Yet another Ketone question!

[Pineapple]

My weight loss has really slowed down as I've moved through the phases of atkins, maybe about a pound a week now. I have five pounds (ok, maybe ten if I decide I don't feel comfortable at 140) left to go and decided to buy some ketone testing strips to see how my body was doing. It says that I'm small or moderate (I can't really tell the differance between the two colors).

My question was can a person still be doing Atkins correctly without being in the "large" deep purple colors? Am I in Ketosis?

[not2late]

Originally Posted by Pineapple

My weight loss has really slowed down as I've moved through the phases of atkins, maybe about a pound a week now. I have five pounds (ok, maybe ten if I decide I don't feel comfortable at 140) left to go and decided to buy some ketone testing strips to see how my body was doing. It says that I'm small or moderate (I can't really tell the differance between the two colors).

My question was can a person still be doing Atkins correctly without being in the "large" deep purple colors? Am I in Ketosis?

As you move closer to goal, your weight loss will slow down. In fact, Dr. Atkins said the last 5-10 should be spend in the Pre-Maintenance phase and lost slowly (over a period of a couple months) because Pre-Maintenance was "training" for Lifetime Maintenance phase.

[Pineapple]

I've started making the switch over from OWL to pre-maintenance and planning to weigh in Tuesday to see how I did. I just wanted to check up on my body. Now I'm not sure if I'm still in ketosis or not since I've been making the switch, and I was wondering if anyone knew if a deep purple color was required.

[Elizellen]

No - any colour means you have the particular type of ketones that your sticks measure in your urine.

Deep purple can mean you are dehydrated too!

I have never seen more than the lightest colouring even when I was losing several pounds a week!!

[Pineapple]

Awesome! Thank you so much

[not2late]

Per the book, once you reach 50 net carbs, you might not register on those stix. As Elizellen says, the color of the stix has nothing to do with losing weight. Furthermore, you can register "high" after eating a particularly fatty meal or snack---not because you are metabolizing your body fat, but because you are metabolizing the fat you just ate.