WE TRIED KETO for 45 Days, Here's What Happened

we tried keto here but first the keto diet the hell is it the ketogenic diet is an extremely low carb high fat diet it involves drastically reducing your carbohydrate intake and replacing it with fat now this reduction in carbs puts your body in a metabolic state cold when this happens your body becomes incredibly efficient at burning fat for energy it also helps to transform fat into ketones in the liver which can supply energy for the brain ketogenic diets can cause massive reduction in blood sugar and insulin levels this along with the increased ketones in the body can have numerous health benefits but ketosis also has side effects and we're about to find out exactly what those are because for the next six weeks we'll be doing the standard keto diet which means of our daily calories 75% will be fat 20% protein and only 5% will be carbs which will be about 20 grams a day those 20 grams basically the equivalent of one medium chocolate chip cookie so we're gonna have to be real careful not to go over as keeping our body in ketosis is the goal here we go wish us luck day one of keto and I am super excited so I'm heading to the store now to make sure I have all the proper foods available for me when I need it I think that's definitely rule number one when anytime you try out like a new eating habit or a diet or anything like that is making sure you are prepared preparation is definitely key so I'm gonna head into the store and load up [Music] I gotta be honest I had no idea what to expect but I'm having a great time why is it taking us so long to do this I was always a little into you but now I'm all the way sorry about that do you want another drink last night was amazing it's time for round two day 12 of my Kido journey and I finally feel like I'm just starting to get the hang of it a little bit the first two weeks were pretty rough and my biggest problem was probably making sure that I just kept under the designated amount of carbs which for me is about 20 to 30 grams a day and things that I did such as eat nuts for example they have low amounts of carbohydrates but when you're eating it throughout the day trying to get those fats in you don't realize that they very quickly add up so for me up until this point of the journey what's really been instrumental he's using a calorie tracker I got my Fitness Pal on my phone and it's helped out big-time because I can just scan as I go and make sure that I'm trying to hit that number I'm still trying my best to do it I'm still trying to get used to which foods really come in handy in a pinch meats are always really nice of course fats such as butters but a little bit of the side effect of that is I just feel damn greasy it's just I feel like it's coming out my pores almost all the time I'm cooking with it I'm eating with it all the time it's getting our kitchen counters all greasy 'he's getting our tablecloth I've become a greasy guy [Music] [Music] currently working on day 15 and it is something to adjust to for sure you know it's a funny story I actually accidentally basically the dakedo before it was Kido back when I was 19 and I competed in the bodybuilding competition and if you guys are familiar with body but it's usually they'll cut out a huge majority of carbohydrates they'll still have some maybe oatmeal or sweet potatoes things like that but I pretty much cut out everything's I'm like wow they say low carbs I'm gonna you know card so you know basically the more the better in that case or the less the better and I gotta say it worked wonders I got super shredded and I did very well in the competition it was definitely very difficult good thing about that is I've kind of already experimented with something like that and I kind of knew how it was gonna go and how it felt although it's been a long time since then so it's definitely kind of readjusting to that but I feel like I was kind of prepared for this and I knew how my body reacted to it's already kind of knew that it was I was gonna reap some benefits from a diet like keto I've got a wild left though so we'll see that so the results are in and I'm sorry to say it's well it's an it to you yeah it is you know men have a hard time coming to grips with this sort of thing and you know you're in your 30s things are starting to go ya know me it's up it's all job well hey I'll tell you one you give it one more shot well [Music] my god [Music] honey it's Aikido you know it's day 30 and I can tell that I am definitely getting leaner in fact I've gotten some comments from people who know me they say you look like you've slimmed down a little bit and I definitely have it's been about five pounds of weight reduction so far and my eating schedule and habits have actually completely changed over the course of this we did intermittent fasting as a test last month and that's really carried over to this as well because fat of course has twice the calories over twice the calories as protein and carbs so my meals are half the size but I'm getting just as much calorie intake so with the hard workouts in the morning I'm really finding that I'm having just one giant meal after my workout and that's evolved even further into ohm ad which for those of you who may not know omadd's stands for one meal a day so I'm having one massive meal after my workout and surprisingly I'm staying satiated throughout the rest of the day so I'm just loading everything in the morning I'm eating I'm working out and then for the most part I'm good and I'm losing weight so this is very different from me kind of bizarre from what I'm used to but I have to say I'm enjoying it living without carbohydrates is not that easy and when you shop at the store you start to see and notice that almost everything contains carbs I'm not just talking about healthy sources of carbs I'm talking about sugars you would think to yourself well I'm on keto I need some protein I just need some fats I'm just gonna grab something easy like jerky prepackaged jerky and you look at the back of it and it contains 10 plus grams of sugars every serving and you're thinking yourself damn what else has sugars that I don't know about so I think it's really good way of kind of keying in on certain things whether it be processed foods or prepackaged foods and cutting that all out you know after having carbs sometimes you can feel that crash that little ole and almost feel a little Authority can even bloated afterwards so once you cut that out and get used to it you feel better and better we have made it to day 40 of the keto experiments and I think it has been a success so far feeling good getting in a good habit and getting used to having the certain meals that make me feel good and I kind of adjusted my protein intake a little bit higher than a normal keto diet usually it's around 70 or 75 percent fats and the rest protein with a little bit of carbohydrates but I upped my protein about the same content percentage as my fats it makes me feel better I'm more satiated throughout the day and I feel like I have a little bit more energy in the gym and I kind of keep the physique that I have built up and that I kind of want that I see in the mirror and then I'm like okay I'm happy with that because the hard thing about keto is if you stay on it for extended period of time it is definitely a calorie restriction diet you're gonna lose a lot of weight and some of that can be muscle so if you're worried about that I would recommend at least it worked for me to raise the protein a little bit higher I've definitely been drinking more water getting in that good schedule and feeling pretty damn good it's day 45 final verdict a lot of you suggested to do keto for six weeks to give it a little bit more time to feel the full benefits so that's exactly what we've done and I gotta say it's been quite a journey it's been very different for something so simple as cutting out carbohydrates it changes a lot of the ways you think about things I know for me I've been able to experiment with a lot of new recipes that have been really enjoyable keto cakes keto pizza and it's been very interesting and enlightening but as far as the flex or no flex this is a really tough one because there's some things I really enjoy and there's some things I don't enjoy enough so I'm gonna have to go with no flex because even though I would like to remain low-carb and as Brandon said try to keep sugar as absolutely low as possible which I thank keto for helping me to do that I do love carbohydrates I love blackberries I love apricots and it's been really tough to try to keep it under that 20 to 30 grams a day so I will stay low-carb I'll try to stay zero sugar but keto in its most hardcore form I'm not gonna continue to here too but thank you keto it's been fun but we got a part wait the final verdict for me personally cuts out any kind of sugars it is definitely difficult to get used to but I feel like it definitely has the benefits you can slightly adjust it to obviously what you feel like it fits your personal schedule and your eating habits but I like meat I like fat and it's something easy to fit into my schedule and I feel like it does my body pretty damn good looking good feeling good and I feel like it was a success so I am revisiting my initial review of the keto diets originally I did a flex and for a good reason because I felt it worked pretty good within my schedule it made me feel good it made me look better but as I progressed I just realized it's not really that sustainable to have that lower carbohydrates all the time because there is a lot of healthy sources of carbohydrates and I'm kind of adjusting now to a lower carbohydrate diet but keeping healthy sources in there of course keeping all my vegetables but also introducing some complex carbohydrates like potatoes or sweet potatoes oatmeal things of that nature probably sticking with around 80 grams or so they maybe even up to 100 depending on the day and I am definitely feeling a lot better having those introducing those into my regular eating plan and workouts are feeling better feeling stronger and so I I think that I still stand by the original flags but I did want to kind of revisit a little bit and just say that it might be tough to sustain something like that for longer periods and it might be important to adjust accordingly to how you feel how you react to it and for me definitely staying over carbohydrate but introducing those healthy sources well that wraps up the episode hope you enjoyed it what other recommendations do you guys have let us know in the flow bar above we're willing to try almost anything almost we're this close yeah as soon as you start going down we'll try it yeah that's young we're gonna get desperate hopefully that's not going to be for a while yeah stable

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Length: 12min 37sec (757 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 14 2019