The Best Ketogenic Diet App for iPhone Users

The Best Ketogenic Diet App for iPhone Users

The ketogenic diet is powerful for improving fat burning and placing the body in a state of healing. While there are many online guides to beginning this diet (such as this one), sometimes it can be overwhelming beginning a new style of eating. Luckily, there is a new ketogenic diet app that can help you on your journey.

If you have struggled to adopt a ketogenic diet or are brand new to this lifestyle, there is a ketogenic diet app called Suggestic that can be a massive help. In this article I will be explaining what Suggestic is and the advantages of using it.

Keto Adaptation

I’ve seen many begin this adventure. The key is patience–mastering the keto lifestyle isn’t something you do in a day or a week. Or even, for some, in a month. The keto diet, a very low carbohydrate, moderate protein and high fat nutrition plan, takes time and practice. Eating to achieve ketosis means you are retraining your body to burn energy from fatty acids, or ketone bodies (and not sugar) through what you eat. This is called becoming fat-adapted or keto-adapted.

The ketogenic nutrition plan has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity and reduce inflammation (1, 2). It also improves cellular healing and mitochondrial biogenesis, which supports stronger and healthier cells (3). All of this leads to reduced risk of many chronic diseases as well as improved muscle development and fat metabolism. So you lower your chances of getting a long term illness like diabetes, build stronger muscles and burn fat faster.

Meet Suggestic

Who hasn’t gone on a diet and wondered if they are following it correctly–even a program as straightforward as my keto program? Lots of times I hear questions like, “How will I know when I’ve hit my carb limit? Or, “Is feeling a little light-headed normal?”

Personally, I’m not the most tech savvy individual but I now know that using my iPhone to support my ketogenic lifestyle has made staying in ketosis so much easier. I have found the most helpful ketogenic diet app that I have been using personally and recommend everyone try.

Customized Ketogenic Diet App

I got interested in figuring out the best approach to a ketogenic lifestyle, then studied and applied it in detail for over 5 years. After I developed skin cancer at 28, I got serious about reducing sugar and experienced incredible health while I was in a ketogenic state. The result was that I was able to reverse the cancer and dramatically improve my health.

Today, I use a cyclic ketogenic diet and don’t mandate myself to being in ketosis 24/7, but I still spend a good amount of time in the ketogenic state and enjoy the incredible benefits including improved mental function, energy levels, skin and digestive health as well as optimal lean body tissue. The Dr. Jockers Keto Challenge on Suggestic was designed to help you learn more about why the ketogenic works so well, how to get into ketosis and stay in ketosis as long as you like.

Making the Ketogenic Lifestyle Easier

Staying in ketosis will be easier for you, too, with the help of Suggestic. All you have to do is go to the Apple app store and download the Suggestic ketogenic diet app onto your phone. It’s free!

I like how simple it is to sign up for an eating program. Once you select my Dr. Jockers’ Keto Challenge, a whole world is unlocked. You can learn all about the science of how getting fat-adapted works, how to get started on the program, what to eat and what to avoid, and locate restaurants that have keto-friendly options on the menu.

Experience Tracker

This ketogenic diet app is not just about eating. Suggestic has great trackers to support the other aspects of your life. The team at Suggestic gets that sometimes stress, work and other challenges can derail your best intentions to follow a program. At any time during the day, you can log your mood, how you slept, and how much water you’ve had. I’m always curious to look back and see how I felt if I ate something different.

I also notice that if I don’t get seven solid hours of sleep, I am definitely more cranky and more hungry. This is a common mistake that this ketogenic diet app can help you pinpoint.

It’s helpful to stay on top of these non-food aspects and make sure you are getting what you need. On the up side, I also like to note when something was going really well and I could see that, yes, I had good sleep, drank enough water, and was generally in a great mood. Taking my Keto Challenge on Suggestic can help you log the aspects of your lifestyle that bring the most success.

My Favorite Features

If you’re super busy like my wife Angel and I are, you’ll love the grocery list feature. Just tap on the food basket icon and the shopping list for your selected recipe appears. Once you purchase the item, cross it off the list.

Or you can select the breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks for your meal plan, then create shopping lists. So easy!

You can further personalize your suggestions by adding filters. Don’t like broccoli? No problem! Just select it as a food to avoid and Suggestic will filter it out for you. That means you won’t see any recipes or restaurant options with broccoli.

When you take my Keto Challenge with Suggestic, the extra guidance is amazing. Each day you will receive a fresh set of reminders and supportive emails (if you wish).

You’ll also have access to exclusive recipes that are specially formulated to get you fat-adapted. Suggestic aims  to solve many of the challenges people face when adopting a ketogenic diet.

Getting Started

Once you download Suggestic from the Apple app store (you can download it for free here), you will be guided through each step of the process of getting started. It’s like having a smart dietician interview you to help determine your goals and baseline. The journey for my Keto Challenge on Suggestic is a 28-day program that gently navigates the fat-adaptation process. Then gives you exactly what you need to reach optimal health and be successful on the diet. Once you have the essentials set up—a day to begin, foods to buy, cooking equipment, etc. then your journey is under way.

It is a comprehensive ketogenic diet app that guides you in making the best plan for your health.

The first week you are tracking how you eat and live to establish a baseline. Once you have established how many grams of net carb (total carbs minus fiber), protein and fat you are eating each day, you can map out the rest of your journey to ketosis. In week 2, you will double the amount of healthy fat you eat and half the amount of net carbs you eat each day. In weeks 3 and 4 you will repeat these rules until you are consuming about 50g of net carb a day. Your protein will hold steady at about 75 to 125 g (1g per kg of body weight. And your healthy fat total will be about 100-150 g per day.

It is this gentle transition that improves your chances of achieving success. Along with the other features of this awesome ketogenic diet app, the beginning stages become much more achievable.

Nutritional Baseline

Here’s what I love about Suggestic. The first week is about establishing the way you are currently eating. You need to discover how much carbohydrate, protein, and fat you eat, how much you exercise, how much sleep you are getting, etc. This is your baseline week. Once you are through it, you’ll know exactly how many grams of carb, protein, and fat you’ll need to consume for the next week and the remaining weeks of the program.

I’m not going to give away the complete surprise of the journey here… But every day you will be supported with task lists, emails, instructional video, and lots of food options. These things are optional and you can always opt out of things like the email if that’s not your jam.

Recipes, Recipes, Recipes!

I also love that Suggestic has all my recipes! Need my favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe? It’s there! Craving a high healthy-fat snack? Just open the app! Wondering what to make for your family for dinner? No problem!

With the meal planner feature, you can get ready for the week so much more easily. Just select your meals for each time and day and you are all set. The ketogenic diet app puts together your customized shopping list.

Eat Out Without Worry

I’m often asked about the best keto-friendly restaurants in the area—no matter where I am. So I open up Suggestic and tap the “Eat Out” button. Endless results appear with all sorts of great info like what’s keto-friendly on the menu, how far away, how expensive, even if it’s open at the time I’m searching. Pretty cool.

Also, when I get to the restaurant, if it’s a place with the augmented reality feature, I can point my phone at the menu, and the app will show me items that are keto-friendly or not. I’m never wondering what to eat or having to instruct my waiter about how to prepare my meal. Such a relief.

Use Your SmartPhone to Support Your Lifestyle!

The truth is, I’ve come to accept smartphones as a fact of life. I’ve realized how helpful my iPhone actually is in keeping my lifestyle organized and on track. (And don’t worry if you don’t have an iPhone. Suggestic will have an android version soon. In the meantime, you can get all the latest keto lifestyle updates on my website or sign up for my newsletter. )

Having Suggestic is super important because it helps me reduce stress.  So I recommend getting the app and signing up for Dr Jockers’ Keto Challenge. See for yourself what I’m so pumped about. Trust me, once you sign up and follow it every day, you’ll never regret it.

Sources for this Article Include

1. Steckhan, N., Hohmann, C.-D., Kessler, C., Dobos, G., Michalsen, A., & Cramer, H. (2016). Effects of different dietary approaches on inflammatory markers in patients with metabolic syndrome: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Nutrition, 32(3), 338–348. PMID: 26706026

2. Raygan, F., Bahmani, F., Kouchaki, E., Aghadavod, E., Sharifi, S., Akbari, E., . . . Asemi, Z. (2016). Comparative effects of carbohydrate versus fat restriction on metabolic profiles, biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress in overweight patients with Type 2 diabetic and coronary heart disease: A randomized clinical trial. PMID: 28607566

3. Pitceathly, R. D., & Viscomi, C. (2016). Effects of ketosis in mitochondrial myopathy: potential benefits of a mitotoxic diet. EMBO Molecular Medicine, 8(11), 1231–1233. PMID: 27729389