Your body has a set point of body fat dictated by the type of food intake. Glucose in the food sets the point at a certain level and body fat adjusts accordingly as dictated by insulin. Likewise, when you decrease the glucose the body adjusts the body fat accordingly as well.

Increase the amount of water you drink as the number one remedy to constipation. Do not drink more than 500 ml of water in a 1/2 hour time frame, too much to fast can kill you. You should be drinking from 3 – 4 liters daily. You can ad fiber such a phycillium to your diet. I use 12 tsp with 150 ml of cold water. The bacteria in your stomach will adjust as you continue to eat low carbohydrate. As far as I’m concerned I have the best bowel movements when I eat low carbohydrate. when i consumer high carbohydrates I’m telling you I pay dearly, painful, and just horrible smell. Fiber includes vegetables so as long as you are including good veggies in your low carbohydrate diet you should have plenty of fiber.

Enjoy I’m just a low carbohydrate lover no credentials.

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I have a question. I am currently in my fifth day of ketosis and have been losing weight fairly rapidly. I am taking fiber supplements since the last time I tried a low carb diet (about 10 years ago) I was extremely constipated.

The fiber supplements seem to work… there’s no blood in my stool and there is slight constipation, but it is manageable; however, my last bowel movement had an ammonia smell… hence I have been digging around trying to get an answer.

The most common answer is that ammonia smelling stools is a result of nitrogen not being metabolized correctly, which means the food I am eating is not being digested properly resulting in a putrefication (sp?) of undigested food that ends up in the colon >>> this gives off the smell of ammonia. The “cause” seems to be fiber deficiency. Obviously that means the fix is to inject more fiber.

I am NOT medically savvy at all, so I apologize if I have butchered the terminology.

Thanks again for this!

Blaine