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How do you start? I can't seem to find a consistent diet plan that isn't insanely difficult to get into.

I think diet doctor makes it trivially simple, but of course, to someone who never cooks, it might still seem though. https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/get-started

Drop all starchy carbs and replace with meat, eggs and vegetables. It’s not rocket science.

You need to add some butter, oil and heavy cream, or chances are you are not in ketosis: 80% of you calories intake should come from fat to guarantee ketosis.

This is a popular misconception. Please check the [1] keto FAQ on Reddit.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/wiki/faq#wiki_how_do_i_start_a...

Reading that FAQ, the idea behind low fat intake is that body will provide fat, which means you need to have some high calories restrictions to initiate process.

E.g. you need 2k calories for your day-to day life. If you don't want to eat lots of fat, to get into ketosis you need to decrease your food intake to say 1k, with idea is that 0.05k calories will come from carbs in food, say 0.2k calories will come from protein in food, 0.75k calories will come from fat in food, and another 1k will come from body fat.

Pecans and other high-fat nuts are great for snacking, too.

Olive oil. Lots of olive oil.

Yep. But you're probably better off cooking with something like coconut oil, and just pouring the olive oil on your food.

Thanks for stating this, not enough people understand the smoke point of the oil they cook with.

If I'm heating oil, its always avocado oil or clarified butter.

If I'm pouring or drinking oil, its always high-quality extra-virgin olive oil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Smoke_point_of_cookin...

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