If you are very well hydrated, esp to the point of peeing clear (sorry for the bluntness), your strips may not turn even though you are in ketosis. The ketones are simply too diluted to register. Ketosis blunts your appetite, makes your mouth taste funny (sweet.metallic) and may change the odor of your sweat, breath and/or urine. If you notice these signs, you are probablu in ketosis even if your strips don't change.

Another way to tell is to collect the urine in a cup and stick the strip in the cup. This can sometimes give a result when the ol' stick-it-in-the-stream method doesn't work. (Can you tell I know WAYYY too much about this?)

Also, those of you who carb up on stuff like Gatorade, check the label for fructose, esp High fructose corn syrup. Fructose (even from real fruit) tends to sneak into the liver rather than the muscles and it will live there for a few days, thus making ketosis harder to establish. If you think fructose is the problem, read the labels of your baked goods, too. It's in bread, juice, cookies, etc.

I carb up from dinner Friday thru dinner Sat and hit ketosis around dinner Sun.

Cheers,

Friday