Vegan diets are primarily composed of food excluding animal meat and its bi-products, such as milk, honey, eggs, and dairy. The keto diet, on the other hand, is a high-fat diet with moderate protein and low to no carbs. Mix them up together and you end up with a highly restrictive diet. Difficult? Yes. Impossible? Nope. 

If you’ve been vegan for a long time, you’re probably wondering how to get on a low carb diet when a typical vegan diet loads up on carbs - soy, rice, quinoa, beans, you name it. You can also find it in typical vegan travel, local scenes, and restaurants. It’s no doubt that they use plant-based carbs to make that veggie burger you ate last week! But it can be more than that, your options don’t have to be just carbs. 

To start with, you can begin limiting your total carb consumption to 35g a day. It’s a good idea to replace carbs with low-carb vegetables such as Zucchini, Spinach, Avocados, Cauliflower, and mushrooms. There’s surprisingly a lot of them to choose from!

You can only make a “Keto diet” work if you limit your protein. If you do otherwise, then you’d end up simply doing a low-carb diet which eliminates the benefits of a Vegan Keto diet. Try to take at least 25% of your calories from plant-based protein sources. 

To achieve the Ketogenic state in your body, you have to get at least 70% of your calorie intake from plant-based fat sources. Fill yourself up with avocado, plant-based oils (coconut oil, olive oil, hemp oil), nuts (almonds, cashews, peanuts, pistachios), seeds (sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds), and vegan dairy alternatives such as vegan yogurt, vegan cream, vegan butter, and vegan cheese. 

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