Hello, hello, hello and welcome to another episode of the Emma Gunn Show. It's time for habit number 22.

Gosh, it feels ever so bizarre to be in the 20s, but I guess I just have to be used to it. There

were 26 of these habits and habit number eight was

trying out the ketogenic diet and it was not a habit that went well. In fact, it fell down pretty

quickly and when I think about it and wonder why it failed, I think it had to do with overthinking

and underplan planning, honestly.

Quite a few of you have asked me to take another run at the ketogenic diet,

so I'm having another go, and this time I'm just going to focus on getting into ketosis,

rather than living a strict ketogenic lifestyle right from the off,

as the former has to be achieved before you can maintain the latter.

So just a recap, the ketogenic diet refers to a low-carb, high-fat diet, and it has become

incredibly popular in recent years because of the many clinical studies and trials that show

that in addition to weight loss, following a ketogenic diet also has a myriad

health benefits. Because of the carb to fat ratio, it looks a little bit like what a lot of us

understand to be the Atkins diet, so it is high fat, low carb. And it does involve drastically

reducing your carb intake and replacing it with fat so that your body can use it as energy.

And that's the most important thing to note.

Your body instinctively uses carbohydrates as fuel, but with the ketogenic diet, you're switching

your body to using your fat stores for energy.

So the analogy I always use when I'm trying to explain to someone who knows nothing about

the ketogenic diet is it's a bit like switching from a car that uses diesel fuel to a hybrid vehicle. And as you'd

expect, the transition isn't necessarily smooth. And there is a period of adjustment that I think

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