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Originally Posted by senna
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I've done it. It works but its a pain in the ass and it requires way too much effort.
There is no metabolic advantage with keto over any other diet. So I say just do a caloric deficit with a normal macro split.
Exercise suffers in ketosis, breath stinks, carb cravings suck. Really the reason 99% of people do ketosis is so they can stuff their face with bacon.
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This, minus the "done it" thing.
The best thing you can do is keep a food journal on one of the major websites like *fitday where you can enter in your meals and it gives you a rough macro/micronutrient breakdown so you can get an idea of what exactly is going into your body so you can estimate on your own on the fly later on in life.
The "requires effort" thing is why nearly all fad diets fail, because its something that requires constant effort whereas a caloric deficit is something that doesn't require nearly as much attention and can be maintained indefinitely as long as you can retain what you learned while actually logging your food (i.e. knowing how many calories in a slice of bread, cheese, an egg, a chicken breast etc). That's something you can do for the rest of your life. If you didn't have the willpower to not get fat in the first place how in the hell are you going to keep up with such a high maintenance eating regimen for the rest of your life?
*(disclaimer: haven't paid this much attention to my diet in years so not sure of the sites that are good now)