Hmmm maybe that explains the color.. before I started the real low carb diet my urine was clear all the time (all I ever drink aside an occasional diet soda every other day or so). Anyways I've noticed the regular color coming back.. Sign of ketones? Maybe have to check the Walgreens to see if they have that test. And yeah I've noticed some nice weight loss, which I definitely needed as well.
Thanks! On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sandra wrote: >> >> The Ketosis Gruss is referring to is also known as Benign Dietary Ketosis. >> Basically its when your body burns fat for energy rather than carbs. > > Yeah, the beauty of ketosis from a fat burning perspective is that you > essentially "train" your body to prefer fats for fuel instead of > carbs. > > This is nice because if you have extra carbs not needed for fuel, your > body turns them to fat. Thus the freshman 15. > > If, on the other hand, you have extra ketones in your body that you > don't need for fuel you just pee them out (or exhale them). And since > your body prefers fat for fuel, if you eat a deficit of calories, your > body burns your own fat. > > Ketosis is a great way to lose fat quickly and safely - and you can > monitor it with "ketostix" that you buy from CVS or some-such. Tells > you exactly where you are and if you should increase of decrease > carbs. > > The problem is, it's not easy. > > Eating at 25-50g of carbs / day will take some getting used to (foggy > brain!) and at about the 10 day point most people will have digestion > problems. But if you power through it you'll be all set to really > lose some weight. > > Anyway, since you're already doing that, if you have fat to lose it > might be a great time to do it however I"m not sure how diabetes > affects that, so, as always, check with your doc : ) > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:297813 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
