I may have been out of ketosis for weeks!!!!!!!
I suspect I’ve been mostly out of ketosis for the past 3 weeks without having realised!!! That’s not even funny, that’s completely and utterly f***ed up!! That would explain the slow weight loss – hello, only 3.3 kilos in the past 3 weeks!! Not what you’d call regular LighterLife speed…
What triggered this: Went to a huge leaving do on Saturday, drank 2 glasses of Diet Coke, probably from the tab, it tasted so disgusting. But I drank it anyway. Knowing it’s likely to knock me out of ketosis. But I was able to pretend it was vodka & coke which saved me from a lot of shot-drinking situations!! I figured I’d be easily back in ketosis by Sunday night, surely. WRONG!! It’s now Tuesday and I’m BARELY there.
So how do I know? Because I bought a pack of those ketosis sticks that you pee on, in order to see – out of interest – if the LighterLife Route to Management food choices would keep me in ketosis for a few days, or occasionally if I stayed with high protein & low GI stuff. Anyway, I had the stuff to be able to check myself on Sunday. And Monday. And today. I’ve been in & out & in & out. Always just barely in. Then right out.
I don’t deserve this! I’ve drank 2 glasses of Diet Coke on 2 occasions during the past 8 weeks, because it was the least complicated choice to avoid further complications. I haven’t eaten food!! The only change in my diet – and I suspect this is the culprit – was switching from 1 type of LL bar (nut crunch, very high in fibre) to a different type (low fibre, more carbs) about 3 weeks ago, when the first type started to be faulty (=mouldy) fresh out of the manufacturer. That’s the only thing consistently different that I can think of.
Oh no, wait. There’s another one, and with the above it may not have helped… I’ve been really overdoing the LL water flavourings. See I get through about 7 liters of water a day. And working from home a lot, lately, I’ve had most of it, if not all, with LL water flavouring, because you can get addicted to the stuff, no matter how ‘industrial’ it tastes in the beginning! So been having lots of it. And LOTS of it actually does add up to some extra carbs that otherwise wouldn’t get to my body. So that might be another factor.
AND it all adds up to answer why I’ve thought I’ve been feeling physically hungry!!!!!!!
What’s MOST enfuriating is that I had no problems like this last spring during initial Abstinence!! This whole realisation makes me both mad AND sad, and I just want to move on to Route to Management because I don’t trust that I’ll get properly back on ketosis EVER. Even though now I haven’t had a bar (only chocolate with coffee, and soups) for 2 days, and definitely no more water flavouring, and no Diet Cokes!!, I’m still only barely in ketosis.
So really tempted to start Management NOW. Even though I haven’t lost all the weight I want to lose. But WHAT’S THE BLOODY POINT?!?!?!!?!! Would’ve lost more in 3 weeks with ANY old diet!!
Add to ALL OF THIS the fact that LL group this week was moved to Tuesday night so I have to miss it because of work, and so miss out on the official weigh-in, therefore at the mercy of my own scales and right now I don’t trust ANYTHING that is my own doing, since everything I choose to do seems to just be making things worse.
I’m officially NEVER again drinking the LL water flavourings, and I’m avoiding the bars for as long as I can. But I can’t for the whole week running up to the next group, because I bloody well haven’t got enough soups to f***ing cover for it!! Also I’ll be on the run most of the week, including today.
IT’S NOT FAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What am I going to do now? WELL. Having at least learnt something along the way, in true LL thought record style, I have in fact examined the evidence for and against my case, and learnt that scientifically I may in fact be well in ketosis though the stupid sticks aren’t saying so. On another hand, weight loss has been SLOW which would indicate fat isn’t burning as it oughta be. Considering both things, I’m now going to stop obsessing about this until the weekend, and then see where I am in this whole ketosis – route to management start date – hulabaloo of a discussion in my head.
My intentions are good, at least. But it’s tough, especially when you’re pre-menstrual ;)
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oh wow. Ok so:
1) you are WAY too hard on yourself
2) those sticks only show the ketones in your urine, aka the excess ketones not used by your body. Sure if the stick turns it means you’re in ketosis; but just because they don’t doesn’t mean you’re not. Your body is prob just burning efficiently those ketones. Also, you said your drinking 7 liters of water. HELLO!!! The sticks only show a concentration, not a quantity, and your urine is super diluted.
it makes perfect sense to me what your sticks showed. Just relax, you’re in ketosis. But drop that diet coke and aspartame shit, it can not only halt weight loss but it’s also really really evil for many other reasons. Stick to real food.
so did avoiding bars and flavouring make any difference? I ask because I am in week 7 and have been faithfully abstinent but weight loss grinding to a halt, 2lbs, 1lb and this week my scales say I’ve put on 2lbs – will see officially at weigh in on Saturday but come on!! But you’re blog interested me because I been contemplating giving up bars to see, my pee sticks are always light light pink (raises eyebrows from councillor but hands up I’m innocent) and I drink 3ltrs of flavouring a day never thinking that could slow anything down. By way, not delighted by amount of artificial sweetners I’m getting but it’s only full on for a short period of my life so I’m willing to do that.
Just interested in your findings because I at 5t 3 and now 11st 4 I wonder if even a bar a day is too many carbs for me and I am not really in ketosis. Hungry HUNGRY and not bursting with all that energy I was promised. Have until now been keeping the faith but I need weight loss to back it all up…!