How Much Weight can I Lose on the Keto Diet?

A very common question asked about the Keto Diet is ‘How Much Weight can I Lose on the Keto Diet?’. The fact is that the Keto diet does work once its followed properly. If you follow the diet as instructed and do so consistently for long enough you will lose weight. You will get the results you are looking to achieve.

The popularity of the Keto diet proves this fact too. Everywhere you look these days in the diet industry, you will see the Keto diet being credited with helping people to lose weight. There are millions of people now who are living proof of that. If it didn’t work, it would not have this massive popularity.

In fact, the same can be said about any diet out there. If it didn’t work, you would not be hearing about it for very long.

The key word here is ‘sustainability’. You can lose the weight by going on the diet, but can you sustain the diet in order to keep that weight off? The Keto diet is no different. If you hold any of the common false beliefs about the Keto Diet you risk putting all the weight back on after losing it. Its not the fault of the diet as it has been proven to work.

Many people start out enthusiastically on the diet and follow all the rules rigidly. As a result they start to lose weight as expected. All good so far. But after a while some old habits start to creep in. Maybe it’s a cheat day. ‘Just one, I swear’, or a cheeky dessert because I’m having a bad day. The fact is eating habits are just like any other habits. They don’t just disappear.

Our brains are great at making up excuses to justify our choices to do or eat what we know we shouldn’t. The brain doesn’t like change. The bigger the change the more resistance we will feel. Yes, we can use willpower at the beginning but that only lasts to long.

On the flip side, if the change is not so big and more gradual then your brain will put up less resistance. As diets go this is one of the advantages the Keto diet has over many other diets.

The fatty food that we are often so fond of eating and that a lot of diets forbid, are ok to eat on the Keto diet. After all, on the Keto diet you are supposed to be consuming 70 – 75 percent fat.

This makes the transition easier and therefore your likelihood of failing a lot less.

You can read about some more of those comfort foods here.

So now that you have started and can stick with the Keto diet, what sort of results can you expect? To answer this properly we need to look at both short-term and long-term results.

How Much Weight can I Lose on the Keto Diet? – Short-Term

In the short-term you can lose a significant amount of weight if you stick to the diet properly. Also, keep in mind that it can take from 4 – 7 day for your body to reach ketosis when you are first starting out.

It is not unusual to lose ten or even fifteen pounds in the relative short-term. Depending on where you are starting from you could even increase that to twenty or thirty pounds. There are also a number of things which you can do to accelerate the process which you can read about here.

How Much Weight can I Lose on the Keto Diet? – Long-Term

This is where the Keto Diet really comes into its own. Because as explained before, it is easier to stick to the Keto diet, it makes it easier to keep those pounds off once you have lost them. It also makes it easier to continue losing more of those pounds if that’s what you want. Each persons goals will obviously very so there is no fixed number here.

How far you go is totally up to you. It will depend on how strictly you follow the Keto diet and how long you stick to it. For some people the Keto diet is a lifestyle change so therefore becomes second nature. Its just part of their normal life rather than any special kind of diet.

Other factors such as exercise will also have sizable influence on how much weight you lose and also how fast. The same rules apply to the Keto diet as any other diet in terms of consuming less calories than your body uses.

In summary, if you are starting the Keto diet for the first time, you should probably start off more gradually and continue consuming the foods that you’re used to which are Keto compliant. As you get more used to the Keto diet you can try more of the new foods you haven’t been used to eating and that way the change will be easier. This way you will be more likely to stick with the diet and therefore will see results faster.

Once you are fully in tune with Keto, then by all means experiment with some of the ways you can accelerate the results if that’s what you want to do.