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My Keto Journey
What is keto?
The ketogenic diet is a different way to approach food, and energy from food. In the typical American diet, one receives most of the energy they get from food via carbohydrates. On the ketogenic diet, most of your energy is derived from fat rather than carbs.
The ketogenic diet is regarded as a high fat, moderate protein, and low carb diet. To stay in ketosis, the state your body is in when burning fat for energy, you must generally stick between 20g and 50g net carbs per day.
Net Carbs
Net carbs are the thing to watch on the keto diet. Net carbs can be calculated by taking the “total carbohydrates” minus the “fiber” and (sometimes) minus the “sugar alcohols”. Note that the “(sometimes) minus” is due to the fact that sugar alcohols may or may not spike your insulin and/or impact your blood sugar, it really depends on the person, and the particular sugar alcohol in question. You’ll need to experiment yourself to determine if a specific sugar alcohol impacts your blood sugar or not, if it does, then that type of sugar alcohol should be counted as a carb; and if not, it shouldn’t.
Why am I on keto?
My wife and I are both programmers and as such, we’re on our butts almost the entire day. I had always been a pretty skinny guy, at least through high…