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Caro On Keto: What The Heck Is Ketosis?


     If you have read my other posts, I sure you have come across the word ketosis. If your here looking for information about keto you have heard about. What is ketosis? Here's a quick explanation to help you understand what is keto and how it affects your body when you are in a state of ketosis.

What Is Ketosis?

        Ketosis is a state that your body achieves from restricting the intake of carbohydrates and increasing the amount of fat. A body in ketosis burns fat for energy instead of carbs and sugar.

How Do I Achieve A State Of Ketosis? 

       To achieve ketosis your body must adjust to running on fat instead of carbs and sugar by drastically decreasing the amount of carbs you eat in a day to 20 net carbs or less. Once you achieve ketosis, to maintain a state of ketosis, you must eat under 50 net carbs a day. However, 20 net carbs is optimal for weight loss.

What Happens To My Body When I Am In Ketosis? 

         Once in a state of ketosis, your body is burning fat as fuel. A body not in ketosis uses sugar and carbs as the primary food source. This is way high carb diets are low fat, so you do not accumulate more fat and achieve a low body fat percentage. Since the carb and sugar intake is restricted on a keto diet, the body shifts from carb burn to fat burning. This process takes anywhere from 4 days to 2 weeks depending on the person, amount of carb intake and the spike of blood glucose. During this time a person adjusting to the shift in fuel sources may experience the keto flu. Ideally, if fat loss is your goal after achieving ketosis, reducing the fat intake signals the body to utilize the fat already stored as the fuel source.

What Are The Benefits Of Being In Ketosis?

         Besides burning your excess fat, other benefits if ketosis include, high energy levels, clear thinking, targeting abdominal and visceral fat first, reduced cravings, and increased satiation during meal times.

Achieving ketosis is difficult but so worth. If you have tired high carb diets with no satisfactory results maybe keto might be you tool to combat your extra fat. I have lost 50lbs that I hope to never find again!



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