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Keto Diet For Beginners: 1-Week Keto Diet Menu

Keto! Ketones! Ketosis!… The Ketogenic diet can be so confusing for beginners. Learn what it all means here. Preventing weight gain during this time of the year is one thing, but is it even possible to lose weight after over-indulging during the holiday season? Yes! Lose weight and stay lean with our 7-day keto diet plan. Unlike many fad diets, the keto or ketogenic diet is more of a lifestyle. The diet does not set rules to starve yourself, just eat a cup of vegetables or drink some juice in order to lose weight. It is not a taxing diet that will ask you to exert immense control and cut off all the food you like in exchange for fruits and vegetables. The keto diet does not require you to starve yourself for days at a time, either. Instead, the diet will help you understand how your food habits have turned bad over the years and what you can do to regain optimal health. You will learn that all your excess weight exists not only due to overeating and not exercisin

How Tanisha Kept It Simple on Keto and Lost 80 Pounds in 8 Months

Even though Tanisha’s weight fluctuated throughout her whole childhood, it wasn’t until college that she truly started to pack on the pounds. After she graduated she tried every diet under the sun to lose the 100 pounds (45 kg) that she had gained, but without any success. “I was a total carb addict, and I used to eat candy daily. Even when I was dieting it was very carb heavy.”  When she was diagnosed with gestational diabetes, she made a resolution to make a change.  “I realized that I would become pre-diabetic soon, and it became the kick in the butt that I needed.” Her first reaction was to look into weight-loss surgery, but her insurance wouldn’t cover it. Perhaps it was fate, because soon afterwards she met up with a friend who had lost a lot of weight with keto. Tanisha became interested because it sounded so different from everything else that she had tried. In May 2018, Tanisha went low carb, and then in July she went full-on keto. The first week of keto did not go

Keto Coconut Curry Chicken

Imagine a silky coconut sauce filled with fragrant lemongrass, warming ginger, and a kick of heat from the curry. Oh, yes. It’s real, and it’s happening. Ingredients 2  stalks of lemon grass 2 tbsp  coconut oil 1 tbsp  curry powder 1½ lbs  boneless chicken thighs 1   leek 1  thumb-sized piece of fresh ginger 2   garlic cloves 1   red bell pepper, sliced ½   red chili pepper, finely chopped 14 oz.  coconut cream 1   lime, the finely grated zest Instructions Crush the rough part of the lemongrass with the broad side of a knife or a pestle. Cut the chicken into coarse pieces. Gently heat the coconut oil in a wok or a large frying pan. Grate the ginger and fry together with the lemongrass and curry. Add half of the chicken and sauté over medium heat until the strips are golden. Salt and pepper to taste. Set aside and fry the rest of the chicken in the same way, perhaps add a little more curry for the second batch. The lemon grass can remain

No-Bread Keto Breakfast Sandwich

 This sandwich is the ultimate in inventiveness. Scrumptious cheese and sizzling ham and eggs unite to form a stand-out keto sandwich — minus the bread! Ingenious! Ingredients 2 tbsp  butter 4   eggs salt and pepper 1 oz.  smoked deli ham 2 oz.  cheddar cheese or provolone cheese or edam cheese, cut in thick slices a few drops of tabasco or Worcestershire sauce (optional) Instructions Add butter to a large frying pan and place it over medium heat. Add the eggs and fry them over easy, on both sides. Salt and pepper to taste. Use a fried egg as the base for each "sandwich". Place the ham/pastrami/cold cuts on each stack next, and then add the cheese. Top off each stack with a fried egg. Leave in the pan, on low heat, if you want the cheese to melt. Sprinkle a few drops of Tabasco or Worcestershire sauce if you want, and serve immediately. Tip! Unsweetened French Dijon mustard is a perfect match with the ham. Plus, you can replace the ham wi