Can I Do Keto If I'm Vegan?
15 Dec 2025 · 8 min
JJ Virgin and hormone expert Dr. Anna Kabeca explore whether you can do keto on a vegan diet. They cover the specific challenges of hitting fat and protein targets without animal products, and what macros actually work for plant-based keto.
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Can I Do Keto if I'm Vegan? This is JJ Virgin, four time New York Times bestselling author, celebrity nutrition expert and and Fitness hall of Famer. I've been on a lifelong quest for answers to the toughest health questions, and now I'm sharing what I found with you. Welcome to Ask the Health Expert. Patricia K. From Facebook asks, I want to try the Keto diet and I'm a vegan. How do I make it work for me? Hey, it's JJ and I've got longtime friend Dr. Anna Kabeca here with me to answer this question. And she's the perfect person to do it because she's a hormone expert and the Author of Keto Green 16 and she specializes in using a keto approach during menopause. Plus, added bonus, she's quite the tequila aficionado. We'll be right back.
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And you can absolutely do Keto if you are Vegan now in my keto green 16 book that just released I have a 16 day vegan plan as well as the Omnivore plan. It is harder for vegans and vegetarians in general because we are using tend to use more carbohydrates. So in place of beef, bison, fish and chicken we replace that with white beans, black beans and chickpeas. A little bit higher in carbohydrate but definitely supportive to your body's nutritional status and giving you adequate protein. We can also use some soy, non gmo, miso or tempeh in there as well as some soybeans. But we really focus on the other aspects of Keto Green living to make this plan work. So the intermittent fasting and extended fasting as well as no more snacking. The snacking throughout the day has to stop because it does make us more insulin resistant and this is a challenge especially when we're over 40 for our metabolism. So going Keto Green as a vegan can absolutely work with those few twists and really focusing on additional of healthy plant based fats like your nut oils, nuts and seeds, olive oil, avocados and incorporating a healthy amount with your meal so that you're getting a healthy amount of fat so that you're not as hungry as a vegan or vegetarian. These little tweaks make a huge difference and I go over them in my book Keto Green 16.
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