Hi Mrs-G, my husband and I get really bad breath on our fast days and I think this may be that we are not drinking enough – sometimes I will go and brush my teeth to make my mouth feel better. I have to remind myself constantly to drink on fast days but I never feel like water I only want tea and I don’t think this is helping my teeth or my bad breath.

Heya Stef! It depends on how much glucose is still in your body. I don’t eat carbs most of the time, so I am in a continuing state of ketosis.
Glucose is stored in the liver (as glycogen I believe) and when that’s empty you go into ketosis. If you fast regularly, the stores in your liver will usually be lower than people who eat carbs all day long. Now I don’t know how many hours it takes or whatever, but that’s what I think about it ^^

I’ve come to like the taste in my mouth for some reason. Sometimes I just roll my tongue around whenever I don’t taste it anymore..

Heya Stef!
Well it just means my body is burning fat for fuel instead of glucose. I’m making sure I get my daily dose of vitamins and minerals, both by eating veggies and taking a tablet which also includes calcium because I don’t drink / eat dairy at the moment.
As far as I’m concerned being in a continuing state of ketosis is not bad for you, you just have to make sure that when you’re cutting out carbs you’re not cutting out the stuff that your body really does need – like vitamins and minerals, like said 🙂 I’m no doctor though, this is just what I’ve found and experienced so far. I feel fine, by the way 😉

Re bad breath.. aniseed is good for this too.. just chew a few and it clears the breath.. might also work with fennel seeds at a guess.