Thu, Oct-18-18, 17:34
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Senior Member
Posts: 648
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Plan: atkins
Stats: 200/170/160
BF:
Progress: 75%
Location: BC
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Hi Barbie,
my experience was : According to the sticks I am NEVER in ketosis.
Ok maybe sometimes I get the palest colour change, as if it *might* be a trace but usually I think it’s my eyes fooling me. And I had times during my first year that I worked hard on it, and was fat-adapted ... so I have two thoughts:
1. It’s been said that being in ketosis is like being pregnant - you either are, or you aren’t...so trace amounts are a great marker and don’t worry if they don’t go dark.
2. I lost the middle 10 pounds during that time i used the sticks and I think I was just very excreting a low level of ketones but still in ketosis and losing.
I never heard what Arielle says “they don’t work after a while because you body is burning the key tones” ! Maybe that explains it...
Anything that helps motivate— looser clothes, or the scale, or the keto sticks, or a tape measure —can be helpful but also discouraging when you don’t see change. So I try to be careful about getting too hyped up on any kind of measurement change.
There’s a thread somewhere about “what are the benefits” of eating this way and it helped me a lot to focus the first two months on how much better I slept, how much calmer I felt and how much less brain fog I had.
Onward, friend! Doing all this reading and asking questions is great and will help you make the mental shift to the new way of eating.
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