Ketonix and fasting?

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(AguB) #1

Hi so I bought Ketonix, will pick it up from the post tomorrow. I am doing a IF of 22-23 h each day (that means that i only eat dinner, of about 1000-1200 kcal, 85-15-5% (fat-protein-carb). I am obviously loosing weight but i want to know if i am in Ketosis.

So i bought Ketonix and i am reading /watching all from Michel Lundell guy but i don’t get one thing… he speaks of going 4 days full water fast before you’re in ketosis… It seems like 1 day fast is actually only negligable ketosis.

Do i understand it correctly? I do not know yet what my ketonix will show but i want to prepare myself. Anyone any experiences?

(Tom Seest) #2

I don’t know if this is the correct answer, but he’s a Type 1 Diabetic, so he tends to think and write from that perspective.

(AguB) #3

Thanks man, let’s see!

(Karen Fricke) #4

That’s if you had been eating a high carb diet to get to ketosis quicker.

(Peter Fryer) #5

Hi just joined this forum. Bought a ketonix about a month ago and been comparing it against blood ( got a good deal on the strips!) and ketostix. I’ve kept a record of the results which seem to say the following.
As I got more keto adapted ketosix barely went pink, except when fasting then they were darker. Blood results confirmed I was in ketosis to varying degrees 0.5 to 2.5. I normally got between 15 and 30 on ketonix but there seemed to no correlation to blood results. Most importantly when I fasted, I did 36 hours 3 times, blood went, up ketostix went up, but I could only get 2 or 3 on the ketonix, this happened every time, so for me the ketonix indicates ketosis most of the time but not when fasting. Hope this helps!

(AguB) #6

Hi! I have the same with Ketonix! I do not manage to see any (or 1-2 ppm) Ketone levels when fasting. Even after 36 h of fast i saw nothing. Then i ate a rich LCHF meal and registered 9 ppm immediatelly.

(Tim W) #7

I sent my ketonix back.

I had it for a few months, used it off and on and it just stopped working at one point.

When I was using it during a fast it never got over 3-4 on the indicator although blood ketones were 4+, so, for me, there was very little correlation. I would not be surprised if others found the same (a lack of correlation between blood ketones and the ketonix reading).

(Linda) #8

Yep, I sent mine back too and went and bought a blood meter. When I was getting readings of 1-4 during a 4 day fast, I figured there wasn’t any point in having it as it didn’t tell me anything!