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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 2293167" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>The different types of keto usually boil down to personal choice and personal taste - and then people introduce snobbery and try and tell people that their way is the best One Twue Way, and anybody who does it differently is WRONG.</p><p>It gets a bit tiresome, to be honest.</p><p>And facebook is awash with such thinking.</p><p></p><p>The reality is that a keto way of eating is just one where the body uses ketones as the main fuel, rather than glucose.</p><p>The way to get your body to use ketones as fuel is to eat low enough carbs that there isn't enough glucose to fuel everything, and your body realises this, and makes the transition to using ketones instead, either from dietary fat, or from using body fat stores. Some people reach ketosis on more than 50g carbs a day. I envy them, but they are doing what is right for their body. Others need to go down to below 10g of carbs to get the benefits of keto. I am one of those (although the type of carb is a factor). The 20g rule is just a nice easy number that people use. It isn't right for everyone, and it is wrong for some.</p><p></p><p>So long as a way of eating has low enough glucose/carb and your body transitions to fat-as-fuel then you can eat anything, clean, dirty, processed, unprocessed, plant based, animal based, whatever. You choose.</p><p></p><p>IF you fancy going gluten free (as I do) then have at it, and if you fancy going 'dirty' have at that too...</p><p>Some people achieve KEto on a plant based diet (as I do not), while others only eat wild, organic and so on. Again, I don't do that. But I do eat mainly carnivore because of other health issues. We all do it how it suits us.</p><p></p><p>But the most important thing is not to fall for someone else's snobbery, and feel that you are guiltily doing it 'wrong' because you enjoy a square of chocolate, or a glass of brandy, or you swipe a chip off your cousin's plate when you are down the pub.</p><p>The reality is that if you want to make keto a sustainable way of eating for YOU then you need to make it enjoyable, affordable, accessible and appetising. If you fail on any of those things, by setting unrealistic goals, then you will fall off the wagon and into old habits much sooner.</p><p></p><p>so just decide on your own priorities and then find an appetising way of implementing that - and have a quiet chortle whenever someone says that XYor Z are forbidden (or obligatory). It makes reading various websites a hoot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 2293167, member: 41816"] The different types of keto usually boil down to personal choice and personal taste - and then people introduce snobbery and try and tell people that their way is the best One Twue Way, and anybody who does it differently is WRONG. It gets a bit tiresome, to be honest. And facebook is awash with such thinking. The reality is that a keto way of eating is just one where the body uses ketones as the main fuel, rather than glucose. The way to get your body to use ketones as fuel is to eat low enough carbs that there isn't enough glucose to fuel everything, and your body realises this, and makes the transition to using ketones instead, either from dietary fat, or from using body fat stores. Some people reach ketosis on more than 50g carbs a day. I envy them, but they are doing what is right for their body. Others need to go down to below 10g of carbs to get the benefits of keto. I am one of those (although the type of carb is a factor). The 20g rule is just a nice easy number that people use. It isn't right for everyone, and it is wrong for some. So long as a way of eating has low enough glucose/carb and your body transitions to fat-as-fuel then you can eat anything, clean, dirty, processed, unprocessed, plant based, animal based, whatever. You choose. IF you fancy going gluten free (as I do) then have at it, and if you fancy going 'dirty' have at that too... Some people achieve KEto on a plant based diet (as I do not), while others only eat wild, organic and so on. Again, I don't do that. But I do eat mainly carnivore because of other health issues. We all do it how it suits us. But the most important thing is not to fall for someone else's snobbery, and feel that you are guiltily doing it 'wrong' because you enjoy a square of chocolate, or a glass of brandy, or you swipe a chip off your cousin's plate when you are down the pub. The reality is that if you want to make keto a sustainable way of eating for YOU then you need to make it enjoyable, affordable, accessible and appetising. If you fail on any of those things, by setting unrealistic goals, then you will fall off the wagon and into old habits much sooner. so just decide on your own priorities and then find an appetising way of implementing that - and have a quiet chortle whenever someone says that XYor Z are forbidden (or obligatory). It makes reading various websites a hoot. [/QUOTE]
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