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Tips for cycling between primal and keto.

Consistency is key in everything we do.

Take training in the gym.

The most optimal workout imaginable won't do a thing if you only get around to it once every two weeks.

Sleep. A solid eight hours of shut-eye every night beats ten hours one night and six the next.

Learning a new skill. Practice for an hour each day and you'll become a master. Spend 12 hours one time and never again, and you remain a beginner. The same is true for nutrition. A consistent, reliable way of eating, especially

with a diet like keto where extended consistency actually builds new fat-burning mitochondria

and establishes habits, tends to produce the best results.

But what if you wanted to be a little less consistent? What if you wanted to cycle between

primal and keto? Is such a thing even possible? Yes, just make sure you do it right and for the right

reasons.

Three things to consider when deciding whether you should even cycle at all.

One, stick with keto for at least a month before cycling.

Four to six weeks is usually a sufficient period of time.

Then once your muscles have become better adapted to the burning and utilization of actual fatty acids, not just ketones, you're in a good place to start cycling between primal and

keto, or drift in and out of ketosis as you like. Premature cycling without a sufficient

base of fat adaptation will produce lackless to results across the board.

You'll never quite reach fat adaptation, so the carb cravings will persist,

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