While our body normally gets the majority of its energy by changing carbs into simple sugars and storing these glycogens in the liver and muscles, what happens when the body is deprived of glucose? When this occurs, the body breaks down fat for energy. When the liver metabolizes these fatty acids, it produces ketone bodies, which are loaded with energy.
What all this scientific talk means is that the body has two basic forms of energy, glycogen or fat. The body needs energy to function. It will first use glycogen from simple sugar type foods (carbohydrates) and then it switches to burning fat.
The Ketogenic diet forces the body to use fat as its source of energy because you will be denying it carbohydrates as a source of food.
This means you can think of the Ketogenic diet as a switch, which turns your body into a fat melting furnace, 24/7. The Ketogenic diet will cause your body to use fat as its main source of fuel. Insulin levels drop dramatically, which causes fat burning to increase just as dramatically.
