Can anyone who eats a high fat meal measure on ketostix?

[Kellerina]

I am just wondering if someone who was not doing the atkins diet ate a meal high in fat like a few eggs and bacon, and then an hour later used a ketostik, would it turn pink because they are burning dietary fat, or do you actually have to be in ketosis?

[GottaBme]

Re: Can anyone who eats a high fat meal measure on ketostix?

Nope, gotta be burning body fat to see the stick turn. Ketones in the urine are a byproduct of burning body fat, not food fat.

It takes a day or two or three of eating low-carb to get the stick to turn when you just start out, cause your body has to use up its glycol stores before it will start burning body fat.

GBM