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(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.) #21

Online and mobile apps often give you better macros when you set them to ‘maintenance’ rather than ‘lose weight’. In the world outside our keto bubble, CICO mentality still rules (eat less move more!). The apps are designed to serve that market. Some offer a ‘keto’ option, which may be more in line with keto macros or not. You need to understand things well enough to judge whether an app is calculating useful numbers and, if not, how to calculate those numbers yourself.

I should mention that percentages are useless. Always calculate macros based on weight. A percentage can be generated after the weights are set, not the other way round.

(Keto Koala 🐨) #22

I have a keto app called carb manager. It’s pretty good. It counts net carbs, total carbs, ect. Gives me a basic idea. It’s the only app I like and apparently the most popular keto app.

(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.) #23

I have no experience with apps. When I started keto I could not find any, including some very expensive payfers, that gave me the control I wanted to calculate macros, food portions and combinations without jumping through complicated hoops that still didn’t accomplish what I wanted. So I built a spreadsheet to do exactly what I want easily.

There are, however, apparently many folks @Momof5 on the forum who use Carb Manager. I’m sure they can give you useful pointers on how to get the best use of it.

(Susan) #24

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I don’t like carb manager, I use Cronometer.com -it is free and works well for me.

This is today’s for me, and my macros

(Keto Koala 🐨) #25

Oh wow, that looks better than carb manager. Will look it up now. Thanks beautiful xxx

(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.) #26

I had forgotten that. But, really, I just wanted to get your attention to help point @Bubby1 in a useful direction. You have done so! :+1:

(Keto Koala 🐨) #27

I just downloaded it. Xxx

(Keto Koala 🐨) #28

Is it more important to count net carbs or total carbs. I’m confused.

(Susan) #29

I do Net as I type it on all there; but I also try to avoid processed foods (as much as possible, and artificial sweeteners, etc. as well, so I don’t have to deal with those additives in my food very often, as I seldom use that stuff.

(Keto Koala 🐨) #30

Same here with me I’m very strict. I do buy my meat from Woolworths though and it’s in a packet but it’s good quality. Grass fed minced beef, ect. Do you get your raw meat in a pack?

(Cancer Fighting Ketovore :)) #31

I tried both CarbManager and Cronometer, and liked CarbManager better. It may have something to do with using it first :joy:

I’ve since stopped using it because, for me, it got tedious to measure everything out. It also didn’t seem to affect my readings very much. I was only taking readings right before me one meal of the day (OMAD), and I could never figure out a solid pattern.

(Susan) #32

I was buying tubes of mince at Walmart, until a thread came up here on the forum that it has additives in the meat so now I buy the packs that they package themselves in Walmart. I like to buy chicken pieces that are on the white stryfoam packages in the shops covered in plastic, that I think they package in the stores? (maybe it is shipped to them that way, I don’t know, but I buy chicken that way. I do also buy frozen fish, and frozen boneless, skinless chicken strips from Walmart. I am cooking for my hubby, and my three girls at home that are 19.21, and 25 and my grand daughter that is 3 so I am cooking a lot, and none of them are Keto, only me. (I have a 23 year old son that comes over on the weekends for doing his laundry, visiting and sometimes stays for supper, sometimes not. I have a 28 year old son that is married with a little boy, but they live in Nova Scotia, and we live in Ontario).

(Keto Koala 🐨) #33

So will eating the meat stuff up my ketosis? It’s all so damn confusing. I just bought all my meat from woolies, as we dont have walmart. Also on the cromometer app it says if I eat 4 eggs for lunch, that’s my protein for the whole day. It seems crazy. What does yours say.

(Susan) #34

I will have 4-5 eggs and bacon even for a meal for lunch and then more protein for supper, no problem! The only thing I worry about going over on is carbs. I think if you eat about 1800 of calories a day, and are eating protein, healthy fats, and some low carb vegetables to make up those calories, that you will be doing great.

(Keto Koala 🐨) #35

Ok…Also yesterday I kept my carbs down to 6 grams but it said my sugar for the day was 7grams. Is that bad? Im trying SO hard to eat the right things.

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #36

I tried using Cronometer and simply wanted it to keep track of carbs. Period. I had trouble with it telling me I was over on protein or over on fat or under on vitamins or over on calories, etc. It gave me more worry than I wanted. I literally just wanted carbs counted so I did the very retro thing and used pencil and a notebook to keep track. I found I was eating much of the same thing anyway and eventually memorized them but it’s nice to look back on my food journal if I am looking for meal ideas or just want to see how “off course” I may have become.

(traci simpson) #37

I’m hungry! Not all the time, but when I’m ready to eat it’s because I’m hungry so I don’t get it when people say “I’m never hungry”

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #38

I’m hungry when I wake up, hungry for my TMAD and sometimes hungry for a snack before bed. The rest of the day I’m not “hungry” but I’m “I could eat”. I am rarely NOT HUNGRY AT ALL.

(Keto Koala 🐨) #39

How many grams of sugar do you have a day? I’m trying so hard but ended up with 7 grams of sugar f our the whole day. I don’t know how. All I eat is eggs, meat and cheese and lettuce.:disappointed:

(squirrel-kissing paper tamer) #40

I don’t keep track of sugar grams. I count carbs, carbs from sugar, vegetables, spices, mystery ingredients in foods, etc. I don’t eat straight sugar for any reason, or “fruit”. (mainly because I don’t care for fruit). But there is sugar in, say, a tomato or a piece of cheese and I eat those but I’m keeping track of carbs for the sake of simplicity.

For the first year I had 20 grams or less in a day. Now I’m experimenting with adding different foods, having fewer meals a day and increasing carbs to somewhere around 40 g a day.