Can you achieve ketosis through exercise instead of limiting your carbs so much?

Question

I understand that I need to limit the carbs I eat, like sweets, and white bread, but instead of eating the 20 carb limit like with the Atkins Induction phase, could I eat say 50 carbs, and exercise more and acheive ketosis?

Answer 1

Why would you want to do that?

from Wikipedia...

Metabolic pathways

Most medical resources regard ketosis as a pathological state associated with chronic starvation. Glucose is regarded as the preferred energy source for all cells in the body with ketosis being regarded as a crisis reaction of the body to a lack of carbohydrates in the diet. In recent years this viewpoint, both the body's preference for glucose and the dangers associated with ketosis, has been challenged by some doctors.[1][2][3]

Ketone bodies, from the breakdown of fatty acids to acetyl groups, are also produced during this state, and are burned throughout the body. Excess ketone bodies will slowly decarboxylate into acetone. That molecule is excreted in the breath and urine. The brain has a residual need for glucose because ketones can only provide energy when used during aerobic respiration in mitochondria. In the long thin neurons, much of the metabolically active cellular membrane must derive its energy from glucose via anaerobic respiration without the assistance of mitochondria.

When glycogen stores are not available in the cells (glycogen is primarily created when carbohydrates such as starch and sugar are consumed in the diet), fat (triacylglycerol) is cleaved to give 3 fatty acid chains and 1 glycerol molecule in a process called lipolysis. Most of the body is able to utilize fatty acids as an alternative source of energy in a process where fatty acid chains are cleaved to form acetyl-CoA, which can then be fed into the Krebs Cycle. During this process a high concentration of glucagon is present in the serum and this inactivates glucose kinase causing most cells in the body to use fatty acids as their primary energy source. At the same time, glucose is synthesized in the liver from lactic acid, glucogenic amino acids, and glycerol, in a process called gluconeogenesis. This glucose is used exclusively for energy by cells such as neurons and red blood cells

Diet

If the diet is changed from a highly glycemic diet to a diet that does not substantially contribute to blood glucose, the body goes through a set of stages to enter ketosis. During the initial stages of this process the adult brain does not burn ketones, however the newborn brain makes immediate use of this important substrate for lipid synthesis in the brain. After about 48 hours of this process, the adult brain starts burning ketones in order to more directly utilize the energy from the fat stores that are being depended upon, and to reserve the glucose only for its absolute needs, thus avoiding the depletion of the body's protein store in the muscles.

Whether ketosis takes place can be checked by using special urine test strips such as Ketostix.

Deliberately induced ketosis through a low-carbohydrate diet has been used to treat medical conditions although most such treatments remain controversial.[4] [5] The ketogenic diet is an approach to treating epilepsy, and the Atkins Nutritional Approach (and many similar diets) is marketed for treating obesity. The very low calorie, medically supervised Bernstein, Lighter Life, Lindora diets and Medifast also use ketosis for weight loss.

Answer 2

Ketosis is not the result of burning muscle it the result of burning fat instead glucose for energy. Muscle would come after fat or if you happen to be a world class or near world class athlete and your pushing your body to hard and it can't burn fat fast enough so it will burn muscle instead. This could also be the case for some endurance athletes who have very low body fat, say less than 8 - 10% as they don't have the necessary fat stores to utilize as an energy pathway.

So by entering exercised induced ketosis is one way to burn your body fat. You can usually tell when you are in ketosis by the sweet taste that you will get in the back of your mouth. Avoid Card restricted diets as they can cause serious damage to your Kidneys, red blood cells and even your brain as they will only utilize glucose for energy.

Answer 3

Workout each morning than night

Answer 4

when eating out try to acquire a better choice

Answer 5

Stay with an increasingly low fat protein/green plant diet plan

Answer 6

Steer clear of polished carbohydrates

Answer 7

Your system is actually burning up some calorie consumption, as well as exercise enables you to burn these individuals faster

Answer 8

Ketosis happens when you've lost practically all the fat in your body and then your body starts eating its own muscle. You get really weak and faint a lot. Why do you want to achieve it? I did and I was in the hospital.