Ketogenic diet is not a good weight-loss diet

The ketogenic diet does not teach a person proper eating habits.  You should only try this program if you want to see if it will help you with any inflammatory problems you may have.  It is used for a few  different health reasons but not for bodyfat loss.  I've been intentionally not blogging or status-reporting my food intake because I do not want people to think that this is the diet  I put people on.  It is not.  That being said, here's an email I just sent off to a friend that I thought would make a good blog post about my thoughts on this diet.  This particular person both strength trains and does endurance sports, hence the comments about backing off on the endurance training :)
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You should cut back on any long-duration training. You will most likely get sick if you go lower than 5% carbs and train more than 30 minutes at a session. What you want  do is back off for these 2 weeks and after that you can eat the same keto diet but you add in good-quality carbs as training fuel. It is a very advanced way to eat, you have to know what you are doing. I can walk you through it. I haven't been blogging or posting what I specifically eat because it is not right for most people and I don't want people indiscriminately doing what I do. 

The first few days are bad but once you get over it you lose your cravings for sugar. If you cheat at all you get an insulin response which makes it really hard not to cheat more.  So I am on day 11 now and it's easy but I'm craving crazy stuff. Today was my biggest eating day yet:

9am - 4 raw organic eggs + 6 shots espresso with tbsp. honey
12noon - 4 raw organic eggs
2pm - 1 organic apple
3pm - 1/2 of a chicken, all dark meat included + 3 tiny slivers of yam
6pm - 4 strips thick-cut uncured bacon
8pm - 1/2 bag organic sugar snap peas which really have no sugar lol
9pm  2 kosher beef hotdogs + sauerkraut
10pm 4 strips thick cut bacon + 3 shots espresso with 1/2 tbsp. honey

The espresso and honey are the things that really help with cravings - the caffeine and little bit of honey change my mind-set but don't affect the blood sugar very much.    That's the main point of eating like this, to get off the blood-sugar rollercoaster and reduce inflammatory symptoms.

You don't need to rely on bacon and eggs so much but I like their convenience. Cooking the eggs is fine and is probably better because you can add low-sugar veges like peppers, onions, anything green.  Any protein source will do except for low-fat options. The whole idea of the diet is to get your body to stop relying on carbs for energy and  teach it how to burn nutritional fats. The thing is that the body can only eat so much fats in a sitting, that is why my above portions are not that big.  4 strips of bacon is about my limit.   So the body first burns the moderate amount of fat we eat at the meal but after that it spends the rest of the time burning bodyfat because there are no sugars in the system (really no glucose stored in the muscles or blood-stream is what this means)

You should only do this diet if you want to correct inflammatory problems. I know you are not and are doing it to lose bodyfat.  We'll make an exception if you follow some guidelines as we go.   You're going to  get moody and shit initially so make sure you got your head on straight and don't take it out on the world around you. You need to back off on endurance training but can still strength train to a certain degree

And you should probably add some sort of fiber like psyllium husk or large portions of chia/flax seeds.   I've been shitting decently but I know this particular days eating is not going to be good as far as going #2 goes lol.