Shrimp Kicked Me Out of ketosis!?!

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Yeah I bought shrimp on Sunday (raw) I just cooked it in butter and I was feeling really full so today I did a urineanaylsis and I'm barely in ketosis so what happened I thought they we could eat shrimp librally?? Someone what happened what did I do wrong?

[freckles]

Re: Shrimp Kicked Me Out of ketosis!?!

if you're barely in ketosis, you're still in ketosis

maybe you worked out extra hard and used up all those ketones! no fears! the purple stick is not the key to success, it is just a TOOL to see how you're doing!

[n0matter]

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That doesn't sound right. I've had shrimp and scallops several times since the start of my induction and no problems with it slowing up ketosis. With the butter, you should have a perfect fat to protein ratio. What else did you eat during the day?

[not2late]

Re: Shrimp Kicked Me Out of ketosis!?!

Yeah I bought shrimp on Sunday (raw) I just cooked it in butter and I was feeling really full so today I did a urineanaylsis and I'm barely in ketosis so what happened I thought they we could eat shrimp librally?? Someone what happened what did I do wrong?

Today is tuesday. What did you eat on monday?

BTW, some seafood do contain carbs. I think 3 oz of shrimp has about 1 carb. So, you need to count those carbs to your daily total.

[n0matter]

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All shellfish are carb-fortified I believe. But she would have had to have a pound of shrimp just to reach 5 carbs. Which would be interesting to watch but I don't think it would kill her carb count for the day. Now if she had them with cocktail sauce or something, that's another matter.

[not2late]

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She could also have a food intolerance to that particular seafood that is causing blood sugar instability issue.

But as freckles stated, it doesn't really matter what color the stix are. If they turn a color, you're in ketosis. Considering that our body produces 3 kinds of ketones and the stix test for the one that makes up about 18-20% the ketones produced, I don't put too much stock in the stix.

Color of the ketostix
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[MotherOfGizmo]

Re: Shrimp Kicked Me Out of ketosis!?!

I could easily eat a pound of shrimp!

[sarah.N.C]

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I understand what you are going through, actually. I went to a chinese restaurant Sunday and asked them to cook me some veggies and shrimp, no sauce and no rice (obviously). It was yummy...freash broccoli, snap peas, onions, ect., and shrimp. That afternoon, the ketone strips barely turned pink I dont know what else you had with your meal, but I thought that day, and I still think, that it was the shrimp.
Sarah

[jimenitayo]

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I haven't used the sticks... but i remember someone saying that if you drink a lot of water, the color isn't as intense...
and yeah, i could eeeeeeeeeeasily eat through a couple of punds of shrimp

[not2late]

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Restaurant food is notorious: you can never be sure what you are eating is what you asked for. Some restaurant tricks include adding sugar to foods to improve their flavor.

Chinese restaurants are generally landmines because sugar is present in every sauce and every marinade. And sugar will be added to the dish if it needs a flavor boost.

[2big4mysize]

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actually I think the quite liberally statement is our key to what happened here. Dr Atkins qualifies that liberal statement in DANDR several times but some folk miss it and learn the lesson about too high protein eating for themselves.

Shrimp even with that carb is still avery high protein food. lets look at that pound of shrimp for this exampleand remember all excess protein in our Atkins diet is turned to sugar for fuel which will be burned before fats.

The pound of shrimp has 92 grams of protein for an 81% protein food, add some butter say
2T and we are at a 56% protein meal
up the butter to 6T a little more then a 1/3 of a cup and we are at 34% protein meal with 4 carbs
As you can see the amount of fat added to the shrimp can have a big impact on just the ratio and still if 92 grams of protein plus whatever else you ate that day were more protein grams then your body needed to fulfill its repair and growth functions then the excess was turned to sugar regardless of how much fat you had with it when you ate it.

Eating Chinese can be tricky too as cornstarch has no sugar in it so unless you tell them only veggies and shrimp chances are they made them look pretty with a cornstarch dressing which is flavorless but makes the veggies shiney and can add carbs to your meal too.