This means you’re going from sugar burning—never tapping into your fat stores—belly fat, butt fat—into burning and melting all that fat off your body.
Instead of reaching for that easy fuel in the blood from your last piece of pizza, your body will say, “hey, let’s go burn some of that belly fat for fuel.”
But to do that, you ‘re going to switch over to fat fuel—ketones. It’s a clean fuel—like premium unleaded instead of yucky diesel.
This is a cleaner fuel. It’s better.
The brain loves it. Creative types love it. It’s great for making you quick and creative and imaginative – all that. And happier—it’s great for hormones like serotonin and dopamine.
You won’t have flagging energy from highs and lows in blood sugar.
When you go into ketosis, your cells, specifically the mitochondria start manufacturing new cellular machinery to run on fat fuel.
And this can take time—depending upon how much of a carb junkie you might have been—how many years you’ve been running solely on sugar.
If you’ve been eating a mixture of good, healthy foods, whole grains, and lots of fruits and vegetables—but bread, bagels, pasta and carbs too—it might not take as long as someone who lives solely on carbs, cola, doughnuts, cereal, pasta, packaged meals, etcetera.
The ketogenic diet has all kinds of benefits.