you could very well be burning off your ketones with your exercise. Dont worry about it. As long as you are keeping your carbs under control, and you are exercising, you should be loosing just fine. The other possibility would be you are eating alot of protein. This will also lower your ketones, but again, its not something to worry about.

Hope this helps, and eases your mind a bit

Thank you Robin.. I really appreciate you taking the time to answer me.. I guess I was so used to (when I did this diet before my youngest) I depending on the Keto sticks to let me knwo I was okay... but I didn't exercise as much then.. so that does make sense.. again thank you so much for your input.. I feel MUCH better.. off to have some pepperoni.. and watch Fear Factor Mother/Son.. Havea great night

Christine

Ketone stips can go bad too. I've had bad batches of them. Also if you are drinking lots of water they don't register as dark. If you are eating more fat, they tend to register darker. As long as you are eating right and they are measuring, you are doing good.

Thank you these are brand new stripes I just opened them yesterday.. I am drinking tons of water and I am exercising my butt off about 1-1hour 45mins a day.. never less than 45 a day.. so I am sure those two things are making this happen.. thanks

Just focus on the fact that you ARE losing weight and not so much on the sticks. You're doing a great job so keep it up

You might also want to take a look at the expiration date on the bottle of strips - it could be that you did get an older batch.

I've bought brand new bottles and had them not work too.

The pita bread might be throwing off your ketosis too....

Are the pounds and the inches coming off? If they are, then I say put the sticks in the cabinet and don't worry about it. It's pounds and inches, not the color on a piece of plastic that counts.