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Yes, it is safe to do the diet with high cholesterol. The dietary cholesterol is pretty insignificant with respect to the 3500 mg cholesterol produced by our body every day. In fact, your body produces more cholesterol if you have less dietary cholesterol. And since you’ll be burning fat, there’ll be an eventual drop in the level of cholesterol. It might go up initially but you need not worry about it, it’ll come down after some time.

Right now, there is no PubMed research that has been published that talks about this.

 Yes, absolutely. This diet is extremely helpful with hypothyroid as it is an anti-inflammatory diet. We help you with supplements too. Since thyroid patients cannot have soy, we ensure that your requirements for iodine, zinc, and selenium are met.

The benefits of the keto diet go way beyond just weight loss. The diet helps in fixing insulin resistance and is highly anti-inflammatory, both of which are reasons for a huge number of chronic illnesses like PCOS/PCOD, diabetes, Thyroid, Epilepsy, Alzheimer’s and even various cancers.

During the initial stage of the diet when your body is entering the state of ketosis, your body switches its metabolism and tends to lose electrolytes from your body which might lower the level of certain minerals in your body. As a response from the body, you might experience grogginess, body ache, lack of mental clarity, brain fog etc. We help you recover from it using supplements so that you get over this stage conveniently.

The diet is not advisable for people with kidney stones, gallbladder issues, post-pregnancy while breastfeeding.

The diet, as we told you, is 2.2-3 times faster than the caloric deficit diet. However, the answer to this question depends on your metabolism, and most importantly how well you execute the diet. On average, our clients lose about 1/10th of their body weight in between 2-3 months without an exercise regime in place. Most of our clients lose way more, however.

That’s most likely because you did not take your macros right, or because you snacked too frequently, resulting in constant insulin spikes. We’ll be able to fix this once you start the consultation with us.

Body ache, leg ache, drowsiness are symptoms of you losing out on the minerals from your body. This was easily fixable, and just needed a simple supplement called pink Himalayan salt or magnesium and it’ll be fixed. Issues of hair loss, fading of nails are either because of you not taking your macros right, or lack of right supplement. We shall fix this once you start working with.

Absolutely! In fact, the keto diet in the African continent is called as the banting diet, and is known to help people conceive sooner.

It is safe for people to do the keto diet after their pregnancy. However, if you’re breastfeeding, you will have to take your macros and meals exactly how we instruct them because your child needs all the nutrients through the breast fed milk.

Yes, we do. We have clients in 15 countries across the globe! The consultation calls typically happen on skype/WhatsApp call/Chat. We work on the difference in the time zone and have calls at times that are suitable for both of us.

There are no long term side effects of the keto diet, provided you do your macronutrients right.

The weight loss is uniform throughout the body.

The weight loss happens uniformly throughout the body.

Alcohols slow down the production of ketones in the body, but they are still better than having carbohydrates. We shall let you know on the kind of alcohols that you can have as a part of the consultation.

We make the diet very doable for you. We provide you a large number of options and recipes along with the diet. Some clients want the diet to be scalable, so we help you to make the feasible but some of them want the diet to be fancy, so we include meals with fancy ingredients. The diet will be completely based on your meal preferences.

The keto diet is a low carbohydrate, moderate protein, and a high-fat diet, where the body burns fat as you eat fat. Conventionally, our body converts carbohydrates to produce glucose and that is where we get our energy from. When you reduce the number of carbohydrates to an extremely low level, the body looks for an alternative source of fuel. And that’s where it finds fats. The body begins to burn fats as a source of fuel to produce ‘ketones’ as you eat fats, and that’s your body results in an accelerated weight loss.

Yes, you may but the drugs cannot have sugar in them, because then they will push you out of ketosis. Please let our nutritionists know about supplements/drugs that you are on and they should be able to help you out.

We try not to give supplements unnecessarily. We add them only if you require them. For instance, if you are a vegetarian, it will be essential to add supplements to your diet as the Indian diet is low on proteins and you might face other health issues like hair fall, whitening of nails, etc. if you do not do your macros right.

Yes, absolutely. We will begin with a washout diet, give you a personalized ketogenic diet and after some time, we will move you to an IF plan. Keto diet along with IF is the most accelerated means of weight loss. When you are on the ketogenic diet, you burn dietary fat along with body fat but when you are on IF, you only burn your body fat. This makes weight loss rapid.

Yes, it is possible. We will tell you the right protein amount of protein that you need to put on muscle mass.

Yes, most of our clients are busy people. We give you very doable recipes, so that diet is not a hassle for you.

We will be honest. The keto diet is slightly harder for the vegetarian. But we make sure that we give you the maximum possible options available on this diet.

Because the weight loss is quite accelerated on the keto diet, the diet works without a workout regime too. In fact, most of our clients are busy people who don’t have enough time to workout and still want to lose weight, which is where the keto diet works really well.

20% of brain functioning requires glucose and the remaining 80% can be achieved through ketones. The body is able to derive this 20% from proteins and stored fats.

You must avoid taking a cheat meal as it tends to kick you out of ketosis. However, if you end up taking one, you must tell about this to our nutritionist so that we can plan your further diet accordingly.

Intermittent fasting is an eating pattern where you cycle between periods of eating and fasting. Keto diet is one of the most accelerated means of weight loss and it shows significant results even without IF. However, keto diet along with IF is the most accelerated means of weight loss because when you are on the ketogenic diet, you burn dietary fat along with body fat but when you are on IF fasting, you burn your body fat only. This makes weight loss rapid. When you are on the ketogenic diet, you burn dietary fat along with body fat but when you are on IF, you burn your body fat only. This makes weight loss rapid.

We substitute sugar by Stevia, Erythritol, or Monk Fruit.

Yes, absolutely. Infect, you will feel even more energetic on the keto diet than the regular diet . 1g of Carbohydrates provide us with 4 Joules of energy whereas 1g of Fat provides us with 9 Joules of energy.

We help you recede from the keto diet the right way, so that whatever weight you’ve lost out on doesn’t come back. The only portion of the weight that might come back is the water weight loss, which is only between 0.5-1.5 Kgs in most of our clients. You will not gain back weight beyond this point, provided you don’t go caloric surplus in your diet.

That largely happens because you don’t end up taking your macros properly. The hair fall/whitening of the nails happens when you don’t take your protein macros right. The keto flu happens because you don’t take enough electrolytes, which is why you face issues like drowsiness, body ache, lack of mental clarity, brain fog, etc. We will help you with simple supplements like Himalayan Pink Salt, Magnesium supplement to help you manage the Keto flu better.

The diet will be personalized based on your body parameters, macronutrient requirements, your calorie requirement, your meal preferences and number of meals that you’d like to have in a day. If you are a vegetarian, your diet will consist of a large amount of green vegetables, fat sources like ghee and butter, paneer etc.

We typically suggest doing blood for clients with a known medical background like thyroid, blood sugar, PCOS. If you don’t have any known medical background so far, you don’t need any blood test. If you have a known background, our nutritionist will recommend to you the right blood tests needed. If you have blood sugar, we will need the following parameters before we start: Fasting Insulin, HbA1C & Blood Sugar Level

We currently only provide you personalized diets. The diet works well even without a workout regime since it’s one of the most accelerated means of weight loss. However, a workout regime always is a good adjuvant. Please keep our nutritionists posted about your workout regime, so that they can update the diet accordingly.

Yes, we give you detailed recipes that are very personalized and match your macros. We make sure that the recipes are Indian, doable for you so that you can stay on this diet for a long time. Everything to rotis to dosas to pizzas and even even halwas, we shall have you sorted on the diet.

We do not do trial plans because it gives you incomplete information, might do more harm than good and doesn’t serve the real purpose. Hence, we consult either by a month or by three months.

We either consult by a month or by three months. We do not give any sample diets as it does not serve the real purpose and gives you incomplete information. Also, it might end up doing more harm to you than good.

Ketones in the body can be measured by three means:
Keto diastix: Measures ketones in the urine.
Keto breath analyzer: Measures ketones through the breath.
Blood ketone meter: Measure ketones in the blood.
To start things off with, we shall be using the keto diastix to measure ketones in your body. It is the most inexpensive way to measure the ketones.

We analyze through body fat percentage and BCA %.(BCA: Body Composition Analysis Percentage)

There are three cases in which we update your diet:
(I) When your weight updates, we update the diet to match your macronutrient requirements and so that your weight doesn’t stagnate.
(ii) Keto diet helps in fixing insulin resistance. On reduction of insulin resistance, you might feel less hungry ,so we update it so that you are able to consume the right amount of macros.
(iii)If you want to introduce intermittent fasting in your diet, we alter your diet accordingly .
Intermittent fasting, along with keto diet is the fastest means of weight loss.

Please reach out to us in advance so that we can tell you in advance on the things you can/cannot have on the keto diet. Make sure that you don’t have a cheat meal that is extremely high on carbohydrates because that will end up doing more harm than good. That might result in you bloating up. Just in case you have a cheat meal, please reach out to your nutritionist. They will help you get back to a state of ketosis real quick.

Almost all our recipes shall be very Pakistani and Indian, and shall keep in mind your dietary preferences. You don’t need to worry much on that front.

The washout diet is an extremely low carb, high-fat diet whose aim is to get your body in a deep state of ketosis and to better understand what is the right amount of carbohydrates and a minimum number of fats that the body needs to stay in a state of ketosis. Basis the understanding of this diet, we devise a personalized ketogenic diet for you.