Ketosis? What's that?

This morning I tried to test my urine for ketones using some urinalysis strips my wife provided me with. I don't know if the strips didn't work, or if I used them wrong, or if I am not in ketosis, but I didn't see any recognizable change.

Granted, I'm only a few days in now, but I was expecting at least a tiny reaction, particularly since my diet consists of about 2 grams net carbs.

The only thing I can think to do at this point is get some more strips and test again tomorrow or the next day to see if there is a reaction. This time I will buy a pack specifically for this purpose so as to eliminate the strips themselves as a factor. If this still comes up negative then I may have to start looking for reasons as to why my body is still generating a lot of insulin.

I'm also having a bunch of other semi-related health issues right now. I'll just enumerate:

• Good: Weight appears to be down 1kg since Tuesday. That's probably mostly water though, let's see if it holds till the next official weigh in.
• Bad: Sleep is still off. My insomnia isn't really improving much, if at all. I'm aiming for 8 hours a night but even then still only managing maybe 6.
• Good: My recovery from yesterdays workout is much improved in relation to Monday's workout. I actually feel like I could go again today, but it's scheduled for tomorrow, so let's do that.
• Bad: Slight bit of nausea this morning, not sure why. It may be passing. Also, my wife seems to have the flu, so... let's just cross our fingers here, shall we?
• Good: Food prep is really working for keeping me on the straight and narrow in regards to diet. Definitely I am going to continue this for next week. 

Overall, it's a mixed bag this week so far. I think I'l have to seriously consider how I'm doing after the weigh-in on Tuesday. I am certainly aiming for a 1kg a week weight loss, which shouldn't be impossible with my current diet and exercise regime. Overall, I'd like to lose about 9kg's in 8 weeks if I can manage it, or about 20lbs for any American readers. I'm not sure that this rate of weight loss is really sustainable or not, but given that I started at 27kg overweight, I feel like 9kg relatively fast like that is do-able. I accept that it will more than likely slow down after that.

Tonight I am going to go shopping for food for meal prep. We're going to be doing mostly the same meals, but switching it up slightly. Dinner meal will move to lunch and Dinner will be replaced with sausage, onions, garlic and green veg at about the same calorie/carb ratio. Overall my macros nutrients and calorie content will not change much, so this is simply a case of adding some variety.

After that, on Saturday, along with my scheduled work out, I need to do some meal prep (my wife will be helping) as well as drive to a mall to pick up some olympic weight plates (1.25 and 2.5kg varieties) as well as a weight belt. So much to do, and somewhere in here I need to find some time to continue practicing my Japanese!