High blood sugar, ketoacidosis symptoms

[Machdiesel]

Ok so long story short I have slightly elevated blood sugar/a1. Fasted is 110-125 and a1c 5.7-5.9. Here's the weird part. I only eat carbs at night post workout (250g) and am zero carb all day, basically chicken Brest and guacomole. During the day I have extreme thirst, salty lips, I pee about 7-10x a day , always thirsty , and get facial flushing during the low carb part of the day. I had some keto strip so tested for the hell of it and was shocked I came up moderate , even eating 250g csrbs a day. Any idea what's going on ?

[Widedomain]

Your a1c is pretty normal and is in line with the glucose level. Your still pretty low carb at 250g per day so it is possible that you are hitting the fat stores for energy needs during the day. I would think that you would also notice some weight loss unless your building muscle as your fat stores decrease.

Typically you would expect to see much higher blood sugar levels before considering diabetic ketoacidosis.

[Machdiesel]

^ I am on a calorie deficit and do heavy weights 6 days a week so def burning through my glycogen stores very easily. As stated I am zero carb all day, and that's when symptoms are noticeable. Just thought it was weird that I was producing ketones and feeling sides associated with ketoacidosis.