At the end of January I began my keto journey. I stayed mostly on track until the end of July loosing almost 30lbs and resolving many (not all) of my medical issues. At the end of July some major family issues come up and wound up intermittently doing keto until I finally just gave up in October knowing I would not be able to get back on track until after the holidays.
So I am now restarting keto after a few SAD months. We ate Christmas dinner the weekend before Christmas and on the 24th I was back on track. This time though, I began also exercising about 15 minutes each evening after work just to get my body moving and help burn through the carbage.
I ensured that on Tuesday I started my electrolyte supplementation to mitigate the chance of keto flu as much as possible. Friday I decided to check my urine for ketones and to my dismay the test was negative. I checked several more times after thinking there might be something wrong with the sticks as it was the same sticks I bought earlier in the year. And lo, same results each time.
Assuming there was something wrong with the sticks, later that morning I decided to check my BG and blood ketone levels. From the start of keto earlier this year after I started checking blood levels, my ketones stayed at around .3-.8 and BG was 80-90. My ketone level the last two days has been 1.2-1.3… I have two meters for BG. They are quite off between the two. My one touch verio is reading 75-80, and my precision xtra read 104 and when I rechecked it was 91. I couldn’t understand why there would be that big of a difference between the two or which numbers are actually reliable. I used the controll solution on the one touch and rechecked and the numbers stayed the same. But that is another topic…
I am beside myself with the keto numbers. Clearly if my body jumped so easily back into keto that is why the strips showed negative (which they never had in the past as I would still excrete some aparently.) I only felt somewhat nauseous one night in the beginning of the week as I knew my bg had bottomed out but never anticipated these results.
Is this all too good to be true??? Am I actually back on track and doing better than before? I’ve read all the horor stories of the frustration women experience reentering ketosis after a big break and was seriously concerned. Either way, it feels great to be back!