A keto diet is a good way to kick start a weight loss, reduce appetite, and it is not a scary, terrible, nobody should do it diet.
LONG TERM it is not a good way to eat. The good thing about keto is that while the patient (person) is mentally adapting to the fact that a life style change in the way they eat is necessary, weight loss is already happening. It takes time for some people to accept a new way of life. In the meantime, keto is a good way to start losing quickly, and once the person begins to see the weight loss at a more rapid pace than a slow 2 pounds a week diet, it does help with the mental part of changing their eating habits.
There is no such thing as a diet. Weight loss has to be a permanent change in the way a person eats. Getting all the processed food out, cutting out ALL sugar, getting used too eating the way our grandparents ate. It has to be a change to eating only whole foods. No junk food. No food that comes in a box. If it is in a box, it is not food. It is chemicals put together that taste like food. Keto is an easy way to eat once you start feeling better from the dropping weight. That is why some Drs use Keto because it works quickly, and as the person feels better most become compliant to new ways of eating.
Doing Keto for a short period of time is not unhealthy. Some people stay on it because they like it. The only dangers of Keto is that long term it puts undue stress on the kidneys. Some people do Keto for a few months, take a break but still eat healthy, then go back to keto.
Your biggest problem right now is your husbands attitude. He doesn't sound like he is going to be on board and be enthusiastic about any food plan (given how you say he eats now). HE has to WANT to change and that is your biggest hurdle.
There are lots of Keto books online (Amazon is good because there are many reviews with added tips from the reviewer that are helpful). There are recipes galore just by Googling. There are lists of accepted foods and no-no foods. There are many Facebook pages that can be a big help for you to understand the diet. It is a high fat diet, but the fats are "good fats", not junk unhealthy fats. Pintrest is another place to get lots of Keto information and recipes.
I hope your husband gets on board with it. Maybe having a quick weight loss will give him the incentive to realize he has to change. Period.
Take the word "diet" out of any conversation. The word diet infers that there is an end to the diet once you lose a certain amount of weight. What people really need to understand is that changing the way you eat is forever.
Change is hard. Change is scary. What keeps people going in a lifestyle change is feeling better. Health issues go away. Energy come back. Your brain becomes clear. As all those things begin, the incentive to keep on going to eat clean forever. Once you change everything you put in your body and experience how much different you feel, it actually does change the mental/emotional part. You can never go back to cupcakes and soda because you will immediately feel like c*ap.
Keto is not scary, just educate yourself, and hopefully once your hubby moves towards eating better you can ease off Keto and just eat clean. My motto is "if you can pick it off a tree or gather it from a garden, then that is what you eat". If there is an ingredient list on a box with names of stuff you cannot pronounce, then it is not food and you don't eat it.
It really is that simple. Whole foods only. If he doesn't like veggies, he will have to change that. Fruits, veggies, lean meats, chicken gets to be your menu. No gravies, no coatings, no casseroles, no junk food. NO SUGAR. Sugar is like a drug, it really takes a few weeks to stop craving it. Once you cut out the sugar though, the craving subsides and you don't miss it anymore.
The stress is on you right now, but I am willing to bet once he feels what "feel great" is like, he is going to want that good feeling to continue.
So many people don't even know just how bad they feel until they feel good!
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