Only tracking carbs?

#1

Change of post. Null.

#2

Carbs and protein. That’s it.

#3

Grrrrrr, I hate that term. Why do people have to be so negative and judgmental and wanky?

TBH, I don’t track at all, I never really have. I do however have a great guesstimating capacity after years of counting calories etc. way back when so that helps. I also have my safety net of using total carbs so when the guesstimate goes awry I will still be well with in my safety NET. Get it? Come on you are a Brit, you have cheesey humour in your blood!

#4

For the first three months of Keto I tracked everything religiously: carbs, protein, fat and calories. By the second month, I couldn’t care less about calories (it took me about that long to completely relinquish the CICO dogma) and really then just focused on carbs and protein. I now eat a lot of foods I’m very familiar with, including portion size, and so for the most part only track “new” foods or quantities that I’m not familiar with. Track whatever works for you; it’s unlikely you’ll be judged here! :slight_smile:

#6

Lol. I have been told I have a sexy voice - by Americans. It would seem that there is something there with US finding the Brit accent attractive. Makes me lol a lot!

(Larry Lustig) #8

Different strokes for different folks. I don’t track anything – just make sure that I don’t eat carbohydrate foods except for low-carb-density vegetables. But I also know there are people here at the forums that need to track their food in great detail to discover what their carb limit is and to avoid going over it.

(Jennifer) #9

I started doing < 20gms of carbs and was tracking them. But then I added fasting and now I am only eating one, maybe two meals a day when I eat. It is pretty easy to guesstimate your carbs when you are eating fewer meals.

(Adam Kirby) #10

/r/keto is somewhat obsessed with CICO, tracking, and weighing everything. Not everyone, but many people there. I think it’s madness.

(Leslie) #11

Goal is to track all of March. So that by April I’ll intuitively know enough to NOT need to track :wink:

My life is too busy to dispense my time to the MFP-gods.

(Jessica) #12

Carb ceiling. Protein goal that I go over from time to timr because I’m not IR.

#13

I personally track everything in MFP, but if I were recommending what to track to someone else it would be what @Fiorella said and I hope I can get to a point of what @larry said.

(Bart) #14

I tracked everything religiously for about 8 months, this allowed me to fully understand what was in my food, to understand what X number of ounces of a food looked like etc. Then I did not track for about 6 months and am pretty sure I was eating too much protein, I know the carbs were ok, but I still put some weight back on. I went back to tracking for several months the weight fell back off and am still tracking about 75%.

The one thing I noticed when I first started was how fast a carb here or there can add up and how hard it was to stay at that 20g mark when I was eating fat bombs, having breakfast, eating a lunch and keto snacks. Also, I really had to research the food, because as we all know just because it says 0 carbs does not mean that is the case. Now that I rarely snack, and often just have a dinner and some days a very light lunch the carb issue is non-existent.

Like anything, tracking is doable and does get easier if you do it and stick to it. MyFitnessPal (MFP) I think is the way to go and makes the task rather easy in my personal opinion.

(Kathy Meyer) #15

I am definitely lazy, but I do have a system. I’ve been doing this a year now so I have a fairly good idea of the carbs and protein in the foods I normally eat, so I don’t track anything officially. I try and not eat many carbs except for some above-ground veggies, and the small amounts that come in avocado, cream cheese, olives, etc.

Some exceptions (where I limit the quantity) are onion, garlic, tomato, and peppers – those could add up. Sometimes I make food with almond flour like Carlshead dough, or sometimes fat bombs, but I limit my intake of those things to 2-3 servings per week if I can.

I am trying to limit my protein, so I just go with the “size of the palm of my hand” serving sizes. So if I have a couple of slices of bacon and an egg or two for breakfast, I then have 1 serving of protein (approximately 3-4 ounces) with dinner. If I get hungry after that, I try and eat something fatty. In this area I have to watch my consumption of cheese and nuts as well.

That’s it. And the rest of the time I’m probably doing some form of fasting, which is the ultimate lazy-woman’s lifestyle: I’m not eating because I’m tired of keeping track of what I’m eating.

#17

I think these are good choices, especially not starting out at a caloric deficit that would only complicate things.

I’m not recommending MCT Oil in general for everyone, but as a fellow developer I will say that when adapting, as in getting kicked out of ketosis and then getting back in for me, the concentrated MCTs (I use KetoMCT) really help me concentrate even more than caffeine.

(John) #19

I have no problem with the term, if you meticulously track everything you do vs tracking just one thing it seems to fit. Got a better term?
I guess I am lazy lazy keto, I don’t even really track carbs, if it has more than 5 or 6 I don’t eat it, as long as I only eat 3 times or so then it doesn’t matter. If I stall I track calories for a day or 2 but that is it.

(Stickin' with mammoth) #20

Ditto.

PS: British accents are at the bottom of my list. But bring me a Scot with Samoan blood and I’ll lose my freaking mind.

#25

I track carbs, protein, and fat because I’m still sorta new to this (6 weeks). I know I will have a tendency to go low on the fat if I don’t watch everything. I will skip tracking a day here or there because I know I’m on track. I’ve had a MFP account for years, but this is the first year I’ve logged in daily religiously. “They” are probably thinking “It’s about damn time!” :smiley:

(Crow T. Robot) #26

What, like, in a cup?

(Stickin' with mammoth) #27

HAHAHAHAHAHA! Okay, that’s a good one.