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Keto 101

Keto Beginner Grocery List

Published7 months ago

By Annette Bosworth M.D.

After my patients clean out their cupboards, I insist they PAUSE. Yes. PAUSE for 48 hours before spending half of a paycheck on filling your shelves with items you are not going to eat. This list is what I would ask you to take with you to the grocery store after you paused. This beginner keto grocery list wi...

Keto Diet 101: Bowel Trouble. Too Fast or Too Slow

Published7 months ago

By Annette Bosworth M.D.

Transition your eating from Standard American Diet to Keto and you can find POO the focus of your conversation. Some patients have their stools slow WAY down, Others find that every time they eat a high-fat meal, they have a date with the toilet. BOWELS: TOO SLOW [CONSTIPATION] THIS PROBLEM AFFECTS PATIENTS:...

Rules for Ketosis: Lessons from Dr. Bosworth

Published7 months ago

By Annette Bosworth M.D.

Rule #1: Ketosis Can’t Begin if you Have Extra Sugar in Your Blood No fat-burning until the extra sugar is gone. Your body will not allow you to use ketones as fuel until your sugars are burned through. Your mitochondria are the “furnaces” inside each cell that fuels your system. Burning sugars as your fuel...

Starting the Ketogenic Diet: A How-To Guide For Beginners

Published8 months ago

By Annette Bosworth M.D.

How do you begin a Keto Diet? The beginning of the keto diet depends on where you’re starting. Do you eat over 200 carbs a day? Maybe 300 carbs per day? Slicing those carbs from over a 100 to less than 20 per day can be a rough transition. Most of my patients eat an enormous amount of carbohydrates be...