Questions about ketosis

[sersgirl]

Hello everyone. I have a questions about ketosis. I know the book says ketosis may cause bad breath. Does that mean that the strips may not turn but the ketones are still being released through breath? My strips used to be dark purple (no bad breath), then I cheated and I'm trying to get myself back into ketosis, it's been 5 days cheat free and no color change on the strips but boy does my mouth stink and its' driving me crazy. I try all of the "remedies" for ketosis breath but it's not working. Could I be in ketosis and they are just not registering on the strips? All help would be appreciated. Thanks to all, I love all the onfo you guys give me. This board is such a help

[not2late]

Originally Posted by sersgirl

Hello everyone. I have a questions about ketosis. I know the book says ketosis may cause bad breath. Does that mean that the strips may not turn but the ketones are still being released through breath? My strips used to be dark purple (no bad breath), then I cheated and I'm trying to get myself back into ketosis, it's been 5 days cheat free and no color change on the strips but boy does my mouth stink and its' driving me crazy. I try all of the "remedies" for ketosis breath but it's not working. Could I be in ketosis and they are just not registering on the strips? All help would be appreciated. Thanks to all, I love all the onfo you guys give me. This board is such a help

Yes that's true. In fact you can be in ketosis and those ketostix won't register it. The stix only measure "excess" ketones. Your body can also use ketones as an energy source. So if you are breaking down fat and making ketones but only enough that you don't have "excess" ketones floating around, then those stix will keep telling you 0 ketones.

Dr. Atkins wrote:

However, should your LTS (ketostix) not run pink or purple, depsite the fact that you are doing everythign correctly, you may still show a decrease in appetite, an improvement in well-being, a loosening of your clothes and a slow but steady weight loss and reduction in inches. This simply means that you are not producing enough ketones to register on the LTS (ketostix) but enough to burn fat. Remember the strips are tools; making them change color is not the sole object of the game.

[2big4mysize]

actualy ketones exist in 3 types in the body. the kind we exhale should smell like ripe fruits according to Dr Atkins in DANDR. you cn be off gassing the volitle oils in your foods like onions and garlic or have poor oral hygeine if it is smelling bad. the teast in our mouth is ketones in our saliva reacting with our tastebuds and depending which you got you will either get the metalic taste or the sweet taste.