Does ketosis burn more fat than a conventional diet

Question

assuming same calorie intake on both the ketogenic diet and the conventional diet, would the ketogenic diet lose more weight even though the same calories are being absorbed?

In: 0

Answer 1

Ketosis is the metabolic state where your body is burning fats for energy. It happens even on a traditional diet if you don’t eat for 16-24 hours.

If you’re on the carnivore or keto diet, your your primary source of energy is fat. If you lower your calories slightly, you will burn body fat.

On a traditional diet, this takes much longer to accomplish. If you stop eating, your body has to burn through the glucose from the carbs it just consumed. After that’s done, it has to burn through the stored glucose (called glycogen). This can take 16-24 hours. Once glycogen is gone, your brain requires energy, and your liver converts bodyfat into usable ketones for energy. These ketones supply your body with constant energy as well as your brain. So on a traditional diet to start burning bodyfat, it takes awhile. Now if you **consistently** reducing your calories, you get to this state more quickly each day. However, the “I’m hungry” signal tends to get sent often and this is what causes ppl to fail at reducing their calories.

On a keto or carnivore diet, you’re never switching fuel sources so yes, you tend to burn more bodyfat quickly. Also, the “I’m hungry” signal doesn’t get sent as often as a traditional calorie-reduction diet.

​

Now if you’re considering restricting your carbs, try reducing them below 1 gram of carbs per current pound of bodyweight, and see if you get results. So if you weigh 250 pounds, try eating less than 250g of carbs (plus reducing your overall calories).

If you completely eliminate carbs, it takes 2-7 days for your body to adapt to fat as it’s primary fuel source. Plus 75% of ppl fail the keto diet because they don’t understand it fully. A simple example is on day 2 they run out of meals to cook… or they get tempted at a restaurant to eat bread, pasta, or dessert…

So try reducing your calories & carbs first. If you get results, great. If you still wish to try restricting carbs (like keto or carnivore), then feel free, but do your research first. Once you’re in ketosis, it’s best to stay in that state.

Goodluck!