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trevors50uk

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Started Keto Diet 10 days ago. Took 1st keto blood reading today and reading was 1.1mmol/L.
Don't know if this is good or bad? Last HbA1c reading was 44mmol/mol and I don't take medication for diabetes.
Any view/advice would be welcome.
Trev
 
trevors50uk said:
Started Keto Diet 10 days ago. Took 1st keto blood reading today and reading was 1.1mmol/L.
Don't know if this is good or bad? Last HbA1c reading was 44mmol/mol and I don't take medication for diabetes.
Any view/advice would be welcome.
Trev
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Think your reading is a bit out of whack.
Maybe have another go..check the use by dates on your test strips. Did you get enough blood out? My meter often reads very low if not enough blood.
 
In extreme cases 1.1mmol/L whilst still breathing might be possible if you are a fat-adapted Keto King with a brain that can run on glucose fumes, and you have just injected some exogenous insulin to spite your liver. Otherwise it's vanishingly unlikely. I'm with @bulkbiker. Thats either a rogue measurement or you need to dial 999.
 
@trevors50uk was that a blood glucose reading or a ketones reading? If the former, I agree with @bulkbiker and @Jim Lahey

If it’s a ketone reading then you’re in optimal ketosis and that’s a great reading.
 
Indeed if that was a blood ketone reading then excellent you are in ketosis.
Sorry we tend to assume most readings are blood sugar rather than ketones..
 
bulkbiker said:
Indeed if that was a blood ketone reading then excellent you are in ketosis.
Sorry we tend to assume most readings are blood sugar rather than ketones..
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Hi bulkbiker, sorry for confusion, but reading was for Ketones which I am following for weight loss.
I took another reading today and is was 0.9.
Also took a blood glucose reading before eating and it was 5.4 mmol/L.
 
trevors50uk said:
Hi bulkbiker, sorry for confusion, but reading was for Ketones which I am following for weight loss.
I took another reading today and is was 0.9.
Also took a blood glucose reading before eating and it was 5.4 mmol/L.
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Both excellent then ...sorry if I caused any confusion.
 
Hi,
My Keto last Saturday was 2.4, on Sunday 0.6 and today 0.9.
Is this variation normal? I was looking to get into ketosis and stay for a while.
Thanks.
 
trevors50uk said:
Hi,
My Keto last Saturday was 2.4, on Sunday 0.6 and today 0.9.
Is this variation normal? I was looking to get into ketosis and stay for a while.
Thanks.
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If you are registering ketones then you are in ketosis so... you're doing great!
 
I really don't think it is anything to be concerned about - if you are burning fat there might be fewer ketones - it is like being pregnant, between the first and last days of the process there are a lot of changes, but you are no less pregnant.
 
trevors50uk said:
Rather confused.... Diet Doctor website says …..Below 0.5 mmol/L is not considered “ketosis”. At this level, you’re far away from maximum fat-burning.
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Hmmm misleading and in my view incorrect..

Edit to add ketones like blood sugar are dynamic and move about all the time so far as I know if you register ketones then you are in ketosis.
 
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trevors50uk said:
Thanks for that. Will abstain. keytone reading today was 0.4 (not considered ketosis) Rather disappointed not into optimal.
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What time if the day are you testing? Ketones are usually higher in the evening in my experience. A g&t should be fine if Schweppes slimline. Fevertree low cal still have quite a few carbs.
 
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