Reddit reviews Ketostix Reagent Strips, 100-Count Box

I hate to ruin this guy’s business, but: http://www.amazon.com/Ketostix-Reagent-Strips-100-Count-Box/dp/B0000532GH

Keto stix
http://www.amazon.com/Ketostix-Reagent-Strips-100-Count-Box/dp/B0000532GH/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324567414&sr=8-1

(i get mine at Walgreens)

Haha! I was confused there for a sec. Thought you meant Ketostix, the thing you piss on.

This sounds like a healthy diet, whether or not it is a ketogenic diet. And it seems to be working for you, which is great news.

It might be ketogenic. Even a pound of snap peas is only about 20 grams of carb. So it really depends on what you mean by "a LOT". If you are curious, you might try getting a food scale and using a macro-counting app like MyFitnessPal. Alternately, you could keep eating the way you are, and not worry about it as long as it seems to be working for you.

Here is some controversial advice, but for people just starting out, KetoStix can sometimes help you figure out whether you've gone into ketosis. Many people here will tell you they don't work, especially after you've been on a very low-carb diet for a while, but back when I was first getting started, it was reassuring to have an indicator that I'm on the right track.

All the sticks will tell you is, "At some point in the recent past, your body created some ketones and they overflowed into your urine." They can't say if you still have ketones in your blood. And they can't spot if you have ketones in your blood but none are overflowing into your urine. But if you darken the strips a few times, it's a good sign that you are on the right track even without buying a scale, and then you can stop using them just like everyone advises.

A ketosis stick, the picture is his urine soaking into a test strip paper. It shows that he is in ketosis.

This stuff

I'd strongly recommend that you log your weight every day and also buy and useketostix. This, added to the [weight chart] (https://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/HackDiet) will provide you with excellent feedback about what's going on with your body. When you do binge on carbs, you'll see the graph and the sticks tell you if you are in ketosis or out of it.

Partly because I've learned how to feel when I'm in it or not, but mostly because I checked later that day with Ketostix. Definitely get some if you haven't already.

No. It takes several days of very low carb to get into ketosis. You can prove it to yourself by pissing on ketostix.

The easiest way to tell if you're in ketosis is to use ketostix.

Also, some nuts have more net carbs than others (cashews have much more than walnuts, for example) so you might want to watch those.

Lastly, you should really track you food (at least in the beginning) it really helps to get a better picture what you're actually eating.

I don't eat much more meat than I used to, but I do eat a lot more fats, and cleaner sources of carbohydrate. Get yourself some ketostix (other brands and retailers are available) they'll be able to tell you more definitively whether or not you're in ketosis. But, yeah, fatigue can sometimes be an indication that your body has entered ketosis.

I think OP is talking about Ketostix, which are like litmus paper that detects excess ketones leaving the body in your urine. They turn from beige to pink/purple depending on what concentration they detect.

Ketostix: http://www.amazon.com/Ketostix-Reagent-Strips-100-Count-Box/dp/B0000532GH

Ketostix. They look like this. You can probably buy them at your local pharmacy for much cheaper.

In diabetics a high concentration of ketones usually means that they are not creating/injecting enough insulin and they need to see a doctor. Your liver breaks fat into ketones which smell sweet and make your urine and breath smell funny. If you are eating a typical diet and you are producing enough ketones to effect your breath then there is likely something wrong with your liver or your blood sugar.

keto-diasticks should work, but since you dont need the glucose monitoring I would go with ketostix

For a seven day fast it sounds like you should have it planned just about right. One week pre fasting, weening yourself of processed complex foods to low volumes of unprocessed foods for a week, the fast for a week, and the recovery for a week slowly bringing your body back to a normal routine. Since you have already done a one week fast you know what to expect form your body, probably more so than anyone else. I would recommend some ketostix to keep tabs on what your body is doing. Also, the mental side of fasting is super important... be mentally prepared for a difficult endeavor and be prepared to be emotional during the fast.

They sell pee sticks (here's one example) that, depending on the color on it, indicates if you're in ketosis or not, and at which level you are.

You could try 1 stick a day after your "cheat" days to see how many days it takes your body to go back to ketosis THEN make a decision based on the results?

IMO you'd have better data to base your decision on. Ex: if you get back in ketosis 4 days after your "cheats" VS it takes 7 days.