Hi there, Two days ago I had one of the newer low carb beers because I didn’t want to go to overboard on my cheat day, well later that afternoon I had a sugary shot and a few regular beers, next thing you know I had a lot of pizza and chips, then more pizza before bed lol! It’s rare I do this. Anyway the next morning I tested and I was still in ketosis. I tested a few more x into the night and still in ketosis. And today, Still in ketosis. I never came out of Ketosis. That was a lot of carbs I consumed my gosh! This has happened before, it seems like my body likes to be in ketosis . I’ve been somewhere between keto and carnivore for almost three years( mostly carnivore )and occasionally have a cheat day but I’m disciplined enough to get right back to the diet the next day. Well, it’s a lifestyle for me now. Anyone else experience this?
Cheated two days ago Still in Ketosis
When I went on vacation this year, I took my Keto Mojo. While I didn’t go that much overboard, and sometimes ate within short windows and kept my normal 2 meals a day most days, I had ketones every time I tested. (I don’t have high ketones any more, so I wasn’t always in “ketosis”, if that’s >5mmol/l, but I’m hardly there anyway.) I had some pizza, some ice cream, chocolate, etc. A week in vacation, though I didn’t test the last two days (the final day was a travel day).
How are you testing?
Beware that alcohol can give false positive for ketones on the breath meter. I would only trust the blood ketone method for this kind of conclusion.
However, sounds like you have things under control and my thinking these days is that a off plan day or vacation is fine so long as you are confident you can get back on plan. That wasn’t the case for me until several years of being on plan 100%. Others may have an easier time.
Yes, you 100% did!
When you eat carbs, you’re out. The ketones you already made don’t vanish into thin air, and they’re de-prioritized as carbs will be burned first. While your injested carbs were very quickly being getting sucked up by your liver, muscles and burned in real time, you’re ketones were mostly being ignored, by the time the carbs were absorbed as glycogen, you burn off what’s left as you go, the majority of your ketones are still in circulation, and therefor gives the false illusion that you never came out of it.