Well, I'll throw in one of my local faves. Her recipes are usually great -- I've been basically eating nothing but stuff from her cookbook for the past six months. Warning, though -- if you are not a garlic FIEND, whatever she says for garlic, garlic powder, or onion powder, use about an eighth of what she says!
Peace Love and Low Carb
Yes, but you have to (and this is SUCH a weird way to learn to think) get more fat in there. Keto turns the whole "food pyramid" upside down, so that most of your calories come from fat. Heavy cream in your coffee, cheese in everything, bacon like you're having some sort of bizarre bacon fetish dream. Without enough fat in your diet, you probably won't feel satisfied or lose weight -- and too much protein is hella bad for your kidneys.
Starting out, read food labels. You'll be stunned at how much sugar they sneak into prepared stuff; even stuff you'd think had none at all. You don't want "low fat", "light", "lite", or completed fat" anything -- you'll find they just pump stuff full of sugar to make up for the fat they remove. At first, it is a genuine PITA, but you'll learn pretty quickly what's okay and what's not.
It's also perfectly okay to ease into this. Just start noticing the carbs you're eating and don't eat 'em! I'm afraid, dear Lady Darnk, this includes the crust of that pizza -- but you can eat all the pizza topping you want. And a gentle word of advice -- lots of veggies, unless you want to be plugged up like the pipes in a cheap hotel.
You'll run into keto nuts who make it sound like you need at least a high school chemistry lab to "do it right", but you really don't. And the thing is, you don't feel deprived or constantly starving when you eat this way -- most everybody I've talked with who is on it was amazed that it worked, as was I. So don't think deprivation, think MOAR BACON!
