![]() Finally select ‘Fiber’ and ‘Sugar Alcohols’ from the list at the bottom.Scroll down to the ‘Tracking Carbohydrates’ section where it has a drop down beside the label ‘Tracking carbs as’, select the drop down and select ‘Net Carbs’.Below where it say ‘Fixed Values - Set a custom target for each macronutrient target’ select the ‘grams’ radio button and then enter your values in grams for Protein, Net Carbs and Fat that you got from the Keto Calculator previously.Press this and change it to ‘Fixed Values’ ![]() In the top right there is a drop down arrow beside the label ‘Set macros using’.Go back to the Settings screen and select ‘Macro Target Settings’ in the ‘Targets’ section.Here are two screenshots of what your Energy Settings should look like (except with your own Custom Energy Target value) Then enter the daily calorie limit that was previously calculated by the Keto Calculator in the box that says ‘kcal’ beside it. Next select the ‘Custom Energy Target’ radio button option in the ‘Weight Goal/Custom Energy Target’ section.Next scroll down to the ‘Variable Calories Burned’ section and if they are selected, deselect ‘Include Exercise’ and ‘Thermic Effect of Food (TEF)’.In the ‘Energy Burned’ section select the drop down beside ‘Activity Level’ and select ‘None’.In Settings scroll down to the ‘Targets’ section and select ‘Energy Settings’.Complete your Profile of age, sex, weight and height if you haven’t already.What you then want to do is to go to Cronometer and complete the following steps: Step-by-Step Instructions for Setting up your Macros in Cronometer.r/keto recommends eating a max of 20g of net carbs per day in order to ensure that you are in ketosis. Then set your ‘Calorie Goal’ to a deficit of 15% or 20% and this will tell you how many calories, grams of fat and net carbs that you should not exceed per day and how much protein you should aim to eat. The recommendation from /r/keto is that if you want to lose weight then select ‘sedentary’ as your activity level, even if you do exercise for an hour or two a day. Put in your measurements, age and gender. You do this using the Keto Calculator from the /r/Keto sub FAQs, which is this If you don’t already know what your macros are then to begin with you need to work out your daily limits for Calories, Net Carbs and Fat and your daily target for Protein. Setting up your Macros (Calorie, Net Carbs and Fat limits and your target for Protein) in Cronometer. It took me a lot of trail and error to set up the Cronometer app with my macros and electrolyte targets so I thought that it would be useful to share the step-by-step process here for anyone else who wants to get started using Cronometer.Īll review comments welcomed, so let me know if I’ve made any mistakes. ![]() I therefore decided to change to Cronometer this week because I was told that its free version showed this information but also that the macro and nutritional information in Cronometer is a lot more accurate than Carb Manager because unlike Cronometer, anyone using Carb Manager can create a food entry and enter nutritional values for it without any verification. However the free version doesn’t let you track your electrolytes because you can’t see how many milligrams of sodium, potassium or magnesium you have consumed from your food. Hi everyone, I have been doing the Keto diet since the beginning of June and during that time I have been using the Carb Manager app to track my food and macros.
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