Should it take me less time?

#1

Okay, so today is my first day of eating completely keto. I’ve eaten fatty cuts of red meat with coconut oil and tallow, also a bit of Kale and Spinach, plus one lemon (i hope thats alright, please clarify). I felt super energized today, so I’m wondering if I could alright be in ketosis.

I’ve had a healthier diet then the average western diet for the last 12 months, no sugars, no processed food, no bread. I was eating rice and lentils for a while though, but I managed to cut them out, I’ve been completly paleo for about 3 months and around 2 months ago I increased my fat intake heaps and started using Lard, Tallow, COconut Oil etc.

I have been eaten a bit of fruit though, 1 grapefruit, 2 bananas and raspberries with my smoothie in the morning and I was also eating sweet potatoes before training.

The point is I got my body adapted to relativly low carbs before I started ketosis, I’m just wondering if I coul;d get in it faster then most people and if I’ll experience less side effects. The only changes to my diet today is cutting out chicken, fruit (expection lemon), and sweet potatoes. And replacing chicken with more red meat and salmon

(Guardian of the bacon) #2

Having been off processed foods is definitely a big help for going keto. I really doubt you’ll be adapted in a day. Sounds like you wsere eating quite a bit of fruit so you will still have some adapting to do.

(Kerri Hines) #3

It’s definitely possible. I went from a SAD diet and daily sugar binges to .7 on a blood meter within 24 hours. I think it must be dependent on insulin sensitivity or ability to utilize fat…

#4

I would be surprised if you flip into ketosis mode within 24 hours.

Perhaps targeting 20 grams or less carbs for one week, and see where that takes you. You can experiment with increasing your carb levels later, to see how high you can take them to stay in ketosis. But, for now, what you seek is to get there. So, get there with low carb at 20 g,and then you can experience what it’s like to be in ketosis…instead of wondering if you are there or not. Makes life simple.

#5

Anything is possible! I am not sure it matters too much. What does matter is that you feel great! Well done. It is quite likely that you will adjust far more quickly than most because you were most of the way there already. Also, if you have eaten pretty healthily most of your life, you will be more sensitive to change.

Just keep doing what you are doing and driving those carbs down. What a wonderful start. Sounds to me like you will skip heavy carb withdrawal too. Way to go.

#6

Some people enter ketosis just from fasting overnight while they are sleeping, so anything is possible.

#7

Yes, actually I was listening to a Fung podcast the other day and they said that most people do. Not for very long and depends when you last ate but still…

#8

Hmmmm…I’m not convinced…OP said he consumed a grapefruit, 2 bananas, raspberries, sweet potatoes, along with other things. Fibre slows down digestion, which can create steady flow of sugar/carbs for many hours, even during sleep cycle. That’s what makes me suspect he didn’t wake up next day in ketosis.

#9

I thought those were in the period before keto? I agree it is not that likely but if the OP trains, is Ir sensitive and was not very high carb pre swapping, it is not impossible. Either way, I suspect they will be ketogenic pretty quickly.

#10

Thanks for the reply guys. I’m completing in keto, staying as low carb as possible while my body adjusts. After that I’ll slow add more carbs back in and see how much I can handle.

(Human) #11

I’m guessing you are diabetic if you had a blood glucose meter on day 1 and I read this and wondered if someone was diabetic and on Metformin would the drug strip any remaining glucose from the system quicker?

(Kerri Hines) #12

Nope. I’m not diabetic. I have a Type 1 daughter. I’ve been very familiar with ketones for much longer than I’ve known about nutritional ketosis.
It’s actually how I discovered this lifestyle. I was researching T1D, how the body uses insulin, what ketones were… I wasn’t satisfied with the generic explanations the doctors gave me and it never made sense to me for her to take large doses of insulin just to have to eat to fix the low blood sugar.
So I have all sorts of equipment available to me.
I’ve actually been curious to wear her cgm for a week just to watch my blood sugar trends and what happens with certain foods.
I’m naturally curious about all this stuff.