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Weight Loss: Should You Enjoy Ketogenic Snacking?

With so many people jumping on the “ketogenic diet” bandwagon right now, more and more people are beginning to wonder if this diet plan is for them. Even if you’re not following a ketogenic diet, it would be hard not to have seen ketogenic-specific foods now popping up in your supermarket.

Marketers are waking up to the fact that the ketogenic diet doesn’t seem to be going where they wanted it to be and are starting to make “out of the box” keto snacks. Should you indulge?

Here are some points to note about keto products…

1. Calories matter. First of all, consider the calories that matter the most here. Too many people dive into including keto snacks in their meal plan without even thinking about looking at the calorie count. If you eat a snack that contains 400 calories, that will need to be accounted for somewhere!

Compare this to a non-traditional keto snack like a 100 calorie apple, and which do you think is better for your weight loss plan? You could even add a bit of peanut butter to the apple to help balance it out better and it would still be under 200 calories, much less than the calories in the keto snack.

2. Keto doesn’t necessarily mean “weight loss friendly.” Also, remember that keto does not mean it is weight loss friendly. While many people use the ketogenic diet to lose weight, you still need to think about calories as mentioned above. Some people use this diet for health reasons, and many of these snacks are better marketed to them because they’re not watching their calories as much.

Just because a product claims it’s ketogenic doesn’t necessarily mean it’s designed to help you lose weight. The ketogenic diet is a low-carb, high-fat diet, so it greatly reduces your intake of carbohydrates, replacing them with fat.

3. Check Nutrition. Lastly, also consider nutrition. If keto snacking is highly processed, as many are, and as one aims to replace some of the high carb processed snacks in their eating plan, they still aren’t always healthy. A chocolate bar is never a good choice, no matter if it’s a keto bar or not. So don’t lose your common sense just because you see the term “keto”.

By keeping these points in mind, you should be better prepared to decipher the marketing of keto products and make sure they don’t take you off your smart course of healthy eating.

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