All of my readings have been pretty high - between 2.5 and 3.9.

One of the 2.5 readings was 6 hours after a carb heavy lunch of stiry fry. Most of the carbs were from veggies and some from soy sauce and sriracha. And the frozen veg mix i used had quite of bit of heavier carb veggies in it like carrots. Two days later I tested at 3.4 and i've continued to measure higher ever since. Next time I make stir fry I will try to remember to test again 6 hrs after to compare.

I've heard that it helps to get deep into ketosis then play around with what works carb wise. Some carb up meals can be more easily recovered from the deeper in ketosis you are. From my limited keto experience, this sounds about right for me but I'm still playing with the data.

Actually, this weekend i might just steam up some of those veggies and eat with sriracha and test again to see. I kinda love data!

Also, i think timing of the tests make a difference. My highest reading of 3.9 was about 2 hours after dinner. I've read that its best to test at least 6 hours after a meal (so right before a meal or after 'fasting' in the mornings). The reasoning was that with a keto diet, your body is going to be forced to make ketones from the fat you eat and that might give you an artificial idea of how much stored body fat your body is actually burning around the clock. Its an interesting point so i try to measure after a sufficient period of not eating.

I've ordered the meter too. Curious to see what kind of numbers I get. Blah, havent ordered any strips. I'll have to get on that. Mostly bumping to lurk for others' answers. :laugh:

Here in Canada Costco has the blood strips for 21.99 a box of 10. its the best price i've seen.

LOL

Yeah i feel like they should offer some financing for those strips. :P

Had a bit of a cheat weekend. I really wasn't that bad but i'm sure my protein #s were quite high and i might not have my min fat goal due to a impromptu camping trip. Mostly just pork rinds, jerky, burgers, protein bar, and a single large marshmellow. It was tasty but not worth devouring the bag. I had really great energy out there, i love keto!

Anyway, I'm gonna test before dinner tonight because i want to see how my numbers will be impacted.

I'll update later!

That's the same one I'm using. I can't get the darn thing over 1.0. Just a tad jealous. Lol

I've noticed a trend recently. On days I exercise and eat higher calories I have higher ketone reading the next morning. Does that make sense? I have my calories set to 1500 and the other day I ate almost 1800 and exercised and the next morning I had my highest reading yet, a big 1.0. Or is it more important to have Marcos right no matter how much you eat. I have mine set to (5c15p80f)

kristafb - I exercised a lot last night and I thought my reading this morning would be high, but it was only 2.2. Hmm. It's not that much higher than yesterday afternoon a few hours after lunch. My layperson opinion is both the calories and macros have to be right.

dldoddy - I'm only a bit taller than you and only a few more pounds than you. I aim for 20-30 grams of carbs a day. I don't do net carbs. I just figure total carbs. I eat low carb veggies like cauliflower a lot. You can use cauliflower in a variety of ways. My fat macro is higher than your, my protein is lower and my carb is lower than yours.

Did anyone else get their meter and strips?

Wow! You're the keto queen! You need to give lessons on how you get so deep into ketosis.

How much weight do you lose per week? On my best weeks, it's a pound a week.

You're super detailed! You remind me of the engineers I work with. :flowerforyou: :laugh:

I'm a slow loser too, but I'm within less than 10 pounds of my original goal weight, so maybe that's why? I'm not sure. But I feel much better in keto. My stomach feels better too. I didn't realize how much stomach pain I used to have eating the SAD. I haven't had an upset stomach or stomach cramps since I started keto. I honestly didn't expect that. I just did it for the BS control (family history of diabetes) and weight loss.

So this morning the blood meter showed the lowest level I've seen so far... 1.4, but I've lost about .60 pounds in the last two days and it's not water weight. I thought perhaps the higher the blood ketone number the more I would lose, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I had my highest carb day in almost 2 months yesterday. We had our Easter dinner at my moms and I ended up eating just 37g (net) of carbs and it was enough to drop my blood test down to 0.4, which is technically just outside of the ketosis range, from what I've read. My percentages for the day were all over my norm (18.5 protein & 8.4 carbs) and fat was down to 73 %. Hopefully I can have a good, clean keto day today and get my meter reading back up.

Weight wise I was up only 0.4 today and I had a lot of salty stuff yesterday so I'm not worried about it at all. It interesting to see how sensitive my body is to carbs. All the more reason to stay the course!