Ketogenic Diet Plan - How do I stay in Ketosis?Ketogenic Diet Plan. As you have been reading through here, you will start to become knowledgeable in the ketogenic diet, how to eat but not how to stay in ketosis.
Since the ketgenic diet is a very sensitive diet to certain foods there are some crucial things you must know to not jump out of ketosis. 1. Sugar substitute- This came become your friend in your ketogenic diet plan. The thing with sugar substitute is that it has an extremely sweet taste to it without all of the yucky calories. I usually go with a natural sugar substitute such has stevia. You body will start to take the chemical in the artificial sweeteners and deliver the cells to your brain. 2. 3. One thing that must always be noted is the a human body is always trying to create an equilibrium An equilibrium means that everything is in balance and in sync.
Genic Diet Summary. A Ketogenic Diet is a muscle-sparing fat-loss diet that works by forcing the body into ketosis through carbohydrate deprivation. Ketosis is a state where the body converts fat into ketones that the brain can use for fuel when glucose (carbohydrates) are in short supply. It's metabolic trickery that has some major advantages over a regular, carb-based diets. It's a common misconception, even among doctors, that the brain can only use glucose for fuel. In actuality, it can burn either glucose or ketones, but under normal circumstances ketones aren't produced by the body.
Most of the time, everyone in the world has their brain burning glucose. There are many benefits of ketodieting, among them are: Your body burns fat as it's primary fuel source 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Ketodieting does have it's disadvantages though. There are three major ways to do a ketodiet, the first is a 'Standard Ketogenic Diet', or a SKD. Genic Foods. Note: Be sure to check out for some great keto-friendly foods! Low-Carb candies, breads, sauces, etc!! Here's a partial list of just some of the foods that can be consumed on a ketogenic diet. I'll start with the '100% safe foods', the ones that shouldn't throw you out of ketosis due to having either no carbs, or trace amounts of carbs.
Next I'll go to 'questionable' foods, such as hotdogs, where you must check the carb content on the package, because some hotdogs have only 1 gram of carbs per hotdog, some have seven. I'm also including a list of higher carb content foods, that can be eaten in VERY limited quantities.
Safe Foods (No Carbs/Trace Carbs) Beef, Steak, Hamburger, Prime Rib, Filet Mignon, Roast Beef, Chicken*, Duck, Any Fish*, Tuna*, Salmon*, Trout*, Halibut*, Lamb, Pork, Bacon, Ham, Eggs, Shrimp, Crab, Lobster, Butter, Oils (Olive Oil*, Flaxseed oil*, etc.), Mustard, Salt, Pepper, Soy Sauce, Tea, Coffee, Heavy Cream and Nutrasweet/Equal. Foods that are NOT appropriate.