Is a ketogenic diet for vegetarians reasonably possible?

To be perfectly honest with you, keto vegetarian is the most hardcore dieting imaginable. It can be mentally and emotionally exhausting to feel deprived of all the juicy, processed foods, so this diet definitely isn’t for beginners. Another challenge is adapting this kind of diet to your lifestyle while still keeping its core tenets intact. As soon as you start a keto vegetarian diet, you’ll realize why carbs are so popular: they’re easy to make, handle transport well, and taste great. So, unless you have your logistics down to a science, you’ll find it very difficult to maintain a keto vegetarian diet, but you should try it, nonetheless, and keep trying until you make it.

Eating fewer carbs and more fat lowers insulin, which is responsible for fat storage. By maintaining low insulin in your blood, the body slowly starts to spend its fat reserves and enters a state known as “ketosis”. There are several stages of ketosis, but what you want to aim for is called “optimal ketosis”.

To measure your ketosis, you need a specialized gadget for measuring ketone blood levels. Before breakfast, prick your finger and the gadget will tell you the level of ketones in your blood. Any value between 1.5 and 3 mmol/Lis optimal ketosis and greatly accelerates weight loss.