CKD, in and out of Ketosis,,, wtf???

[bigp3]

I am finishing up my third week of the CKD and I have noticed this week when testing my level of Ketosis that sometimes I am in and other times I am not registering. What is the deal with this. My carbs are under 20 grams a day. My buddy thinks I am eating too much protien. Any thoughts

 

[HANSEL]

How much more protein are you getting than fat?
You should be close to a 1/1 ratio of Protein and carbs

 

[Quino]

Also, how much watter do you drink? I sometimes drink like 2-3 gallons on a day and during those days I would never register on the ketosticks but it does not mean that you are not losing weight (according to Mr. X and some other memebers to trully test for ketosis you need someting that measure the glucose on the blood or something I cannot remember) When I read that it was normal and the Ketosticks were not that much accurate I stoped using them but I lost a good deal of weight while on a CKD

 

[Ceebs]

There's two possible explanations:

1. Protein converts to glucose with 58% efficiency. You're eating too much of it, and being bumped out of ketosis.

2. Your method of measuring ketosis is flawed. Most people use ketostix, which only indicates ketonuria (ketones in pee), not ketonemia (ketones in blood). Your urine could be too dilute for you to register ketosis on the sticks.

You can buy all sorts of fancy gadgets to tell you what's going on internally when you diet (blood ketometer, blood glucometer, ketostix, jelly doughnuts, etc), but what matters most is whether you're steadily dropping bodyfat. If you are, don't sweat the rest.

 

[macDbol]

There's two possible explanations:

1. Protein converts to glucose with 58% efficiency. You're eating too much of it, and being bumped out of ketosis.

2. Your method of measuring ketosis is flawed. Most people use ketostix, which only indicates ketonuria (ketones in pee), not ketonemia (ketones in blood). Your urine could be too dilute for you to register ketosis on the sticks.

You can buy all sorts of fancy gadgets to tell you what's going on internally when you diet (blood ketometer, blood glucometer, ketostix, jelly doughnuts, etc), but what matters most is whether you're steadily dropping bodyfat. If you are, don't sweat the rest.

ceebs is cool

 

[the nature boy]

also I've read some diet soda's can knock people out of ketosis temporarily.

 

[HANSEL]

ceebs is cool

Yes, but she merely restated what Quino and I said using some fangled terms

 

[Ceebs]

Yes, but she merely restated what Quino and I said using some fangled terms

Yes grasshoppa, but did you invoke the jelly doughnut? I think not.

 

[Quino]

Yes, but somehow it sounds better when ceebs says it

 

[HANSEL]

Yes grasshoppa, but did you invoke the jelly doughnut? I think not.

That was truly impressive Shidoshi