“People assume you have to eat clean 24/7 with alcohol, fast food and processed ingredients completely cut from the diet to lose weight,” says Stephanie Laska, author of Dirty Lazy Keto.

Lazy keto is often combined with another keto strategy called dirty keto. (The terms are also sometimes used interchangeably.) Dirty keto follows a keto ratio of fats, protein, and carbs but ...

The keto diet has few rules on which high-fat foods to eat, and ‘dirty keto’ can consist of bacon and sausages fried in butter, as this technically meets the criteria. Medlin says the healthy ...