Vegetarian Low-Carb Lifestyle
A practitioner-facing course on building, coaching, and applying low-carbohydrate and ketogenic approaches within a vegetarian framework, from endurance performance to metabolic disease and gut health.
What Not Having This Framework Costs
A vegetarian client you can't help finds a practitioner who can, or gives up on carb reduction entirely.
Standard low-carb advice keeps backfiring on gut-sensitive clients, and they quietly stop coming back.
Insulin resistance in vegetarian clients goes undetected because it's assumed, wrongly, to be lower.
You keep referring clients out for something you could be treating yourself.
Most low-carb education assumes your client eats meat.
“Low-carb is great, but I could never do it. I'm vegetarian.”
You can. It just hasn't been taught properly, yet.
Protein gets diluted fast
Dal, legumes, and grains carry protein, but carbohydrate comes first in those foods. A client can eat "healthy" all day and still land at 20 to 40 grams of total protein without realizing it.
Standard advice backfires
More protein, more vegetables, more fat assumes a digestive system that's ready for it. For clients with gut sensitivity, that assumption doesn't hold, and they quietly stop following the plan.
Insulin resistance runs higher than expected
Vegetarian doesn't mean metabolically protected. The research shows insulin resistance in vegetarian populations is often higher than practitioners assume, not lower.
Practitioners are left improvising
Without a framework built for a vegetarian plate, most practitioners default to a meat-based protocol with a few substitutions bolted on, or they refer the client elsewhere.
Built vegetarian first, not adapted from a meat-based plan
What makes this course different from a standard low-carb curriculum
A protein-first framework
Roughly 1 to 1.5g of protein per kg of bodyweight, built from first-class vegetarian sources like eggs, paneer, dairy, and protein isolates.
Sequencing before scaling
Identify a client's digestive tolerance profile before you build their meal plan, not after.
Real clinical contexts
Diabetes, gestational diabetes, women's health, gut health, mental health, endurance sport, and bodybuilding.
Taught by practitioners who live it
Including a coach who has maintained type 2 diabetes remission for over a decade, entirely vegetarian.
Shashikant Iyengar
Founder, Metabolic Health India
Shashikant is a Metabolic Health Coach, educator, and researcher with over 35 years in healthcare, including leadership roles at Abbott and Pfizer. He reversed his own type 2 diabetes in 2015 and has maintained normal glycaemic markers without medication for over a decade, a journey documented in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers in Nutrition.
He completed the Nutrition Network Coach Certification Program and has since become a close collaborator. He is also the founder and organiser of the Metabolic Health Conference India.
10 Expert-Led Lectures
A structured path from foundational diet construction to real clinical and lifestyle application
Constructing a Vegetarian Low Carbohydrate / Ketogenic Diet
Shashikant Iyengar
Vegetarian Low-Carb Nutrition for Type 2 Diabetes, Hypertension & Gestational Diabetes
Shashikant Iyengar
Low Carb and Fasting for Weight Loss
Mishal Sequeira
Vegetarian Low Carb for Optimum Women's Health
Dr Sandhya Kulkarni
Endurance Running on Vegetarian Low Carb Diets
Sandeep Varma
Building Muscle on a Low Carbohydrate, Lacto-Vegetarian Diet
Sidhesh Pathre
Vegetarian & Vegan Keto for Metabolic and Mental Health
Hannah Warren
Vegetarian Diet for Gut Health and Autoimmune Disorders
Jasmeet Kaur, PhD
Implementing a Low Carb Vegetarian Diet in the Gut-Sensitive Client
Sandesh Bhat
Delicious Vegetarian Dishes
Aashish Pabari
Meet the Faculty
Sandeep Varma
Endurance & Sport
Teaches fat adaptation and fuelling for vegetarian endurance athletes.
Jasmeet Kaur, PhD
Gut Health & Autoimmune Disorders
Teaches vegetarian gut health strategy and managing autoimmune disorders.
Mishal Sequeira
Weight Loss & Fasting
Sports Nutritionist and Nutrition Network coach specialising in vegetarian fat loss and flexible fasting.
Hannah Warren
Mental Health
Teaches vegetarian and vegan keto for metabolic and mental health.
Dr Sandhya Kulkarni, MD
Women's Health
MBBS and MD, Nutrition Network graduate, in private practice since 1999 with a focus on diabetes education and women's metabolic health.
Sandesh Bhat
Gut-Sensitive Clients
Metabolic and gut health coach, works with clients whose digestion makes standard low-carb guidance backfire.
Sidhesh Pathre
Muscle Building
Teaches building muscle on a low-carbohydrate, lacto-vegetarian diet.
Aashish Pabari
Culinary
Nutrition Network coach, leads the closing session on preparing delicious vegetarian dishes.
What You'll Walk Away Able To Do
Assess an individual client's dietary pattern and set appropriate carbohydrate and protein targets for a vegetarian plate.
Build a nutritionally adequate, well-formulated vegetarian low-carb or ketogenic meal plan from scratch.
Identify a client's digestive tolerance profile before building their meal plan, not after.
Apply the framework across diverse clients, including those with obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and other metabolic health concerns, while respecting their dietary preferences.
Support a vegetarian athlete's fuelling and fat-adaptation strategy for endurance training and events.
About the Training
Format: online, self-paced. Each lecture includes:
Topic outline, learning objectives & lecture summary
Expert speaker presentation / lecture
Downloadable references & journal articles
Quiz to assess what you've learned
Who This Training Is For
Our 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
We'd never want you to be unhappy. If you're unsatisfied with your purchase, contact us within the first 30 days and we'll give you a full refund, provided 30% or less of the training has been completed. That's more than enough time to watch the opening lectures and know this training is for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. This course is built for any practitioner who works with, or wants to work with, vegetarian and plant-leaning clients, whatever your own eating pattern is.
Each lecture includes a topic outline with learning objectives, the expert speaker presentation, downloadable references and journal articles, and a quiz to check what you've learned.
Yes. You'll receive a Certificate of Completion once you've worked through the course.
Self-paced. Work through the content in your own time, at your own speed.
Vegetarian doesn't mean metabolically protected.
It means the approach needs to be built differently, not abandoned. Give your vegetarian clients a framework that was built for them from the start.