i checked with ketostix when i used the products and i was in ketosis!
all that new dawn was trying to say was, although we may not be following CS to the letter, we have found a system that works for us.
we have found we do go into ketosis as we regularly eat under the 100g of carbs every day
and we do use atkins bars as a meal replacement, we have not been ill in anyway
we have all achieved weightloss through doing this.
it just a bit demotivating saying we are doing this wrong all the time when the system is working for us.
just to say we have never claimed its a ketogenic diet or anything like that we're just supportinge ach other through the journey.
everybody is welcome to express their opions obviously but when people tell us what we are doing is wrong and dangerous then some people become a bit annoyed
Hi Kels - (I thought you had a twin until I realised you changed your name)
I didn't say what you were doing was wrong. I was thinking about what KD said. So I was of the thinking it wasn't a ketogenic diet, hence the reason why I asked if anyone who talked about ketosis (slipping in/out) had actually tested for ketosis.
I personally don't think the diet is dangerous or what you are doing is dangerous - if you follow it as instructed, then I expect it wouldn't be or it wouldn't be on sale. Goodness me, CD gets enough stick as it is

I was merely perplexed about talk of ketosis and wondered whether the diet actually induces ketosis, even though it is not marketed as a ketogenic diet.
What I do think is dangerous are posters who are rude/obnoxious and/or hostile towards other posters. I took (and still take) umbrage by the way I was spoken to and frankly such behaviour isn't to be tolerated. I personally feel I'm a helpful poster .. and whilst my questions may not be regarded as 'helpful' in the first instance, they should not be misconstrued as destructive, which my first post on this part of the Minimins forum was.
I take umbrage at being told to "mind my own business" on a NON-diary section, as this attitude is both hotile, destructive and childish and serves as no advertisment for anyone new or existing dieters wishing to potentially move to this diet (which I could well have been considering).
We should be helping each other lose weight, not create barriers to people asking questions, after all this is a Weight Loss Support Forum - as stated in the title.
Anyway JustForMe; whilst this is in reply to the post you kindly made, the lion-share of what I've said is, I guess, directed at NewDawn as it was his/her behaviour that has shaped this post.
Thanks ...