way to work way more fats into my diet if I were to make the change to keto. I've read however, that ideally meat is pretty much central, and beans and legumes are discouraged as even though they're high in fibre, they're also high carb. I feel like it wouldn't be healthy for me to avoid bean and lentils as I don't eat meat and they're very nutritious, so I figured I'd try to compromise and increase fats in my diet, and just eat beans and lentils more moderately (I don't actually eat a ton of them, but definitely don't avoid them).

I read that you should ideally limit carb intake to 50g/day but I was playing around with my macros and I'm not sure I can quite manage that yet. The closest I could get that seems sustainable at this point is setting carbs to 100g and fibre to 40g, so if I hit the fibre macro it's really 100g-40g=60g (unless I'm completely misunderstanding this whole concept, which I know is quite possible!)

I'm kind of attached to having a bowl of cereal every day (just one cup of Nature's Path heritage flakes - low sugar, high fibre, as far as cereal goes, but that's 32g carbs - 7 fibre, which works out to half of the 50g recommended carb intake per day, yikes) and the occasional slice (ok, or two or three) of pizza, but I'd be willing to mostly cut these things out if it were really worthwhile.

Just wondering if there are others who follow a vegetarian (or more accurately pescatarian) diet that is also low carb - if so, please share your tips! I hope you don't mind me coming here to ask what are probably overly basic questions, I'm just in the early stages of learning about this and you seem like a friendly and knowledgeable group, hope you don't mind me attempting to draw from your proverbial well of knowledge.