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The ketogenic type of diet is based on a process called ketosis. Ketosis is a specific state of the organism, which is characterized by an raised amounts of ketones in the blood, which occurs due to the conversion of fats into fatty acids and ketones. This occurs when the organism gets only small amounts of carbohydrates over a period of time. When you start with this type of diet, your body goes through several changes. After 24-48 hours since the beginning of this diet, the body starts to use ketones in order to use the energy stored in fat cells more efficiently. In other words, your primary source of energy become fatty acids, instead of glucose. Because of that, during ketosis it is not a problem to eat food with higher amounts of fat, than would otherwise seem reasonable. This way the body is losing weight relatively fast (specifically fat). In addition, the loss of muscle tissue (proteins) is minimal, since the vast majority of food consumed during ketosis, also contains relatively large amounts of proteins that are good for your muscles.

However, on this kind of diet, one shouldn’t forget about vegetables because they are an necessary and important source of vitamins, minerals and fibers. Since it is ones goal to keep the intake of carbohydrates at a minimum level, only certain kinds of vegetables can be used on a ketogenic type of diet. Lettuce, cucumbers and cabbage are some of the vegetables that can be taken when on a ketogenic diet.

Lettuce contains only around 2 grams of carbs per 100 grams, cabbage (per 100 grams) has a bit more, mostly around 5 grams of carbohydrates and cucumbers, similar to lettuce, have also only a small amount of carboydrates – only 3 grams per 100 grams of cucumbers. As we can see, all of the vegetables that were mentioned can be used without problems in form of various types of salads, or in other forms.

There are many recipes for preparing salads by using some of the mentioned vegetables that can be found online. One should only make sure that nothing that contains too much carbs is added in.