Alicia Mackey Huber argues against strict zero-carb diets, recommending three to four days of keto followed by carbs once or twice weekly. She says occasional carbs keep your body flexible enough to burn both fuel types, boosting weight loss and brain function. She eats white rice, honey, and fruit without losing keto's benefits.
I am not a zero carb guy, and I'm one of the people who heavily influence the keto movement because I talked about cyclical ketosis as a tool for losing weight and making your brain work really well and intermittent fasting in the very early days of it becoming a thing. But people get stuck on that. So I've always said have carbs and you can go for three or four days if you're doing a keto phase and then have some carbs at least once a week, sometimes twice a week. And the idea is to keep the body so you can burn carbs, you can burn fat, you can be metabolically flexible. So I eat carbs most days. For me, I like white rice the most because it has the least toxins and it digests really well when it's cooked properly, I don't mind honey. I'll eat one or two pieces of fruit, but other than that, those are kind of my carbs.
