[Georgiana]

Originally Posted by LCer09

That's all true. But "bars and shakes" as if it was one word and they were at all, in any way similar is just not true, no? Catch phrases tend to get overused until everybody believes them. I've been on a LOT of LC boards over the years, and I see a lot of ideas become gospel. Like "If your ketosticks turn purple, you're dehydrated!!" (oh my god, we're all gonna DIE!)

Maybe fewer people experience a stall in their weight loss from shakes than from bars because of those sugar alcohols missing, but many are still stalled by ingredients that are in the shakes. If this had not be the case, then Atkins Nutritionals would not have set a limit of 2 per day for both the bars and the shakes and instead they would have said you can eat only 2 bars, but 3 shakes.

Ketostix. Many people do not drink enough water at the beginning of their Atkins and then their ketostix may turn dark purple. This is why we remind people that dark ketostix are often a sign of dehydration and we tell them to make sure they drink enough water. Also, many people get very excited from seeing purple thinking "OMG, look how purple this is!!! I'll lose a bunch of weight in 2 weeks!", when in reality the color registered on the stix may have nothing to do with the results one sees at the end of the 2 weeks---you can have dark ketostix from eating butter all day or you can artificially darken the color by consuming coconut oil or other short- and medium-chain triglycerides.