so its been about 5 weeks, of me doing cardio/ working out , well for the most part the workouts in the earlier stages were some skipped and so on, and as for the diet, ive tried to keep it as healthy and close as possible. ive gone down from 200lb to 194 as of current, and keep in mind this is not 100 % giving it my all, but trying to do so i plan to go harder as i go on. just an update do you think that is decent progress? 5 weeks and down 6 pounds? >_<;;

What's an actual whey isolate? I know a lot of them say they are on the containers, but really aren't 100% isolate.

I was looking at that Higher Power above, seems pretty legit. Should I stick with that or do you have something better in mind?

that's a bit slow. I would reduce your calories maybe another 300 per day to see a proper fat loss. You should be around 2 lbs per week

HP is okay, but I prefer Optimum or NOW! - both of which are very high quality proteins (whey isolate that is)

Hey Raynor. As we have discussed before, I am on keto. I read somewhere that citric acid can kick you out of keto? I thought I found gods gift to keto(Crystal Light Lemonade mix) it has 0 carbs and 0 cals. I thought it was fantastic and have been drinking about 3 glasses a day for the past 3 days. I am concerned.

Do not be alarmed.

SOME people can be thrown out of keto from citric acid - but it is NOT common.

Please buy keto strips (they sell it at all drug stores, walmart, target, and most retailers that have a pharmacy.)

These strips are just little paper strips that come in an air-tight tube - you will urinate on the colored part of the strip, and within 30-60 seconds you will find out if you are still in keto or not.

Follow the directions on the packaging.

Do not take this in the wrong way. I am not questioning you at all, but I heard that those strips just tells if you have excess ketones are coming out of your piss? Is it normal to have excess?

what about true protein? any good? 7ds aka john always said it was good

This post was edited by Osirislives on Feb 3 2011 06:55pm

When you are in ketosis you release excess ketones through your urine. This is how you tell if you are in ketosis. You want to be in "mild to moderate" ketosis...any more than that is bad.

great stuff...but very expensive