Oh it wasn't taken as a license to cheat I guess my point got lost somewhere and that was that I had misunderstood on what it would take to throw someone out of ketosis, as I thought it would take very little; which might be true for some as we are all different. I thought that ketosis was a much more delicate state and the slightest sway would wreck it.

I don't use the ketostix, because I feel that like the scale, that they would just give me something else to obsess over. LOL So, I don't measure my ketosis or even know when I am in it or not...but since the weight is coming off, I guess I am doing something right.

One good thing I have learned from this thread though, is that if I do decide to have that deli sandwhich or the like, that I don't have to feel the guilt of "ruining my diet". I choose to eat this way for life, and life happens to all of us, so we just move on and count that as one day of weakness out of many strong days behind us and ahead of us.