Setting Up Carb Manager For Your Keto Diet

Carb Manager is a nutrition app that helps users stick to their low-carb lifestyle and achieve their health goals. The app allows users to track their macronutrients and carbs, build meal plans, access recipes, and join support groups. It also integrates with other health apps and devices, such as FitBit and Garmin, to help users stay on track. To set up Carb Manager for keto, users can follow these steps:

1. Set up your profile and main goals: The app will ask you questions about your current activity level, height, weight, etc. to calibrate your baseline keto diet and calculate your daily energy budget and macro goals.

2. Adjust settings: Users can adjust settings such as the type of carbs to track (net carbs, total carbs, or diabetes carbs), units of measurement, and text size.

3. Start using Carb Manager: Track your food, water, exercise, fasting hours, and more in the Daily Log. You can also track specific body and health measurements and analyze your progress.

Setting up your profile and main goals

To start, open the app and input your current stats, such as your activity level, height, and weight. This data will help tailor your dietary program and inform your recommended carb count, calorie intake, and calorie burn while exercising. You can also adjust your settings to specify how carbs are tracked (net carbs vs. total carbs) and various exercise settings.

The Getting Started Wizard will guide you through creating your profile and setting your main goals. You can also use the Macros Calculator to set your main diet goals, including options to ease into your diet, maintain macro goals, and set carb and macro cycling goals.

It's important to keep your profile up-to-date, especially your activity level, to ensure Carb Manager provides you with the most accurate information. You can adjust your profile and goals at any time in the Settings section of the app.

In addition to setting up your profile, you may also want to subscribe to Carb Manager Premium to unlock additional features that can help you manage your goals and analyze your results.

Adjusting settings for best results

To adjust your settings, go to Settings > App Settings and make adjustments to the following:

• Carbs to Track: Carb Manager offers four choices, including total carbs and two types of diabetes carbs. This is particularly important for people in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and the UK, where nutrition labels differ from those in the US and do not include fiber in the carb values.
• Enable Calories/Kilojoules Tracking: Choose whether to see your energy totals (calories or kilojoules) in the daily log.
• Enable Calories/Kilojoules Burned Deduction and Enable Macros Burned Deduction: If you log your exercise, you can choose to have Carb Manager automatically deduct energy (calories or kilojoules) and macros.
• Units (all settings): Choose whether to see measurements of energy, weight, length, and volume in imperial or metric units, or a combination of both. You can also choose to see blood and ketone density in mmol/L or mg/dl and, if you track water, set the size of your water glass.
• Show Decimal Values: Carb Manager automatically displays totals that are rounded to the nearest whole number. To see exact totals, choose to view decimals instead of whole numbers.
• Text Size: If you use the mobile app, you can increase the text size for improved readability.

Additional Customization

To discover more ways to customize Carb Manager, check out the articles in the "Customize app settings" section of the Carb Manager knowledge base.

Tracking food, activities, and fasting

The Daily Log is the central feature of the app, where you can log all of the above. It offers a visual guide, with graphics, for assessing your situation with macros, calories, etc. You can also log and track measurements like body weight, body fat, waist size, blood glucose, ketones, insulin, and more.

The app also allows you to track lifestyle goals like exercise, fasting, hydration, and sleep. You can set and adjust your activity level, which is important for the app to provide accurate information. Carb Manager also integrates with Fitbit, Garmin, and hundreds of other apps and devices via Apple Health and Google Fit.

The app offers a simple way to track your food and activities, with features like barcode scanning for packaged foods, and a large database of restaurant and grocery food items.

Viewing and analysing progress

Carb Manager is a keto diet app that allows you to track your macronutrients and carbs. It is a full-time nutritionist in an app, helping you to log every bite you eat, scan packaged food barcodes, build meal plans, and access recipes.

The app allows you to view your daily progress, view historical measurements, and analyse results. You can track specific body and health measurements such as your weight, waist size, sleep, and cholesterol. You can also log and track measurements like body weight, body fat, waist size, blood glucose, ketones, insulin, and more. The app provides a visual guide, with graphics, for assessing your situation.

The Goals section allows you to set and track your goals. You can log and track dietary goals like carbs, protein, fat, fibre, total calories, and micronutrients. You can also track lifestyle goals like exercise, fasting, hydration, and sleep.

The Daily Log is the heartbeat of the app, where you log meals, supplements, water, exercise, glucose, and more. The home screen offers a visual guide for assessing your progress. The app also provides a tutorial video to help you view progress and gain insights toward your goals.

The app also offers a premium version, which includes features such as custom meal plans, premium recipes, goal tracking, and photo food logging.

Connecting with the community

Carb Manager is more than just a keto diet tracker. It offers an active social media community that lets you stay connected with other low-carb folks, so you always get the support you need.

The "Connect" tab is your entry point to the community. Here's what you'll find:

Challenges

Join monthly Carb Manager Challenges and score points for hitting your macro, exercise, and sleep targets. These challenges are a great way to stay motivated and connect with others on their keto journey.

Groups

Groups are an excellent way to find like-minded individuals on similar journeys. You can connect with folks in groups like "Over 50 Keto," "Living with Type 2 and Doing Low Carb," "Thyroid Weight Loss Support Group," and "Keto Kool Moms." These groups provide a supportive environment to share experiences and tips.

Articles

The Carb Manager community also offers expert articles on keto dieting, weight loss, metabolic health, supplements, and more. These articles are a great resource to help you make informed decisions about your health and wellness.

Friends

You can add friends or family members to share your Carb Manager health journey through the "Profile" tab. Having a support system can help keep you motivated and accountable as you work towards your goals.

The Carb Manager community is a great way to stay connected, motivated, and inspired on your keto journey. It offers challenges, groups, articles, and the ability to connect with friends, all within the app. So, if you're thinking of starting a keto diet, be sure to check out Carb Manager and take advantage of its community features!

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