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> If you have never entered ketosis and experienced your brain running on ketones, I would suggest you experiment for yourself. I would say a minimum 2-3 months which should be enough time for your microbiome to change and your body/brain to adapt primarily running on ketones. I've been on Keto for about 8 months (before giving up), measuring my blood ketones and being in deep ketosis between meals (over 2 mmol/L). I…
Why did you give up? How we your energy levels? Did you drop weight easily?
And that entire time I did not lose weight, I actually gained a pound or two.
If you're interested in losing weight, find a strategy for eating less (by playing with what you eat or with meal timing). The only reason keto works for some people is because it leads to a spontaneous drop in appetite, due to cutting entire food groups from the diet, thus making the food you eat less palatable. And the extra protein sure helps. But it only works short term, after which you start enjoying bacon and butter, so the inevitable plateau happens and then you get the line about your metabolism needing to "heal" before losing weight, which is bullshit, as the causality is reversed (i.e. your metabolism is broken because you ate too much and exposed adipocytes tissue to an energy excess, aka energy poisoning, so the solution is to eat less and to lose weight).
I've lost 55 pounds and kept it off, being almost at my ideal weight. Not with keto.