With so many people jumping on the “ketogenic diet” bandwagon right now, more and more people are starting to wonder if this diet plan is for them. Even if you’re not on a ketogenic diet, you won’t see keto specific food in your supermarket.
Marketers are onto the fact that the ketogenic diet doesn’t seem to be where they wanted it to be and are starting to make “ready to go” keto friendly snacks. should you indulge?
Here are some things to keep in mind about keto products…
1. Calories Matter. First, focus on calories, that matters more than anything else here. Many people dive into incorporating keto snacks into their eating plans without even thinking about counting calories. If you eat a snack containing 400 calories, that will need to be factored in somewhere!
Compare this to a non-traditional keto snack such as a 100-calorie apple, and which do you think is better for your weight loss plan? You can even add some peanut butter to the apple to help balance it out better and you’ll still be under 200 calories, far fewer than the calories in a keto snack.
2. Keto doesn’t mean “weight loss friendly”. Also, remember that keto is not meant to be weight loss friendly. While many people use the ketogenic diet to lose weight, you still need to think about calories as just mentioned. Some people use this diet for health reasons, and many of these snacks are better sold to them because they aren’t paying as much attention to their calories.
Just because a product says it’s keto, doesn’t mean it’s designed to help you lose weight. The ketogenic diet is a low-carb, high-fat diet, so it greatly reduces your carbohydrate intake, replacing it with fat.
3. Check nutrition. Lastly, take care of nutrition as well. Even if a keto snack is heavily processed, as many are, and as one aims to replace some of the processed high-carb snacks in your eating plan, they are not always healthy. A chocolate bar is never a good option, whether it is a keto bar or not. So don’t lose common sense just because you see the word “keto”.
If you keep these pointers in mind, you should be better prepared to understand the marketing of keto products and make sure they don’t sway you from your smart course of healthy eating.
Source by Beverleigh H Piepers
