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Ketosis

If you want to get into nutritional ketosis you are looking for urine ketone strips to get into the Medium level or thereabouts. And if you are very serious about monitoring ketosis you might want to get a blood ketone meter though the strips are expensive, £1 a strip, if you have to pay for them.
 
I will enquire at the doctors and see if I can be prescribed one, although I expect I'll have to buy them!
 
Or, OTOH, you could not bother. For me, as a newish and lo-carbing LADA on small insulin doses, my blood sugar doesn't swing around that much (that's why I go to the trouble of lo-carbing). If it were to go up to 13+, it would indicate a massive problem, and I'd be at the doctor's long before that.

Each diabetic's own decisions to make.
 
Butterflykeri said:
Brilliant x have ordered thank you :)
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If you are T1 then your doctor should prescribe a small number of blood ketone test strips, for use on sickdays. They are unlikely to knowingly prescribe you enough strips to enable you to routinely test for nutritional ketosis.
 
I've messed up :-(
Went for a 3 mile walk and hypo'd. Had too many carbs now going high. And well I've gone over my 30g carbs because of it :-(
 

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Don't worry. It happens. I'm having to load up carbs more than I'd like to due to changing over to levemir and not wanting to have a spectacular low overnight without a clear idea of how it will work. Ketosis is going to have to wait a couple of days...
 
I agree, it happens. Don't worry, just climb back on the horse. It gets easier to reenter ketosis the more times you do it.
 
Plus even 70g carb can keep you in ketosis. It depends.

BIGGEST weakness of Doc Bernstein plan: feeling you've failed when something goes wrong or doesn't work. DON'T feel that. Just fix it as you need and get on.

He says, What works, works.
 
Thanks all. Feeling better about it today. Ready to start again. Won't beat myself up as it's all a learning curve
 
Hello to all, my eyes are working, but my brain is saying, what? so the learning manuals are going to be opened and copious notes taken, this beginner is wanting to improve her life,body shape and get the diabetes under control.
Did anybody else read in today's Daily Mirror about the woman who dieted, lost 11 Stone in weight and her diabetes went away? I also have a big pile of weight to lose, but what will I do with all the major wrinkled skin that I will be left with when I get slim again?? Well this will have to be thought about after some sleep, ttfn from Karen
 
Loose skin is a "nice problem to have" if it comes from losing all that weight. People's skin elasticity varies. Age and smoking are major factors in skin elasticity. If skin is not elastic and has not shrunk to fit after 1-2 years after weight loss, you are allowed to get a skin tuck operation.

So, get losing the weight! :-)
 
Hello Spiker, thank you for that suggestion, and things are set to get going, ttfn from Karen
 
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