Keto Diet for Beginners - $10 a Day Budget - 3 Delicious MEALS

keto diet plan for beginners a lot of times people want to try something but

they're confused there's some question marks they're not totally sure about how

it works so today we're going to talk about some of the basics and we're going

to give you some examples of meals that you could eat to get started on a keto

diet we're going to talk about calories and macros and percentages and make sure

that you've got everything crystal clear coming right up

hey I'm dr. Ekberg I'm a holistic doctor and a former Olympic decathlete and if

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miss anything so let's first just cover some of the

very basics that there's a lot of talk about calories and yes calories matter

because in the end if you want to lose weight you need to have a calorie

deficit but all calories are not created equal they don't affect the body the

same so if you eat a hundred calories of carbohydrate you will trigger a lot of

insulin your blood sugar will spike your insulin will spike and your body will

attempt to store the excess calories because you can't burn through that

instantly but you have to get the sugar out of the bloodstream almost instantly

so therefore insulin and carbohydrate puts you in a storage mode and as long

as insulin is high then you're still in that storage mode and it's difficult for

the body to retrieve whatever fat you have stored and therefore you get hungry

and this is something that's so overlooked and people that have tried

keto and then they slip a little bit and go back to carbs they can testify that

when you eat carbs you get hungrier all right so it's not just about the

calories a hundred calories of carbs make you hungrier than a hundred

calories of fat because 100 calories of fat reduces insulin it it produces

virtually no insulin response and over I'm it allows your overall insulin to go

down which puts you into a fat-burning mode which means that you are satisfied

because you have access to the food store so that's the very first basic

fact to realize that calories are not the same they create different hormone

responses and that's why the keto diet is so popular and so successful and why

people are so satisfied even though they lose weight on it so let's dive into it

and look at some examples of meals of food that you could eat on a keto diet

so if you like cereal in the morning a lot of people eat milk with a banana and

then they have cereal grain cereal sweet and grain cereal and now you're gonna

get a bunch of sugar from the milk you're gonna get a bunch of sugar from

the cereal and a lot of carbs from from the grain but instead let's say that we

swap out the milk for yogurt and I like to use sour cream I like to mix yogurt

and sour cream because I like it really creamy and by increasing the fat content

that means that there's actually less carbohydrate and if you find a really

sour really tart yogurt then there's also less sugar in that there's going to

be some carbohydrate in the yogurt but we can still fit that into a ketogenic

diet so let's say that we have half a cup of yogurt and half a cup of sour

cream that's one cup total about 120 grams of each 240 grams that's about a

cup so let's look at the yogurt part of this then you're gonna get 4.4 grams of

fat from that amount from half a cup of yogurt you're gonna get four grams of

protein and you're gonna get four point eight grams of net carbs so there's no

fiber in yogurt but if there is a food with fiber then you take the total carbs

and you subtract the fiber because you're only interested in the carbs that

you can digest that you can absorb into the bloodstream so let's

take one example where we explain in detail we look at the details of how to

calculate the percentages how to calculate the macros for a keto diet so

fat is gonna give you nine calories per gram protein is going to give you four

calories per gram and carbohydrates gonna give you four calories per gram so

the fat has the most calories so we don't have to eat as much fat by volume

to still get the fat to be dominant so four point four grams times nine

calories is forty calories from fat in that yogurt four calories times four

grams is sixteen calories from protein and we have four point eight grams of

carbohydrate times four calories as nineteen calories from carbohydrate and

the carbohydrate in this case is all lactose that's the sugar in milk and

this is just a little bit less lactose than in milk because once the yogurt

turns sour the lactobacillus actually consumes some of the sugar and turns it

into lactic acid that's why there's less sugar and it tastes a little bit tart so

the more sour the more tart you can find your yogurt the less sugar and the more

beneficial bacteria now when we add up those calories we find that 75 calories

are going to come from half a cup of yogurt now forty calories

divided by 75 total means that the fat is responsible poor 53.3%

of the calories are coming from fat the protein gives us 21 point 1 percent of

the calories and the carbohydrate gives us 25 point six percent of the calories

so so far that's not a ketogenic diet but because there's going to be other

things in here it can still fit into a ketogenic diet just don't overdo the

yogurt portion of that so let's look at the sour cream portion of this and this

is why I like to put sour cream in there not just because I love the creamy

flavor but it actually makes it much more ketogenic so we get twenty three

point six grams of fat from half a cup of sour cream we get two and a half

grams of protein and 4.2 grams of carbs so because there's more fat in there

there's going to be less of the other things in as a percentage so the fat

percentage in sour cream is 89% comes from fat 89% of calories are from fat

four percent comes from throat protein and seven percent come from carbohydrate

total calories 240 from the sour cream and instead of the cereal I like to put

ground seeds and nuts on my yogurt so I use ground flaxseed you can also use

chia seed they're very very similar nutritionally so two tablespoons of flax

gives you eight point four grams of fat three point seven grams of protein and

0.3 grams of net carbs that percentage turns out to be 83 percent of the

calories in flax come from fat 16 percent come from protein and only one

percent of the calories in flax are from carbohydrate so now that we're adding

some more fat we are sort of diluting the carbohydrates from the yogurt and

then one of my favorite nuts is pecans my three favorite nuts are macadamias

pecans and walnuts so it's going to change the numbers just a little bit but

all three of those are very very safe for a ketogenic diet so here we have a

quarter cup or about one ounce of pecans which gives us 20 grams of fat 2.6 grams

of protein 1.2 grams of carbs and the percentage the macro percentages is 92%

from fat 5% from protein and 3% from carbohydrates so now when we add it all

we do have a ketogenic meal and we're eating 600 calories in this breakfast so

we're getting a lot of satisfying fat we're getting just a tiny little bit of

carbohydrates all right so now it's time for lunch

and I'm assuming with this example that you're still eating three meals so a lot

of people once they start a ketogenic diet then they'll notice they get less

hungry so after a while they start skipping a meal because two meals is

plenty satisfying but for right now we're just going to assume that we are

eating three meals we're just we're not even trying to lose weight yet we're

just trying to change the body and get it a little fat adapted so now it's time

for lunch and we're gonna make an omelet we're gonna have two eggs that's a

hundred and ten grams we're gonna have an ounce of sausage we're gonna have an

ounce and a half of tomato spinach bell pepper mushroom one and a half ounces

each then we'll have an ounce and a half of cheddar cheese and a tablespoon of

olive oil 2 eggs provide ten and a half grams of fat 13 point eight grams of

protein and 0.8 grams of carbs that's 62% of calories from fat 36% from

protein and 2% from carbohydrates so eggs and themselves are quite ketogenic

one ounce of sausage will get you eight grams of fat four and a half grams of

protein and no carbs at all because it's an all of meat product meats doesn't

have carbs that means 80 percent of calories in sausage come from fat and

20% come from protein for a total of 90 calories all right so the next and the

omelet we put some vegetables and I've grouped those together because they're

very similar foods these are non starchy they're very water rich and they have

lots of fiber so tomato spinach bell pepper and mushrooms we use an ounce and

a half of each and they provide virtually

zero fat so then people ask well how can they be in a ketogenic diet I thought

keto was about eating lots of fat well it's not really how it works it's just

that you want to avoid carbs and then the only other food that doesn't

stimulate insulin at all is fat so you reduce the carbs you eat moderate

protein and then you up the fats to fill out the rest of your nutritional and

caloric needs so for most people a ketogenic diet a ketogenic effect occurs

when we eat about 75% fat 20% of calories from protein and 5% of

calories from carbohydrate so even though there's virtually no fat in the

vegetables there's also hardly any protein or any carbohydrate they're

mostly water so when we look at the percentages we have 11 17 12 and 8 we

have around 10% from fat we have about 20 to 50 22:56 18 and 53 so it varies a

bit but it doesn't really matter carbohydrates we have 67 27 70% and 39%

but the reason it doesn't matter is that there's so few calories all in all these

foods these vegetables provide less than 40 calories so the percentage the

composition doesn't really matter as long as the net carbs are very low which

they are and that's why you can include lots of non starchy vegetables in your

ketogenic diet and then we top off the omelet with some yummy cheese and we

cook it in some olive oil an ounce and a half of cheese provides 15 grams of fat

ten point eight grams of protein 0.6 grams of carbs and percentage-wise it's

75 percent of calories from fat 24 percent from protein and only one

percent from carbohydrate and then we cook it in

some olive oil and I lose I like to use extra virgin olive oil organic extra

virgin olive oil because we want to use a nutritious and whole food and while it

is very sensitive to heat if you put it in the pan and then you pour the egg

batter on top of the olive oil the olive oil is never gonna get really hot so you

can safely cook in extra-virgin olive oil when you're making an omelet and

that 1 tablespoon of olive oil provides 15 grams of fat and no protein and no

carbohydrates so obviously 100 percent of the calories in oil comes from fat so

the cheese adds 183 calories and the olive oil adds 135 so in total this

omelet has 597 calories so both the breakfast and the lunch have right at

600 calories and both of them would fit great into a ketogenic diet and for

dinner I often have a salad and I love a

hamburger salad I just cook hamburger patties whether it's on the grill or in

a frying pan like I would cook a hamburger and then instead of having a

bun and vegetables I just throw it on top of a salad and I use 15% fat in the

ground beef and I eat about half a pound so that half a pound gives me 34 grams

of fat 46 grams of protein and no carbohydrate so from that type of

hamburger meat you get 62 percent of calories from fat and 38 percent from

protein for a total of 487 calories so just like in the omelet the vegetables

have very little impact because there's so few calories 45 grams of spring mix

which is about 2 cups have zero fat 0.5 protein 0.5 carbs 45 grams or one and a

half ounce of tomato has 0:01 and onion has zero and a half and

three point four so they're very small amounts and even though the percentages

again are pretty high the total calories are four seven and sixteen compared to

487 so these the percentages from the vegetables really wash out and then at

the end if you're a hard die hamburger fan you might have to put some mayo on

it I put a little bit of mayo and some olive oil if you don't want to do the

Mayo then you can just use more olive oil but I'll use about two tablespoons

of mayo and a tablespoon of olive oil and those are virtually all fat of

course so almost a hundred percent of the calories come from the fat they add

235 and 135 calories so all in all this salad is going to get you about eight

hundred and eighty-five calories and if we add this all up it's two thousand

eighty five calories and some people are going to lose weight on that and some

people are not but like I said this is just really to get you fat adapted you

don't want to try to starve yourself until you have changed your metabolism

from carb dependent to fat dependent to to fat adapted so then a lot of people

say that OH Kido is too expensive or eating clean

keto is too expensive I can't afford to get healthy because this food is so

costly well let's look at some of these costs and I'm gonna go through and

explain where I get these foods and what they cost me and then we can just kind

of add it up and see the only yoghurt that I really like that you can buy is

european-style organic plain whole fat from Trader Joe's I love it you can make

it a little more sour if you make it yourself but that's about the only sour

yogurt that I found and that's the kind that I like half a cup of that yogurt is

gonna cost you fifty three cents the sour cream I get from Costco sometimes

I'm getting organic somewhere but I've found that

the Costco sour cream even though it's in a big tub and it's very inexpensive

it's actually a very good quality so I do very well with that and it only cost

me thirty five cents it's actually cheaper so if you want to dilute your

yogurt with sour cream it actually brings the cost down as well as make it

creamier flaxseed is almost ridiculously cheap two tablespoons of flax of organic

flaxseed is about 13 cents and grind it myself I keep it in the freezer and then

it's ready to go pecans are a little bit more expensive

than some other nuts but a quarter cup doesn't cost too much it's about

sixty-two cents so all in all this wholesome high-fat breakfast is going to

cost you a whooping one dollar and sixty three cents I don't think that's an

argument for having to stay with your brand-name cereal in the morning when it

comes to eggs it's a good idea to spend a little bit extra I don't worry so much

about organic as I worry about pastured I want the chicken to have a normal life

I want it to run outside and get some sunshine and eat some bugs and eat

whatever chickens like to eat those are called pasture chickens if you can get

past your organic that's a little better even but I'd much rather have a pasture

non-organic than an organic mass-produced so I pay about six seven

dollars for twelve eggs so two eggs are gonna cost one dollar eight cents an

ounce of good quality sausage without nitrates or msg or anything is gonna run

you maybe about 40 cents tomatoes spinach bell pepper and mushrooms I'd

like to get organic as much as possible I try to get them from a local market

like a local farmers market or sprouts or something like that they'll run you

25 30 40 cents per item an ounce and a half of a good quality cheese is 89

cents I had to look pretty hard to find a local farmers market that has

grass-fed raw cheese that's the best one that is least interfere with it still

has back tyria and enzymes and it's grass-fed so

it has the right ratios of omega sixes to omega-3 so it's worth spending a

little bit extra I was lucky to find that one it runs about nine or ten

dollars a pound I typically get my olive oil from Costco they have these big tubs

two liters I think it is of organic extra virgin olive oil so a tablespoon

of that will run you about fifteen cents so all in all making an omelet with

top-notch ingredients is gonna cost you about $3 76 cents the quality of meat is

very important and I'm thrilled that at least where I live

walmart has started carrying grass-fed organic ground beef and it is five

dollars and 64 cents a pound so it is so well worth it even if you can find

ground beef for three or four bucks somewhere those extra couple of dollars

are well well worth it the taste is incredible they're nice and juicy

flavorful and you know that it's gonna have that healthy fat ratio in it for

the salad I typically use a spring mix or a mix of power greens from Costco you

get that one-pound tub for about 399 sometimes $4.99 so two cups only gonna

run you about 40 cents I like to get organic tomatoes and onions when I can

from the farmers market they'll run you about a quarter and ten cents when it

comes to Mayo most of the time I try to make my own war I try to get a kind that

brand that uses of a kada oil or something that's a little better than

the soybean or the canola oil but sometimes I'm lazy and I just want to

kind of grab something and I'll have some commercial mayo it's not the best

fat but it's not gonna ruin your keto so if you only use it once in a while then

it's not too bad but I would recommend that in the long run you try to find

some some better Mayo or even make it yourself two tablespoons gonna run you

probably about 20 cents again the olive oil I get organic

extra virgin from Costco with tablespoons about 15 cents and I also

like to put some vinegar on my salads two tablespoons is typically about ten

cents and if you want to get some if you like apple cider vinegar then that's a

great way to get a little bit of extra apple cider vinegar in there but if you

like the balsamic or the white wine or the red wine vinegar those will work

fine as well so in this particular example I've put together amounts of

food that total two thousand and eighty five calories and the total cost for

that for a whole day of good quality grass-fed mostly organic high-quality

food the whole cost for the day is nine dollars and 41 cents and if you're a

little bit smaller person and you're getting into the keto a little bit

longer and you get less hungry then you're probably going to end up eating

even less so maybe 1,500 calories and at that rate you'd be spending six dollars

and seventy seven cents per day so considering that a cup of coffee at

Starbucks a specialty coffee is over five dollars I think it's hard to

justify for most people that you can't afford to eat healthy when a happy meal

is as much as you would eat in an entire day now I realize that there's some

people on very very tight budgets and to those people I would say just do the

best you can you you pick and choose and you do what you can afford but you're

still going to be much much better off eating a low-carb diet than eating a

high carb diet so if you have to get the cheaper ground beef if you have to get

the the regular eggs then then do that but realize that you don't spend a whole

lot of money by going for a higher grade of food so now I'm sure you want to know

what are the macros for this example so we said in the beginning that we want to

shoot for 75% of from fat about 20% from protein and 5%

from carbohydrate and in this example when we add it all up we have eaten 180

grams of fat 93 grams of protein and only 22 grams of net carbs and the

percentages come out 78% of calories from fats 18 percent from protein and

only 3.9 percent from carbohydrates so this is going to be a very powerful

ketogenic diet for most people I hope this was helpful if you enjoyed this

video make sure that you check out that one thank you so much for watching and

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