Keto Diet Goes Vegetarian

By now, you’ve probably heart of the ketogenic diet. It’s a very restrictive regimen of low carb, high fat foods with some similarities to the Atkin’s diet. But what if you don’t eat meat? Now, a plant-based keto is catching on. CBS2's Mary Calvi has more.

[cinnamon-spice]

I've lost 93lbs doing keto veggie. There's no need to cut out eggs and dairy unless you're vegan or have an intolerance to them. That's an intolerance to eggs and dairy, not vegans. 😁

[machinshin]

if you add eggs & dairy you have a *TON* of protein options.

With dairy you can get high-fat greek yogurts, or cheeses like Paneer, Bleu, Feta, and Hallumi are all awesome.

[carlmiller]

Almost all green veggies have protein in them, and avocados has like all the aminos a body needs as well.

[bernadetterocha]

If you want to avoid eggs, you could add nuts and nut butters for protein, and actually, as long as the macros are factored into the entire day's macro count and serving size portioned accordingly, mung beans and split peas have a ton of protein and can be added to a Keto diet as well, about 1/4cup or less dried when measured, then soaked. Subtract the amount of fiber from the total carba and you'll get your net carbs. I usually use half that amount even.

[agnils]

You don't get into ketoses just because you haven't eaten for 17 hours.
You still have to eat very, very low carb to get into ketoses.

[ketchupnpie]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I can eat eggs so I'm replacing protein with eggs... Nice!

[poohrona]

Vegetarians eat dairy. 😂 Maybe ketan would be a better name for no dairy option. 🤦‍♀️

[LeJimster]

I was plant based eating tons of carbs for 8 years and I tried doing plant based keto, maybe I was doing it wrong but I didn't enjoy it.
Vegetarian keto includes eggs, dairy. I think cheese alone makes the diet more tolerable long term.

[ryana-]

Will a Vegetarian diet keep your body lean, burn fat and make you lose weight like keto though?

[calmingdragon]

So, isn't this basically ovo-lacto?

[FloppityFlopFlop]

This isn't vegetarian. It's vegan.

[anarchisttutor]

When she stopped saying "like" at every opportunity she gained two pounds.

[gillmahoney]

Well we eat keto but didnt know it, but we eat dairy. I dont eat eggs, eat some carbo rarely cake, have sugar in coffee, need to lose weight but eat keto because we are veges, i dont like past much, dont like pizza

[gillmahoney]

Poor fish are animals and involve cruelty