Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Re: ketosis

Friday, August 28, 2009

Re: [fast5] Re: ketosis

Interesting. You are low carb and fast 5 but not in ketosis. Years
ago I tried the strips on the Atkins diet but they never showed
ketosis either.

Thanks for the experiment.

Ellen

On 8/28/09, gianna4417 <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> I've tried the strips and it didn't show any sign of ketosis, both 1/2 hour
> before breaking fast and 1 1/2 hours after. I am losing weight though, even
> if with ups and downs, it must be simply the calorie reduction: yesterday,
> an average day where I didn't stuff my face but didn't deny myself anything,
> I counted to see how much I was eating and it was around 1400 calories. I'd
> imagine that before I started I was easily eating at least 2000 cals a day.
>
> --- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Ellen Ussery <ellen.ussery@...> wrote:
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>> Well you could anyway. Just for science.
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>> Ellen
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>> On 8/24/09, Karen <laurvick@...> wrote:
>> > You know? I think I tossed my ketostrips out. I'll check.
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>> > But I guess I can't check for ketosis for me, tho, eh? Since I'm
>> > low-carbing...
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>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: fast5@yahoogroups.com [mailto:fast5@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
>> > Ellen Ussery
>> > Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 4:43 AM
>> > To: fast5
>> > Subject: [fast5] ketosis
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>> > i am curious if any of you who are doing Fast 5 and eating a fair
>> > amount of carbs have tested for ketosis?
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>> > It seems to me that it would be impossible to go into ketosis while
>> > eating carbs even on Fast 5. So just wondering if anybody had tested
>> > or would be interested in doing so.
>> >
>> > Ellen
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