I'm on day 6, and my urine ketones are finally up around 4 mmol/L. The urine ketones should be in this range for about a day or two, then when my body figures out it should use blood ketones for energy, it'll drop down to be nearly absent in my urine.
Yeah. Love talking about pee.
Let's talk about poo.
One of the common questions (and past experience for me on this diet) is "How do you deal with the constipation?" My answer previously was to eat more fibre, which ended up increasing my sugar/starch carbs since I was eating my fibre in veggies, and that screwed up my macro balance (I was eating too many carbs). NOW I know that I need to: EAT. MORE. SALT. So I make sure I'm getting 4g /day or thereabouts in salt, and miraculously there is absolutely no constipation even though I'm not going out of my way to eat tonnes of servings of veggies. In fact, I might eat 1 or 2 servings of veg a day and that's all.
Pretty darned happy with the state of my excrement. That's not something you hear every day. Or ever. Who says that?
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