Keto Diet for Beginners: 30-Day Keto Meal Plan for Rapid Weight Loss. Ketogenic Meal Prep Cookbook Full of Easy to Follow Recipes! Lose up to 20 Pounds in 30 Days! (Black and White Version) Paperback – November 9, 2018

The Ketogenic diet is an eating pattern that minimizes your carb intake and increases your fat-intake forcing your body to ditch its primary energy source. When you continue following this new eating pattern, your body enters a state known as ketosis after three to seven days (approximately). The Ketogenic diet has gained popularity in the last few years not just for its effective weight loss promise but also for the various other health benefits it provides. Since there are different low-carb diets, people often confuse keto with any similar low-carb diets. But just because a diet involves low-carb intake does not necessarily mean it is keto. This guide for beginners. If you want to reduce weight so you can help from this guide. Thankful!

I’ve been considering the Keto diet for some time now, but I hesitated because most of the articles/books I’ve read about Keto have promised the diet is for anyone and everyone and you will lose a ton of weight quickly with little-to-no side effects. However, this book has been a pleasant surprise in that it is open and honest without making outlandish promises. Instead, it offers down to earth and sensible advice that has convinced me to give Keto a try. And the recipes are amazing … I can’t wait to make the easy cloud buns!

This book is great for beginners! We have tried several recipes and they are great. nothing crazy to buy. Highly recommend!

While this book has a lot of information to offer, it is completely lacking some of the information one needs to truly follow the ketogenic lifestyle: there is no nutritional information offered for the recipes. Having come across more than a few recipes in "keto books" that contain WAY too many carbs (anywhere from 20 to 74.4 carbs PER serving), I just don't take someone's word for it that the recipes which omit this information truly ARE keto friendly. Why? Because anything having 20 to 74.4 carbs PER serving of a single food item are in fact NOT keto friendly! What are you supposed to do? Eat only one serving of that recipe as basically your only food for the day? I think not.Bottom line: this book may be good if you are seeking information but not so much if you are looking for recipes low in carbs. (At least as far as we can determine regarding the carbs.)UPDATE: I have come across the again a year after my initial review. I see that now there is nutritional information for recipes. Only thing is that this gives net carbs. Some people like that. Others of us want to know the total carbs. Now that I am more familiar with keto, I understand that if you add net carbs + fiber, you get total carbs. (Conversely if you have total carbs but want net carbs, subtract the grams of fiber from the grams of total carbs.) All that would be great news IF this book gave the grams of fiber. For the recipes I checked it didn't. So unless you want to calculate the carbs in each ingredient and figure total carbs yourself this is still a guessing game if you are counting total carbs. That's just too much trouble for me since so many other books with keto recipes are available that DO give the total carbs. Some even show both: total AND net carbs!

I bought this book for inspiration on starting a ketogenic diet. I read through the introductory chapters in a single sitting and was not impressed with the writing style and found several contradictory statements in the initial chapters. For instance, the writers incorrectly refer to zucchini, avocados, bell peppers, tomatoes, peas, and cucumbers as vegetables in chapter 3. Later in the chapter, they correctly state that avocado is a fruit but incorrectly state that the other fruits are vegetables. The authors of a nutrition/cookbook should know the difference between fruits and vegetables.They also say it is ok to consume black beans, pinto beans, and lentils (pg 63). If you are only supposed to eat 5% carbs per day, one 1/2 cup serving of any of these (12.5-21 grams of net carbs) will approach or exceed that limit. They are low in fat and high in protein.On page 55, they state that there are “no cheat” days on keto diets, but on page 65 they say you can “have a cheat day once a week (if you want)” as long as you are doing strength training.On page 63, they mention that it is “possible to lose twenty pounds in one month” if you exercise, follow the proper diet, and follow “supplement or drug routine”. They never mention what the supplement and drug routine is. It also says (pg 63-64) to eat the same 3 or 4 meal recipes and repeat them “once or twice” in a week. But, on the structured meal plan, there is no repetition of meals within the week.There are more examples of contradictory statements, but I will not include all of them in this review.As far as the recipes go, I haven’t tried any and won’t be making any of them for two reasons. After reading the book, I don’t have confidence in their knowledge of the diet and the recipes don’t include macros so I can calculate how many carbs, protein, and fats I am consuming. In addition, there were only a few pictures of the recipes and they were black and white (see photo).It seems like this book was not reviewed by an editor before publication to weed out all the contradictory and incorrect statements. No print or clinical research resources were ever quoted and they only give keto websites as the resources for this book (see photo).Unfortunately, there were only 5 star reviews when I bought this book. If anyone had pointed out some of the contradictory and inaccurate statements, I wouldn’t have bought this book.Anyone with the following conditions should save their money and stay away from this book as the authors state you should not go into ketosis: kidney failure, pancreatitis, gallbladder disease, gastric bypass, genetic metabolic defects, liver disorders, and pregnancy.I bought Simply Keto by Suzanne Ryan at the same time and will be following her recommendations and menus. Her book includes full color pictures of each of the recipes and the macros for each item, is easy to read, and doesn’t have contradictory information.

I'm enjoying this book a lot. I’ve been learning about ketogenic diet over the last few weeks for the first time. I like this book because it’s simple and seems thorough. I am going to keep it handy for reference as I develop the best plan for my body and health.

I love keto diet recipes. This book 30-Day Keto Meal Plan for Rapid Weight Loss its truly working. I read this book I can lots of things about Keto Meal Plan. The author well explanation and very clear writing. I am glad to purchase this book. Thanks

This is a very good book which answered a lot of my questions. The books information was very thorough. Have read many Keto books and this was my favorite.

The very first recipe I encountered calls for a medium banana! A banana on a keto diet? Are they out of their minds? Do you know how many carbs that is? Other recipes call for pomegranate, beets, carrots and apple. This book is low carb at best but definitely not keto.

Excellent read

All I can say is, any diet that let's me feast on meat and eggs sounds good to me. Just not sure what the long-term consequences of this diet may be!

Good info if doing keto diet

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