How To Get Into Ketosis Fast

Your body is usually running on sugar, it's depending on the stored glycogen in your muscle and your liver or the dietary sugar, that's why you need to constantly eat to keep the sugar fuel up.
When you're trying to get into Ketosis, the first thing to do is to make the body runs on fat fuel instead of sugar, which is obviously a better fuel.
Here are some tips that will help you make that switch and get into ketosis as soon as possible :

1- Combine Keto Diet with Intermittent Fasting

To get faster results, you should try to keep your insulin levels low so your body makes the switch from running on carbohydrates to running on fat, try to calculate your calories and macros and keep the fat percentage between 70% and 75%. In order to speed up the process, you have to avoid spiking your insulin levels during the day. Intermittent fasting is the key to keep your insulin low, and when you combine it with Keto diet, you'll end up getting the best strategy that will lead you to the Ketosis state.

2- Use Apple Cider Vinegar & Lemon Water
These two drinks has shown to help balance the blood sugar, especially when used around meal time. Use a straw so it's doesn't bother your teeth while drinking it.

3- Add Electrolytes and Nutritional Yeast as Supplements
These two ingredients will help you heal the root problem which is insulin resistance, so basically in this transition phase, you're dealing with a low blood sugar situation and as long as your body is still not fully adapted, and the electrolytes will help to speed up the process and increase the fat adaptation.

4- Increase The Fat Intake
Whenever you feel hungry during this transition phase, try to get some snacks but as long as you don't want them to trigger your insulin, they must be a source of fat that will help you overcome the feeling of hunger without ruining your strategy, get some pecans or half of an avocado...

5- Rump Up The Physical Activity

Exercise will help you deplete your glycogen stores either in the muscles or in your liver, do some HIIT Cardio or some resistance training during the transition period, you'll drop all the sugars out of your body so you can finally run on your own fat fuel.

6- More Green Veggies

Potassium, this magical mineral that you'll find in salads and green vegetables, is gonna help you stabilize your insulin levels and heal your blood sugar problems.

Fruits On A Ketogenic Diet ?

Fruits On A Ketogenic Diet ? If you want a short answer, it's a NO . We can not consume fruits on the Keto Diet, they contain a big amount of sugar called fructose and it's what we're trying to avoid so we can get into Ketosis and start to lose weight. Fructose can spike insulin more than Glucose could do. Even a medium apple contains 19 grams of sugar , apples may be healthy but they're not good when it comes about a Ketogenic diet. Same for Fruit Juices , we never want to consume them, they're pasteurized which means that anything that potentially could be left is pretty much killed especially the enzymes; So all what you gonna be getting is concentrated fructose sugar. You also want to avoid the corn syrup they usually add to most of the processed juices. BUT, good news ! Berries are still recommended, as long as they are taken in a very small amount (1/2 to one cup daily). Low glycemic index fruits as berries will not be much dangerous on a ketogenic...

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