How Do I Start Keto?
Eating the right food is essential nowadays, especially when you want to lose weight and also if you are diet conscious person.
Healthy food selection increases the body’s immunity, fights diseases, and is helpful to the effective loss of pounds by burning extra calories from the body for effective results a keto diet is a good option. The keto diet is also known as low carb and high-fat diet.
Stored fats in the liver work as a fuel during fasting (or starvation) in a ketogenic diet, fats are burned to produce ketones and thus this process is known as ketosis. Carbohydrates intake produces glucose and insulin in the body.
Glucose is a primary source of energy utilized by our body and in the keto, diet fats become the primary source of energy by working smartly. Starting a keto is not a joke it’s a satiating diet under medical supervision.
In the beginning, it is hard to adapt as it requires a massive shift in body physiology and also in eating lifestyle. But once a decision is made get started by following three crucial steps; eat the correct food, eat a limited portion of food and prepare for keto diet side effects (more commonly known as keto flu)
- Makes sense of what to eat and what not to eat, it includes keto-friendly foods, starchy foods (carbs) that must be avoided. keto recipe guides can be followed to plan complete meals and food replacement can be switched to make keto diet options.
- Describes the right amount of food intake. Start by keeping carb below 35 grams, enough fats should be eaten to meet the target, protein can be eaten enough to maintain muscles. keto calculator can be used as a guide to track the weight loss progress.
- Finally preparing your body to fight keto flu symptoms (fatigue, nausea, headache, poor sleep, and stress) water consumption should be increased along with sodium, magnesium, and potassium intake. All these steps will play a vital role in weight loss
Keto Diet Recipes For Beginners
For beginners, the menu shows breakfast, lunch, snack, and dinner recipes. It’s a complete meal plan.
Breakfast:
The recipe for keto diet beginners is quite simple, Bacon, Eggs And Guacamole
The ingredients are:
- 1 avocado
- 2 eggs
- 50 grams of onion
- 50 grams of tomato
- 1 teaspoon of lime juice
- 3 rashers of bacon
- 5 grams of coriander
- Salt and
- pepper as required
The method of making guacamole is to cut the avocado into small cubes with a knife, remove the seed, and seasoned it with salt, tomato, onion, coriander, and lime juice. Mix it well and mash it with a spoon. Guacamole is now prepared.
The next step is to fry the slices of bacon in the pan on medium heat till the fat comes out.
Put the cooked slices of bacon on the plate and then in the same pan crack 2 eggs with either sunny side up or scrambled it according to your choice or you can also make an omelet.
Fry the eggs for 1-2 minutes and seasoned them with salt and black pepper.
Breakfast is ready for 1 person. If the avocado is not available then it can be replaced by using spinach and broccoli (fried) Vegetarian can use white cottage cheese instead of bacon.
Lunch:
For lunch, the recipe is ‘Beef, broccoli and stir fry zucchini’ and serves four people. The ingredients are
- Half a kilo of minced beef
- 300 grams of broccoli flowers
- The same quantity for zucchini
- 50 grams of onion
- 1 Tsp. of paprika
- Fresh thyme, red chili
- 10 grams of garlic
- 50 grams of heavy whipping cream
- Cheddar cheese
- Cream cheese
- 1 Tbsp. of avocado oil
- Salt
- Pepper as required.
Start the recipe (by cutting the vegetables first) cut the broccoli from the stem into smaller florets and chops the zucchini into smaller cubes (or round shape).
Turn on the flame and pour avocado oil into an aluminum pan, add minced beef with seasoning and cook it for 2-3 minutes after that add onion and garlic into it.
When the onion turns (caramelized) light pink and garlic into golden brown then add chili flakes, paprika, fresh thyme.
Keep stirring for 1 minute so that seasoning gets absorbed and releases aroma then add zucchini and broccoli. Add a pinch of salt and give it a quick stir, cover the pan with a lid.
After 5 minutes sprinkle the grated cheddar cheese randomly on the top of the mixture and adds heavy cream, again cover the lid and cook it for few more minutes till the cheese gets melted.
If there is any liquid then reduce it down and finally in the end add cream cheese and mix everything well before turning off the heat.
Garnish the filled bowl with parmesan cheese. The dish is ready to eat. Ground beef can be replaced by chicken and alternative vegetables can be used like spinach, mushroom, Brussels sprouts, and asparagus.
Instead of cheese and cream, substitute with coconut cream.
For vegetarians, tofu and paneer can be used instead of beef. It’s a keto-friendly tasty recipe.
Snack:
This includes Ham and cheese roll-ups for two persons. The ingredients are pretty simple with 4 leaves of lettuce and 4 slices each of cheese and ham with mustard paste.
The recipe starts by spreading the mustard paste on lettuce leaves then place a slice of ham with a cheese slice and roll it up to make a ready-to-eat wrap.
Vegetarians can replace the ham with an omelet and mustard paste by keto mayo or hot sauce.
Dinner:
For dinner, the recipe is simple and basic; ‘Chicken salad with peanut butter dressing’ The ingredients are
- 2 skinless chicken thighs
- 1 packet of ready to eat salad mix
- Half teaspoon of black and sesame seeds
- 1 Tsp. of curry powder
- A half tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil
- 1 Tbsp of water
- Soya sauce
- Lemon juice
- Stevia to taste
- Salt and pepper as required.
- Marinate the chicken with salt
- Pepper, and
- curry powder.
Turn on the flame of the stove and put avocado oil in a non-stick pan, add marinated chicken in the pan, and fry it for 3 minutes till golden brown, moist, juicy, and fully cooked (not undercooked).
Then set it aside on a plate and make the dressing in another bowl by mixing the peanut butter and water to make a liquid sauce, add soya sauce, lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper with stevia. Stir it well.
Open the salad packet (your salad mix can also be used) and pour over the peanut butter dressing and then add black and white sesame seeds.
Slice the chicken into long pieces and add it to the salad and garnish it with coriander. The recipe is ready to eat and serves 1 person.
Beefsteak is beast option instead of chicken. For vegetarians, white cottage cheese, halloumi, and buffalo mozzarella is an alternative option. Salad mix can be substituted by using baby spinach, cherry tomatoes, and grated cabbage.
FAQs
Q. What do you eat for breakfast on the keto diet?
On a low-carb diet, doing breakfast is a challenging task and it is not wise to skip. There are many recipes to make nutritious breakfast like
- Eggs and vegetable fried in coconut oil
- Cowboy breakfast skillet
- Skillet-baked eggs with spinach
- Yogurt
- Chili oil
- Bacon
- Eggs
- Savory, flourless egg-and-cottage-cheese breakfast muffins
- Cream cheese pancakes
- Spinach
- Mushroom
- feta crustless quiche
- Coconut chia pudding
- Bacon
- Avocado
- Tomato salad
- Smoked Salmon baked eggs in avocado
- Apple with cinnamon almond butter
- Sausage and eggs to go
- Bacon pancakes
- Low carb no egg breakfast bake with sausage and peppers
- Spinach
- Goat cheese
- Keto corn flakes
- Low carb blueberry pancakes
- Keto French toast egg puffs
- Keto Iced coffee
- Bullet coffee
- Slow-cooked bone broth-3 ways
- Dairy-free keto latte
- Iced tea
- Keto taco omelet
- Keto casserole
- Chorizo omelet
- Low carb Waffles
Every recipe is based on healthy high fat, moderate protein, and low carb and keep you satisfied and full for hours. The options are endless. In making breakfast recipes processed protein, starches, sugars and fibers are not a good choice.
Q. Can you eat oatmeal on the keto diet?
A. Oatmeal is not a keto-friendly food. The oats are full of carbs and do not blend with keto diet rules. Germ, endosperm, and bran are part of oats and stay during the milling process. They are rich with dietary fiber and other nutrients like magnesium, phosphorous, zinc, and thiamine.
Cooked oats comprised 21 g of carbs and in keto total amount of carbs must not exceed 15 grams. If you eat oatmeal in a keto diet then you have to skip all-day meals. It is easy to make mistakes (cheats) our body is naturally made to burn carbohydrates, the body takes time to adapt to a low carb diet by overcoming keto flu symptoms.
Patience is necessary to see the result in the form of weight loss. Keto low carb oatmeal (minus oats) can be done by following these recipe directions; overnight low carb keto oatmeal is easy to prepare by using four ingredients, powder of flax seeds, chia seeds, sugar-free shredded coconut, and a keto-friendly sweetener in the form of maple syrup.
Combine all of them and then add two Tbsp. of liquid (of choice) and let it sit overnight and then add more in the morning to get a thinner consistency. Top it with macadamia nuts and chocolate chips. You can also drizzle a little quantity of monk fruit maple syrup on it for a delicious feeling.
FAQs
Q. Can I eat as much as I want on keto?
A. Ketogenic meal and snack consumption give a feeling of satisfaction on the safer side it’s crucial to track your calories by controlling your food portions. Certified nutritionists allow taking large portions (too many calories) throughout the day to get adequate nutrition.
Q. How a calorie deficit occurs?
So a calorie deficit must be created by increasing physical activity. Excess pounds can be dropped by limiting the snacks, meals, and curbing portion size. By selecting keto-friendly, lower-calorie foods weight loss can be promoted.
