{"id":1422,"date":"2024-04-07T00:36:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T00:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deals-spot.com\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2024-04-07T00:36:33","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T00:36:33","slug":"wondering-whether-you-should-count-calories-on-the-keto-diet-we-asked-the-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deals-spot.com\/?p=1422","title":{"rendered":"Wondering Whether You Should Count Calories on the Keto Diet? We Asked the Experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve signed on to the low-carb, high-fat ketogenic diet, you already know what foods you need to avoid, but should you also limit your calories? To a certain extent, yes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Calorie-counting generally isn&#8217;t necessary on the keto diet because its macronutrient composition \u2014 high fat, moderate protein, low carb \u2014 suppresses appetite, leading to a spontaneous decrease in calorie intake,&#8221; Franziska Spritzler, RD, a certified diabetes educator in Huntington Beach, CA, told POPSUGAR. &#8220;This allows you to achieve a calorie deficit and lose weight without feeling hungry. However, not everyone experiences the keto diet&#8217;s appetite-suppressing effect, and it&#8217;s entirely possible to eat more calories than needed for weight loss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Desiree Nielsen, RD, author of <strong>Un-Junk Your Diet<\/strong>, agreed, noting that even when eating a well-formulated ketogenic diet, if your goal is weight loss, you do need to pay attention to calories. &#8220;A ketogenic diet will shift you to burning fat for energy, but if you are eating enough fat, your body won&#8217;t need to liberate its own fat stores to do so,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve signed on to the low-carb, high-fat ketogenic diet, you already know what foods you need to avoid, but should you also limit your calories? To a certain extent, yes. &#8220;Calorie-counting generally isn&#8217;t necessary on the keto diet because its macronutrient composition \u2014 high fat, moderate protein, low carb \u2014 suppresses appetite, leading to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[160,115,155],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-keto-diet","tag-diet-tips","tag-keto-diet","tag-weight-loss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deals-spot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deals-spot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deals-spot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deals-spot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deals-spot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deals-spot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/deals-spot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deals-spot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deals-spot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deals-spot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deals-spot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}