It’s Sunday Funday! What do you all do to make this day a blast? I usually start it with Church, then brunch, then meal prepping for the week. Meal prepping may sound like a chore, but it’s my favorite day of the week and the most fun part of the keto/low carb diet in my opinion.

This week is the last week before grocery day, so I’ll be making food based on what’s left in my fridge. Right now I have frozen spinach, Parmesan cheese, heavy cream, pork chops, bacon, and of course, cauliflower.

I looked through all of my recipes and came across one for low carb chicken cauliflower Alfredo. https://www.dietdoctor.com/recipes/cauliflower-chicken-alfredo . This was perfect for what I had laying around. I substituted pork chops for the chicken. I know that’s a lot of pork in one dish, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing. The results were phenomenal!

So, you’re cooking and you’ve got everything portioned out now. But a big part of keeping to this diet is making sure that you’re hitting those macros. I am so bad at trying to do conversions based on the nutritional facts on all of the packaging of every single ingredient. Who has time for that?

So, I use the app that I already use to track my health progress: the My Fitness Pal app. So far, I have not used the premium version. I don’t think I need to be spending money on these things just yet. When you’re in the app, click on the Menu button and then click on the “Recipes, Meals, and Foods” button. Here you can create your own recipes or import ones from the internet. After you’ve plugged in all of your ingredients, click ‘save’, and it will show you the nutritional facts.

You can also enter these foods into your daily diary. Once you’ve completed your food for the day, click on the pie chart in the upper right hand corner. You can choose to look at an overview of your calories, nutrients, or macros for the day. There is so much information here! If you click on the ‘macros’ tab, it will show you how much fat, protein, and carbs you’ve taken in for the day versus what your goal is for the day. It’s here that you can edit your macro goals.

Apparently I’ve been being a lot more strict on this diet than I technically have to be with the carb intake. But knowing that I can be a little more laxed helps me handle this diet a little better. What are some of the ways you keep track of your macros on the keto/low carb diet? -Jen