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- Type of diabetes
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Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
I've been looking via Google and in the fora for information on ketosis.
As usual I'm looking for a simple explanation and not finding one.
As far as I can tell, you move into ketosis as soon as you run out of glucose to metabolise.
That is, glucose firstly from liver stores, carbohydrates, then more slowly processed proteins.
Most people may go into ketosis over night at some point.
Presumably this may be one thing that triggers a liver dump.
Anyway, if you are burning fat you are in ketosis to at least a degree which means that if you are consistently losing weight then you must be spending time in ketosis.
I assume with a diet or eating plan where the calories are less than those burned during a 24 hour period (leaving aside digesting your own muscles) you must burn glucose, then switch to burning ketones, then switch back again.
Urgh! If you are exercising at an aerobic level you are burning a mixture of glucose and fat. So are you in ketosis when burning fat or are you only in ketosis when all the glucose has run out?
To stay out of ketosis more or less all day, I read that you need to eat around 130g of carbs (although this must obviously vary with the amount of protein you eat).
On this site I read in various places that to be 'in ketosis' you need to eat less than 50g (preferably 30g) of carbohydrate.
Which brings me to the question of how you define 'being in ketosis'?
Are you in ketosis only when you are exclusively burning dietary and body fat for more than say 80% of a 24 hour period?
Or are you in ketosis as soon as the last bit of glucose leaves your system?
Or what??
Oh, and the last bit of glucose can't have left your system or your BG meter would read 0 and you would presumably be dead!
Oh, and is there anything in the standard blood test for your diabetic review which can indicate the level of ketones (if any) in your blood?
I can't see an entry for 'ketones' in my printed results.
Cheers
LGC
As usual I'm looking for a simple explanation and not finding one.
As far as I can tell, you move into ketosis as soon as you run out of glucose to metabolise.
That is, glucose firstly from liver stores, carbohydrates, then more slowly processed proteins.
Most people may go into ketosis over night at some point.
Presumably this may be one thing that triggers a liver dump.
Anyway, if you are burning fat you are in ketosis to at least a degree which means that if you are consistently losing weight then you must be spending time in ketosis.
I assume with a diet or eating plan where the calories are less than those burned during a 24 hour period (leaving aside digesting your own muscles) you must burn glucose, then switch to burning ketones, then switch back again.
Urgh! If you are exercising at an aerobic level you are burning a mixture of glucose and fat. So are you in ketosis when burning fat or are you only in ketosis when all the glucose has run out?
To stay out of ketosis more or less all day, I read that you need to eat around 130g of carbs (although this must obviously vary with the amount of protein you eat).
On this site I read in various places that to be 'in ketosis' you need to eat less than 50g (preferably 30g) of carbohydrate.
Which brings me to the question of how you define 'being in ketosis'?
Are you in ketosis only when you are exclusively burning dietary and body fat for more than say 80% of a 24 hour period?
Or are you in ketosis as soon as the last bit of glucose leaves your system?
Or what??
Oh, and the last bit of glucose can't have left your system or your BG meter would read 0 and you would presumably be dead!
Oh, and is there anything in the standard blood test for your diabetic review which can indicate the level of ketones (if any) in your blood?
I can't see an entry for 'ketones' in my printed results.
Cheers
LGC