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heya i see alot of people talking about tracking carbs and i was wondering how you track them ? do you use a website/app or do you read the food packaging and work it out that way ?
heya i see alot of people talking about tracking carbs and i was wondering how you track them ? do you use a website/app or do you read the food packaging and work it out that way ?
Do you find it accurate?
Hi,
There are a far few free phone apps. I use them to log my BGs, insulin dosage & carbs consumed.
The nutritional value can be found even in recipie cook books these days, so the carb content is easy to track.
There is also an app called "carbs & cals" that sort of "eyeballs" certain types of foods too..?
I didn't get on very well with that. But you might find it usefull.?
Maybe it's got better. When I first looked at it half the info was from the US so the carb counts were incorrect. That when combined with some of the info appearing to have been input by not very accurate people led me to dump it pretty quickly.everything is pretty much spot on with the labels but on occasion there can be the odd item where someone has put the wrong information in and there’s multiple listed so you have to find the correct one, could be down to the weight and they used what their serving was.
i felt the same with carbs & cals but the book is quite useful though
www.dietdoctor.com is great for recipes or just meat and fish with some green veg are pretty low carb.thank you all for your input i'm gonna try myfitnesspal and also check food packaging to double check its the correct info now i just need to get looking for some low carb meal ideas xD