ahh ketosis

How I loathe your nasty breath, how I love your high protein, low carb induced weight loss... a double edged sword.  I didn't purposefully try to get into ketosis but here I am.  I might as well stay while I can, although I'm not going to choose to not have a pudding or something if the need hits me.

If the diet is changed from a highly glycemic diet to a diet that does not provide sufficient carbohydrate to replenish glycogen stores, the body goes through a set of stages to enter ketosis. During the initial stages of this process, blood glucose levels are maintained through gluconeogenesis, and the adult brain does not burn ketones; however, the brain makes immediate use of ketones for lipid synthesis in the brain. After about 48 hours of this process, the brain starts burning ketones in order to more directly use the energy from the fat stores that are being depended upon, and to reserve the glucose only for its absolute needs, thus avoiding the depletion of the body's protein store in the muscles.^[7]