hi girlies...
another another question..
my stick turned really dark (the last darkest colour) i know that means im not drinking enough water (really trying) but how do you know if ur burning fat?
Morning jenna,it took me quite a while to get this sorted out in my head. This is my way of thinking about it. If I'm teaching grandothers to suck eggs please tell me to shut up,it's probably high timesomeone did.
1.the Ketones are what your body makes when it breaks down fat to use as fuel.it does this when there is insufficient glycogen.it would use glycogen in preference,but the diet puts paid to that.
2.ketones are v small bits & unlike fat they are water soluble.
3 think of your body as a bath with 2 taps.The first one is adding ketones to the bath.(this is your body's metabolism).for the sake of this discussion lets say you can't alter this tap ,it just keeps on running.lets also say that he ketones come out bright red.
4 the other tap is adding water. This tap you control.The more you drink the faster the tap runs.
5.Now this bath is full & overflowing.the over flow is your urine.if you drink no water the overflow will be slow & v dark red.If you drink lots the rate of overflow will be much faster & the colour will be paler as it's diluted by the water.
6. now heres the really clever thing.The body was forced to make these ketones to use as fuel, but you have just flushed them down the loo.within limits the more you flush out the fuel the more your body has to go back to the fat bank and withdraw some more.
Hopes this helps.brevity is not my middle name i'm afraid