What is the Keto Diet:

Put simply; the ketogenic diet is a diet that is high in fat and very low in carbs which forces your body to start a process called nutritional ketosis. This means your body starts to burn stored fats for energy due to the lack of glucose in the bloodstream.

Glucose, also known as the body’s primary fuel source, is converted from carbohydrates. This is found in dozens of everyday food items — from white bread to fruits and vegetables.

Limiting these carb-rich foods to 25g a day is paramount to the ketogenic diet, but it doesn’t stop there.

To supply your body’s nutritional needs while maintaining ketosis, you will actually shift to eating high-fat foods with a moderate amount of protein. For example Fish, certain nuts, eggs, and most meat sources.

Combining the Keto Diet with Intermittent Fasting

By understanding their individual uses, you may think that the Keto diet and IF will be too taxing on the body when used together.

However, Based on my research, I believe that I have found the perfect way to piece them together into a single system and with the right implementation, one can incorporate the effects of being in ketosis with that of fasting.

For example, while gaining muscle mass is much harder with a ketogenic diet, IF solves this by improving the body’s insulin sensitivity, blood glucose regulation, and growth hormone production.

Fasting can also help your body achieve ketosis much faster.

Once you are in ketosis, it will be much easier to stick to your IF schedule since you will experience fewer hunger pains.

Remember that IF keeps your metabolism high, which helps you adapt quickly to your reduced carb intake.

Finally, being in ketosis while fasting allows your body to start using your body fat as a fuel source which leads to lower BF% and a leaner body overall.

If all these are proven to be true, then the Keto and IF combination would be a breakthrough.

With this 90-day Keto & IF experiment, I aim to affirm these claims by using my own body.

If You Aren’t Tracking It, You Aren’t Measuring It

For the sake of this experiment, I decided to get some baseline data on the measurements I am tracking.

First of all, I got my blood tested to acquire the necessary information, such as my thyroid stimulating hormone, cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL, and LDL.

The next thing I did was obtain my DexaFit scans, which gave me data about my body fat percentage, muscle mass profile, and other physiological data.

Here are the results:

• Total Body Fat Percentage: 17.6% (translates to 8–9% BF using calipers)

• Total Mass: 164.4 lbs.

• Fat Tissue: 28.9 lbs.

• Lean Tissue: 128.8 lbs.

• BMC: 6.7 lbs.

• Visceral Fat: 0.37 lbs.