For Beginners

Keto For Beginners – A Guide to Keto

Are you just starting out with keto? It’s not hard to understand but we have put together the best tips to explain keto for beginners. There are many benefits to your health so you will want to get started as quickly as possible. The diet is a low-carb diet and you will be eliminating high-carb food items that contain flour, grains and sugar.

You may think that this will be difficult but you will be amazed at all the delicious foods that you can eat. Plus, after the first few days, most cravings will be entirely eliminated which makes this easy to turn into a way of life.

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Write a Grocery List

When you are just starting out, you will have to get rid of many foods in your cupboard and replace them with keto-friendly foods. You will want to restock your kitchen with fresh, organic meats and vegetables. You can eat some fruit but for the most part, meat and veggies.

You will want to get rid of any processed foods, pasta, wheat and white flour and anything containing sugar, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup and other high carb sweeteners. You also want to get rid of vegetable oils such as canola and corn oil and replace them with olive oil, avocado oil or coconut oil. You should never use margarine, whether you are doing keto or not. Always use real butter.

There are sugar substitutes that you can have that will allow you to enjoy sweets. Erythritol, stevia and monkfruit are three sugar substitutes that won’t raise your blood sugar levels. You can use almond flour and coconut flour to make sweet baked goods.

Find Keto-Friendly Recipes

There are tons of resources that have recipes for the keto diet. There are so many easy and quick recipes that you won’t get bored and this is what makes this diet so easy to stick to and get results. Check out the recipes that we have shared and check out Pinterest for even more yummy recipes.

Replace Foods You Love with Tasty Alternatives

Although you won’t be able to eat potato chips anymore, you can replace them with other crunchy treats such as zucchini chips, kale chips and even, cheese chips. You can make cookies, cakes and breads using sugar substitutes and almond flour.

There are sugar-free chocolate chips and there are plenty of nuts that you can eat on keto. If you love spaghetti, you can use zucchini in place of pasta and a homemade meat sauce that will taste better than any spaghetti sauce that you buy at the grocery store.

This is a keto for beginners guide designed especially to help anyone get started right away. Check the carbs and sugars of any foods that you are considering. You won’t be buying any bread, pastas, sugar, or processed foods.

For the rest, check the nutritional values, the ingredients, the carbs and the fiber. Make sure there is no added sugar and you want to keep your carbs under 20 grams per day. You can subtract the fiber from the carbs and this is the net carbs that you will need to count. Get started today to start reaping the many benefits that the keto diet has for you!