Another really bad Keto article
"When jumping into the ketogenic diet plan, I had never heard of the “keto flu” until after is happened to me."
Because you didn’t even bother doing basic research, lol.
To be fair, that was a pretty decent article. I know it’s de rigueur to complain about pretty much everything written about keto, but that was pretty good for what it was designed to be.
“The result is that the body is forced to convert fat stores to glucose to provide energy for your muscles”
Umm really? Not exactly factual. And many typos? Couldn’t finish this. Was that really the Readers Digest?
Well, I’ve liked every comment, so far, on this thread, for or against.
I agree with @juice that it seems to be “de rigueur” (a term I had to look up, and perfectly used btw 
) to not like articles that don’t get it completely right. I know my gut reaction is “what did they get wrong this time?”
It’s like we develop a defensive mechanism to anything that seems to deride this way of living that we’ve come to know and LOVE, because we know how miserable our lives used to be eating a standard western diet, AND WE JUST WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW HOW GREAT IT CAN BE!
That being said, I think overall, it was a fair article compared to most I’ve read lately, but I did have a few observations.
I wonder what percentage the “some” in this comment is, and is it statistically significant? I’m willing to bet that the percentage of people who experience side-effects from taking a statin is far greater and statistically significant, but that number is just thrown into the same “some” bucket and defined through the lens of the reader, however they want to take this information.
From my understanding, far more people experience fewer kidney stones and gallstones from eating keto. I don’t know about the liver enzymes, but we do know the “increased cholesterol” is not as concerning as we’ve been led to believe.
I’ve actually struggled with this one because I eat OMAD, and I’ve often thought about it as calorie restriction. So who am I to tell people not to restrict calories? Then it dawned on my that when I eat, I eat as much as I want or can. I’m not restricting any calories, just the amount of time I eat. I felt much better about myself after realizing this.
However, if someone is eating three times a day, I can see how they may think calorie restriction is important, but this is really a misunderstanding of how our body reacts to insulin production when we eat. And that really does need to be understood better.
Of course, I’m always cautious when people approach keto just as a way to loose weight. It’s so much more than that. But the author, I think, does a good job pointing out how great she feels, and her interest in maintaining it for the long term.
Really, if we can just get people to break the cycle of the western diet, and understand how much better their health can be, through diet alone, the better off we’ll be. If we keep reading these articles about this “latest fad diet” then I suspect we will always be disappointed on some level.
Sure, just don’t increase the carbs.
I completely disagree with this. First, it’s not a diet that you’re “on” and then “off”, it’s how you live your life. It’s like saying, “once you fall asleep, when you wake up, you have to learn to walk and talk and make a living”, uh, NO!
We all have a routine in life. We wake up, go to work, certain days we do certain activities (I always mow my lawn ever Thursday evening, because I don’t want to do it on the weekends). Occasionally we take a vacation. We may go places we’ve never been before, we may experience things we’ve never seen, but when we come back home, it’s back to the same routine as usual. We don’t have to retrain ourselves how to live our lives.
And keto is no different. It’s a way of life, that has changed my life for the better, and I intend to live this way until I die from a very healthy old age. 
Sorry for the long response, but I just had to get that off my chest.
And perfectly fair it was, too 
My point was that it was an article for people who had most-likely never seen keto before, and for those people, it was an article that makes sense. Yes, we know it wasn’t all fully correct, but it was FAR better than most articles about keto, which, as we read, will kill you dead quicker than living on Coke and pizza, or something.
Okay - yes, I agree, it was better than some. Maybe I should change the title of the post to, simply: “Another article about Keto”? But the mention of the change in pant size within a week or two is just perpetuating the Keto is for weight loss mentality. And that kind of weight loss that soon only happens to happy unicorns. Advertising two days of nausea isn’t the best idea, as we don’t all experience it, and it can be cancelled out by electrolytes. Yeah, it wasn’t the worst, but it certainly wasn’t the best. I think in summary, if I had read that article before starting keto, I would not have started keto. I started keto by reading Banting’s Letter on Corpulence, and cutting out milk and bread. And felt great after the change. Then, I learned more from the forums.