If you are on a ketogenic diet and curious to know if your body entered the state of ketosis, you will need to check the level of ketones in your blood. The level of ketones indicates if you are burning fat for energy instead of carbs. it is an important factor to make sure you are losing fat for energy.
One way to test ketones is to get your blood tested at the clinic. although it's more accurate, it is a bit expensive.
Another way is to use ketostix; they are test strips that check the level of ketones in your urine.
you can buy those online or from a near by pharmacy, you will get around 50 sticks for 25$.
I use the bayer ketostix.
now, in order to test, follow the below steps:
1- while urinating in the morning, get 1 ketostick and dip it in a tiny bit of your urine, you can always just pass the strip into your urine flow.
2- once the tip of the stick is covered with urine, count till 15.
3- compare the color on the strip to the color codes on the bottle. dark purple is the highest and no change in color is the lowest.
4- if you have ketones present in your urine it means you are in the ketosis state.
here is the result i got on my test, it appears i'm way into ketosis :)
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