Hi --

My advice is not to take the Ketostix very seriously. The ones I have show a range of colors from beige to purple, and the implication is that the greater the ketogenic stat, the darker the color. But I've tried stix in the morning and the evening and have gotten both ends of the range! My guess is that the morning piss was very diluted with water (I drink a lot of water in the evenings), but that I am more dehydrated when I get home. So the ketones are diluted in the morning, concentrated in the evening, but the stix look as though my status has changed dramatically in a 10-hour period!

My suggestion is that you not take ketostix very seriously, and to the extent you use them at all you consider them as binary measures. Binary, 2, black/white, on/off. If the stix changes color at all, any color, you are in ketosis, but even a negative result may not be bad news.

Hope this helps -- RA Harris