Thu, Sep-16-10, 08:32
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Senior Member
Posts: 676
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Plan: bulking!
Stats: 133/114/120
BF:yes
Progress: 146%
Location: Boston, MA
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maintainers: are you/do you stay
...in ketosis?
I'm below goal and still losing slowly, though I don't particularly care to. I just don't want to start gaining weight back. I had a big carb up on Sunday (Indian food for lunch with a vegetarian friend, probably 100 grams of carb in that one meal). Since then I've been back to less than 50 grams a day. Also have been working out a lot, for me.
I decided to check this morning and see whether I'm in ketosis or not. Not. I also weighed myself and I'm at the same weight I was last week (a new low) so I "claimed" it.
I guess I'm somewhat confused. Do I *want* to be in ketosis if I'm staying low carb but don't actually want to be losing more weight? I'm thinking maybe no, but after the mindset of "OMG, I can't eat *that*, it will throw me out of ketosis!", it's hard to make the mental switch. Can you be in ketosis and be maintaining, not losing? (Obviously you can be out of ketosis and still losing, because I am and so are all the people who lose weight on non-low-carb. I did the math last week and I am probably eating 400 calories a day on average less than I'm burning, so that explains that.)
Anyway, forget about me. If you have been staying the same weight for a long period of time and you are continuing to eat low carb, are you in ketosis or not?
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