A keto dish with raw salmon and other ingredients

Ready to Start Keto?
Here’s Everything You Need.

If you’ve found yourself here, you might be somewhere between “I’ve heard good things about keto” and “I have absolutely no idea where to start”.
Maybe someone you know dropped a bunch of weight and swears by it. Maybe you’ve been reading about it late at night wondering whether it could actually work for you, or whether you’d even be able to stick to it with everything else you’ve got going on. Whatever brought you here, the fact that you’re looking for a starting point rather than just more information is already a good sign.

Keto isn’t complicated once someone explains it properly. The problem is that most of what you’ll find online is either so technical it reads like a medical journal, or written by people who appear to have unlimited time, money and enthusiasm for meal prepping at six in the morning. That’s not what this is.

My name is Pete. I’m a single dad running a couple of small businesses, looking after a lot of beehives, trying to go surfing whenever I can, and constantly fixing my old house that I’m pretty sure is held together more by optimism than anything else at this point.

I started my keto journey over two years ago because I was struggling to get through the day in ways that nobody in the medical system could explain or fix, and changing what I ate actually changed my whole life. If I can make this work with my life the way it is, I’m pretty confident you can make it work with yours.

Step 1: Understand What Keto Actually Is

Keto is short for ketogenic, and the core idea is straightforward. By cutting your carbohydrate intake low enough, you shift your body away from burning sugar for fuel and into a state where it burns fat instead.

That state is called Ketosis, and it’s where most people start noticing real changes. They feel steadier energy throughout the day, reduced inflammation, an end to the energy crashes that used to derail their afternoons, and for most people, meaningful weight loss that actually sticks.

The foods you cut out are starches and sugars, and anything your body turns into sugar for energy. This means bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, anything sweet. What you eat instead is meat, fish, eggs, healthy fats and non-starchy vegetables. That’s the core of it, and once you get your head around the basics everything else is pretty simple.

→ Read: What is the Keto Diet? A Beginner’s Guide

a bowl of ketogenic diet food

Step 2: Know what you can and can’t eat

This is the question that trips most people up at the beginning, and it’s the one that’s easiest to solve with the right information in front of you. Once you know the list you’ll never find yourself standing in the supermarket aisle second-guessing whether something is okay to eat.

→ Read: The Complete Keto Food List

Keto diet fried salmon
rustic kitchen for keto lifestyle

Step 3: Read These When You’re Ready

As you get started these articles will answer the questions that come up most often along the way. Bookmark them and come back whenever you need them.

→ How to Start Keto in 7 Steps

→ What is the Keto Flu and How to Beat It

→ How Much Weight Can You Lose on Keto?

→ My Personal Experience: Reducing Inflammation With Keto

A delicious keto breakfast featuring fried egg, bacon, avocado, and tomatoes on a plate.

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