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How do you count your carbs on FITDAY????

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OK, I am following up on my own post. So, if I need to subtract the fiber from the carbs by looking at the chart below the food list, how do you usually do it as you add any one item and then can't see how many net carbs it has?

I USUALLY FILL IT IN AND THEN CHANGE THE AMOUNTS TO MAKE IT 20 CARBS PER DAY.

 

enter your veggies first. or you can click on each individual food and subtract the fiber that way.~renee~

 

Add all of your veggies first for the entire day, then using the pie chart below, calculate your net carbs...when you get them between 12-15, then add the rest of your foods that you eat. You will know that you are on track as long as you remember what your counts are.

If you really wanted to you could figure it all out per veggie per ounce, (enter 1 ounce of a veggie) figure out the net carbs for it, then make a custom food for it with the net carbs only. That way in future you would always know w/o having to figure out veggies first. Ie, veggie x is 5 g carb, 3 g fibre, 2gnc's...make custom food, Veggie X, 2 carbs under custom!

Good luck!

 

wOW, i have been doing this wrong the whole while.

 

A lot of people say to put your veggies into fit day.com first, so you can easily see what your veggies net carbs are for the day. I do this, too, but then my food is in all the wrong order, and I'm always trying to figure out which food things are for which meal. I wanted to figure out a way that everything would be in sequential order. So I came up with a little trick. I know most of you probably already figured this out:

Go to the blank day after the actual day you are planning. Put all the veggies for the day on that page, and tweak it until your net veggie carbs are all set.

Now go back to the day you are actually working on. Put breakfast in first, glancing at the next day to remind yourself of the veggies you want for breakfast. Then put those veggies into the day you are working on. The easiest way to do this is to first, go back to the day you are planning. Then, click on "View My Recent Foods" in the right hand column, and choose that "fake" day. You can check off the breakfast veggies, click "Add Checked" and it will put them in your planning day. After that breakfast veggie(s) is entered on the right day, you can go to the "fake" day and delete it.

Do the same for each meal and snack, flipping back and forth between the two days until your real day is complete and your "fake" day is empty.

Voila! Now you can print it out and stick it to the fridge for easy reference, and all your meals and snacks are in the right order!

If you don't want to or can't do the whole day in advance, use a "fake" day to keep a running total of only the veggie part of the day you are planning. That way you can always check to see how you are doing on your Net Carbs for Veggies goal for the day. (In Induction, this will be 20.)

If there is any tweaking to be done, I do it to protein and fat.

Just a little tip. I hope you find it helpful!

 

how do you usually do it as you add any one item and then can't see how many net carbs it has?

If you click on the name of that one item, a chart will pop up and you can subtract the fiber from the carbs of just that one item.

I USUALLY FILL IT IN AND THEN CHANGE THE AMOUNTS TO MAKE IT 20 CARBS PER DAY.

That's exactly what I do, too!

 

Thanks everyone for the help.

No wonder I am not really loosing as much weight as I thought I should!!!!!! I am not eating nearly enough veggies. It seemed as if last time I was on Atkins and lost 70 pounds, I could eat a lot more veggies...now I see what is wrong.

I think I might go back to just writing down what I eat each day instead of keeping the list on fitday at least for a while.

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