Some people react to Coffee and/or HWC as a stressor and it stops ketosis.
Give up the coffee for ONE day, and test your ketones every hour or so, and track them.
This is not typical to not be making any ketones. Also, I would do 30 minutes of walking after one of my tests, while fasting. And test again.
A lot of variables. Electrolytes. Artificial Sweetener Drops in the water? (I’ve watched people doing it).
More likely than you realize.
My carb limit is 5g/day. Above that, within 2 days I am knocked out of ketosis.
And I have a dairy allergy, so HWC will shunt my ketone production. Now, on a 5 day fast, I am usually cranking ketones, and can tolerate some HWC.
But if I started with it. No joy!
If the Keto Mojo and strips are functioning correctly, a big if as of now, then I agree with you that a possible reaction of some kind to the cream might be involved. I even mentioned that above as a possibility. Something unusual is going on for sure.
@CaptainKirk Wow that’s the first time I have heard of someone knocked out of ketosis above 5 grams of carbohydrate. That’s only a fraction of the amount of glucose your body produces burning fat and being in ketosis during a day.
Of course, it could be that your body is so super efficient, that it is effectively using every ketone you have to do super amazing things 
As long as you feel well, don’t sweat it too much!
I hope the fast is successful for you.
contact Keto-Mojo.
They have a test solution available.
They will certainly refund a bad batch of sticks!
Also, do you have any other symptoms of ketone production?
Did you suddenly stop making ketones with a new pack of ketone sticks?
(I had a bad pack of pee sticks once, it pissed me off… LOL)
Also, measure late in the day, your ketones should be higher.
Double check the 3 digit # that each set of ketone sticks requires (re-calibrate).
HTH,
Kirk Out!
David, I was 307 lbs and quite inflamed. Very unhealthy.
The quality of the carbohydrate matters as well…
But it turns out I am a Mini Mikhalia Peterson. Allergic to all plants and grains, and nuts.
I am forced to eat a carnivore diet. (As a side note, I was on vacation, and had various salami’s in Russia. They used different seasonings. I have had migraines for 2 weeks now, still getting them, despite being clean for 4 days, AND fasting yesterday. It could take another 1-2 weeks of migraines before it is out of my system.
SO… it could be the carbs were triggering an immune reaction -> Cortisol/Adrenaline and kicking me out that way. But the 5g limit is a multiple day limit. If I am clean, I can go over 5grams on ONE day, and recover the next without seeing me knocked out of ketosis the next morning. But if I do 2-3 days in a row, I am done.
Also FIBERS kill me. More headaches until they pass. Clearly a leaky gut issue.
Hoping it cleans up. Because of this, I actually fast as many days as I eat (more sometimes). I simply feel better not eating. But it catches up with ya… LOL.
@240lbfatloss That’s horrible Ken, at least you know what you need to do to stay on top of it. I hope you’re feeling better soon.
Don’t forget Occam’s razor! Seems like every one here has overlooked the obvious explanation that Aaron is part of a secret research project on nurture vs nature and was adopted from Inuit parentage and has the CPT1A gene variant inhibiting ketosis.
@Reversearp Have you tried black coffee yet? Buy a box of Keto stix? Let us know, please. Thanks.
Sorry for the delay, everyone - I really appreciate all the thoughts and suggestions. I was on 24 hour cool down on posts being a new member, and then I was off-line until now.
So, yes, @brownfat, Occam’s razor indeed. The Keto stix I got from Walmart did in fact indicate the presence of Ketones. Should have started with that and saved us all some time. I’ve ordered test solution from Keto-Mojo, although with the meter being less than a year old, I’m not happy about that. Seems like it should stay calibrated longer than that.
Thanks again, and I hope to stick around and be a contributor.