Increased urination, bad breath, and the so-called keto flu, for example, are definitely some keto setbacks looking out for, making it important to be mindful of these complications before you actually give the diet a try. To help you further understand what kind of strange impacts the keto diet has on your body, we spoke to a handful of experts on the topic to help bring you the most useful information possible. Below are some things experts recommend keeping in mind. This often causes a weird or sweet taste in the mouth, she added. The keto diet flushes out water by reducing inflammation water binds up in inflammation and glycogen levels, she said. This often comes with a temporary loss of energy, body aches, brain fogginess, often referred to as the keto flu, she said. This period typically only lasts for two to four days, she added, and symptoms can be lessened with the help of an expert to guide you through this stage. Not everyone will go through it though. This may not be fun but it’s pretty common and usually passes in a few days at most, he said. The best solution is to stay hydrated and increase your intake of sea salt and high mineral foods like nuts and seeds, he recommended. This feels like you had a cup of coffee, minus any jittery feelings, he said.
From the research that we have, it does seem like this is a real thing that actually happens, even though it takes a few weeks for the magic to really start happening. In this study, researchers gave subjects one of two different diets for five months. They were also instructed not to try to lose weight: the participants who cut sugar had to replace those calories with other calories. During the three months of the intervention, the low-sugar group actually exceeded their target sugar reduction. Starting in the second month of sugar reduction, the reduced-sugar group tasted sweetness more intensely, so the same amount of sugar tasted sweeter to them. In the fourth overall month the third month of the low-sugar intervention, they tasted sweetness even more intensely. The differences went away during the final month, when both groups got to choose their own diet.
Also, preferably avoid margarine. Subscribe to Independent Premium. As well, once people reach their weight loss or health goals, some find they can add a few more carbs time to time. In addition the participants described the solution as tasting starchy using terms such as bread-like, rice-like and rather than sweet back into their diet tsste non-sweet based taste pathway.