I think what I'm worried about is approaching ketosis with skepticism. Are people wrong on this? I hope not. Specifically, I remember growing up and hearing about Weight Watchers, Atkins, and a number of other trendy diets, and for some these approaches worked.
But it doesn't seem to be universal. And I don't know how much of it is personal choice and commitment or dietary reality. Are people really overeating and saying "no" less, or are our foods inherently more calorie dense? I suspect maybe it's both? I'm not sure.
The latest talk on the Internet seems to be that to burn fat, rather than just reducing caloric intake, a more effective combined effort would be to put your body in ketosis.
That being said, I grew up on being taught out of outdated health textbooks in charter school from the 70s with food pyramids. I remember the largest part of the food pyramid from the 90s being bread, cereal, rice & pasta. All foods you would religiously avoid by today's advice for weight loss.
All that matters for weight loss (and weight gain) is calories in and calories out (CICO).
All of the "special" diets that people propose work on this principle. They simply take different approaches to try to make "eating less" easier.
Certain foods make you feel fuller than others, so some people have success changing their diets to include more of those foods. Other people have success just eating less of what they eat now without changing their diet.
As far as I know, the keto diet is designed to treat epilepsy in children. There is no current scientific consensus that keto helps with weight loss compared to any other diet with a similar CICO.
I'm sure people are researching it right now so that could change, but we know enough about how the laws of physics and the human body work to know that whatever is happening, CICO is the basis of it.
But it doesn't seem to be universal. And I don't know how much of it is personal choice and commitment or dietary reality. Are people really overeating and saying "no" less, or are our foods inherently more calorie dense? I suspect maybe it's both? I'm not sure.
The latest talk on the Internet seems to be that to burn fat, rather than just reducing caloric intake, a more effective combined effort would be to put your body in ketosis.
That being said, I grew up on being taught out of outdated health textbooks in charter school from the 70s with food pyramids. I remember the largest part of the food pyramid from the 90s being bread, cereal, rice & pasta. All foods you would religiously avoid by today's advice for weight loss.