Help me if you can!!

[Eliizzle]

Hi,
I'm new to this forum and the Atkins diet. I'm am a married woman of fortysomething and have two grown girls and one teenage son. My husband and I started the atkins diet on friday and now we are on day seven. We have been using Dr. Atkins first diet book as a guide (published 1995). We have been using Ketostix and after the first two days my sticks turned the appropriate color, but my husbands has only turned slightly showing only a trace. He has assured me that he is taking in the same carbs as I am....Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated.

[liv]

Re: Help me if you can!!

Fiddle stix. :0 They are not particularly accurate. And the colour does not really matter. If there is some colour there will be ketones. So it is happening. Your husband may be drinking more water than you so it is more dilluted. Losing is the best induction that is working.
Here we follow 2002 edition.
Good luck to you two.

[Big Daz]

Re: Help me if you can!!

Buy a lie detector to complement the Ketostix

[Chef Kevin]

Re: Help me if you can!!

Yeah, if the stix are too dark, it can mean dehydration.

it's like pregnancy, you either are or aren't (um, in ketosis I mean...)

[Eliizzle]

Re: Help me if you can!!

Thanx for your replies and he has lost weight so I guess it must be working. I won't be needing lie detector.