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by abathur 804 days ago
I'm not sure it's intrinsically bad news for the diet (but I won't dispute that it's a challenge for how it's usually followed). I haven't met one, but I've at least heard that there are vegans following ketosis-inducing diets.
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I've been at meals where common ground is attempted... you end up with things like cauliflower mashed potatoes. Yes, there's technically some overlap, but people on low-fat WFPB diets often have good short and long term results so there's not an incentive to keto-ize it.

For example, I just ran 4 marathons in 5 weeks in my late 40s eating mostly WFPB. That's good-enough health for me.

I’ve personally done both vegetarian and vegan keto diets (a couple months each).

From my normal keto diet it basically meant I stopped eating eggs/bacon and meat. Vegetarian was easier than vegan because I could still eat eggs.

Ketosis definitely can be achieved with “whole food diets” and “whole food plant based diets”