Brussels Keto

Walk down the supplement aisle or scroll a keto ad for long enough and you will meet a drink powder that promises to put you in ketosis in minutes, no diet required. Exogenous ketones, they are called, and the pitch is seductive: sip this, skip the willpower, burn fat. The molecules are real and the blood-ketone reading they produce is real too. What is far shakier is the leap from a higher number on a meter to the outcomes people actually want.

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Somewhere in the keto corner of the internet a comforting idea took hold: that as long as you keep carbs low, calories simply do not count, and you can eat butter by the block and still lose weight. It is an appealing message, and it contains a grain of truth, which is exactly why it misleads so many people. Calories have not been repealed. What keto changes is your relationship with them, and understanding that difference is what separates the people who lose weight steadily from the ones who wonder why the scale has stopped moving.

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Exercising on keto raises a lot of questions, and a lot of confident claims that do not survive contact with the research. The reality is more nuanced and, once you understand it, more freeing: keto suits some kinds of training very well, is neutral for others, and works against a specific few. Match your training to that and you can exercise happily on keto. Fight it, and you will be frustrated.

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Fibre is the nutrient people quietly assume they have to give up when they cut carbohydrate, and it is easy to see why. Bread, oats, beans and fruit are the fibre sources most of us grew up hearing about, and nearly all of them are off the keto menu. Yet a well-built ketogenic diet can be a genuinely high-fibre way of eating, sometimes higher than the average carb-heavy plate, because the foods it leans on are mostly vegetables, nuts and seeds.

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