How To Start The Ketogenic Diet

My Top 10 Tips – I’ve lost over 11.5kg/25lbs in 3.5 months on the Keto diet. Here are my top 10 tips to help show you How To Start The Ketogenic Diet.

This blog post is full of useful tidbits of information to help show you how to start the ketogenic diet. Also, you can now get even MORE inspiration from the newly launched eBook The Keto Diet Quick Start Guide. It’s full of information to help you get started and inspiration to help you plan Easy Keto Meals. Click here to grab your copy.

1. Get In The Right Head Space

You’ve heard about the awesome benefits dieters have enjoyed on the Keto Diet and you’re keen to get started? Excellent!

It’s important to be determined that this is something you want to commit to.

In the initial weeks you may suffer from what’s known as “Keto Flu” – where your body adjusts to the diet. You’ll need to be in the right head space to ride it out and keep going to achieve results.

Having a strong vision will help keep you in your head space. Write it down and display it somewhere you will easily see your vision over and over again, to help remind yourself of WHY you want to follow the Keto Diet. And stick to it.

2. Set Realistic Goals

Setting realistic weight loss goals, broken into tiny amounts along the way, is helpful for staying on track.

Be sure to take measurements too. Sometimes the scale can stall for a while and it’s reassuring to know that you’re losing centimetres/inches, even if the scale isn’t moving.

3. Know The Rules

The Ketogenic Diet is essentially low carb and high fat with approximately 70% Fat, 25% Protein and 5% Carbohydrates.

4. Work Out Your Personal Macros/Calories

To figure out your macro and calorie goals, enter your info onto the Keto Calculator. This will help provide you with an insight into how to create your own personal Keto Diet plan with the ideal macros and calories for you.

5. Research Ketogenic Diet Friendly Foods

Finding out what foods are Ketogenic Diet friendly will help you work out the meals you can enjoy.

Fats will be your friend! Enjoy moderate amounts of protein, with full fat. Include carbohydrates in sparing amounts – my go to low carb vegetables include spinach, avocado, mushrooms and asparagus.

Here’s a video where I talk you through my 10 Favourite Keto friendly foods, plus there’s a lengthy list in my eBook.

6. Get Meal Inspiration

There’s so much inspiration out there to help show you how to start the Ketogenic Diet with AMAZING meals.

Check YouTube, Blogs, Pinterest and Instagram for meal inspiration.

Here is a playlist from my YouTube Channel, full of Keto Diet inspiration:

7. Clean Out Your Kitchen

Remove Non-Keto items or clear out a shelf in your pantry and fridge for Ketogenic Diet friendly foods to make it easy to construct meals.

8. Meal Plan

Keep it simple. Start with your favourite Keto friendly ingredients. Rinse and repeat!

9. Shop For The Ingredients

Fill your kitchen with Keto foods to make it easy for you to put together meals.

10. Preparation

Do all you can ahead of time to make it as easy as possible to stick to the Ketogenic Diet at every meal.

Meal preparation makes meal time a breeze! It’s really easy once you get the hang of it. Here’s a helpful video where I shared one of my meal prepping sessions. (Click here for the meal prep boxes used in this video.)

Finally – know that you’re not alone. There’s a HUGE Ketogenic Diet community online. (And it’s growing every day!) Reach out to other Ketoers on social media – join the community and be inspired.

How To Start The Ketogenic Diet – My Top 10 Tips Video

Watch as I talk through the tips in this article, and share more of my own personal Ketogenic Diet Journey:

I launched the Quick Start To Keto Diet recently to help those of you wanting to start the Keto Diet but not sure how to begin. It’s the helping hand I would have loved when I started and I put it together to help you. Click here to learn more.

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Disclaimer – this post is meant for informational post only and should not be construed as medical advice. Please consult with your health professional before making any dietary changes.

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