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"Remember in the book it says to test only at night and at least one hour after eating as this will give you a truer reading. ALSO any color change means you are burning fat. The darker the color, the more fat you are burning. It does not mean you are not getting enough water. Water will have little or no impact on the sticks color"
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Ive personally played around with this trying to see the effects of water on ketosticks and I drank close to 2 gallons of water that day.
In the morning the sticks were dark purple. All I ate were ketogenic foods and I only tested 1 hour after meals and longer.
The more I drank the more I urinated the lighter and lighter the stick color was. Dinner was at 6pm at 7pm the sticks showed that I was fully out of ketosis.
I didnt drink any more from 6-11 but tested them a few times in between then and what do you know by 11pm my sticks were showing color again.
It makes sense to me that if each time you urinate your body is getting rid of excess ketones there are only a certain number of ketones your body has to get rid of, and if you keep drinking and flushing out your body the less extra ketones your body will need to get rid of in one sitting the lighter the strip color.
That means if you arent drinking as much, your urine is more concentrated your body is getting rid of more extra ketones at that moment and the strips will show a darker color.
I will add that the strips did change to some sort of purple gradually getting weaker through a whole lot of water consumption. I think I had over a gallon and they still turned a trace pink it was only by the evening and close to the 2 gallon point that they didnt change color anymore.