How Long to Get Into Ketosis After Your Cheat Day

How Long to Get Into Ketosis After Your Cheat Day

The ketogenic diet is the plan where you're allowed to cheat because once you do, you gonna ruin the new fat burning machinery you've been building. 

It took you between 2 and 6 weeks to get into Ketosis because your cells and your enzymes have to adapt to this new source of energy. 

Once you have your cheat meal, you pop it back to running on sugar fuel, and it will take you between 48 and 72 hours if you are lucky, but it can take even longer, up to one week or more. 

There are some variables that control the speed to get back into ketosis. 

The 5 essential variables are:

- Your Metabolism (if your metabolism is fast, it will not take more than 72 hours to get back on track)

- Your age (the younger you are, the more you have chances to get back on ketosis faster)

- How long you've been in Ketosis (if you've been on a Keto diet for a long period of time, your system is finally efficient where you could probably switch back and do it easily because your body is fat adapted) 

- How well you're sticking to Ketosis (depends on if you got only a cheat meal or you've been cheating for several days) 

- The glycemic index of your cheat meal (fruits, candies, cakes, cookies, pasta, refined sugar...) 

➥ It would be better not to cheat on such a strict diet, you'd rather find an alternative for your craving and whenever you want to cheat, just keep in mind the reason you've started! 💙