In a normal way of eating, we really hardly ever bother to try and track whether we're eating too many carbs, fats or proteins. We try and try and eat a healthy diet, which is a balanced diet. But exactly what is that? When following the keto diet, we need to make sure that we're eating 50 grams or less of carbohydrates. Now when we reduce our carbohydrates, we reduce the amount of sugar in the blood that the cells can use to make energy because carbohydrates metabolize into sugar. At the same time, the cells look around for alternative fuel because there's not enough sugar in the bloodstream.

This alternative fuel comes in the form of ketones which are created when we increase our fat intake. When starting out on the keto diet, it's a great idea to have some kind of tool to help us to track our fats, proteins, and carbs. chronometer. A free application online is such a tool. It looks a little complicated, but initially you simply want to track your fats, proteins and carbs, which are known as macronutrients, or macros. Click Settings and profile and put in your body details.

Your weight, your height, and whether you're a man or a woman. Now scroll down and click ketogenic under the diet section under the targets Set total carbs, and ketogenic calculator. The relax regime is perfect for a beginner. When you choose relaxed, you'll see the system automatically sets 50 grams of carbs. Now let's go back to diary and we can start putting some foods into the system. Click Add food.

Now I'm going to imagine that I'm going to eat breakfast. Putting different foods into the field above, into the pop up window automatically shows you the carb content, which is great for checking if foods are acceptable or not on the keto diet. Let's add bacon and see what the system says. We can see that bacon is high fat and low carb is the perfect keto food. So we'll add this Fried egg goes with bacon. So I'll try that.

Here again, it's high fat, relatively low carb, so I can add this. Normally I eat toast with bacon and egg. But when I add toast or look at the content, I can see that the carbs are much too high. So that is off the menu. Perhaps a sandwich, a bacon and egg sandwich. But here again, the carbohydrate content is much too high.

So we can't see this either. Even orange juice has a high carb content, so we have to choose another drink. Go for tea, unsweetened tea and add that. I do like my tea sweet. Sugar is out of bounds because it's high carb. I'm going to add an alcohol sugar co xylitol.

For something a little sweet after breakfast, I'm going to add raspberries with a little cream, some heavy whipping cream and the foods and you can instantly see the carbohydrate content for the meal. We just need to make sure that when we have our main meal and our evening meal that the total carb content for the day is less than 50 grams. There are many other useful functions to explore, but tracking the macros is the basic requirement. After using chronometer for two to three weeks, you find that is not required anymore. You get to know which foods are keto, which or not