What is the Ketogenic diet? If you’ve been paying any attention to the current diet trends, you’ve probably heard of the keto diet. The ketogenic diet is a high fat, low carb, and moderate protein diet that puts your body into ketosis, a state where you’re burning fats for energy.

The Ketogenic diet

The only issue with this is the fact that we’ve already been introduced to it back in the early 2000s. Remember Dr. Atkins? Yes, that diet we were so excited about because it meant we could eat bacon, cheese, and caesar dressing all day and we’d still lose weight?

While there are a few small differences, including the fact that the Atkins diet was originally created specifically for weight loss and keto was created to help prevent seizures, both of the diets boast rapid weight loss for those whole follow it.

So why wouldn’t I want to follow it and rapidly lose twenty pounds?

For starters, the majority of the weight you lose in the few weeks or so is water weight. The reason you’re losing that extra water weight is due to the fact that without the carb intake, your body is retaining less water. So if this diet is something you’re simply doing to keep the weight off, odds are you’re more than likely going to gain that weight back once you reintroduce carbohydrates back into your diet.

Secondly, the proper way to follow the diet would include high vegetable consumption. Vegetables have a low carb content but also provide the necessary micronutrients your body needs in order to function properly. More often than not, however, vegetables are usually the last thing you see on people’s plates when they’re on keto.

Finally, sustainability plays a major role in any type of diet. Sure, you can quickly drop twenty pounds, but what happens to your body in another month or so? Are you able to keep the weight off? Or do you end up spiraling back down into another diet trend?

The key to any healthy regimen is always going to be moderation. Unless you have a much larger issue and are forced to cut certain foods out of your diet, following a balanced diet will certainly always work better for your health in the long run.