Laura Greenaway - Keto for Women: The Keto Female Diet Plan to Lose Weight, Get Healthy, and Live Your Best Life!

Keto for Women: The Keto Female Diet Plan to Lose Weight, Get Healthy, and Live Your Best Life!

By

Laura Greenaway

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INTRODUCTION

T here are dozens of fad diets that cycle through the public consciousness every year, but the keto diet isnt one of them. Instead, the keto diet, which is a low carb, high fat diet, has been relied on by doctors for nearly a hundred years to treat patients with a variety of serious illnesses. The keto approach has recently attracted lots of attention from scientists and fitness experts alike, for its unique ability to force the body to burn off body fat for energy, while at the same time reducing the risk for diabetes, increasing energy, and guarding against neurological diseases.

So if youre after a fast, effective, healthy way to lose weight, have more energy, reduce inflammation, and bust your sugar addiction, the ketogenic is the perfect solution for you. But is keto recommended for women? Is the approach different for women than it is for men?

One of the problems with the keto diet is that, although it has been widely studied, most of the research has involved only men or animals. Thus, some people question whether the keto diet can work as well for women as it does for men. It doesnt help that womens hormones tend to be more sensitive than mens when it comes to dietary changes.

Fortunately, according to womens health experts, like Dr. Anna Cabeca, a double board-certified Ob-Gyn and Regenerative and Anti-Aging Medicine expert, following a ketogenic diet is safe for women and, whats more, will provide lots of health and weight loss benefits for women just like it will for men. Dr. Cabeca has been using the keto diet for years to treat her female patients, and she says that shes never seen the approach fail to yield results. Those results include weight loss, better blood sugar control, improved sleep, and reduced menopause symptoms like hot flashes or night sweats.

So as you can see, not only can women participate safely in the ketogenic diet, but doing so will bring all sorts of amazing results. Read on to learn more about what the ketogenic diet is, how its different for women than for men, and how women can optimize their keto efforts in light of their unique body makeups.

PART ONE: YOU AND KETO

C hapter 1: What is the Ketogenic Diet?

Chapter 2: Why Keto is Different for Women

Chapter 3:

1. What is the Ketogenic Diet?

A ketogenic diet is a low-carb diet. The purpose of the ketogenic diet is to induce the body to produce ketones to use as energy. Heres how it works in a nutshell.

Every time you eat a food high in carbs, your body produces glucose and insulin as a result. Glucose is super easy for your body to convert into energy, so your body prefers glucose over all other energy sources. Insulin is a hormone your body produces to process the glucose in your blood.

When your body has access to glucose to be used as its main source of energy, it doesnt need to use fat as energy. The fat, then, is stored for later. When you substantially decrease your carb intake, though, you cause your body to go into a state called ketosis. Ketosis is the state the body enters when energy resources are low. Its called ketosis because of the ketones produced by the body during this state. Ketones are produced when the liver breaks down fat.

The purpose of the ketogenic diet is to cause your body to enter the state of ketosis. You dont do this by starving yourself but, instead, by forcing your body to use fat, rather than glucose, as fuel. Many people use the ketogenic diet for weight loss purposes, but it also provides benefits in the form of improved health and better mental clarity. For more information on the benefits of the ketogenic diet, check out this article.

2. How to Follow the Keto Diet

T he basic premise of the keto diet is fairly simple. You focus on eating mostly fat, limited amounts of protein, and very few carbs. Theres no ironclad carb breakdown or brightline rule for how much of your calories should come from fat versus protein versus carbs, but generally, the ketogenic diet allows somewhere in the ballpark of 75 percent of the days calories coming from fat, 20 percent from protein, and just 5 percent from carbs. For many people, thats around 30 to 50 grams of carbs per day.

The list of keto-friendly foods includes meat, eggs, seafood, nuts and seeds, fats and oils, vegetables that grow above ground, and some dairy products. You should try to get your carbs from high-fiber, nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables. Its recommended that you go for vegetables grown above the ground (leafy greens, peppers, and stalk-shaped vegetables), rather than below ground (root veggies like potatoes, carrots, and parsnips), since they generally have fewer carbs.