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How to do keto as a vegetarian.

This is one of the most common queries I receive.

One way to go keto as a vegetarian is to stop being a vegetarian.

You begin as a vegetarian, make the conscious decision to go keto, and then cease

vegetarianism. Seriously, just try it out. A little animal won't hurt you, promise. Okay, jokes aside,

how do you go keto while remaining vegetarian? Once you let the dust settle and consider the proposition

with a calm, clear mind, going keto as a

vegetarian isn't all that outlandish. Most low-carb diets are hard to do as a vegetarian because protein is a

big component and quality protein is harder to obtain without meat in your diet. The focus of keto is carbs and fat, less of the

former, more of the latter, and not so much the protein. There are plenty of ways to reduce your

carbs and increase fat while remaining vegetarian, and if you keep a few things in mind,

you actually have a lot of freedom, more than you'd think. Here are seven of those

things to keep in mind when constructing your diet. After this, everything else is gravy. Number one,

eat eggs. This is pretty non-negotiable, at least if you're trying to optimize your keto-vegetarian

diet. Eggs provide long chain omega-3 fatty acids.

You have to choose the right eggs, of course.

Your average battery farmed corn and soy-fed chickens won't produce omega-3 rich eggs.

If you're lucky, they'll have some ALA, but for the animal-based omega-3s that we truly

need, you must eat pastured eggs or eggs from chickens on a special diet designed to boost levels of long-chain omega-3s.

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