Does Ketosis Stop?

[Diva217.5]

I was wondering if after a period of time does ketosis stop showing up on the strips? I am into my 3rd month of extended induction and my stips now come up with no change.I am eating the same, is this common and does it mean my weight loss will stop?

[Austlyn]

Re: Does Ketosis Stop?

Sometimes you can get a dud pack of strips, if that is not the problem maybe you may have allowed your servings to be destorted or unintentionally added in things that are not allowed. I am sure there are othere suggestions.
Are you still losing??/

[not2late]

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I was wondering if after a period of time does ketosis stop showing up on the strips? I am into my 3rd month of extended induction and my stips now come up with no change.I am eating the same, is this common and does it mean my weight loss will stop?

Technically no, ketosis won't stop. When you go through OWL and begin eating at higher carb levels, you might not register on the ketostix anymore. But that doesn't mean you aren't burning fat.

As for eating the same....as you lose weight, you become a smaller person with a smaller energy need (unless you're like ttdriver whose an exercise fiend and needs more energy to do that amount of exercise). So if you are eating the exact same amount of food that you have been eating since day 1, you might be overeating your Atkins.

[April2November]

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i haven't bought sticks yet this time. but i do know that i never got dark purple like my cousin who drank wine on atkins. i showed, and got overzealous with those strips, everytime I went to the bathroom, i would whip out a stick. as long as i see progress i won't stress, even if my metamorphis to my eyes is okay, im cool with it as long as i know that im giving my best daily, thats all i can do. i hope i didn't run off topic, but i feel where ur coming from.

[boonie stomper]

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If you're still using the same bottle of strips, they could simply have expired. The pads are very sensitive to moisture in the air. You can see if they still work by testing acetone polish remover or vinegar.

[Diva217.5]

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The stix I am using are brand new and unfortunately I am not that smaller to overeat.I have only lost 13lbs and am still over 200lbs, so its not that.
I watch everything I eat, and havent gone over my carbs, I do induction exactly as its in the book.Perhaps this just happens every once in a while?

[boonie stomper]

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It happens quite a lot, because
1. Your body can use up all your ketones so none are left over to pee out;
2. Drinking excess water or peeing extra water can dilute the ketones too much for them to register on the strip;
3. Too much urine on the strip can wash the chemicals out of the test area

I personally consider you fortunate to have been so lucky so far. I've only gotten a color change once ever, and it was faint. Guess I've got an "efficient" metabolism that won't waste any of the fat it burns

[2big4mysize]

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stix only test for one type of the 3 types of ketones in the body and if you are busy burning off your ketones for fuel then your pee will not have any to measure. Also if you drink lots of water yours will be so diluted they will not register as the stix are the concentration of ketones in a certain anmount of urine. (All numbers are made up)Say you pee out 10,000 ketones a day and you drink loits and pee out 3000 ml a day too so you would have a concnetration of just over 3 but if you didn't drink a lot and only peed out 1000ml a day your concentration would be 10.

if you are eating only the foods on the chapter 11 induction acceptable lists and you are not eating your proteins too high and your fats too low then you are in ketosis even when the stix don't validate your work.

[Analog6]

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They are just anpother tool. Don't stress out over them. I have never used them, I go by my weekly weigh in and how my clothes fit. Try and up your exercise level, and remember that CHANGE can be our biggest freind.
By this, I mean make a change to what you are eating. If your biggest meal is at night, try to have it at lunchtoime for every so often. If you exercise at night, try to change to mornings for a week here and there.
Change your ingredients and eat different veggies and prepare them differently. If you steam them, try stir fry or vice versa. This often works for me.
I've had a little whoosie of 1.2 kgs (about 3 lbs) this week and I had oatmeal for breakfast twice just because I couldn't face eggs! I did not expect to lose an ounce and was worried I night have gained, So experiment (in small doses) and see if it helps.
Good luck.

[Kent]

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As others have said, I wouldn't stress too much about the stix. They are nice reenforcement when they work, but they are not an absolute indicator of success at all. Keep doing what you are doing, and if the stix aren't registering ketones, focus
on the other better indicators of diet success, i.e. inches or pounds leaving the body. You can also monitor for other ketosis indicators, like bad breath, lack of hunger, urine smell different, etc.

[April2November]

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great tips.

[boonie stomper]

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I was entertaining a pity party (with TOM as a co-host) this weekend as I've been doing induction for a month, and the scales are not near where I'd hoped they'd be when I started. Even though I only cheated twice, and have been exercising like crazy. But, my mother told me that my but was about 6" less wide. So that really helped motivate me for the May 1-14 challenge. Even though going for 3 days of OWL menu extras over the weekend (and TOM) put the scales today same as last Friday, despite moving 5000 pounds of field rock and digging 300 clams, I know this diet IS WORKING. To heck with the strips, that still haven't changed except when I dipped them in Acetone or Vinegar. Hang in there!!

[April2November]

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atkins woe results creep up on you like a thief in the night.
right when you think, "What's the use!!!" A sudden change comes.
I understand fully how you feel, but keep up the good work!!