In order to lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle, you not only need to stick to the ketogenic diet, but incorporate exercise as well. Follow these tips to learn more about the right exercise routine to stick to and why you need to keep up with your regular fitness regimen while on this diet.

Hold Off on Exercise at First

You will need to still exercise even while on the keto diet, but this doesn’t need to happen right away. In fact, many dieticians recommend that you not get into a rigorous fitness routine when making such a change in your diet. Try to first transition into the keto diet and wait a few weeks before you pick up on your exercise routine.

While walking a few days a week as you already have been doing should be fine, avoid anything too strenuous or different from the norm. This can be really hard on your body and make it hard to make such drastic changes all at once. Continue reading →

The body typically gets its fuel from dietary carbohydrates, which includes foods like rice, bread, pasta, and other grains, along with fruit, sugars, and vegetables.

When carbohydrates, specifically starches and sugars enter the body they are broken down into glucose, and used by the body for energy. The hormone insulin then steps in to remove glucose from the bloodstream and the body either uses it for energy or stores any that is unused.

Any glucose that is not immediately used as fuel will be sent to the liver and muscles to be stored as glycogen as a fuel reserve, and any unused glycogen in the muscles, such as through exercise or energy expenditure turns to stored body fat.

For people with a carb sensitivity or those with insulin resistance it’s a grim outlook that can lead to obesity and type 2 diabetes…

High carb diet = high glucose in the blood = high insulin = high amounts of body fat Continue reading →