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What are the dos and donts of keto?

Choose keto-friendly foods that are very low in carbs, like meat, fish, seafood, cheese, and vegetables with real butter. Avoid bread, potatoes, rice, sweets, and other foods that are high in carbs. Eating keto foods can help you lose weight, improve your health, and feel better without ever counting a single calorie!

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Drinks

Drink water, coffee, tea, or the occasional glass of wine. For other ideas, choose from these: Water is the number one option. Have it right out of the tap or add flavor with a slice of cucumber or a couple of berries. Drink it over ice or hot with a slice of lemon. Sparkling water and seltzers, with flavor or without, offer even more variety. Coffee has no carbs. If you must have it sweetened, replace the sugar with a non-caloric sweetener. A small amount of milk or cream can be used. If you need extra calories from fat, stir in butter or coconut oil for “bulletproof coffee”. However, if weight loss stalls, cut back on the cream or fat on your coffee. Tea – Black, green, Orange Pekoe, mint, or herbal – most teas are carb-free. Skip the sugar, and add a non-caloric sweetener if you need it. Diet soda is good choice for some, but not for others. You might find diet soda is a helpful way to stop drinking sugary sodas. But some people find that the sweet taste of diet soda makes them hungry and increases cravings for other sugary foods. In that case, you may want to try flavored seltzers or sparkling water instead. Bone broth is full of nutrients and electrolytes. Sipping a warm mug of broth fills you up and nourishes you at the same time. Homemade bone broth is delicious, but store-bought versions without added sugars or starches are good too.

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Alcoholic drinks

Dry wine (red, rosé, and white) and champagne are keto-friendly in limited amounts. Wines that are typically low in carbs are merlot, pinot noir, cabernet, sauvignon blanc, pinot grigio, and chardonnay. Avoid sweet wines, such as moscato, port, ice wine, or dessert wines. Distilled spirit, such as whisky, tequila, brandy, and vodka, have zero carbs, as long as they aren’t mixed with sweet sodas or juices. Hard seltzers are a new, ready-to-drink option with just two grams of carbs per can. Low-carb beer can be a good option. Beer usually has too many carbs for keto, but a few super low-carb beers do exist. If you love beer, it will be worth the effort to search for these. Look for a beer with less than three carbs per serving and limit your consumption. Keep in mind that the more alcohol you drink, the harder it is to lose weight because your body has to burn off alcohol calories first.

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What foods are surprisingly not keto?

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Chances are good that, at this point, you've heard of the ketogenic diet, whether it's because of a friend who keeps writing about it on social media, or from watching Vinny Guadagnino on "Jersey Shore." The keto diet, as it's more commonly known, is one of the trendiest diets out there right now, but it's quite different from many that have come before it. The ketogenic diet is all about putting your body into a ketogenic state, which happens when your body runs on fat instead of carbs. When your body runs on fat, it burns fat, and in order to get into this state (known as ketosis), you must eat a diet that is low in carbs and high in fats. The diet is strict, with a list of foods you should be eating, and another list of foods you should be avoiding - and some of those are pretty surprising. Because the diet eliminates even natural carbs and sugars, a lot of foods that are typically considered healthy are not on the list of items you can have. Below are a few of the surprising foods you can't eat on the keto diet:

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