For most of us it took years if not decades of eating high carb/SAD - sodas, pastries, sweets, HFCS snuck into many of the āfoodsā in our shopping carts to become metabolically damaged, overweight, sick, etc. Hundreds of grams daily of carbs, much of it coming from refined sugars and refined grains/starches.
Iāve gone keto due to a genetic progressive āuntreatableā muscle/nerve wasting disease and understand the desperation many have to regain their health and fitness. But be realistic, if your issues took a long time to develop, expect it to take time to reverse. All that is needed is to get on a positive trajectory that you can sustain.
The 20 g per day carbs guideline is not one of the 10 commandments. It is a suggested level that works for almost everyone to get into ketosis. There really isnāt much evidence to suggest this is an optimal level of carbohydrate intake and even if there was it would be a general statistical thing perhaps more strongly applying to certain populations like the diabetic, obese or elderly. But that doesnāt mean it is the best thing for YOU. To find what works best for you, you need to experiment. Consider the 32 g of net carbs an experiment - really a very modest one. Did you feel noticeably worse or better? Did your blood glucose rise badly? Were you ketones noticeably lower? How did you perform physically and mentally?
I got into trouble following the US nutritional guidelines and mainstream dietary advice to eat HCLF. As I declined, I thought I wasnāt following the guidelines strictly enough and doubled down on my efforts. The mistake I made was not that I followed the wrong guidelines but that I was following something blindly. If I had been experimenting/paying attention to results I could have seen so much sooner that it was a poor approach for me. I still donāt know what is best for me. I probably never will, but I can see what is working ok and know enough now to keep experimenting/adjusting in pursuit of my ever changing goals.