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Holly Lost 14% Body Fat and 22 Lbs in 6 Months

Holly Lost 14% Body Fat and 22 Lbs in 6 Months

I had never even heard of keto until about a year ago. A friend of mine was having good success with it so I thought I would give it a try. I had amazing results and thought it was a pretty simple plan to follow! I stayed at or below 20 carbs per day and for rid of all sugar! In 6 months I lost 14% body fat and 22 pounds! Keto has become a lifestyle for me! I have told everyone I know about it! I'm wearing sizes I haven't worn since high school. I feel like it's easy to maintain. 1. ...

The Best 10 Keto Cookie Recipes

The Best 10 Keto Cookie Recipes

Grain-based desserts are the number one source of calories across all ages in the United States. One of the most popular grain-based desserts is cookies. In fact, the best selling cookie in the world, the Oreo, is one of the most widely consumed foods in America. This is not surprising when you consider the fact that cookies typically contain so much sugar and fat that it is almost impossible to pass them up. The only problem is that they are not even close to being healthy. Most cookies ...

Our Top 10 Keto Muffin Recipes

Our Top 10 Keto Muffin Recipes

Ever since the end of the 18th century, American style muffins have been the perfect excuse to have something sweet and cakey for breakfast. It all began with simple ingredients like sugar and flour to make a quick sweet bread, then they started adding sweet treats like fruit and chocolate or savory foods like bacon, cheese, and herbs. The result is a delicious breakfast that everyone loves, but the flour and other carb-rich ingredients make them into a low carb keto dieters nightmare. The ...

Our 25 Favorite Keto Chicken Recipes

Our 25 Favorite Keto Chicken Recipes

Chicken dishes are so popular that they are the third most widely consumed food in America, following closely behind grain-based desserts and yeast breads. In other words, chicken is the most widely consumed keto-friendly food in the United States. Most chicken dishes, however, come with a carb-rich side like rice or potatoes or chicken that is breaded with high carb ingredients, making a high-protein keto food into an unhealthy meal. Fortunately, there are many low-carb vegetables and keto ...

The Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet: Optimal Health and Weight Loss

The Ketogenic Mediterranean Diet: Optimal Health and Weight Loss

The Mediterranean diet is widely recognized as being one of the best diets for weight loss and overall health. When compared to a typical western diet filled with processed foods, this plant-based diet is a safe, effective, and reliable bet. However, conservative approaches typically yield moderate results. In contrast, radically unconventional diets have a greater potential to make significant changes — changes that may come with an increased health risk for some. The keto diet is the ...

What is Unsaturated Fat? A Comprehensive Guide

What is Unsaturated Fat? A Comprehensive Guide

Unsaturated fats are a broad category of fatty acids we consume in our diets. Although they are commonly known as “healthy fats,” some unsaturated fats can actually worsen our health. In fact, unsaturated fatty acids represent each end of the health spectrum, from completely toxic trans fats to polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats that help support optimal health and longevity. To better understand this complicated category of fats, let's take a look at unsaturated fatty acids from the ...

What is Polyunsaturated Fat? The Truth About This “Healthy” Fat

What is Polyunsaturated Fat? The Truth About This “Healthy” Fat

Most of our fat intake comes from three types of fatty acids: polyunsaturated, monounsaturated, and saturated. Each one has unique properties that interact with our bodies in different ways. Polyunsaturated fats, in particular, sparked the first investigations into how certain fats may be essential for optimal health, growth, and development. This led to the discovery of omega-6s, omega-3s, and what we now know as "essential fatty acids" —  which are all polyunsaturated fats. Despite the ...

Zero Carb Food List that Keeps Keto and Ketosis Simple

Zero Carb Food List that Keeps Keto and Ketosis Simple

Keeping carbohydrate intake low is the key to keto diet success. When carb intake is too high, we simply cannot enter ketosis and experience the unique benefits of keto. However, this doesn’t mean that you have to rigidly track your carbohydrate intake at all times. In fact, many keto dieters are able to stay in ketosis by using one simple strategy: Eating mostly keto-friendly foods that have little to no net carbs (i.e., digestible carbs that reduce ketone production). Although it may ...

5 Simple Keto Diet Hacks for Sustainable Weight Loss

5 Simple Keto Diet Hacks for Sustainable Weight Loss

A quick search for weight loss tips will yield thousands of options, from fasting to fad diets to keto diet plans. Though these strategies can help us lose weight rapidly, most of them don’t help us keep it off years later. Long-term studies have found that most people struggle to stay on their diet and usually gain the weight back. This is true for every diet from keto to low-fat. So, if another 30-day meal plan, cleanse, or diet is not the answer, then what is? We developed the ...

Top 25 Keto Approved Foods to Accelerate Fat Loss

Top 25 Keto Approved Foods to Accelerate Fat Loss

Losing weight can be a complicated process filled with questions. Will this food help me burn fat? Is that going to stall my progress? Fortunately, most of your weight loss questions will be answered when you eat the right foods. What exactly do I mean by the "right" foods? You may think they are the foods that make you burn a significant amount of belly fat. However, these foods don't exist. The only way to legitimately accelerate fat loss with food is to consume foods that help you ...