Sheila, If by ketosis you mean that ketostix change to pink/purple then that just shows that there are keytones in the urine and does not necessarily correlate to immediate weight loss due to fat. Stalling means at least six weeks of no weight loss or inch loss.

Ketostix will change colour sometimes with alcohol consumption and burning consumed dietry fat. They can also not change colour through being old stix or moisture contamination.

That having been said, if you are showing a change in colour every day for six weeks and carbs are less than 30 and you are doing everything right, I would be surprised if there was not either some size reduction or weight loss.

However you can test one morning and nothing, the same afternoon can be moderate and then nothing the next day. It is so variable that the Ketostix can only be a guide.

The simple answer is that if you are burning your own fat, you will not be stalling. If you are replacing muscle with fat you will not be stalling.

How you know for certain what the body is doing at any given time and which direction it is trying to go is what makes LC life such a fascinating, frustrating, rewarding, infuriating, pleasurable, plain ol bizarre activity. Just when you think you have got it cracked; it ups and bites you on the bum!