Tons of ketones in my piss, is this normal when on CKD?

[dgruns]

I am have been doing the CKD diet for a little over a week (same as atkins, excpet you do a carb-load once a week), and i bought those keto sticks to test if you are in ketosis or not. I just did it, and the color came up in between large and very large, it was almost black. I just want to make sure i am supposed to have that many ketones in my piss just from doing CKD. BTW i am not diabetic or anything. Thanks.

 

[Millie]

How much water are you drinking?

 

[dgruns]

Lots, at least 2 gallons per day. What difference would that make?

 

[Millie]

Well, if you weren't drinking enough water, that would have been a reason for the large number of ketones in your urine, since you wouldn't have been peeing regularly.

But don't worry, there is nothing wrong with the ketosticks turning dark. It only means you are excreting a lot of ketones. What is your weight?

 

[dgruns]

Right now i am at 155. I started cutting about two weeks ago, and i weighed about 159. I just hope i don't start losing muscle mass, but the CKD weekend carbup should hopefully help that. I definately don't have enough muscle to be losing any.

 

[Millie]

What's your daily caloric intake?

 

[dgruns]

A scratch under 2000

 

[Millie]

Your caloric intake is good, your water intake is good. You really don't have anything to worry about, you are not losing muscle mass.
Your body is adjusting to the CKD diet, this is probably the reason why you are excreting so many ketones.

 

[macrophage69alpha]

are you using any supplements?

particularly NAC or ALA?

 

[Xizor]

Your caloric intake is good, your water intake is good. You really don't have anything to worry about, you are not losing muscle mass.
Your body is adjusting to the CKD diet, this is probably the reason why you are excreting so many ketones.

Well that could be but if he continues to be in that low I would suggest eating some carbs. Not much.. but enough to get em out to trace-medium.
I've heard that the body burns the most when its in that region. And from a health perspektive it wouldn be good to be that deep in the long run...

/Xizor