So I just started the keto diet. Went strong for 2 days and then had a friend over last night and ruined it with pizza and beer. So am I starting all over today or is it going to be a little easier since i had 2 good days of eating? I know i wasn’t in Ketosis yet but I’m hoping I didn’t ruin all progress I’ve made. Thanks for your advice/comments, I’m just still so new to this diet. I’m still learning!
Ate bad yesterday
Not even worth stressing about, just hop back on the horse and what happens happens.
The first few days/week are the hardest, my advice is to clear your schedule of everything you possibly can and get a good run at it.
Laura, I’ve been keto a year and half, and I’m still learning stuff. Don’t let this discourage you.
To me (and I have not scientific foundation to base this on) there are two states of ketosis. Nutritional ketosis and living ketosis.
When we started eating keto, I was passionately counting my carbs, restricting my eating window, checking my ketones (multiple times a day). I knew I was in nutritional ketosis. I had the proof!
Now that I’m close to my ideal weight, and I’m eating more than one meal a day, I don’t think so much about nutritional ketosis, but I like to think of my lifestyle as living in ketosis.
I’m in this for life, my life, and I don’t have any intentions of going back to the way I used to eat. I’m not saying I don’t have the occasional “cheat” day, or meal, but I live my life according to the ketogenic diet.
Compared to my old lifestyle, I feel like I’m living in ketosis, and this is living. The life I had before keto wasn’t worth living, and it was only making that life much shorter.
Pizza and beer? I can’t hardly fault you for falling off the wagon for that.
The longer you live in ketosis, the better it will get. Trust me.