Keyto Takeaway
When you’re successfully going Keto, the following will happen to help you lose weight:
- When you reduce your carbs and increase your healthy fats, you’ll reach a metabolic state called “ketosis.”
- Your body will react by turning fat into ketones, which are used for energy.
- In ketosis, many report being less hungry with more energy.
- Your body will release less insulin, which has positive benefits.
- The combination of less food intake and less insulin production leads to weight loss.
How Does the Ketogenic Diet Help You Lose Weight?
The goal of the diet is to reach a metabolic state called ketosis, which can be achieved by drastically reducing your carbs and increasing your healthy fats. The body reacts by transforming the consumed fats into molecules called ketones, which are responsible for supplying energy to the brain and body. During ketosis, the ketones will become your new number one source of fuel. At this point, your body will no longer have any glucose stores to use up for energy due to your lower carb intake.
Food elimination also plays a role when it comes to losing weight. Reducing your carbs to a low level of approximately 20-40 grams of net carbs also means that you have to eliminate certain foods from your diet, namely the ones that are causing weight gain and inflammation. That means pizza, bread, pasta…and that chocolate cake. Once you cut out those foods and limit your carbs, your calorie intake will be much lower, which will play a role in your fat loss.[i]
In addition to cutting carbs, you’ll also increase healthy fats. Foods like avocado, butter, bacon, and cheese will become staples. Fat, being naturally more satiating than carbs, will help you feel fuller for longer. This will reinforce positive changes in your body’s hunger hormones.
Finally it’s been discovered that a healthy ketogenic diet improves insulin sensitivity, which in turn boosts the metabolism, meaning you’ll burn fat even quicker.[iv]
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[i] https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/717451