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  • sushisuzi2
    sushisuzi2 Posts: 111 Member
    I get hungry after 6 hours...now that I am not watching fat. My only problem still is wanting to nibble as a nervous habit. Most days I am 20 net carb. Sometimes more; sometimes less. I follow Atkins mostly..
  • KnitOrMiss
    KnitOrMiss Posts: 10,103 Member
    @Mami1976D‌ I track carbs and fiber so I can calculate net carbs, but @FitGoat posted somewhere about an add in type thing you can manually add to MFP to make it show net carbs. I don't remember where it is, maybe the launch pad? Maybe he'll chime in and let you know.
  • DianaElena76
    DianaElena76 Posts: 1,241 Member
    @sushisuzi2, I munch on my drive home just to keep myself awake! It's hard to eat for an hour straight, though.... :wink:
  • DianaElena76
    DianaElena76 Posts: 1,241 Member
    @KnitOrMiss, I do track my carbs and fiber right beside each other for easy calculating of net carbs.... so I set my macro to sort of account for that without me going over. I figured if I'm aiming for 40 NET carbs, I can be safe with MFP's calculation of 53 total carbs for the percentages I entered. Is that a relatively safe assumption? Of course I can calculate them and still stay under, but I'm trying to make this simple and foolproof. :
  • DianaElena76
    DianaElena76 Posts: 1,241 Member
    I should also point out that as my body has adjusted to this way of eating, I have been able to go longer between meals. Today, even at the office, I did not eat between breakfast (7am) and lunch (noon). Sure, I had a lot of coffee, but I take it black anyway, so that doesn't count against me. :wink:
  • FIT_Goat
    FIT_Goat Posts: 4,224 Member
    This will do the net carbs for you: https://github.com/Surye/mfp-keto-userscript/
  • GrannyMayOz
    GrannyMayOz Posts: 1,051 Member
    No worries, I thought of you immediately and I love to help where I can. And no, MFP doesn't do net carbs at all. You can ask your food diary to show fibre though and then you just take the fibre grams away from the carb grams so it's simple enough to see where you are.
  • KeithF6250
    KeithF6250 Posts: 321 Member
    GrannyMayOz wrote: »
    No worries, I thought of you immediately and I love to help where I can. And no, MFP doesn't do net carbs at all. You can ask your food diary to show fibre though and then you just take the fibre grams away from the carb grams so it's simple enough to see where you are.

    It helps to have gone through high school and college in the slide rule era. (I still have the Picket slide rule my Dad gave me 52 years ago.) Mental arithmetic to two significant digits became automatic.

  • DianaElena76
    DianaElena76 Posts: 1,241 Member
    Funny you mentioned slide rules, @KeithF6250--we just had a conversation about those at work yesterday. My supervisor apparently won state in the slide-rule category or something like that. Totally useless factoid. I vaguely remember slide rules, but I think it was an artifact even when I went to school.
  • DianaElena76
    DianaElena76 Posts: 1,241 Member
    Thanks, @FIT_Goat! I just downloaded it on my work computer. I usually track from my Kindle Fire, though, so I guess I'll just have to do it the old-fashioned way when I'm not at work.
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