New to Keto Diet. TIPS??

Research, research, research. You need to be prepared when jumping into the Keto diet. You state that you love carbs, and if you plan on giving them up your body is going to react and trust me, it’s not pretty. The Keto flu is real - but it can be tolerable.

1. Research. Understand the way Keto works within the body. Why carbs and sugar aren’t good for the body, it will help keep you motivated.

2. Electrolytes! This is the biggest problem that causes the Keto flu in my opinion. Keep your electrolytes up. This means adding salt to your food (preferably pink salt) use Mio (sport) to add to your water bottle. Or some kind of electrolyte powder. You can always drink bone broth as well to help.

3. Try and stay around 20-50 net carbs. But you don’t need to over due it in the beginning. You can start with cutting down and eventually get to 20 carbs per day. Don’t be so hard on yourself in the beginning.

4. Fat, fat and more fat. Fat is not the enemy like the world tries to tell you it is. Add coconut or olive oil to your foods! As well as butter and salt.

5. Keto on the go can be difficult. Always be prepared. Stock up on easy meats, boil a crap ton of eggs, buy cheese strings and pepperoni sticks and walnuts for on the go.

6. It can be a hard diet as sometimes it’s hard to figure out recipes without carbs. But you can find a Keto alternative for almost anything - even bread and pizza and desserts. It’s just a matter of putting in some extra time.

7. Get rid of most carbs in your house. Cravings will kick in because it’s your body signalling you to eat carbs since it’s used to getting carbs.

8. Try doing Intermittent fasting with Keto. It will help weightloss move along faster and it’s good for the body, and Keto friendly since you’ll be eating less frequently through the day. I highly suggest it!

9. I don’t recommend working out for a few weeks. Your body’s already going to be going through a lot of changes with cutting carbs alone, so I would suggest letting it get used to lack of carbs before adding exercise.

10. It’s not easy, but very doable if you do your research and have Keto friendly food available at all times.

Good luck day 4 for me and so far I’m loving it.