So I was reading something interesting in Mens Health - a magazine left around in my gym.
Yes two astounding things here, I read and there are magazines in my gym.
However, the article was pointing out that Keto is not necessarily healthy after the first week. Apparently researchers tested Keto on mice. So Im not saying humans only have one week, but the point is that the positive effects of Keto are short lived, and it isn't really a lifestyle diet.
So researchers found "when the body's glucose level is reduced due to the keto diets low-carb content...the body begins burning fats instead of carbs...When the body burns ketones, tissue protective gamma T-cells expand throughout the body. This reduces diabetes risk and improves the metabolism." All good so far right? But "when the body is in this mode fat storage is also simultaneously happening with fat breakdown." Now in mice the bad effects start showing after a week, in humans? I don't know it didn't say. But what it did say -
"When the mice continued eating keto...they consumed more fats than they could burn...and developed diabetes and obesity"
Now thats a worrying fact. What I've also noticed in clients, especially male clients and some seriously overweight clients, that the favourite "go to" of Keto is bacon and eggs. Eggs in particular. Of these clients that lose weight I have asked them to return to their doctors to get tested. They all have elevated levels of cholesterol and then need to adjust their diet once more to combat this. Often returning them to some weight gain.
Once they see the weight gain, instead of sticking with the balanced healthy diet they panic and start Keto once more. This is NOT a good cycle and often the results see them just get heavier.
So please, if you want to lose weight, try a balanced diet, eat more healthy organic foods, up the vegetable intake enormously, make sure you have high quality protein and drink enough water. And lastly, don't forget to move!