Clean Keto Challenge: 28 Day Jumpstart to Health
Published Dec 29, 2020 Updated Jan 03, 2022
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Welcome to the Clean Keto 28-Day Jumpstart to Health Challenge. I’m so excited you are here and have taken the first step to live a healthier lifestyle.
The next 28 days are to challenge you to create better everyday habits that will last for the long haul. Your health is worth fighting for and I’m so happy to be taking this journey with you! I have put together amazing resources for you including clean keto recipes, meals plans, keto food list, FAQs, an e-book, vlogs, and more!
We all have to start somewhere, so why not start together! You are strong, capable, and motivated to make the changes needed for a better you!
The Peachy Life Podcast: Episode 06, Clean Keto Challenge
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What do Ketosis, Keto, and Ketogenic Mean?
Ketogenic Diet & Lifestyle
The Ketogenic diet gets its name from the small fuel molecules called “ketones” produced by your body as an alternative fuel source that is used when blood sugar is in low supply. Instead of burning carbs, your body begins to burn stored fat. Once your body starts producing ketones, your body is in ketosis.
Our body’s first choice of fuel for energy is carbohydrates, and the standard American diet is very high in carbs. However, when eating Keto, you’ll be consuming fewer carbs which allow your body to burn fat for energy instead, also leading to weight loss.
Eating Keto
The best way to get your body into ketosis is by eating the keto diet. To do this, you’ll need to track your daily consumption of Net Carbs. The formula for net carbs is Total Carbs – Dietary Fiber = Net Carbs. You can find this by looking at the nutrition label of the foods you eat.
Getting into Ketosis
To achieve ketosis, the goal is to keep your net carbs under 25 grams per day. Some people can enter ketosis by eating up to 50 grams of net carbs a day, however, this takes testing and time to find out how high your tolerance is.
Since your carb consumption on this diet is very low, your food intake must be high in fat or else you won’t have enough energy to sustain yourself. You should not feel like you’re starving, instead, you should feel sustained and have plenty of energy. If you’re feeling very hungry this is a red flag that you’re not eating enough fat. About 70% of the diet should be from fat, 20-25% protein, leaving 5-10% to come from carbs.
Clean Keto vs. Dirty Keto
The difference between clean and dirty keto is straightforward. Clean keto consists of a diet of wholesome natural foods that are full of nutrients that your body requires to function correctly. Dirty keto often consists of eating processed foods, that may fit under the correct number of carbs each day, but doesn’t necessarily include nourishing, nutricious food.
What is the Clean Keto Challenge?
This Clean Keto Challenge consists of eating clean keto with the addition of going dairy-free. This challenge is meant to reset and refresh your outlook on overall healthy living. If you want to give your body a jumpstart into everyday healthy living, this challenge is a must.
Clean Keto Guidelines
25g Net Carbs Daily: Sticking to 25 grams of net carbs daily will get your body into ketosis. The whole point of “keto” is to switch your body from burning carbs as fuel to burning fat as fuel. This is the most important part of the program.
No Dairy, Alcohol, Grains or Legumes: No dairy, except for ghee or clarified butter. You may include dairy-free cheese, sour cream and cream cheese in this challenge. Be sure to read labels to ensure clean ingredients. No legumes, with the exception of green beans. No alcohol or grains for 28 days. Removing these items will help reduce cravings and strengthen gut health.
No Added Sugar or Artificial Sweeteners: Removing added sugar and artificial sweetener for the duration of 28 days will help with cravings and gut health. Quitting sugar and artificial sweeteners can also aid in more energy, balanced hormones, especially insulin levels, and clearer skin!
Avoid all Dirty Keto Options: The point of this challenge is to eat wholesome foods full of nutrients to get our bodies back to working efficiently as possible. Dirty Keto options can cause bloating, inflammation, sugar cravings and will often lead to weight gain post-challenge.
Drink 64 oz. Water, Daily: One of the most common side effects of the keto diet is dehydration. Carbs are responsible for your body holding water. Your body will excrete and retain less water. The symptoms of dehydration are often referred to and dangerously brushed off as the “keto flu”.
Daily Must Dos
Keep a food journal
Drink at least 64oz of water
Get some exercise!
Get a full night of sleep
Why Should You Complete this Challenge?
You will benefit from clean keto eating in many ways:
- Improve gut health and reduce inflammation in your body.
- Less spikes in insulin. This will aid in helping shed a few pounds of body fat.
- Eliminate cravings.
- Break through a weight loss plateau.
- Improved digestion and flatter tummy without all the grains, legumes, sugar and dairy.
- Improvement in skin, nails and hair health.
- Sleep cycle will improve and an increase in energy levels.
Why Go Dairy Free?
There are many reasons why you may want to try going dairy-free. Here are a few reasons below!
- It’s estimated that 75% of the world’s population is actually lactose intolerant. Lactose is the sugar found in cow’s milk and breast milk. Infants and children produce enzymes that break down lactose. However, humans lose this ability as we grow up.
- Dairy has also been linked to cancer in numerous studies. These cancer types include prostate, breast and ovarian cancers.
- It also raises your cholesterol levels increasing the risk of heart disease.
- It may cause constipation which is due to a combination of their lactose intolerance and also the fact that there is no fiber in dairy.
- Dairy also can contribute to an increase in acne breakouts.
- In order to increase milk production, cows are given growth hormones and antibiotics.
- PCOS – One of the many possible symptoms of PCOS is insulin resistance. Eating dairy can lead to higher levels of insulin in your body. The excess insulin causes you cells to absorb too much glucose from your blood and causes the liver to release less glucose which creates a dangerous low blood sugar condition called hypoglycemia. Having too much insulin can also cause your ovaries to produce more androgens, such as testosterone. An increase of testosterone in a woman’s body can suppress normal menstruation and ovulation.
Clean Keto Food List: What Can I Eat?
Amazing Clean Keto Recipes!
25 Clean Keto Crockpot Recipes
How to Track Net Carbs
There are a ton of apps that will track your net carbs. Below are my favorites:
What about Intermittent Fasting?
Intermittent fasting can be paired with this challenge, although it will depend on the person. For me, when I add fasting to my diet and compact my eating window, it becomes way too restrictive. This brings back a lot of issues with my past eating disorders.
Some people swear by fasting and in these cases, it does wonders for their bodies. However, I’m just not one of those people. I love listening to my body and eating when I’m hungry. So if I wake up starving, I don’t want to punish myself and wait 5 hours until I can eat. If I wake up not hungry then I have the option to wait until I am. For me, it’s too much pressure on my already fragile mind. Waking up and listening to what my body wants works way better than setting a time frame around food.
Clean Keto Free Resources!
For 20+ FREE resources to set you up for success, click on the photo below, or follow this link.
Once you subscribe to my email list, you will receive a “confirmation” email. You must confirm the subscription. Once you do this, you will receive a welcome email with a link to download the full guide. If it’s not in your inbox, be sure to check your spam folder.
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Clean Keto Meal Plan: Week 1
Common Reader Questions, Answered!
I have taken all your top questions and built a Q+A blog post that is filled with great tips and tricks. Be sure to click on the photo below to be taken to that post. If you still have questions, be to put them in my comments and I will try my best to add them in for you!
Follow Me on YouTube
Be sure to click on the photo below to subscribe to my YouTube Channel. I have daily vlogs throughout the course of the challenge. I will be taking you through all of my meals, tips and tricks, and the ups/downs of the challenge. This is going to be a SUPER helpful resource for you all!
Need More Inspo? Be Sure to Check Out my Peachy Fit eBook:
Additional Resources
If you are in need of even more Keto resources, be sure to head over to Dr. Eric Berg and/or Natalie at Tastes Lovely. These are two of my favorite resources for all things keto. They have so much knowledge and I always leave their sites learning a ton.
Natalie is a dear friend and just the sweetest human in the world. She lost over 70 pounds following Clean Keto and has weeks and weeks of free menus along with great tips and tricks. Dr. Eric Berg is another great one because he goes in-depth regarding the science behind why keto is excellent for our bodies!
Be sure to consult your doctor before beginning any new program. I’m not a licensed physician. This challenge is based on my opinion and personal experience.
thank you for this! looking forward to trying a new angle of completing a whole30!
How can you write starvation? And how can you write starvation is not recommended?
Fasting is not starvation, fasting has huge benefits on health.
Educate yourself.
Here a is a tip, How about read what I actually wrote. I said, “If I wake up starving, I don’t want to punish myself and wait 5 hours until I eat. This is coming from a place of having an eating disorder. Maybe try educating yourself by actually reading what I wrote.
I think they are maybe referring to the first paragraph where you say “There are two ways to get your body in ketosis. The first and very unsafe way is starvation. This is absolutely NOT recommended.” That being said, I agree with you that getting into ketosis by starvation is unsafe and unsustainable. My daughter and I are looking forward to joining your 28-day keto challenge tomorrow!! Thank you for all the free resources. I especially love the daily quotes for my fridge. Can’t wait to see my results in a month.
She’s just fussing to fuss…don’t give in to nasty people like that.
Thank you so much for all of the wonderful resources
Thanks, good article. I’ve been on a plateau with dirty keto and will try this. Will miss cheese tho. Question, when you say “dairy free cheese, cream cheese and sour cream” are permitted, do you mean “dairy free cream cheese?” I didn’t know such a product existed.
I’ve been eating the Atkins bars to curb my sweet tooth which I know will be a no no on clean keto. Curious, just how many large blackberries are safe to eat on clean keto? If I don’t count them out, I’ll eat the whole container. That is the only thing that I can think of to eat when I want something sweet on clean keto.
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Day one in the books! It was a bit easier than I thought the first day was going to be, but I suspect that the coming days will be harder. I had a question though. Do you have any tips for getting enough fat in my diet? I dont eat much meat, only poultry and seafood. I think the hardest thing for me is going to be going dairy free. I LOVE CHEESE lol and I wanna put it on everything.
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Hi Heather……Let me add your email address again. Let me know if you are still having problems. Thanks for letting me know.
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