The 6 Main Reasons Why You're Not Loosing Weight On The Ketogenic Diet

   Many people around us seem to get unbelievable results with the ketogenic diet, they manage to loose weight in a short period of time, but on the other hand, many others struggle even if they have tried not only one time with this diet, it's not because they're not suited to the ketogenic diet, it's just because they may be ignoring some little facts that I'm about to share.

  1.You're not reaching the ketosis state:

  Ketosis is when you start using fat as your main source of energy rather that the glucose, in order to reach that state, you need to control your macro-nutrients intake, you want to reduce the intake of carbs and increase the one of protein, while maintaining you calorie intake, remember that calorie intake determines whether or not you will loose weight or not so keep it a little deficit.

   Eat no more than 30g of carbs if you're in a standard ketogenic diet, and try to start intermittent-fasting as it helps get into ketosis faster. And try to monitor the ketons in your blood to check whether or not you reached ketosis, I recommend these cheap Urine Stripes since they worked for me perfectly.

   2. You're trying to rush things and are not eating too much:

   

    Not eating enough food is a bad idea that won't lead you anywhere except fatigue, weakness, inactivity all things that will encourage you to give up, and even if you stick to it you won't loose weight because you're brain will think you're in starvation mode, which means the body is going to consume only the energy required for the survival of your most important organs and stop burning extra fat.

    

    Such conditions are so painful to live that it's likely to give up and regain weight rapidly since your metabolic rate had dropped to very low levels when you were eating less food.

  

    A good idea is to find a balance between eating too much or too little food, where you're going to have a slight calorie deficit and a good macro-nutrient combination as mentioned above. here is a Calorie Intake Calculator that can give an idea, But the best way is to try yourself by checking your weight regularly and adjusting the intake.

   3. You're eating excessive protein:

   

    Contrary to the belief the ketogenic diet is a moderate protein diet, this means that you want the between 20 to 25% of your calories intake to come from protein, and another misconception is that proteins cannot be used as a source of energy bu the body, they can by a process called gluconeogenesis where it's converted into sugar, and thereby consumed as a source of energy instead of fat.

   

     Remember that your body will always reach for glucose first then move to burning fat.

  4.You're allergic or intolerant to the food you eat:

     Food allergies and food intolerance can lead to the inflammation in the gut, and since inflammation whether it's caused by microbes or foods we eat leads to insulin-resistance which is linked to high amount of insulin in the blood, the body will produce more fat because insulin hormone is a fat storage insulin.

    

     So avoiding food allergies and intolerance is an important factor of loosing weight, you can discover the foods causing this problem by testing your blood with the help of a nutritionist or proceed to an elimination diet: the point is to eliminate all the potential foods and re-introduce them one by one to see how your body reacts.

  5.You don't calculate properly you calorie and micro-nutrients intake:

  Sometimes it's the little details that do all the difference, try to calculate the calories and macro nutrients of everything you eat, it can be the sugar in the coffee or the tea you drink each morning that's preventing your body from entering ketosis.

   The point here is to be aware of everything that gets into your mouth and its nutritive value. use google to look for nutrition facts every time you want to eat something new.

   6.You're not following a plan:

   

    You need to have a plan to follow, because if you try a ketogenic diet by eating randomly, you're more likely to make bad decisions about what to and what not to eat, the results you may get this month won't be the same as the future month. 

   

     The problem is that when you don't organize well your diet, you will draft away from eating appropriately without even feeling that this is happening. yes because the ketogenic diet is not easy or pleasant to follow.

   

     I recommend this 28 Day Ketogenic Plan as it has worked well for me and for people I know, It has 50% discount these days which is another good news.

    Conclusion:

   

     This article was about the 6 main reasons why your ketogenic diet isn't working, it also brings solutions to the 6 problems and gives important information to lose weight appropriately and for the long run.