ketosis what in the world this sucks

[sweetz0625]

hey everyone I have been on atkins since april 1st and have lost like 6.5 pounds. Anyways, I have been on atkins before and was in the darkest ketosis, but this time around my ketosis is non exsistent. Why is that, that before when I was on atkins I had a very high level of ketosis and now none, this kind of depresses me because I know that if you are in ketosis then you are in no matter what color it is but the darker the color the farther you are in ketosis, and so it is harder to get knocked out of ketosis if you are in the dark purple which is what I used to be in many years ago, but this time around I am just in the lightest lightest color. So any advice for me, what can I do????? HELP HELP HELP

[soliwit]

The time you measure could be the reason why you don't see anything, try measuring at different points in the day.
You could also put your menu in the 'view my menu' section, maybe you are eating some hidden carbs somewhere.
Good losing to you !

[2big4mysize]

don't sweat the stix as long as you follow the rules in chaopter 11 eat only the foods in the correct amounts, drink all your water and do the mandatory exercise part of your Atkins you will be in ketosis and losing fat mass from your body.

Read the FAQ on the stix and you can see how with your exercising you can be burning up all those ketones and not have any color on your stix!

All those stix tell you is how much excess unburned up ketones you got floating around inyour blood stream at the time your urine was created and the concentration of them in your urine. you can eat 10 pounds of butter be dark purple and gaining weight so be happy with the negative scale numbers and enjoy your Atkins.

[WyndWoman]

Make sure you've got new, fresh keto-stix. Also, I recommend the actual keto-stix brand by Bayer. I've tried two others (cheaper) and they simply didn't work within about 3 weeks of opening the bottle, even though I kept the bottle open for only the second and half it took to fish one stick out. I pity the diabetic who's depending on them for their health....

[not2late]

I pity the diabetic who's depending on them for their health....

When I worked in the hospital, urine ketone measurements were practically worthless to see if a diabetic patient was producing ketones. We always used the blood ketone test because it was a more accurate measure.