How to keep a steady ketosis?

I''m on a very low carb diet, (nearly 0) and i''m aiming for a steady 1.5 -3 B-ketones. I do reach 1.5 but it drops to 0.4-0.6 after a low carb meal.

Blood sugar rose from 84 to 89.

Any ideas how i can maintain a steadier ketosis?

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Recommended Answer:
80% ratio of dietary fat in every meal & exercise.

Excess protein is converted to glucose *unless* dietary fat ratio is greater than 80%.

The body uses not only glucose but also glutamine from the amino acid - which is found in higher levels in the protein from dairy, nuts, seeds & vegetation.

Exercise can increase blood ketone levels 0.25-0.50 millimolar immediately afterwards which is an indication that fat-burning has commenced. These ketone levels can “increase sharply during the 1-2 hours after exercise due to increased hepatic delivery of fatty acids and greater rates of fat oxidation,” according to Volek and Phinney.

Suggest you read Jimmy Moores current experiment - for the last 10 months he has done daily tracking of weight, blood glucose am/pm, blood ketones am/pm

Jimmy Moore started low carbing in 2004 & originally lost 180# in one year - he gained some weight back until he started practicing the >80% fat ratio. His body is extremely metabolically resistant to weight loss (insulin resistance results in easy weight gain) & he has lost 73# in the past 10 months.

day 1 -
http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/jimmy-moores-n1-experiments-nutritional-ketosis-day-1-30/14409

day 300 (73# lost) -

http://livinlavidalowcarb.com/blog/jimmy-moores-n1-experiments-nutritional-ketosis-day-271-300/18084

While the weight loss to date (73 pounds in 10 months) has been a nice little side effect of this self-imposed scientific experiment, there are so many other intriguing and measurable health benefits that have come from doing this–namely hunger control, less obsession about food, heightened mental acuity, regular restorative sleep, blood sugar stability, energy out the wazoo…I could go on and on!

The reality is nutritional ketosis has given me back full control of my health and weight again in ways where even a typical low-carb diet had failed me in recent years.

purely anecdotal of course:



Paul N • 2 months ago

I had read a comment from someone on one of these sorts of forums, who could not "achieve ketosis" no matter how much fat they ate.
They then, on advice of a friend, took 2tbspns of flax oil, and was in ketosis the next day. mIght be worth trying since you are measuring things so accurately.

http://diagnosisdiet.com/ketosis-week-1/