14th day, small to mild ketosis, am I through induction?

[bigben]

Its my 14th day, and my ketostix tell me I have small to mild amounts of ketones in my urine. Does this mean I've made it through induction? By the way, I've gone from 285 to about 268 in 14 days.

[not2late]

Re: 14th day, small to mild ketosis, am I through induction?

Don't worry about the ketostix--they really don't tell you anything extremely important like you are losing weight. All they tell you is you are burning fat, but it won't tell you if that's the fat you ate for lunch or if it's the body fat on your thighs or stomach.

As for ketosis, you will be in ketosis the entire time you are on this diet.

[2big4mysize]

Re: 14th day, small to mild ketosis, am I through induction?

woo hoo for you weigh to go. Read chapter 13 of your DANDR and see if you are done with induction and ready to move to OWL or you want to do a longer induction. Your 14 days are done and with the number of pounds you lost and the number you need to lose you can look at the charts in DANDR and see what your netabolic resistance is and your approximnate CCLL

[Desertthorn]

Re: 14th day, small to mild ketosis, am I through induction?

Great start. Induction is 2 weeks, now the only decision you have to make is if you want to continue on Extended induction or start up the OWL ladder.

[Elizellen]

Re: 14th day, small to mild ketosis, am I through induction?

Woohoo

Great Induction result

You are on your way to becoming a big loser!

[softnred]

Re: 14th day, small to mild ketosis, am I through induction?

Congratulations!!! That's an excellent start. Keep up the super-duper good work!!

~JoAnne

[alpha_wolf_1966]

Re: 14th day, small to mild ketosis, am I through induction?

Great work! Keep it up!

[rayjay]

Re: 14th day, small to mild ketosis, am I through induction?

17 pounds in fourteen days is really great keep up the good work.

[thick_CaliShawty!]

Re: 14th day, small to mild ketosis, am I through induction?

HEY CONGRATS ON THE MAJOR LOSS... WHAT A WEIGH TO START!!!! Keep it up and whatever you did keep doing it cause thats an amazing job for only 14 days!!!!

[Karb-free Kayla]

Re: 14th day, small to mild ketosis, am I through induction?

Sweet score on the weigh-in!!

Stick to the program and the pounds can't stick to you!!

[bigben]

Re: 14th day, small to mild ketosis, am I through induction?

Ha, you guys are great. I've been bobbing up and down the last few days and I'm not sure why. I haven't done anything different, as I've decided to try the extended induction. Its not that bad really. I'm down to 265, 270 was my plateau with all other diets. My biggest concern is calories. I can't find anything that tells me how many calories I should try to be at. My mother has gone from 220 to 145 by staying under 20 carbs and 1000 calories per day. Everyone says I'm too big to try that, so how many calories should I aim for? Oh yeah, I'm 5'8" 265lbs.

[Elizellen]

Re: 14th day, small to mild ketosis, am I through induction?

Do you use fitday.com to track your food intake?
If so you can look at the Reports section and choose the report called 'calories burned'
It will show you a pie-chart and table listing the calories your body needs for 3 areas of your life depending on what figures you have entered.
It shows :
Basal - the bare minimum needed just to life and breathe
Lifestyle - what it works out you burn with whatever level of activity your normal lifestyle needs (if you have an active job or sit at a desk all day)
Exercise - what calories are burned from whatever exercise you enter each day.

You need to eat at least the Basal amount to stay healthy, and more if you do a lot of exercise or have a very active lifestyle.

If you eat 500 calories per day less than the total calories needed you should be able to have a steady one pound per week loss based on the fact that 1 pound of weight lost = 3500 calories 'deficit'.

[bigben]

Re: 14th day, small to mild ketosis, am I through induction?

Day 20, 260lbs. I can't believe this. I've lost 25lbs. in 20 days. If I knew it was this easy I would have done this years ago. YES I'M BRAGGING BECAUSE I FINALLY CAN!!!!

[Elizellen]

Re: 14th day, small to mild ketosis, am I through induction?

Amaaaazing results so far, Ben!!

[Anlhess]

Re: 14th day, small to mild ketosis, am I through induction?

Wow Weigh to go Ben!!!! You'll be where you want to be in NO time!!! Keep up the good work....