If you have spent any time online researching the keto diet or looking for delicious keto recipes then you will eventually come across the term lazy keto or lazy keto diet. If you have ever wondered what is the lazy keto diet then you’ve come to the right place.
The lazy keto diet is a more flexible version of the traditional keto diet.
The keto diet is one where 5 to 10 percent of your total calories comes from carbohydrates, 15 to 20 percent comes from protein and 60 to 75 percent comes from fat.
Eating like this will cause your body to switch from using glucose for energy to using ketones for energy . This is called ketosis. How you choose to reach these amounts is up to each person.
The methods used to follow a keto diet is often broken down into several methods. These different methods fall under several terms: strict keto, dirty keto and lazy keto.
Strict Keto Diet:
This generally means someone who follows the keto diet (getting calories from 75 to 80% fat, 15 to 20% protein and 5% carbs) and keeps strict counts of their calories and grams of fat, protein and carbohydrates.
They strive to eat 20 grams of carbs or less daily. They generally have a list of food items that are considered keto safe and not keto safe. They track their macros daily to make sure that they are in their desired range of fat, protein and carbohydrates. While this form of keto will work, many people find it’s time consuming and has you constantly focusing on hitting your chosen numbers.
The downside to this method is the time involved for the constant monitoring.
Dirty Keto Diet:
This generally means someone who follows the keto diet (getting calories from 75 to 80% fat, 15 to 20% protein and 5% carbs) but will eat anything that they feel fits their macros for the day. So that candy bar or cookies you’ve been craving? If you eat it but stay within your carb count then this is fine if you are following a “dirty keto” method.
The down side to this method is you might be choosing foods that are probably the same foods that you ate when you were heavier. Will the candy bar or cookies fill you up and keep you from being hungry for hours? Probably not. While this method can work it could potentially trigger previous bad habits.
Lazy Keto Diet:
This generally means someone who follows the keto diet (getting calories from 75 to 80% fat, 15 to 20% protein and 5% carbs) but they’ve grown weary of all that counting and have decided to only focus on the number that seems to affect their weight the most….the carbohydrates.
Lazy keto followers have figured out that if you control the carbs you generally get in enough fat and protein along the way. Because we are sick of counting, some of us (including myself) have developed tricks along the way to help keep us on the path. A bit of meal planning and food journaling will get you far with this method and it doesn’t take much time either!
Wondering if you really are able to lose weight with the lazy keto diet method? Then check out this page:
No matter which version of keto you are following one method to help you stay on track is to use a meal planner to help track meals.
Trying to figure out what to eat is the main reason people get off track on their diet.
How many times have you thought to yourself…. I have no idea what to make? Then, when you can’t find a recipe that will work or discover that you don’t have all the ingredients needed on hand, give up and just fall back into old eating habits.
What if there was a way to stay on track and avoid the stress of trying to figure out what to eat? This is where using a meal planner can help to save the day. Want to learn more? Then check out this page:
I am a true believer in being prepared. The small amount of time it takes to do a little prep work on the front end saves me tons of time, energy and aggravation on the back end. With that in mind check out this page to see some of the items that I ALWAYS keep on hand in my Lazy Keto kitchen.
If you are following the lazy keto diet (or even any of the other versions of the keto diet) then you want to make sure that you are accurately counting your carbs. You can’t always be sure if your packaged food item contains more carbs than you expect simply by looking at the food. Sugar and starches find their way into foods that you least suspect. To make sure you aren’t taking in lots of hidden carbs you need to become a label detective.
Check out this page to learn how to read a food nutrition label in just 3 easy steps.
Sticking to a keto diet while on vacation can take a bit of planning. Find out how bags of prepacked salad mixes can help you stick to your keto diet while you are traveling. You can also find a complete 3 day meal plan with macronutrient break downs to help you make some easy keto meals while on the road. Check it out here:
In the beginning, when you first start a diet, it’s easy to keep motivated. Usually people lose weight more quickly in the first few weeks before it slows down. How do you keep yourself motivated as time goes on? If your end goal is to just lose a set amount of weight (20 lbs, 50 lbs, 100lbs) then it’s easy to become disappointed when you don’t quickly reach your goal and give up.
What if you were able to set other goals that help get you to your final weight loss goal?
What if these smaller goals could help keep you motivated so you achieve your weight loss goals?
Learn more about how you can set actual weight loss goals you can achieve by checking out this page:
Looking for new ways to save time in the kitchen?
Don’t like cooking or wished that you were more confident in the kitchen?
Tired of discovering that you are missing a recipe ingredient and think you can no longer make that recipe?
Stop on over to this page and start learning about meal templates. These templates will help you to save time in the kitchen, increase your cooking skills, allow you to swap out missing ingredients or those you don’t like and will help you build a foundation of recipes that you can use to create your own meal plans.
Looking for some delicious lazy keto recipes to help keep you on track? Then check out some of these pages for lazy keto meal ideas:
Or how about another 12 fast and easy lazy keto meals to make whipping up lunch or dinner less of a hassle.
Save time at breakfast with these lazy keto breakfast ideas:
You can save time by having some delicious lazy keto freezer meals on hand. Having freezer meals on hand can save you tons of time and a lot of aggravation too! Freezer meals are great for those days when you know you will be short on time and don’t want to resort to take out, fast food or the other high carb freezer meal choices that are out there.
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