Is This Normal?
kshatriyo
Posts: 134 Member
I started keto on October 1st, went into Ketosis in 3 days, and I am barely hungry at all. I ate like 60 grams of carbs yesterday and my ketone strips are still positive (the lowest it got was 15mg). My doctor says I just must be very carb tolerant but I am wondering how it can possibly be this easy.
ETA: I don't mean the process has been easy, I do have some side effects. But I am not hungry. That is almost worth anything.
ETA: I don't mean the process has been easy, I do have some side effects. But I am not hungry. That is almost worth anything.
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Some people can handle more carbs than others and stay in ketosis. It looks like you are in fact one of the lucky carb tolerant people.
If I go over 40g, or sometimes 30g, I don't show ketones on the ketostix, but I assume I am still in mild ketosis and just not spilling ketones in my urine.
Ayways, just go with it. If you are feeling good with that many carbs, and get the benefit of ketones, I would just keep doing what you are doing. 3 -
I finally got a break, and it's a NICE one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!5
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Good for you! The not hungry thing is sooo nice.1
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I seem to do well between 50 and 75 grams of total carbs, not net, but total. If I stay away from gluten and potatoes, that is easy to do. I started Aug. 1 and my trending weight is averaging 1 lb per week, since I only have 16 more lbs. to go and I am older, I am happy.
I have been following the new Atkins, 2 weeks of induction on 20 net carbs, then slowly adding the rungs of carbs til I notice a problem with a food or a rung. I can't believe I didn't start this way of eating long ago. I was hung up in yoyoing on 40c/30p/30c. I am doing 10c/70f/20p now and loving my food choices. I also dropped a couple of days of exercise too. Walking, strength training, and yoga is all I am currently doing.
And yes, the no hunger is the *BEST*.1 -
This is the first time in many years that I have control of my eating. What a wonderful feeling! Now if I get hungry between meals, I know I haven't eaten enough calories the day before or I'm low in fat or salt. I used to have a major problem with night eating, but that is long gone.2
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I finally got a break, and it's a NICE one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think I'm in a similar place. <100g net carbs since Oct 1, day 3 of <30g net carbs for me. I only had one, umm, intestinal distress (loose and urgent stool), likely due to too much fat only at one time (no BFC or fat bombs for me, thank you, lol).
No other keto flu symptoms (yet?), no keto stink, no faintness, but I'm most likely in ketosis based on what I'm experiencing (I don't plan on ketostix; I feel I'll add unnecessary testing to what I want to be a naturally occurring lifestyle for me).
I guess what I'm feeling is that switching to this WOE was far less dramatic of a transition than I envisioned. Lucky? Maybe, but even so, I feel a tinge of uncertainty. I'm definitely wrong to feel that way. Everyone is different, I'm just a different I didn't expect to be.3 -
It really can be that easy. That's exactly why this woe works so "miraculously" well and why we can sometimes sound a bit evangelical when talking about it to others.3
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williams969 wrote: »I finally got a break, and it's a NICE one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think I'm in a similar place. <100g net carbs since Oct 1, day 3 of <30g net carbs for me. I only had one, umm, intestinal distress (loose and urgent stool), likely due to too much fat only at one time (no BFC or fat bombs for me, thank you, lol).
No other keto flu symptoms (yet?), no keto stink, no faintness, but I'm most likely in ketosis based on what I'm experiencing (I don't plan on ketostix; I feel I'll add unnecessary testing to what I want to be a naturally occurring lifestyle for me).
I guess what I'm feeling is that switching to this WOE was far less dramatic of a transition than I envisioned. Lucky? Maybe, but even so, I feel a tinge of uncertainty. I'm definitely wrong to feel that way. Everyone is different, I'm just a different I didn't expect to be.
I feel the same way. No dramatic Keto flu, although I have had a few times I felt nauseous or just ill which I attribute to electrolytes. Now I'm trying to be more cognizant of pushing the electrolytes to avoid that feeling.
Honestly, I think I was feeling so run down and crappy eating a SAD diet that my body is rejoicing, because I feel so damn good now!
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BT, have you tried the bone broth? It has helped me a lot.0
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For the ketones levels, I'm hearing from some sources that urine test strips can be pretty inaccurate based on how concentrated the urine is in cases of dehydration or over hydration. I will get a glucose ketone blood monitor to be sure.0
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