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[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Keto diets don't really create a caloric deficit. Instead, it fucks with your metabolism by inducing ketosis in conditions you normally wouldn't. Essentially, you're tricking your body into thinking you're starving, which means you start breaking down fats when you don't need to. I hear it's absolutely miserable and bad for you, too.

Intermittent fasting does something similar, if it's done correctly. Shit is wild.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Close but not exactly, your body is capable of freely switching between fat or carb burning. When your body really thinks it's starving, it will start "eating" your muscles instead.

Fat burning gives steady supply of energy instead of the highs and lows of energy dense carbs. You feel this the hardest after lunch, on carbs you'll often feel tired and sluggish. You don't have this on keto.

Switching into keto can be a miserable experience though, so you're right about that. Once in keto it's chill.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The thing with keto is when overweight people start they are overeating, and so dropping carbs puts them into calorie deficit for sustaining the bodily functions. Then forcing the body to have no quick fuel availble starts ketosis.

But over eating on keto can keep you from losing weight. Look to the traditional diet Inuit First nation that survived in the tundra on meats and fats. They weren't in ketosis