You might find this link helpful: http://www.lowcarb.ca/tips/tips011.html

You can be in ketosis and burning fat and never register on the strips. The above link helps explain why. My advice would be to not fret over the color of the ketostix if you are losing weight and/or inches.

Wordlady...you started out wanting to lose about 26 pounds. That means that in all liklihood, the weight will come off very slowly with an average loss during induction of between 2 and 3 pounds and then an average loss of about 1-2 pounds per month after that. I took a peek at your fitday journal and everything looks about right. The only suggestion that I could make is to watch out for processed meats like salami as they contain nitrates which are known to stall some people and also a lot of sodium.