? for ketostix users.(apo 14 day induction board)

[happyandstuff]

ok I'm on day three and I decided to see if ketosis had kicked in yet. When I took the strip test, it came out a little funny. Most of the stick was good color red indicating I'm well into ketosis, but a part of the stick didn't change color at all? Is that normal? I held it in my "stream" for quite a few moments so I know I saturated the whole testing area. Can I trust what the strip says if the whole thing didn't turn?? Also, the test indicates that I'm not heavily in ketosis....does this mean that my body just hasn't kicked into high gear yet or does it mean I should cut back my carbs even more?? Tia for any answers!

[WindCriesMary]

I don't know about the weird half and half stick colors, I've never seen my stick do anything like that. Maybe part of the test area got contaminated. Did you touch the test area?

If the stick turns any color at all, there are ketone bodies present. Ketosis is like pregnancy, you're either in ketosis or you're not. Really dark changes can indicate concentrations of ketone bodies, like if you're dehydrated. Conversely, I've recently read on the board that you shouldn't test after exercising because you could get a false negative. You may have just used up all the ketones for the energy to exercise.

[*Emma*]

It was prolly just a faulty stick



Never test in a morning either!

[Buddyjay]

My stix do the same thing. When I was in Induction, the color change was total on the stix. The last 5 weeks, the change is only partial. Some areas of the stix have no change while a little in the center changes. The stix are not touched prior to useage and then only at the other end.

During Induction, I was pretty sedentary and the stix showed "moderate". I do Home Improvement work and it was slow then. Lately, I have been extremely busy building decks (very labor intensive). It is like being at the gym all day so my stix show nothing at all now. Probably due to being physically active all day.