While
urinary ketone excretion means that body fat is being excreted causing fat loss, the effect is minimal: Based on recent studies, the number of calories lost in the urine as ketones is not significant (100 kcal at most).
Not exact matches
You'd be losing a lot of energy in the form of
ketones via
urinary excretion, ramping up renal gluconeogenesis, and wasting a lot of glutamine.
In a study of persons with type 2 diabetes,
urinary ketone body
excretion increased from a mean of 0.10 mmol / d at the end of the usual diet to a peak of 2.75 mmol / d after 1 wk of the LCKD (P < 0.001); it then decreased gradually for a week but remained above baseline (13).