Can you use your scale instead of keto strips? If your weight goes up,
be stricter, if it goes down too much, be less strict. What is your
exercise plan and do you eat healthy stuff like vegetables, fish etc?

i

And......what are your stats?  Congrats on making goal!
~*~Pie~*~

I've found I can't eat a whole lot more in maintenance than I did during my
diet  Maybe 200 - 300 calories a day more, but that doesn't work out to a
whole lot of food. One scoop of low carb ice cream and a piece of low carb
bread and there's your 300 calories!

Calories are more important for weight gain for me now than carbs. But I
always keep my carbs relatively low because I need to control my blood
sugar.

What I have done for the last six months of maintenance is cycle back and
forth between a strict low carb diet and a looser one (over 60 grams now and
then) and between a lower calorie and higher calorie regimen. I test
different ways of eating watching the scale carefully, and if I regain a
couple pounds, I tighten up.

It's a lot easier to lose 2 lbs than 20. But if you ignore the  2 lbs it can
become 20 faster than I want to remember. <sigh>.

--
Jenny  - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c
5.2.
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Are you doing Atkins now? If so, the idea in his plan is that during
the period of OWL you should have been having about 5 fewer grams of
carbs a day than you would be eating to plateau. And you should have
been working yourself up to that slowly in order to determine your
plateau level, then cutting slightly back.

Did you do that?

If so, you should know what your carb level is for maintenance.

Frank Lynch
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I've only been doing the maintenance thing for a couple of months now, but
how I keep on track is by weighing every day.  I have an upper weight limit
at which I will eat a bit less for a week or two till it goes away.  That
has not happened so far.

I eat pretty much the same way that I ate in the the last couple of months
of weight loss, and exercise almost the same amount, so it's been a pretty
smooth transition.  I did lose a few unexpected pounds after reaching goal,
and they've stayed off (which is probably why I haven't ever gone above my
upper limit yet).

I've never used a keto strip or tested for ketosis.  I estimate carbs and
calories, but I don't keep an exact count.  So far, so good.

Em

If you eat doughnuts and go out of ketosis, your body will dump all the
blood ketones to urine, and you might not see a negative reading until
the next morning.