5. You won’t get hungry…well, not like you used to
“I never get hungry!” This is a statement you’ll hear often in wonderous tones from those following a ketogenic diet. While not strictly true as you do feel pangs of hunger, they are fewer and farther between and of significantly less intensity than you’re used to. So relatively speaking, yeah, you don’t get hungry.
This is the reason why counting calories doesn’t really matter when boarding the keto train. Once you have depleted your glycogen stores, and your body gets used to sourcing its fuel from fat, that profound hunger which has you racing to the nearest cookie jar goes away. This is because your body adjusts; no longer riding the extreme highs and lows of the blood sugar rollercoaster screaming when your glycogen stores start to get low. Instead, your body calmly enjoys a leisurely cruise comfortable in the knowledge that it can chow down on itself in the event that fuel from an external source becomes limited.
6. All calories are not created equal
This is another reason why counting calories is not high on the priority list when going keto.
There is a lot of science behind this statement; too much for me to summarise in this post other than to quote Peter Attica, MD:
‘Do calories matter? In a word, yes. But, technically this is the wrong question. The correct question is probably closer to, “What is the impact of the calories I consume on my body’s ability to store fat versus burn fat?” The immediate follow-up question to some variant of this first question is, “Should I be counting calories?” In a word, no. But you’ll want to read this post 165 fully to qualify that answer.’
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